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NCAA East Regional
Track & Field in Search of National Berths at NCAA East Regional
5/21/2024 | Track and Field
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tickets to the national meet are on the line this week for Ole Miss track & field, as the Rebels send a program-record 35 athletes via 41 entries to the 2024 NCAA East Region Preliminary Round Championships. Competition runs May 22-25 at the University of Kentucky, and fans can watch the evening sessions live on ESPN+.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Wed., May 22)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Two (Thurs., May 23)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Three (Fri., May 24)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Four (Sat., May 25)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Live Results
Flash Results
MEET NOTES
• Those 41 entries for Ole Miss ranks as the second-most in school history, trailing only the record 43 set by the 2021 Rebel squad. In nine years at Ole Miss, head coach Connie Price-Smith has averaged 31.3 athletes and 35.3 entries at the regional meet, and from there she has sent an average of 12.0 athletes and 10.7 entries to the national meet.
• In her Ole Miss tenure, Price-Smith has mentored three NCAA Outdoor Champions (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2016; Janeah Stewart, hammer, 2018; Sintayehu Vissa, 1500-meter, 2022), 71 outdoor First or Second-Team All-Americans (46 women, 25 men) and brought the Rebels five national top-25 team finishes outdoors.
• The Rebel men lead the way with a men's record 22 entries from 20 athletes, while the Rebel women tallied 19 entries from 15 athletes. Among those are a total of 14 Ole Miss student-athletes competing in their first regional meet (eight men, six women).
• A total of eight Rebels will be attempting at least a double (six women, two men), with world 200-meter leader and recent Bowerman Watch List addition McKenzie Long attempting a triple in the 100-meter, 200-meter and the 4x100-meter relay.
• The Ole Miss men's distance squad is tied for the East Region lead with 10 entries, while the Rebel women's throwers lead all East Region schools with nine entries.
• To qualify for this first round of the NCAA Championships, student-athletes must have finished the season ranked within the top-48 of their individual events or as a member of a top-24 relay team on their respective regional qualifying list (East or West), which was released by the NCAA on Thursday. The top-12 athletes in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon in the East and West automatically receive entry to the national meet.
• From there, the top-12 finishers in each event at each regional meet advance to the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships, which this year returns to the University of Oregon on June 5-8.
• The Rebel women enter the regional meet ranked No. 9 in the latest USTFCCCA Outdoor Rating Index. Ole Miss has ranked no worse than No. 14 this outdoor season in the women's index, rising as high as a program-record No. 5 in Week Two. In its history outdoors, Ole Miss has now cracked the national top-10 a total of 15 times: 12 times by the Rebel women (all under Price-Smith), and three times for the Rebel men.
• Overall, this is the 57th appearance in the outdoor national top-25 for the Rebel women since their first appearance in 2008. Of the 127 combined outdoor rankings in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith owns 68 total appearances (48 women, 20 men) since first arriving in Oxford for the 2015-16 season.
• Ole Miss is coming off a strong outing at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where the Rebels came away with five individual titles, 14 medalists, two collegiate all-time performances, a World U20 lead and a world lead. Winning titles for the Rebels were senior McKenzie Long (women's 200-meter dash), sophomore Gabrielle Matthews (women's 400-meter hurdles), senior Jasmine Mitchell (women's hammer) and sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (men's shot put, hammer).
• Other medalists were: the women's 4x100-meter relay of Akilah Lewis, Long, Matthews and Jahniya Bowers (silver); Jake Dalton in the men's hammer (silver); Jalani Davis in both the women's shot put (silver) and hammer (bronze); Akaoma Odeluga in the women's shot put (bronze); and Arvesta Troupe in the men's high jump (bronze).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• All-American senior and two-time NCAA runner-up McKenzie Long is coming off a career outing at the SEC Championships two weeks ago where she not only successfully defended her conference crown in the 200-meter dash, but she did so in spectacular fashion.
• Long won at a world lead and wind-legal PR of 22.03 (+0.6), making her the No. 5 collegian all-time and the No. 22 sprinter in the history of the United States. Long won by a margin of 0.08 over a stacked field that included three NCAA Champions from this past indoor season. Long's victory made her the first to repeat in the SEC women's 200-meter since LSU's Kimberlyn Duncan, who won three in a row from 2011-13. Since 2013, no school had repeated in the women's 200, let alone the same athlete.
