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Bob Pollock Invitational
Track & Field Heads to Clemson for Bob Pollock Invitational
1/29/2026 | Track and Field
CLEMSON, S.C. – Ole Miss track & field will face a key early-season test this weekend at Clemson's Bob Pollock Invitational, held at the Clemson Indoor Track & Field Complex on Jan. 30-31.
MEET NOTES
• Both Rebel squads debuted within the national top-25 in the first USTFCCCA Rating Index of the indoor season this week, with the Ole Miss men debuting at No. 7 and the women No. 21. That No. 7 slot for the Rebel men ranks as their highest since a program-record No. 5 appearance at the start of the 2023 season. Of the 117 all-time indoor rankings in Ole Miss history, 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith owns 84 (50 women, 34 men). She also owns all 22 simultaneous team rankings indoor in Ole Miss history, with the first occurrence in Week Two of the 2021 season.
• At Ole Miss, Price-Smith's Rebels have earned 16 NCAA individual titles (22 champions), 14 NCAA runners-up, 188 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 422 NCAA points, 81 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history at both the SEC and NCAA levels. She owns 34 top-25 national team finishes across track (19) and cross country (15), as well as eight of the 11 all-time NCAA top-10 track finishes in Ole Miss history: 2025 men's outdoor (T-8th), 2025 men's indoor (T-10th), 2024 women's outdoor (5th), 2024 women's indoor (5th), 2023 women's indoor (10th), 2022 women's indoor (T-6th), 2022 men's indoor (T-10th) and 2021 men's indoor (10th).
• Entering competition this week, Ole Miss owns 20 times or marks within the national top-50, including four SEC-leading performances and a national lead courtesy of three-time NCAA Champion and All-American senior, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan.
• His season-opening shot put performance of 20.76m/68-01.50 still leads all collegians, and among the world ranks if ranks second worldwide and leads all Americans at this early point of the indoor season. That mark ranks as the best by any collegian that early into the season (Jan. 10) in available records (since at least 2008).
• Robinson-O'Hagan's season-opening weight throw best of 23.78m/78-00.25 also still leads the SEC while ranking third nationally.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is the leader of a powerful Ole Miss men's throws squad that is well represented on the NCAA leaderboard. Fellow seniors Bryson Smith and Mason Hickel both own national top-20 marks, with Smith's PR of 22.11m/72-06.50 (NCAA No. 13, SEC No. 4) and Hickel's opener of 21.27m/69-09.50 (NCAA No. 20, SEC No. 8). In the shot put, freshman Ashton Hearn is off to an excellent start to his collegiate career, improving in each of his first two competitions and currently ranking 39th nationally at 18.03m/59-2 -- already good for fifth in Ole Miss history indoors.
• Robinson-O'Hagan has made the preseason watch list for The Bowerman -- college track & field's version of the Heisman Trophy -- for the second straight season. The Rhode Island native enters his final season at Ole Miss with three NCAA titles (including each of the least two indoors in 2024 and 2025) and is a 12-time All-American, nine-time SEC Champion, four-time SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Year, three-time SEC points trophy winner and 10-time SEC medalist with 59 career NCAA points scored and 104 SEC points.
• Robinson-O'Hagan has only lost to fellow collegians in the weight throw four times in his career, with three of those coming in all three of his NCAA finals. In the shot put, Robinson-O'Hagan hasn't lost indoors since the 2024 Razorback Invitational and has only twice to collegians overall since then (2024 Tom Jones Memorial; 2025 NCAA Outdoor).
• Robinson-O'Hagan entered the 2026 indoor season second in collegiate history in combined career shot put/weight throw PRs, with his current combined total sitting at 45.46m behind only 45.92m from North Dakota State's Payton Otterdahl. Robinson-O'Hagan owns career-bests of 21.11m/69-03.25 in the shot put and 24.35m/79-10.75 in the weight throw. Both rank within the all-time collegiate top-25 indoors, as he currently sits 13th in the weight and 21st in the shot indoors.
• His three straight NCAA titles from indoors 2024 to indoors 2025 landed him as one of only 10 three-peaters in collegiate history, with his first two wins in 2024 making him the youngest to sweep since 1989 and the first underclassman to win indoors since world record holder Ryan Crouser did so as a sophomore at Texas in 2014.
