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Track & Field Splits for Drake Relays, LSU Invitational
4/24/2024 | Track and Field
Drake Relays
April 25-27 • Des Moines, Iowa
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results | Live Stream (USATF.tv) | Live Stream (CBS Sports Network)
LSU Invitational
April 27 • Baton Rouge, La.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
DES MOINES, Iowa / BATON ROUGE, La. – Ole Miss track & field splits for an action-packed final week of the regular season, with a small Rebel delegation heading to Iowa for the 114th running of the historic Drake Relays starting Thursday, while the remainder of the Ole Miss squad will trek back to Baton Rouge for the LSU Invitational on Saturday.
FOLLOW ALONG (Drake Relays)
Live Results: PrimeTime Timing
Live Stream: USATF.tv (All Except Saturday 2-4 PM)
Live Stream: CBS Sports Network (Saturday: 2-4 PM)
FOLLOW ALONG (LSU Invitational)
Live Results: Delta Timing
MEET NOTES
• This marks Ole Miss' first trip back to the Drake Relays since 2015, when the Rebels came home with four of the famous white flags handed out to Relays champions. In its history, Ole Miss has won 25 Drake Relays titles.
• Ole Miss is set to compete in the elite invitational fields across both the men's and women's shot put and hammer competitions. Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is scheduled to double in both of the men's elite fields, while seniors Jalani Davis and Jasmine Mitchell are set to do the same on the women's side. A win in any of those events would constitute the first Drake Relays title ever by a Rebel in the shot or hammer.
• Former Rebel greats Janeah Stewart (elite women's hammer) and Kristel van den Berg (elite women's 3000-meter steeplechase) are also set to compete in the invitational fields at Drake this weekend.
• Elsewhere in the university/college division races, the Rebel distance squads will be well-represented. Running at Drake this week are: Beth Arentz (women's open 5K), Elyas Ayyoub (men's open 5K), Skylar Boogerd (women's open 5K), Hannah Ielfield (women's 3000-meter steeplechase), Jack Meijer (men's open 10K), Sarah Schiffmann (women's open 5K) and Evan Thornton-Sherman (men's open 5K).
• Of those events, Ole Miss has won prior Drake relays titles in the men's 5K (Barnabas Kirui, 2010) and the women's 10K (Mary Alex England, 2014). Kirui, a 2007 NCAA champ in the steeple, also won men's steeplechase titles in 2007 and 2008.
• Robinson-O'Hagan, fresh off his first NCAA title in the shot put indoors, enters this week's elite fields at Drake as one of the best shot/hammer combo throwers worldwide in 2024. He is the lone thrower worldwide this outdoor season at 72 meters in the hammer and 20 in the shot put, and he has now thrown beyond 20 meters in the shot put 12 times in the last two months after doing so once as a freshman -- including four times in his NCAA title winning series indoors capped by his victorious 21.05m/69-00.75 that still ranks 16th worldwide and No. 3 in the U.S. in the 2024 calendar year.
• Robinson-O'Hagan enters ranked No. 2 in the United States in the shot put this outdoor season at his NCAA-leading 20.69m/67-10.75 from the Ole Miss Classic on March 23. That mark shattered his own school record by two feet and it also broke the previous Ole Miss Track & Field Complex record of 20.28m/66-06.50. Meanwhile, his school record and winning hammer mark of 72.42m/237-07, also from the Ole Miss Classic, ranks eighth in the NCAA and 11th among Americans this outdoor season.
• Since 2015, Robinson-O'Hagan is one of just three collegiate men's throwers to break 72 meters in the hammer and 20 in the shot put, alongside Arizona's Jordan Geist in 2023 and Georgia's Denzel Comenentia in both 2018 and 2019. Of them, though, Robinson-O'Hagan is the youngest to perform the feat as a sophomore.
• All-American seniors Jalani Davis and Jasmine Mitchell will perform the elite section hammer/shot double on the women's side at Drake, and both enter among the best combo throwers in the world this season.