• For her efforts, Long was recently named to the May 15 update of The Bowerman Women's Watch List for the top award in all of college track & field. Long is only the third Rebel woman to ever make a Bowerman Watch List, joining NCAA Champion Shey Taiwo – who appeared twice during the 2022 season – and two-time Olympian Raven Saunders, who made 15 total appearances and was a Bowerman finalist in 2016 and a semifinalist in 2017.
• Long will once again be attempting the 100/200/4x100 triple at the East Regional this week one year after becoming the first Rebel woman to ever qualify in all three for nationals. She enters with the top seed mark at her world-leading 200-meter time of 22.03 (+0.6), as well as No. 4 in the 100-meter dash at 10.89 (+2.6) and No. 2 as part of the Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay at 42.47.
• 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.
• Long ran the second leg of Ole Miss' 4x100-meter relay along with Akilah Lewis, Gabrielle Matthews and Jahniya Bowers that finished as SEC runners-up at 42.47 -- ranking the Rebels No. 7 in collegiate history and No. 4 all-time among SEC schools. This season, that ranks No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 7 in the world, and it dismantled the previous Ole Miss record of 43.31 set at Florida on April 13.
• Ole Miss is looking for its ninth consecutive national qualifying berth in the women's 4x100-meter relay.
• Matthews claimed her first career SEC title in stunning fashion, winning the women's 400-meter hurdles at 55.12 -- dismantling her own Ole Miss record for the third time this season. That time ranks No. 4 in Jamaica this season, as well as No. 2 in the East Region and No. 6 in the NCAA overall. She is the first Rebel woman to ever win an SEC title in the 400 hurdles.
• Bowers will also be doubling for the Rebel women, qualifying with her 100-meter dash PR of 11.15 (-0.2). She enters with the No. 13 seed time in the East and the No. 18 time overall in the NCAA. Bowers is one of just three Rebel women to ever break 11.20 in any wind conditions alongside Long and former Rebel Brandee Presley.
• All-American senior and two-time NCAA Champion Jalani Davis enters this weekend with 10 career NCAA qualifying berths across the indoor and outdoor seasons, and will once again be doubling at the East Regional -- this year in the shot put and the hammer. Davis has at least doubled at the East Regional in each season of her career, and has earned four NCAA berths outdoors -- including a triple as a sophomore in 2021.
• Davis enters with the top seed mark in the shot put at her outdoor season-best 18.54m/60-10, which also ranks No. 4 in the NCAA and No. 6 in the U.S. this outdoor season. In the hammer, Davis ranks third in the East Region and sixth in the NCAA at her season-best 68.78m/225-8 (No. 14 U.S.).
• Davis is the lone thrower worldwide this outdoor season at 60 feet in the shot put and 225 feet in the hammer, not to mention her 188-foot mark in the discus. 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. Last week, Davis earned her 10th and 11th career SEC medals, and ends her Ole Miss career with a whopping 110 SEC points scored.
• Last month, Davis won the invitational section of the women's shot put at the Drake Relays ahead of professionals and Olympians on her first throw of 18.23m/59-09.75, which was part of the World Athletics Continental Tour and will prove crucial for World Ranking points come summertime at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Davis also finished fourth in the elite section of the hammer, and was one of three Rebels in WACT events at Drake alongside All-American teammate Jasmine Mitchell (women's shot/hammer) and sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (men's shot/hammer). Davis represented Team USA in the shot put in Budapest last summer for the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
• Mitchell is in the midst of an excellent 2024 outdoor season, most recently becoming the first Rebel woman to win an SEC hammer title. She enters ranked second in the East Region and fifth in the NCAA in the hammer at her season-best 69.37m/227-7, the No. 12 mark in the U.S. this year. Mitchell also qualified in the shot put at her season-best 16.92m/55-06.25, good for No. 14 in the East list and No. 28 in the NCAA. Mitchell is the lone thrower worldwide this season at 69 meters in the hammer and 16 meters in the shot put.