• Junior Akaoma Odeluga had a similarly great open to her 2026 season, earning the women's SEC Field Athlete of the Week honor after her superb debut at Kentucky.
• Odeluga won the weight throw on a massive five-foot PR of 22.95m/75-03.50, which currently leads the SEC and ranks second nationally and moved her to fifth on Ole Miss' stacked all-time list.
• She followed that up with a win in the shot put at 17.92m/58-09.50, her best-ever open that also leads the SEC and ranks fourth nationally. Odeluga has qualified nationally in the shot put in each of her last three tries across the indoor and outdoor seasons, and she ranks within the all-time collegiate top-25 both indoors (22nd, 18.37m/60-03.25) and outdoors (13th, 18.93m/62-01.25). She is one of two women in collegiate history at 62 feet in the shot put and 210 feet in the hammer, standing alongside only Arizona State national champion Maggie Ewen.
• Like Robinson-O'Hagan, Odeluga is the leader of a strong women's throws crew. Fellow junior and reigning SEC silver medalist Skylar Soli ranks third on the SEC leaderboard and eighth nationally at her PR open of 22.21m/72-10.50, while newcomer Nyah Edwards (20.50m/67-03.25) is in the national top-25 as well, sitting 21st in the NCAA and sixth in the SEC.
• Defending NCAA Outdoor men's high jump champion Arvesta Troupe began his final year as a Rebel in excellent form, winning at Kentucky on an indoor PR of 2.23m/7-03.75. That height has Troupe second in the SEC and third nationally so far this indoor season. Troupe became the first national high jump champion in Ole Miss history last June on a career-best clearance of 2.27m/7-05.25.
• In the men's triple jump, key portal additions and fellow juniors Sterling Scott (Missouri) and Kyle Johnson (UConn) had strong Rebel debuts of their own. Scott already ranks sixth in school history indoors at his opening mark of 15.97m/52-04.75 (NCAA No. 10, SEC No. 4), while Johnson already sits at No. 11 all-time Ole Miss on his debut of 15.67m/51-5 (NCAA No. 26, SEC No. 7).
• Sophomore Jordan Urrutia had an explosive beginning to his 2026 season, first with a school record and then with a bombastic anchor leg on the best men's 4x400-meter relay at Ole Miss in 22 years alongside teammates Joshua Knox, Wesley Todd and Cade Flatt.
• Urrutia blazed to a 33.06 in the 300-meter dash, ranking as the best proper 300-meter time ever by a Rebel. Less than two hours later, Urrutia took the stick in last place on Ole Miss' relay but ripped off an eye-opening 45.45 anchor split to not only give Ole Miss the win, but also cross the line at 3:08.85 -- fourth-best ever indoors at Ole Miss and the best by a Rebel relay since 2004. Urrutia is set to run his first 200 and 400-meter dashes of the season this week at Clemson.
• When taking out secondary relays on the national leaderboard, that 3:08.85 currently has Ole Miss ranked 20th in the NCAA and eighth in the SEC.
• Freshman Patchnalie Compere had a sparkling performance of her own in the women's 300-meter, crossing the line at an Ole Miss freshman record and Haitian national record 37.40 -- just barely missing Olympian McKenzie Long's record 37.38 from 2023.
• Last week at Vanderbilt, another men's non-standard school record came crashing down courtesy of junior Carson Turner in the 600-meter. Turner led a pack of three Rebels who all ran faster or at least as fast as John Rivera Jr.'s 2022 record 1:17.45, with Turner first at 1:16.72, Cade Flatt next at 1:17.21 and sophomore Max Armstrong third at 1:17.45. Since this was on Vanderbilt's oversized track, though, Rivera's 2022 time at UAB still stands as the standard track size record.
• Ole Miss' distance squad will be in full force this week at Clemson, fielding large contingents across the 800, mile and 3K. Leading that charge will be senior Kidus Misgina, who is slated to run both the mile and 3K. Misgina, who was Ole Miss' top cross country runner last fall, opened his indoor season in December with an indoor PR in the 5K at Boston University at 13:38.45 (NCAA No. 38, SEC No. 7).