• Davis ranks third nationally in the shot put at her SEC-leading 18.54m/60-10, as well as fifth in the hammer at her 68.78m/225-8 from the Joe Walker Invite. Davis also ranks 17th nationally and fourth in the SEC in the discus at her school record 57.54m/188-9.
• Davis is one of two women worldwide this outdoor season at 18 meters in the shot put and 68 meters in the hammer alongside Maggie Ewen, and is the lone woman to have a 57-meter mark in the discus alongside those two. This past indoor season, Davis repeated as the NCAA Champion in the weight throw, was the third-place finisher in the shot put, and became the second woman in SEC history to sweep both events at the conference meet.
• Mitchell, meanwhile, is also off to an excellent start to the 2024 outdoor season, leading the conference in the hammer and ranking within the national top-25 in both the hammer and shot put. Mitchell has either won or finished as the top collegian in three of her four hammer competitions this outdoor season, with her latest season-best of 69.37m/227-07 ranking fourth in the NCAA and 13th among all throwers in the U.S. this year.
• Mitchell also ranks 25th nationally in the shot put at 16.92m/55-06.25. Mitchell is the lone thrower worldwide this season at 69 meters in the hammer and 16 meters in the shot put.
• Mitchell opened the season at 68.08m/223-04 from the Ole Miss Classic, making her only the second Rebel to ever open at 68 meters or better in the hammer alongside former teammate and 2021 NCAA hammer runner-up Shey Taiwo, who opened the 2022 season at 69.24m/227-02 before missing the remainder of the season due to injury.
• All-American senior McKenzie Long is set to return to the 200-meter dash at LSU this Saturday. This is the second 200 of the outdoor season for Long, who won in impressive -- albeit windy -- fashion at Florida's Tom Jones Memorial two weeks ago. Long won by a wide-margin against a field that could resemble the NCAA final at a wind illegal 22.18 (+4.1). In all wind conditions this outdoor season, that time by Long ranks second worldwide.
• Long entered the season with an even faster 21.88 (+2.5) from her NCAA runner-up performance in Austin last June, which counts for Ole Miss' school record (4.0), as well as third on the collegiate all-conditions list (2.0).
• Combined with her windy (but NCAA allowable) 10.89 (+2.6) in the 100-meter dash from LSU's Battle on the Bayou three weeks ago (No. 3 NCAA), Long is one of two women worldwide in 2024 to be at sub-11.00 in the 100 and sub-22.20 in the 200 amid all wind conditions. U.S. Olympian Gabby Thomas is the other, who owns a slightly windy 10.88 (+2.2) in the 100, and a legal 22.08 (+1.2) in the 200.
• Long has finished as the runner-up in both of her last two trips to NCAAs: that 21.88 (+2.5) at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships last summer, and a 22.51 from the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston last month -- which gave her the Olympic qualifying standard for this summer's U.S. Olympic Trials.
• The Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay of senior Jahniya Bowers, senior McKenzie Long, sophomore Gabrielle Matthews and senior Akilah Lewis took down the Ole Miss record in their first race together at Florida two weeks ago, notching the NCAA's current No. 6 time this season at 43.31. That time flew past the previous record of 43.43 set by Long, Matthews and graduated Rebels Jayda Eckford and Ariyonna Augustine at the SEC Championships last May.
• Matthews also rewrote her own Ole Miss record in the 400-meter hurdles that same weekend, clocking in at a new PR of 56.72. That time currently ranks No. 14 in the NCAA, and it broke her previous record of 57.04 set as a freshman in 2023 in the SEC prelims last spring. Matthews also ranks 32nd nationally in the 200-meter at 23.15 (+2.0).
• That same week Bowers also clocked a new PR in the 100-meter dash at a wind-legal 11.15 (-0.2), good for No. 2 in Ole Miss history and No. 14 in the NCAA this season. Bowers is one of just three Rebel women to ever break 11.20 in any wind conditions alongside Long and former Rebel Brandee Presley.
