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Track & Field Splits for Arkansas, Vanderbilt

2/12/2026 | Track and Field

NASHVILLE, Tenn. / FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ole Miss track & field will split squad for the first time this season, sending a delegation of distance runners to Vanderbilt's Music City Challenge while the remainder of the Rebel squad will head to Arkansas for the high-powered Tyson Invitational -- both held Feb. 13-14 and both streaming live on SECN+.

Tyson Invitational
Feb. 13-14 • Fayetteville, Ark. • SECN+
Meet Info | Watch Day 1 (5 PM) | Watch Day 2 (1 PM) | Live Results

Music City Challenge
Feb. 13-14 • Nashville, Tenn. • SECN+
Meet Info | Watch Day 1 (10:55 AM) | Watch Day 2 (9:25 AM) | Live Results

MEET NOTES
• The Rebel men held in the national top-10 for a third straight week, coming in at No. 10 in the Week Three USTFCCCA Rating Index for the indoor season. Of the 120 all-time indoor rankings in Ole Miss history, 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith owns 87 (51 women, 36 men).
 
• 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 25 times or marks within the national top-50, including two SEC-leading performances and a national lead courtesy of three-time NCAA Champion and All-American senior, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan.
 
• Robinson-O'Hagan has so far made both 2026 editions of the watch list for The Bowerman -- collegiate track & field's version of the Heisman Trophy -- the 10th appearance of his career. Robinson-O'Hagan is one of three throwers on the February watch list and one of four athletes from the SEC.
 
• Last time out, Robinson-O'Hagan was named the co-winner of the SEC Field Athlete of the Week after resetting his own national collegiate lead in the shot put at Clemson's Bob Pollock Invitational, launching an overall career-best 21.18m/69-6. This season, that blast ranks him fourth among all Americans and sixth on the world list. All five of his legal throws traveled at least 20.71m/67-11.50, an impressive feat compared to his prior national lead entering of 20.76m/68-01.50.
 
• Robinson-O'Hagan's performance improved upon his spot at No. 2 in SEC history and No. 20 in collegiate history indoors, and it has him within striking distance of becoming the first 70-footer indoors in conference history. His new shot put PR also improved his career indoor shot/weight throw combined best to 45.53m, second in collegiate history only to North Dakota State's Payton Otterdahl from 2019 (45.92m).
 
• His season-opening shot put performance of 20.76m/68-01.50 this year 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 fourth nationally.
 
• 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's weight throw best of 24.35m/79-10.75 in the weight throw currently sits 13th in collegiate history.
 
• 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.
 
• 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-30 marks, with Smith's latest PR of 22.24m/72-11.75 (NCAA No. 13, SEC No. 4) and Hickel's opener of 21.27m/69-09.50 (NCAA No. 28, SEC No. 11). 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 47th nationally at 18.03m/59-2 -- already good for fifth in Ole Miss history indoors.
 
• 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 ranks second in the SEC and fourth 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 sits fourth in the SEC and seventh 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 ninth 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-30 as well, sitting 26th 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) have instantly proven themselves among the best ever at Ole Miss. Scott's latest season-best 16.14m/52-11.50 from Clemson already has him fourth in school history and knocking on the door of becoming only the fourth 53-footer at Ole Miss indoors. This season, that ranks him fifth in the SEC and 12th nationally.
 
• Johnson's season-debut of 15.67m/51-5, meanwhile, ranks seventh in the conference and 33rd nationally while also ranking him 11th in Ole Miss history indoors.
 
• Sophomore Jordan Urrutia is in the midst of an explosive 2026 season. He began with a school record 33.06 in the 300-meter and a 45.45 anchor split on the 4x400-meter relay at Kentucky on Jan. 10, and over the last two weeks he has taken down the Ole Miss 200-meter record twice.
 
• Urrutia first bested Kendrick Triggs' 2002 record fo 20.90 at Clemson two weeks ago, becoming only the second Rebel to break 21 seconds indoors with an indoor PR 20.89. Then last week at altitude in New Mexico, Urrutia unleashed a furious 20.60 (20.67 after altitude conversion) to dismantle his own record just six days after setting it for the first time.
 
• That converted time currently ranks Urrutia 10th nationally and fourth in the SEC, and it also has him high on the world and U.S. lists for 2026. This season, that time puts Urrutia No. 8 in the world and No. 5 in the United States.
 
• Urrutia is the lone American and one of only two runners worldwide (alongside the Dominican Republic's Alexander Ogando) to have run 20.60 or faster in the 200-meter and 46.70 or faster in the 400-meter. At Clemson two weeks ago, Urrutia blazed an overall PR 46.63, which ranks him 47th in the NCAA as well as fourth in Ole Miss history.
 
• Last week at New Mexico, Urrutia also clocked two PRs in the 60-meter dash -- his best a 6.74 that ranks him 10th in school history. Three active Rebels are currently on Ole Miss' all-time list in the 60: junior Dekell Minor (6th, 6.71), Urrutia and sophomore Tarique Wright (11th, 6.71).
 