• At Vanderbilt last week, Ole Miss received two excellent showings across the 60-meter dashes from junior college transfers. In the women's edition, Royanah Farmer shot all the way up to No. 7 in Ole Miss history with her career-best 7.35 in the semifinal (NCAA No. 41), while in the men's Dekell Minor also became the seventh-best in Rebel history with his 6.72.
• Other Rebels entering the week within the national top-50 are: Chase Rose in the men's 800-meter at 1:49.56 (NCAA No. 19, SEC No. 3); Cassie Williamson in the women's 800-meter at 2:07.29 (NCAA No. 29, SEC No. 5); Lily Beattie in the women's pole vault at 4.15m/13-07.25 (NCAA No. 38, SEC No. 8) and Lizzie Hatton in the women's long jump at 6.17m/20-3 (NCAA No. 40, SEC No. 12).
MEET NOTES
• Both Rebel squads debuted within the national top-25 in the first USTFCCCA Rating Index of the indoor season this week, with the Ole Miss men debuting at No. 7 and the women No. 21. That No. 7 slot for the Rebel men ranks as their highest since a program-record No. 5 appearance at the start of the 2023 season. Of the 117 all-time indoor rankings in Ole Miss history, 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith owns 84 (50 women, 34 men). She also owns all 22 simultaneous team rankings indoor in Ole Miss history, with the first occurrence in Week Two of the 2021 season.
• At Ole Miss, Price-Smith's Rebels have earned 16 NCAA individual titles (22 champions), 14 NCAA runners-up, 188 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 422 NCAA points, 81 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history at both the SEC and NCAA levels. She owns 34 top-25 national team finishes across track (19) and cross country (15), as well as eight of the 11 all-time NCAA top-10 track finishes in Ole Miss history: 2025 men's outdoor (T-8th), 2025 men's indoor (T-10th), 2024 women's outdoor (5th), 2024 women's indoor (5th), 2023 women's indoor (10th), 2022 women's indoor (T-6th), 2022 men's indoor (T-10th) and 2021 men's indoor (10th).
• Entering competition this week, Ole Miss owns 20 times or marks within the national top-50, including four SEC-leading performances and a national lead courtesy of three-time NCAA Champion and All-American senior, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan.
• His season-opening shot put performance of 20.76m/68-01.50 still leads all collegians, and among the world ranks if ranks second worldwide and leads all Americans at this early point of the indoor season. That mark ranks as the best by any collegian that early into the season (Jan. 10) in available records (since at least 2008).
• Robinson-O'Hagan's season-opening weight throw best of 23.78m/78-00.25 also still leads the SEC while ranking third nationally.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is the leader of a powerful Ole Miss men's throws squad that is well represented on the NCAA leaderboard. Fellow seniors Bryson Smith and Mason Hickel both own national top-20 marks, with Smith's PR of 22.11m/72-06.50 (NCAA No. 13, SEC No. 4) and Hickel's opener of 21.27m/69-09.50 (NCAA No. 20, SEC No. 8). In the shot put, freshman Ashton Hearn is off to an excellent start to his collegiate career, improving in each of his first two competitions and currently ranking 39th nationally at 18.03m/59-2 -- already good for fifth in Ole Miss history indoors.
• Robinson-O'Hagan has made the preseason watch list for The Bowerman -- college track & field's version of the Heisman Trophy -- for the second straight season. The Rhode Island native enters his final season at Ole Miss with three NCAA titles (including each of the least two indoors in 2024 and 2025) and is a 12-time All-American, nine-time SEC Champion, four-time SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Year, three-time SEC points trophy winner and 10-time SEC medalist with 59 career NCAA points scored and 104 SEC points.
• Robinson-O'Hagan has only lost to fellow collegians in the weight throw four times in his career, with three of those coming in all three of his NCAA finals. In the shot put, Robinson-O'Hagan hasn't lost indoors since the 2024 Razorback Invitational and has only twice to collegians overall since then (2024 Tom Jones Memorial; 2025 NCAA Outdoor).
• Robinson-O'Hagan entered the 2026 indoor season second in collegiate history in combined career shot put/weight throw PRs, with his current combined total sitting at 45.46m behind only 45.92m from North Dakota State's Payton Otterdahl. Robinson-O'Hagan owns career-bests of 21.11m/69-03.25 in the shot put and 24.35m/79-10.75 in the weight throw. Both rank within the all-time collegiate top-25 indoors, as he currently sits 13th in the weight and 21st in the shot indoors.