• Freshman Akaoma Odeluga has made her mark as one of the more exciting up-and-coming shot putters nationally, highlighted by a superb showing at the Joe Walker Invite. Odeluga was the runner-up to Davis at a two-foot PR of 17.37m/57-0 that stands as an Ole Miss freshman record outdoors and ranks fourth all-time in school history outdoors.
• That throw also makes Odeluga the No. 7 U20 performer in the history of the United States, the best since Alyssa Wilson in 2017. This season, Odeluga ranks No. 1 worldwide among U20 athletes, as well as fifth in the SEC, sixth in the East Region and 14th in the NCAA overall. She leads all SEC freshmen, and ranks second among all freshmen nationally. Odeluga is one of nine freshmen since 2015 to break 57 feet in the shot put outdoors, one of two this season alongside Texas' Nina Ndubuisi.
• Other Rebel women currently ranked in the national top-50 are: Mensi Stiff in the shot put (34th, 16.45m/53-11.75); Skylar Soli in the hammer (37th, 61.61m/202-01); and Skylar Boogerd in the 10K (47th, 33:24.12).
• Ole Miss is set for a big weekend in the men's 800-meter and 1500-meter races at LSU on Saturday, notching 10 total entries. In the 800, that crew is led by senior Marcus Dropik and his NCAA 30th-ranked PR of 1:47.82, and junior Chase Rose, who ranks 42nd at his PR of 1:48.19.
• In the 1500, senior Cruz Gomez leads the way at his NCAA No. 46 season-best of 3:41.29 from the Joe Walker Invite earlier this month.
• Other Rebel men within the NCAA top-50 this week are: Arvesta Troupe in the high jump (11th, 2.18m/7-01.75); Ahmad Young Jr. in the 110-meter hurdles (29th, 13.66/+2.5); Toby Gillen in the 5K (32nd, 13:39.66); Jake Dalton in the hammer (36th, 66.31m/217-7); Drew O'Connor in the pole vault (48th, 5.22m/17-01.50); and Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley in the triple jump (48th, 15.38m/50-05.50).
April 25-27 • Des Moines, Iowa
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results | Live Stream (USATF.tv) | Live Stream (CBS Sports Network)
LSU Invitational
April 27 • Baton Rouge, La.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
DES MOINES, Iowa / BATON ROUGE, La. – Ole Miss track & field splits for an action-packed final week of the regular season, with a small Rebel delegation heading to Iowa for the 114th running of the historic Drake Relays starting Thursday, while the remainder of the Ole Miss squad will trek back to Baton Rouge for the LSU Invitational on Saturday.
FOLLOW ALONG (Drake Relays)
Live Results: PrimeTime Timing
Live Stream: USATF.tv (All Except Saturday 2-4 PM)
Live Stream: CBS Sports Network (Saturday: 2-4 PM)
FOLLOW ALONG (LSU Invitational)
Live Results: Delta Timing
MEET NOTES
• This marks Ole Miss' first trip back to the Drake Relays since 2015, when the Rebels came home with four of the famous white flags handed out to Relays champions. In its history, Ole Miss has won 25 Drake Relays titles.
• Ole Miss is set to compete in the elite invitational fields across both the men's and women's shot put and hammer competitions. Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is scheduled to double in both of the men's elite fields, while seniors Jalani Davis and Jasmine Mitchell are set to do the same on the women's side. A win in any of those events would constitute the first Drake Relays title ever by a Rebel in the shot or hammer.
• Former Rebel greats Janeah Stewart (elite women's hammer) and Kristel van den Berg (elite women's 3000-meter steeplechase) are also set to compete in the invitational fields at Drake this weekend.
• Elsewhere in the university/college division races, the Rebel distance squads will be well-represented. Running at Drake this week are: Beth Arentz (women's open 5K), Elyas Ayyoub (men's open 5K), Skylar Boogerd (women's open 5K), Hannah Ielfield (women's 3000-meter steeplechase), Jack Meijer (men's open 10K), Sarah Schiffmann (women's open 5K) and Evan Thornton-Sherman (men's open 5K).