• 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 SEC Championships. Odeluga was the bronze medal finisher at a 2.5 foot PR of 18.11m/59-5, which ranks as the world U20 lead this season and No. 2 on the all-time U20 list in the history of the United States -- trailing only former Rebel, Raven Saunders. This season, Odeluga enters the East Regional with the No. 5 seed mark and ranks 10th overall in the NCAA.
• Other Rebel women qualifying and competing are: freshman Skylar Soli in the hammer (18th, 62.18m/204-0); freshman Mensi Stiff in both the shot put (20th, 16.45m/53-11.75) and discus (32nd, 51.83m/170-0); senior Skylar Boogerd in the 10K (32nd, 33:24.12); junior Abigail Green in the javelin (39th, 46.02m/151-0); redshirt junior Jo-Lauren Keane in the 800-meter (40th, 2:05.90); senior Samara McConnell in the pole vault (42nd, 4.06m/13-03.75); redshirt junior Madison Hulsey in the 1500-meter (45th, 4:19.63); and sophomore Sophie Baumann in the 5K (48th, 16:07.04).
MEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is off yet another dominant conference meet, sweeping the men's hammer and shot put. He is only the third in conference history to do so alongside Georgia's Denzel Comenentia (2017, '18) and Auburn's Cory Martin (2007, '08). He is the first in conference history to sweep the hammer/shot outdoors and also the weight/shot indoors, and his dominant shot put victory at his NCAA-leading 20.85m/68-5 made him the first to throw 68 feet at SECs since Comenentia in 2018 and the first to do so multiple times in the same field series since Georgia's Brett Noon in 1995. In less than two years as a Rebel, Robinson-O'Hagan already has five SEC titles, six SEC medals, 64 total SEC points scored and two SEC points trophies (2024 indoor/outdoor).
• Robinson-O'Hagan enters this week also qualified in the hammer at his PR of 72.42m/237-7, which ranks second on the East seeding list and eighth in the NCAA this year. As a freshman in 2023, Robinson-O'Hagan advanced in both events -- ultimately scoring in eighth in the deepest hammer field in NCAA history.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is one of the best men's shot/hammer combo throwers worldwide in 2024, currently sitting as one of two throwers in the world this outdoor season at 72 meters in the shot put and 20 in the shot put alongside professional Jordan Geist. In the last three months, Robinson-O'Hagan has thrown beyond 20 meters in the shot put 14 times 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 24th worldwide and No. 9 in the U.S. in the 2024 calendar year.
• 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.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is one of four Rebel men to qualify in the hammer this season alongside SEC silver medalist Jake Dalton (6th, 68.43m/224-6), Costen Campion (26th, 64.07m/210-2) and Mason Hickel (33rd, 63.31m/207-8). Ole Miss scored 24 SEC points in the hammer this year, the most by any team since 2003.
• Senior hurdler Ahmad Young Jr. is looking to book his return trip to the national meet in the 110-meter hurdles, and he is coming off a career-best performance at the SEC Championships. Young finished fourth in the SEC final at a PR of 13.50 (+0.4), which slots him No. 8 on the East Region seeding list, as well as No. 20 in the NCAA this season. Young is one of only three Rebel men to break 13.50 in any wind conditions alongside Antwon Hicks and John Yarbrough.
• Sophomore Arvesta Troupe is fresh off his first career SEC medal, after taking bronze in the men's high jump two weeks ago. His career-best height of 2.18m/7-01.75 from earlier this season ranks ninth on the East seeding list, as well as No. 17 in the NCAA.
• Fellow jumper and junior Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley returns to the East Regional in the triple jump, ranked 16th in the East at his all-conditions PR of 15.81m/51-10.50 (+3.7).
• Ole Miss is tied for the NCAA East Region lead with 10 men's distance entries from 800 meters through 10K. Qualifying for the Rebels are: Toby Gillen in the 5K (13th, 13:39.66); Marcus Dropik in the 800-meter (26th, 1:47.82); Dereck Elkins in the 10K (27th, 28:44.87); Chase Rose in the 800-meter (32nd, 1:48.19); Cruz Gomez in both the 5K (33rd, 13:49.13) and the 1500-meter (35th, 3:41.29); Aiden Britt in the 10K (33rd, 28:52.35); Elyas Ayyoub in the 5K (35th, 13:49.29); Cole Bullock in the 5K (38th, 13:49.46); and Gabe Scales in the 1500-meter (43rd, 3:41.70).