• His three straight NCAA titles from indoors 2024 to indoors 2025 landed him as one of only 10 three-peaters in collegiate history, with his first two wins in 2024 making him the youngest to sweep since 1989 and the first underclassman to win indoors since world record holder Ryan Crouser did so as a sophomore at Texas in 2014.
• Junior Akaoma Odeluga had a similarly great open to her 2026 season, earning the women's SEC Field Athlete of the Week honor after her superb debut at Kentucky.
• Odeluga won the weight throw on a massive five-foot PR of 22.95m/75-03.50, which currently leads the SEC and ranks second nationally and moved her to fifth on Ole Miss' stacked all-time list.
• She followed that up with a win in the shot put at 17.92m/58-09.50, her best-ever open that also leads the SEC and ranks fourth nationally. Odeluga has qualified nationally in the shot put in each of her last three tries across the indoor and outdoor seasons, and she ranks within the all-time collegiate top-25 both indoors (22nd, 18.37m/60-03.25) and outdoors (13th, 18.93m/62-01.25). She is one of two women in collegiate history at 62 feet in the shot put and 210 feet in the hammer, standing alongside only Arizona State national champion Maggie Ewen.
• Like Robinson-O'Hagan, Odeluga is the leader of a strong women's throws crew. Fellow junior and reigning SEC silver medalist Skylar Soli ranks third on the SEC leaderboard and eighth nationally at her PR open of 22.21m/72-10.50, while newcomer Nyah Edwards (20.50m/67-03.25) is in the national top-25 as well, sitting 21st in the NCAA and sixth in the SEC.
• Defending NCAA Outdoor men's high jump champion Arvesta Troupe began his final year as a Rebel in excellent form, winning at Kentucky on an indoor PR of 2.23m/7-03.75. That height has Troupe second in the SEC and third nationally so far this indoor season. Troupe became the first national high jump champion in Ole Miss history last June on a career-best clearance of 2.27m/7-05.25.
• In the men's triple jump, key portal additions and fellow juniors Sterling Scott (Missouri) and Kyle Johnson (UConn) had strong Rebel debuts of their own. Scott already ranks sixth in school history indoors at his opening mark of 15.97m/52-04.75 (NCAA No. 10, SEC No. 4), while Johnson already sits at No. 11 all-time Ole Miss on his debut of 15.67m/51-5 (NCAA No. 26, SEC No. 7).
• Sophomore Jordan Urrutia had an explosive beginning to his 2026 season, first with a school record and then with a bombastic anchor leg on the best men's 4x400-meter relay at Ole Miss in 22 years alongside teammates Joshua Knox, Wesley Todd and Cade Flatt.
• Urrutia blazed to a 33.06 in the 300-meter dash, ranking as the best proper 300-meter time ever by a Rebel. Less than two hours later, Urrutia took the stick in last place on Ole Miss' relay but ripped off an eye-opening 45.45 anchor split to not only give Ole Miss the win, but also cross the line at 3:08.85 -- fourth-best ever indoors at Ole Miss and the best by a Rebel relay since 2004. Urrutia is set to run his first 200 and 400-meter dashes of the season this week at Clemson.
• When taking out secondary relays on the national leaderboard, that 3:08.85 currently has Ole Miss ranked 20th in the NCAA and eighth in the SEC.
• Freshman Patchnalie Compere had a sparkling performance of her own in the women's 300-meter, crossing the line at an Ole Miss freshman record and Haitian national record 37.40 -- just barely missing Olympian McKenzie Long's record 37.38 from 2023.
• Last week at Vanderbilt, another men's non-standard school record came crashing down courtesy of junior Carson Turner in the 600-meter. Turner led a pack of three Rebels who all ran faster or at least as fast as John Rivera Jr.'s 2022 record 1:17.45, with Turner first at 1:16.72, Cade Flatt next at 1:17.21 and sophomore Max Armstrong third at 1:17.45. Since this was on Vanderbilt's oversized track, though, Rivera's 2022 time at UAB still stands as the standard track size record.