• Of those events, Ole Miss has won prior Drake relays titles in the men's 5K (Barnabas Kirui, 2010) and the women's 10K (Mary Alex England, 2014). Kirui, a 2007 NCAA champ in the steeple, also won men's steeplechase titles in 2007 and 2008.
• Robinson-O'Hagan, fresh off his first NCAA title in the shot put indoors, enters this week's elite fields at Drake as one of the best shot/hammer combo throwers worldwide in 2024. He is the lone thrower worldwide this outdoor season at 72 meters in the hammer and 20 in the shot put, and he has now thrown beyond 20 meters in the shot put 12 times in the last two months after doing so once as a freshman -- including four times in his NCAA title winning series indoors capped by his victorious 21.05m/69-00.75 that still ranks 16th worldwide and No. 3 in the U.S. in the 2024 calendar year.
• Robinson-O'Hagan enters ranked No. 2 in the United States in the shot put this outdoor season at his NCAA-leading 20.69m/67-10.75 from the Ole Miss Classic on March 23. That mark shattered his own school record by two feet and it also broke the previous Ole Miss Track & Field Complex record of 20.28m/66-06.50. Meanwhile, his school record and winning hammer mark of 72.42m/237-07, also from the Ole Miss Classic, ranks eighth in the NCAA and 11th among Americans this outdoor season.
• Since 2015, Robinson-O'Hagan is one of just three collegiate men's throwers to break 72 meters in the hammer and 20 in the shot put, alongside Arizona's Jordan Geist in 2023 and Georgia's Denzel Comenentia in both 2018 and 2019. Of them, though, Robinson-O'Hagan is the youngest to perform the feat as a sophomore.
• All-American seniors Jalani Davis and Jasmine Mitchell will perform the elite section hammer/shot double on the women's side at Drake, and both enter among the best combo throwers in the world this season.
• Davis ranks third nationally in the shot put at her SEC-leading 18.54m/60-10, as well as fifth in the hammer at her 68.78m/225-8 from the Joe Walker Invite. Davis also ranks 17th nationally and fourth in the SEC in the discus at her school record 57.54m/188-9.
• Davis is one of two women worldwide this outdoor season at 18 meters in the shot put and 68 meters in the hammer alongside Maggie Ewen, and is the lone woman to have a 57-meter mark in the discus alongside those two. This past indoor season, Davis repeated as the NCAA Champion in the weight throw, was the third-place finisher in the shot put, and became the second woman in SEC history to sweep both events at the conference meet.
• Mitchell, meanwhile, is also off to an excellent start to the 2024 outdoor season, leading the conference in the hammer and ranking within the national top-25 in both the hammer and shot put. Mitchell has either won or finished as the top collegian in three of her four hammer competitions this outdoor season, with her latest season-best of 69.37m/227-07 ranking fourth in the NCAA and 13th among all throwers in the U.S. this year.
• Mitchell also ranks 25th nationally in the shot put at 16.92m/55-06.25. Mitchell is the lone thrower worldwide this season at 69 meters in the hammer and 16 meters in the shot put.
• Mitchell opened the season at 68.08m/223-04 from the Ole Miss Classic, making her only the second Rebel to ever open at 68 meters or better in the hammer alongside former teammate and 2021 NCAA hammer runner-up Shey Taiwo, who opened the 2022 season at 69.24m/227-02 before missing the remainder of the season due to injury.
• All-American senior McKenzie Long is set to return to the 200-meter dash at LSU this Saturday. This is the second 200 of the outdoor season for Long, who won in impressive -- albeit windy -- fashion at Florida's Tom Jones Memorial two weeks ago. Long won by a wide-margin against a field that could resemble the NCAA final at a wind illegal 22.18 (+4.1). In all wind conditions this outdoor season, that time by Long ranks second worldwide.