• The Rebel men also have multiple entries in the pole vault with three bids courtesy of Drew O'Connor (21st, 5.31m/17-5), Miles Walden (33rd, 5.20m/17-00.75) and Logan Kelley (40th, 5.16m/16-11).
• Redshirt freshman and Ole Miss javelin record holder Jake Railey will compete in his first NCAA East Regional, entering this week ranked 15th in the javelin at his record 69.52m/228-1.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Wed., May 22)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Two (Thurs., May 23)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Three (Fri., May 24)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Four (Sat., May 25)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Live Results
Flash Results
MEET NOTES
• Those 41 entries for Ole Miss ranks as the second-most in school history, trailing only the record 43 set by the 2021 Rebel squad. In nine years at Ole Miss, head coach Connie Price-Smith has averaged 31.3 athletes and 35.3 entries at the regional meet, and from there she has sent an average of 12.0 athletes and 10.7 entries to the national meet.
• In her Ole Miss tenure, Price-Smith has mentored three NCAA Outdoor Champions (Raven Saunders, shot put, 2016; Janeah Stewart, hammer, 2018; Sintayehu Vissa, 1500-meter, 2022), 71 outdoor First or Second-Team All-Americans (46 women, 25 men) and brought the Rebels five national top-25 team finishes outdoors.
• The Rebel men lead the way with a men's record 22 entries from 20 athletes, while the Rebel women tallied 19 entries from 15 athletes. Among those are a total of 14 Ole Miss student-athletes competing in their first regional meet (eight men, six women).
• A total of eight Rebels will be attempting at least a double (six women, two men), with world 200-meter leader and recent Bowerman Watch List addition McKenzie Long attempting a triple in the 100-meter, 200-meter and the 4x100-meter relay.
• The Ole Miss men's distance squad is tied for the East Region lead with 10 entries, while the Rebel women's throwers lead all East Region schools with nine entries.
• To qualify for this first round of the NCAA Championships, student-athletes must have finished the season ranked within the top-48 of their individual events or as a member of a top-24 relay team on their respective regional qualifying list (East or West), which was released by the NCAA on Thursday. The top-12 athletes in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon in the East and West automatically receive entry to the national meet.
• From there, the top-12 finishers in each event at each regional meet advance to the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships, which this year returns to the University of Oregon on June 5-8.
• The Rebel women enter the regional meet ranked No. 9 in the latest USTFCCCA Outdoor Rating Index. Ole Miss has ranked no worse than No. 14 this outdoor season in the women's index, rising as high as a program-record No. 5 in Week Two. In its history outdoors, Ole Miss has now cracked the national top-10 a total of 15 times: 12 times by the Rebel women (all under Price-Smith), and three times for the Rebel men.
• Overall, this is the 57th appearance in the outdoor national top-25 for the Rebel women since their first appearance in 2008. Of the 127 combined outdoor rankings in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith owns 68 total appearances (48 women, 20 men) since first arriving in Oxford for the 2015-16 season.
• Ole Miss is coming off a strong outing at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where the Rebels came away with five individual titles, 14 medalists, two collegiate all-time performances, a World U20 lead and a world lead. Winning titles for the Rebels were senior McKenzie Long (women's 200-meter dash), sophomore Gabrielle Matthews (women's 400-meter hurdles), senior Jasmine Mitchell (women's hammer) and sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (men's shot put, hammer).
• Other medalists were: the women's 4x100-meter relay of Akilah Lewis, Long, Matthews and Jahniya Bowers (silver); Jake Dalton in the men's hammer (silver); Jalani Davis in both the women's shot put (silver) and hammer (bronze); Akaoma Odeluga in the women's shot put (bronze); and Arvesta Troupe in the men's high jump (bronze).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• All-American senior and two-time NCAA runner-up McKenzie Long is coming off a career outing at the SEC Championships two weeks ago where she not only successfully defended her conference crown in the 200-meter dash, but she did so in spectacular fashion.
• Long won at a world lead and wind-legal PR of 22.03 (+0.6), making her the No. 5 collegian all-time and the No. 22 sprinter in the history of the United States. Long won by a margin of 0.08 over a stacked field that included three NCAA Champions from this past indoor season. Long's victory made her the first to repeat in the SEC women's 200-meter since LSU's Kimberlyn Duncan, who won three in a row from 2011-13. Since 2013, no school had repeated in the women's 200, let alone the same athlete.