• Ole Miss' distance squad will be in full force this week at Clemson, fielding large contingents across the 800, mile and 3K. Leading that charge will be senior Kidus Misgina, who is slated to run both the mile and 3K. Misgina, who was Ole Miss' top cross country runner last fall, opened his indoor season in December with an indoor PR in the 5K at Boston University at 13:38.45 (NCAA No. 38, SEC No. 7).
• At Vanderbilt last week, Ole Miss received two excellent showings across the 60-meter dashes from junior college transfers. In the women's edition, Royanah Farmer shot all the way up to No. 7 in Ole Miss history with her career-best 7.35 in the semifinal (NCAA No. 41), while in the men's Dekell Minor also became the seventh-best in Rebel history with his 6.72.
• Other Rebels entering the week within the national top-50 are: Chase Rose in the men's 800-meter at 1:49.56 (NCAA No. 19, SEC No. 3); Cassie Williamson in the women's 800-meter at 2:07.29 (NCAA No. 29, SEC No. 5); Lily Beattie in the women's pole vault at 4.15m/13-07.25 (NCAA No. 38, SEC No. 8) and Lizzie Hatton in the women's long jump at 6.17m/20-3 (NCAA No. 40, SEC No. 12).
| 2026 Bob Pollock Invitational, Master Schedule (all times CT) | ||
| Day One | Friday, January 30 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 11:00 AM | Women's Long Jump | Indya Dotson Lizzie Hatton |
| 11:30 AM | Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelims) | Ashlyn Parish Jordan Rochester |
| 12:00 PM | Men's Weight Throw | Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Bryson Smith |
| 12:10 PM | Women's 60-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Patchnalie Compere Royanah Farmer Lizzie Hatton |
| 12:30 PM | Men's 60-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Dekell Minor William Numnum Wesley Todd Tarique Wright |
| 12:55 PM | Women's Mile | Ella Johnson Addy Mitchell |
| 1:20 PM | Men's Mile | Zack Gilbertson Connor Henson Kidus Misgina Chase Rose Gabe Scales John Shoemaker Evan Thornton-Sherman |
| 1:40 PM | Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Semifinals) | -- |
| 2:00 PM | Women's 60-Meter Dash (Semifinals) | -- |
| Women's Pole Vault (Seeded) | TBD | |
| Men's Long Jump | William Numnum | |
| Women's Weight Throw | Akaoma Odeluga Skylar Soli |
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| 2:10 PM | Men's 60-Meter Dash (Semifinals) | -- |
| 2:20 PM | Women's 400-Meter Dash | Alicia Burnett |
| 3:05 PM | Men's 400-Meter Dash | Joshua Knox Jordan Urrutia |
| 3:45 PM | Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Final) | -- |
| 3:55 PM | Women's 60-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 4:00 PM | Men's 60-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 4:05 PM | Women's Distance Medley Relay | -- |
| Day Two | Saturday, January 31 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 9:00 AM | Women's Pole Vault | TBD |
| 10:00 AM | Men's Shot Put | Ashton Hearn Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
| 11:00 AM | Men's Triple Jump | Mikoy Holmes Kyle Johnson Sterling Scott |
| 12:00 PM | Women's 800-Meter | Jo-Lauren Keane Cassie Williamson |
| Women's Shot Put | Akaoma Odeluga Temidayo Owoyemi |
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| 12:25 PM | Men's 800-Meter | Max Armstrong Cade Flatt Connor Henson Chase Rose Gabe Scales Carson Turner |
| 12:30 PM | Men's Pole Vault | Logan Kelley William Numnum |
| 12:45 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash | Patchnalie Compere Royanah Farmer |
| 1:00 PM | Men's High Jump | Arvesta Troupe |
| 1:45 PM | Men's 200-Meter Dash | Dekell Minor Wesley Todd Jordan Urrutia Tarique Wright |
| 2:00 PM | Women's Triple Jump | Indya Dotson Bayli Major |
| 2:45 PM | Women's 3K | Beth Arentz Sophie Baumann Hannah Doyle Ella Johnson Addy Mitchell Leah Penick |
| 3:35 PM | Men's 3K | Aiden Britt Connor Henson Owen Kelley Kidus Misgina Marco Perez Gabe Scales John Shoemaker Evan Thornton-Sherman |
| 4:35 PM | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay | -- |
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