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Odeluga, Akaoma

Women’s Track & Field Concludes Season at NCAA Outdoor Championships

6/12/2025 | Track and Field

EUGENE, Ore. – Ole Miss women's track & field wrapped up their 2025 collegiate season with an All-American award on Day Two of the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Oregon's Hayward Field on Thursday.
 
Sophomore Akaoma Odeluga earned her second career All-America nod on Thursday night, finishing 12th overall in the women's shot put final for Second-Team All-America status. Odeluga wraps a superb sophomore campaign that saw her become one of two in collegiate history at 62 feet in the shot put and 210 feet in the hammer, and she is looking to book a return trip to the U.S. final in the shot put later this summer.
 
Fellow sophomore Skylar Soli competed in the women's hammer final earlier, but was unable to register a legal mark. Soli was the SEC silver medalist indoors in the weight throw this season, and outdoors she moved up to sixth in Ole Miss history in the hammer at her career-best 64.39m/211-3.
 
Ole Miss now has one day of competition remaining in Oregon on Friday, with junior Arvesta Troupe scheduled for the men's high jump final at 6:30 p.m. CT, while seniors Toby Gillen and Kidus Misgina will run in the men's 5K final at 8:55 p.m. CT.
 
Day Two Second-Team All-Americans
Akaoma Odeluga – Women's Shot Put, 12th Place
 
Day One First-Team All-Americans
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – Men's Shot Put, 3rd Place
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – Men's Hammer, 3rd Place
 
Day One Second-Team All-Americans
Jake Dalton – Men's Hammer, 12th Place
Bryson Smith – Men's Hammer, 13th Place
John Kendricks – Men's Pole Vault, T-13th Place
Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley – Men's 4x100-Meter Relay, 15th Place
Joseph Michel – Men's 4x100-Meter Relay, 15th Place
Wesley Todd – Men's 4x100-Meter Relay, 15th Place
Jordan Urrutia – Men's 4x100-Meter Relay, 15th Place
 
Day One Honorable Mention All-Americans
Logan Kelley – Men's Pole Vault, 17th Place
Mason Hickel – Men's Hammer, 22nd Place
 
REBELS IN DAY TWO COMPETITION
 
Women's Shot Put – Final
12. Akaoma Odeluga – 17.14m/56-02.75 – Second-Team All-American
 
Women's Hammer – Final
FOUL Skylar Soli
 
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REBELS IN DAY ONE COMPETITION
 
Men's 4x100-Meter Relay – Semifinals
15. Atkinstall-Daley, Urrutia, Todd, Michel – 39.29 – Second-Team All-Americans
 
Men's Pole Vault – Final
T13. John Kendricks – 5.33m/17-05.75 – Second-Team All-American
17. Logan Kelley – 5.33m/17-05.75 – Honorable Mention All-American – Ties PR, No. 7 Ole Miss History Outdoors
 
Men's Shot Put – Final
3. Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – 20.41m/66-11.50 – First-Team All-American
 
Men's Hammer – Final
3. Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan – 76.78m/251-11 – First-Team All-American – PR, School Record, No. 3 SEC History, No. 4 American Collegiate History No. 16 Collegiate History – 2025 World No. 23, U.S. No. 5
12. Jake Dalton – 67.79m/222-5 – Second-Team All-American
13. Bryson Smith – 67.79m/222-5 – Second-Team All-American
22. Mason Hickel – 63.71m/209-0 – Honorable Mention All-American
 

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