• Long entered the season with an even faster 21.88 (+2.5) from her NCAA runner-up performance in Austin last June, which counts for Ole Miss' school record (4.0), as well as third on the collegiate all-conditions list (2.0).
• Combined with her windy (but NCAA allowable) 10.89 (+2.6) in the 100-meter dash from LSU's Battle on the Bayou three weeks ago (No. 3 NCAA), Long is one of two women worldwide in 2024 to be at sub-11.00 in the 100 and sub-22.20 in the 200 amid all wind conditions. U.S. Olympian Gabby Thomas is the other, who owns a slightly windy 10.88 (+2.2) in the 100, and a legal 22.08 (+1.2) in the 200.
• Long has finished as the runner-up in both of her last two trips to NCAAs: that 21.88 (+2.5) at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships last summer, and a 22.51 from the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston last month -- which gave her the Olympic qualifying standard for this summer's U.S. Olympic Trials.
• The Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay of senior Jahniya Bowers, senior McKenzie Long, sophomore Gabrielle Matthews and senior Akilah Lewis took down the Ole Miss record in their first race together at Florida two weeks ago, notching the NCAA's current No. 6 time this season at 43.31. That time flew past the previous record of 43.43 set by Long, Matthews and graduated Rebels Jayda Eckford and Ariyonna Augustine at the SEC Championships last May.
• Matthews also rewrote her own Ole Miss record in the 400-meter hurdles that same weekend, clocking in at a new PR of 56.72. That time currently ranks No. 14 in the NCAA, and it broke her previous record of 57.04 set as a freshman in 2023 in the SEC prelims last spring. Matthews also ranks 32nd nationally in the 200-meter at 23.15 (+2.0).
• That same week Bowers also clocked a new PR in the 100-meter dash at a wind-legal 11.15 (-0.2), good for No. 2 in Ole Miss history and No. 14 in the NCAA this season. Bowers is one of just three Rebel women to ever break 11.20 in any wind conditions alongside Long and former Rebel Brandee Presley.
• Freshman Akaoma Odeluga has made her mark as one of the more exciting up-and-coming shot putters nationally, highlighted by a superb showing at the Joe Walker Invite. Odeluga was the runner-up to Davis at a two-foot PR of 17.37m/57-0 that stands as an Ole Miss freshman record outdoors and ranks fourth all-time in school history outdoors.
• That throw also makes Odeluga the No. 7 U20 performer in the history of the United States, the best since Alyssa Wilson in 2017. This season, Odeluga ranks No. 1 worldwide among U20 athletes, as well as fifth in the SEC, sixth in the East Region and 14th in the NCAA overall. She leads all SEC freshmen, and ranks second among all freshmen nationally. Odeluga is one of nine freshmen since 2015 to break 57 feet in the shot put outdoors, one of two this season alongside Texas' Nina Ndubuisi.
• Other Rebel women currently ranked in the national top-50 are: Mensi Stiff in the shot put (34th, 16.45m/53-11.75); Skylar Soli in the hammer (37th, 61.61m/202-01); and Skylar Boogerd in the 10K (47th, 33:24.12).
• Ole Miss is set for a big weekend in the men's 800-meter and 1500-meter races at LSU on Saturday, notching 10 total entries. In the 800, that crew is led by senior Marcus Dropik and his NCAA 30th-ranked PR of 1:47.82, and junior Chase Rose, who ranks 42nd at his PR of 1:48.19.
• In the 1500, senior Cruz Gomez leads the way at his NCAA No. 46 season-best of 3:41.29 from the Joe Walker Invite earlier this month.