• For her efforts, Long was recently named to the May 15 update of The Bowerman Women's Watch List for the top award in all of college track & field. Long is only the third Rebel woman to ever make a Bowerman Watch List, joining NCAA Champion Shey Taiwo – who appeared twice during the 2022 season – and two-time Olympian Raven Saunders, who made 15 total appearances and was a Bowerman finalist in 2016 and a semifinalist in 2017.
• Long will once again be attempting the 100/200/4x100 triple at the East Regional this week one year after becoming the first Rebel woman to ever qualify in all three for nationals. She enters with the top seed mark at her world-leading 200-meter time of 22.03 (+0.6), as well as No. 4 in the 100-meter dash at 10.89 (+2.6) and No. 2 as part of the Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay at 42.47.
• 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.
• Long ran the second leg of Ole Miss' 4x100-meter relay along with Akilah Lewis, Gabrielle Matthews and Jahniya Bowers that finished as SEC runners-up at 42.47 -- ranking the Rebels No. 7 in collegiate history and No. 4 all-time among SEC schools. This season, that ranks No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 7 in the world, and it dismantled the previous Ole Miss record of 43.31 set at Florida on April 13.
• Ole Miss is looking for its ninth consecutive national qualifying berth in the women's 4x100-meter relay.
• Matthews claimed her first career SEC title in stunning fashion, winning the women's 400-meter hurdles at 55.12 -- dismantling her own Ole Miss record for the third time this season. That time ranks No. 4 in Jamaica this season, as well as No. 2 in the East Region and No. 6 in the NCAA overall. She is the first Rebel woman to ever win an SEC title in the 400 hurdles.
• Bowers will also be doubling for the Rebel women, qualifying with her 100-meter dash PR of 11.15 (-0.2). She enters with the No. 13 seed time in the East and the No. 18 time overall in the NCAA. Bowers is one of just three Rebel women to ever break 11.20 in any wind conditions alongside Long and former Rebel Brandee Presley.
• All-American senior and two-time NCAA Champion Jalani Davis enters this weekend with 10 career NCAA qualifying berths across the indoor and outdoor seasons, and will once again be doubling at the East Regional -- this year in the shot put and the hammer. Davis has at least doubled at the East Regional in each season of her career, and has earned four NCAA berths outdoors -- including a triple as a sophomore in 2021.
• Davis enters with the top seed mark in the shot put at her outdoor season-best 18.54m/60-10, which also ranks No. 4 in the NCAA and No. 6 in the U.S. this outdoor season. In the hammer, Davis ranks third in the East Region and sixth in the NCAA at her season-best 68.78m/225-8 (No. 14 U.S.).
• Davis is the lone thrower worldwide this outdoor season at 60 feet in the shot put and 225 feet in the hammer, not to mention her 188-foot mark in the discus. 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. Last week, Davis earned her 10th and 11th career SEC medals, and ends her Ole Miss career with a whopping 110 SEC points scored.
• Last month, Davis won the invitational section of the women's shot put at the Drake Relays ahead of professionals and Olympians on her first throw of 18.23m/59-09.75, which was part of the World Athletics Continental Tour and will prove crucial for World Ranking points come summertime at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Davis also finished fourth in the elite section of the hammer, and was one of three Rebels in WACT events at Drake alongside All-American teammate Jasmine Mitchell (women's shot/hammer) and sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (men's shot/hammer). Davis represented Team USA in the shot put in Budapest last summer for the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
• Mitchell is in the midst of an excellent 2024 outdoor season, most recently becoming the first Rebel woman to win an SEC hammer title. She enters ranked second in the East Region and fifth in the NCAA in the hammer at her season-best 69.37m/227-7, the No. 12 mark in the U.S. this year. Mitchell also qualified in the shot put at her season-best 16.92m/55-06.25, good for No. 14 in the East list and No. 28 in the NCAA. Mitchell is the lone thrower worldwide this season at 69 meters in the hammer and 16 meters in the shot put.