• Other Rebel men within the NCAA top-50 this week are: Arvesta Troupe in the high jump (11th, 2.18m/7-01.75); Ahmad Young Jr. in the 110-meter hurdles (29th, 13.66/+2.5); Toby Gillen in the 5K (32nd, 13:39.66); Jake Dalton in the hammer (36th, 66.31m/217-7); Drew O'Connor in the pole vault (48th, 5.22m/17-01.50); and Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley in the triple jump (48th, 15.38m/50-05.50).
| 2024 Drake Relays / LSU Invitational, Master Schedule (all times CT) | |||
| Day One | Thursday, April 25 | |||
| Time | Meet | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 5:00 PM | Drake Relays | Men's Hammer Invite (World Athletics Continental Tour) | Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
| 6:24 PM | Drake Relays | University/College Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase | Hannah Ielfield (Heat 1) |
| 6:30 PM | Drake Relays | Women's Hammer Invite (World Athletics Continental Tour) | Jalani Davis Jasmine Mitchell |
| 7:32 PM | Drake Relays | University/College Women's Open 5K | Beth Arentz Skylar Boogerd Sarah Schiffmann |
| 8:11 PM | Drake Relays | University/College Men's Open 5K | Evan Thornton-Sherman |
| 9:09 PM | Drake Relays | University/College Men's Open 10K | Elyas Ayyoub Jack Meijer |
| Day Two | Saturday, April 27 | |||
| Time | Meet | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 10:00 AM | LSU Invitational | Women's Hammer | Akaoma Odeluga Skylar Soli Naomi Woolfolk |
| 11:30 AM | LSU Invitational | Men's Hammer | Costen Campion Jake Dalton Mason Hickel Joseph Lanham |
| 12:30 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's Pole Vault | Frankie Amore Pierce Genereux Logan Kelley Ford Maberry Drew O'Connor Miles Walden |
| 1:00 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's Shot Put | Akaoma Odeluga Mensi Stiff |
| 1:15 PM | Drake Relays | Women's Shot Put Invite (World Athletics Continental Tour) | Jalani Davis Jasmine Mitchell |
| 1:30 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay | -- |
| LSU Invitational | Men's Long Jump | Guy Bond Carson Walls |
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| 1:40 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 1500-Meter | Jocelyn Long Frances Luna Samantha Ouellette |
| 1:45 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's Long Jump | Laurel Fulcher |
| 1:50 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's 1500-Meter | Cruz Gomez Aidan Hodge Landen McNair Gabe Scales |
| 2:10 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's 110-Meter Hurdles | Ahmad Young Jr. |
| 2:20 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 400-Meter Dash | Gracyn Yelverton |
| 2:30 PM | Drake Relays | Men's Shot Put Invite (World Athletics Continental Tour) | Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
| LSU Invitational | Men's 400-Meter Dash | Pierce Genereux | |
| LSU Invitational | Women's Discus | Akaoma Odeluga Skylar Soli Mensi Stiff |
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| LSU Invitational | Men's Shot Put | Mason Hickel | |
| 2:45 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 100-Meter Dash | Jerricka Ambus Jahniya Bowers Akilah Lewis |
| 2:55 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's 100-Meter Dash | Ryan Star |
| 3:00 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's Pole Vault | Mary Cate Doughty Kathryn Hosp Samara McConnell |
| 3:05 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 800-Meter | Jo-Lauren Keane |
| 3:10 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's 800-Meter | Marcus Dropik Cade Flatt Cole Piotrowski Chase Rose Jonathan Stock Carson Turner |
| 3:30 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's High Jump | Guy Bond Arvesta Troupe |
| 3:45 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 200-Meter Dash | Hannah Foxx Laurel Fulcher McKenzie Long Gabrielle Matthews |
| LSU Invitational | Women's Triple Jump | Eni Akinniyi Kayla Jemison Kyla McLaurin |
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| 4:00 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's Javelin | Abigail Green |
| LSU Invitational | Men's Javelin | Jake Railey | |
| 4:15 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's Triple Jump | Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley, Gavin Nembhard |
| 4:20 PM | LSU Invitational | Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase | Ainhoa Brea |
| 4:55 PM | LSU Invitational | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay | -- |
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