• 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 SEC Championships. Odeluga was the bronze medal finisher at a 2.5 foot PR of 18.11m/59-5, which ranks as the world U20 lead this season and No. 2 on the all-time U20 list in the history of the United States -- trailing only former Rebel, Raven Saunders. This season, Odeluga enters the East Regional with the No. 5 seed mark and ranks 10th overall in the NCAA.
• Other Rebel women qualifying and competing are: freshman Skylar Soli in the hammer (18th, 62.18m/204-0); freshman Mensi Stiff in both the shot put (20th, 16.45m/53-11.75) and discus (32nd, 51.83m/170-0); senior Skylar Boogerd in the 10K (32nd, 33:24.12); junior Abigail Green in the javelin (39th, 46.02m/151-0); redshirt junior Jo-Lauren Keane in the 800-meter (40th, 2:05.90); senior Samara McConnell in the pole vault (42nd, 4.06m/13-03.75); redshirt junior Madison Hulsey in the 1500-meter (45th, 4:19.63); and sophomore Sophie Baumann in the 5K (48th, 16:07.04).
MEN'S NOTES
• Sophomore Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is off yet another dominant conference meet, sweeping the men's hammer and shot put. He is only the third in conference history to do so alongside Georgia's Denzel Comenentia (2017, '18) and Auburn's Cory Martin (2007, '08). He is the first in conference history to sweep the hammer/shot outdoors and also the weight/shot indoors, and his dominant shot put victory at his NCAA-leading 20.85m/68-5 made him the first to throw 68 feet at SECs since Comenentia in 2018 and the first to do so multiple times in the same field series since Georgia's Brett Noon in 1995. In less than two years as a Rebel, Robinson-O'Hagan already has five SEC titles, six SEC medals, 64 total SEC points scored and two SEC points trophies (2024 indoor/outdoor).
• Robinson-O'Hagan enters this week also qualified in the hammer at his PR of 72.42m/237-7, which ranks second on the East seeding list and eighth in the NCAA this year. As a freshman in 2023, Robinson-O'Hagan advanced in both events -- ultimately scoring in eighth in the deepest hammer field in NCAA history.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is one of the best men's shot/hammer combo throwers worldwide in 2024, currently sitting as one of two throwers in the world this outdoor season at 72 meters in the shot put and 20 in the shot put alongside professional Jordan Geist. In the last three months, Robinson-O'Hagan has thrown beyond 20 meters in the shot put 14 times 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 24th worldwide and No. 9 in the U.S. in the 2024 calendar year.
• 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.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is one of four Rebel men to qualify in the hammer this season alongside SEC silver medalist Jake Dalton (6th, 68.43m/224-6), Costen Campion (26th, 64.07m/210-2) and Mason Hickel (33rd, 63.31m/207-8). Ole Miss scored 24 SEC points in the hammer this year, the most by any team since 2003.
• Senior hurdler Ahmad Young Jr. is looking to book his return trip to the national meet in the 110-meter hurdles, and he is coming off a career-best performance at the SEC Championships. Young finished fourth in the SEC final at a PR of 13.50 (+0.4), which slots him No. 8 on the East Region seeding list, as well as No. 20 in the NCAA this season. Young is one of only three Rebel men to break 13.50 in any wind conditions alongside Antwon Hicks and John Yarbrough.
• Sophomore Arvesta Troupe is fresh off his first career SEC medal, after taking bronze in the men's high jump two weeks ago. His career-best height of 2.18m/7-01.75 from earlier this season ranks ninth on the East seeding list, as well as No. 17 in the NCAA.
• Fellow jumper and junior Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley returns to the East Regional in the triple jump, ranked 16th in the East at his all-conditions PR of 15.81m/51-10.50 (+3.7).
• Ole Miss is tied for the NCAA East Region lead with 10 men's distance entries from 800 meters through 10K. Qualifying for the Rebels are: Toby Gillen in the 5K (13th, 13:39.66); Marcus Dropik in the 800-meter (26th, 1:47.82); Dereck Elkins in the 10K (27th, 28:44.87); Chase Rose in the 800-meter (32nd, 1:48.19); Cruz Gomez in both the 5K (33rd, 13:49.13) and the 1500-meter (35th, 3:41.29); Aiden Britt in the 10K (33rd, 28:52.35); Elyas Ayyoub in the 5K (35th, 13:49.29); Cole Bullock in the 5K (38th, 13:49.46); and Gabe Scales in the 1500-meter (43rd, 3:41.70).
• The Rebel men also have multiple entries in the pole vault with three bids courtesy of Drew O'Connor (21st, 5.31m/17-5), Miles Walden (33rd, 5.20m/17-00.75) and Logan Kelley (40th, 5.16m/16-11).
• Redshirt freshman and Ole Miss javelin record holder Jake Railey will compete in his first NCAA East Regional, entering this week ranked 15th in the javelin at his record 69.52m/228-1.
| 2024 NCAA East Regional, Master Schedule (all times CT) | ||
| Day One | Wednesday, May 22 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 9:00 AM | Men's Hammer | Mason Hickel (Flight 1) Costen Campion (Flight 2) Jake Dalton (Flight 3) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 3) |
| 11:00 AM | Men's Javelin | Jake Railey (Flight 3) |
| 2:00 PM | Men's Pole Vault | Logan Kelley (Flight 2) Drew O'Connor (Flight 2) Miles Walden (Flight 2) |
| 4:00 PM | Men's 110-Meter Hurdles First Round | Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 5, Lane 9) |
| 4:30 PM | Men's Shot Put | Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 4) |
| Men's 1500-Meter First Round | Cruz Gomez (Heat 4) Gabe Scales (Heat 4) |
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| 5:50 PM | Men's 800-Meter First Round | Marcus Dropik (Heat 2, Lane 5) Chase Rose (Heat 4, Lane 7) |
| 7:10 PM | Men's 10K Semifinal | Aiden Britt Dereck Elkins |
| Day Two | Thursday, May 23 | ||
| 9:00 AM | Women's Hammer | Skylar Soli (Flight 2) Jalani Davis (Flight 3) Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 3) |
| 10:30 AM | Women's Javelin | Abigail Green (Flight 1) |
| 2:30 PM | Women's Shot Put | Jasmine Mitchell (Flight 3) Mensi Stiff (Flight 3) Jalani Davis (Flight 4) Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 4) |
| Women's 1500-Meter First Round | Madison Hulsey (Heat 4) | |
| 3:00 PM | Women's 100-Meter Dash First Round | Jahniya Bowers (Heat 1, Lane 7) McKenzie Long (Heat 4, Lane 7) |
| 3:50 PM | Women's 800-Meter First Round | Jo-Lauren Keane (Heat 5, Lane 3) |
| 4:20 PM | Women's 400-Meter Hurdles First Round | Gabrielle Matthews (Heat 1, Lane 6) |
| 4:45 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash First Round | McKenzie Long (Heat 1, Lane 3) |
| 5:10 PM | Women's 10K Semifinal | Skylar Boogerd |
| Day Three | Friday, May 24 | ||
| 9:00 AM | Women's Pole Vault | Samara McConnell (Flight 1) |
| 1:00 PM | Men's High Jump | Arvesta Troupe (Flight 1) |
| 5:00 PM | Men's Triple Jump | Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley (Flight 3) |
| 5:15 PM | Men's 110-Meter Hurdles Quarterfinal | Ahmad Young Jr. (Heat 3, Lane 4) |
| 7:10 PM | Men's 5K Semifinal | Cole Bullock (Heat 1) Toby Gillen (Heat 1) Cruz Gomez (Heat 1) Elyas Ayyoub (Heat 2) |
| Day Four | Saturday, May 25 | ||
| 12:00 PM | Women's Discus | Mensi Stiff (Flight 2) |
| 4:00 PM | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay Quarterfinal | Heat 3, Lane 4 |
| 5:35 PM | Women's 100-Meter Dash Quarterfinal | Jahniya Bowers (Heat 2, Lane 2) McKenzie Long (Heat 3, Lane 5) |
| 6:05 PM | Women's 800-Meter Quarterfinal | Jo-Lauren Keane (Heat 2, Lane 2) |
| 6:25 PM | Women's 400-Meter Hurdles Quarterfinal | Gabrielle Matthews (Heat 3, Lane 7) |
| 6:50 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash Quarterfinal | McKenzie Long (Heat 2, Lane 6) |
| 7:10 PM | Women's 5K Semifinal | Sophie Baumann (Heat 2) |
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