• In addition to Urrutia's school record 20.60, four other active Rebels currently rank on the Ole Miss 200-meter list all-time (and all coming at New Mexico last week): sophomore Wesley Todd (4th, 21.08), Wright (7th, 21.22), Minor (11th, 21.37) and senior Joshua Knox (11th, 21.37).
 
• Ole Miss' 4x400-meter relay squad has jumped onto the all-time lists as well, first with a 3:08.85 by Knox, Todd, Cade Flatt and Urrutia to open the season at Kentucky -- helped greatly by Urrutia's 45.45 anchor leg. At Clemson two weeks ago, the foursome of Knox, Carson Turner, Flatt and Urrutia improved to 3:08.61. Both rank as the fastest relays at Ole Miss since 2004, with their time at Clemson ranking third and their season-opener at Kentucky fifth on the all-time list.
 
• When taking out secondary relays on the national leaderboard, that 3:08.61 currently has Ole Miss ranked 27th in the NCAA.
 
• At Vanderbilt on Jan. 17, Turner took down the Ole Miss record 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, 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.
 
• Senior Alicia Burnett had great success in her first 60 and 200-meter races as a Rebel. Burnett ran 7.26 at New Mexico last week, which ranks 23rd nationally when converted to 7.28 for altitude. As it stands, that 7.26 already ranks Burnett as the fourth-best performer in Ole Miss history indoors. She also ran 23.75 in her first 200-meter the night before, good for 10th on the Rebel all-time list.
 
• Junior college transfer Royanah Farmer also ranks on the NCAA list in the 60 after putting together strong back-to-back excellent showings, first with a 7.35 at Vanderbilt on Jan. 17 and then another improvement to 7.31 at Clemson. That time ties her for sixth in Ole Miss history, as well as 32nd nationally.
 
• Freshman Patchnalie Compere is off to a sparkling beginning to her Ole Miss career, already ranking among the best 200-meter runners in Rebel history -- as well as among the best sprinters claimed by Haiti of all-time.
 
• Compere, whose Haitian lineage gives her eligibility for their records, has set Haitian indoor all-time records already in the 200-meter (23.39) and 300-meter (37.40) dashes.
 
• Compere's 300 time came first at Kentucky to begin the season, with that 37.40 standing as an Ole Miss freshman record and just barely missing Olympian McKenzie Long's record 37.38 from 2023.
 
• At Clemson, Compere catapulted herself all the way to fourth all-time at Ole Miss indoors in the 200 with her 23.39 -- another new Ole Miss freshman record. That time ranks 29th nationally, and among freshman she ranks fourth among all sprinters in the NCAA.
 
• Senior pole vaulter Logan Kelley is coming off the best performance of his career at Clemson, where he cleared 5.46m/17-11. That height currently ranks Kelley eighth in the SEC and 22nd nationally, and it moved him up to second in school history indoors -- trailing only three-time Olympian Sam Kendricks' record 5.69m/18-08.25 from 2014.
 
• Senior Aiden Britt opened his final season with the Rebels in spectacular fashion at Clemson, clocking a four-second 3K best of 7:51.11 to move into third on Ole Miss' stacked all-time list. This year, Britt ranks fourth in the SEC and 25th nationally.
 
• Other Rebels entering the week within the national top-50 are: Chase Rose (1:48.65; NCAA No. 30, SEC No. 3) and Max Armstrong (1:48.79; NCAA No. 47, SEC No. 9) in the men's 800-meter; Kidus Misgina in the 5K at 13:38.45 (NCAA No. 43, SEC No. 9); and Lily Beattie in the women's pole vault at 4.15m/13-07.25 (NCAA No. 45, SEC No. 8).

 
Tyson Invitational / Music City Challenge, Master Schedule (all times CT)
Day One | Friday, February 13
Time Meet Event Athlete(s)
12:25 PM Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelims) Jordan Rochester (Heat 2, Lane 7)
Nyajah Gordon (Heat 6, Lane 1)
1:00 PM Tyson Invitational Men's Pole Vault Logan Kelley
1:15 PM Tyson Invitational Men's Weight Throw Mason Hickel (Flight 2)
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2)
Bryson Smith (Flight 2)
1:25 PM Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Hurdles (Final) --
2:15 PM Tyson Invitational Women's Long Jump Lizzie Hatton (Flight 2)
2:30 PM Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Dash (Prelims) Alicia Burnett (Heat 1, Lane 6)
2:55 PM Tyson Invitational Men's 400-Meter Dash Joshua Knox (Heat 3, Lane 3)
Wesley Todd (Heat 9, Lane 4)
3:50 PM Tyson Invitational Women's 60-Meter Dash (Final) --
5:00 PM Tyson Invitational Women's Weight Throw Natalie Brown (Flight 1)
Naomi Woolfolk (Flight 1)
Nyah Edwards (Flight 2)
Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 2)
Skylar Soli (Flight 2)
5:50 PM Music City Challenge Women's Mile Sophie Baumann (Heat 1)
Ella Johnson (Heat 1)
Addy Mitchell (Heat 2)
Madison Archdale (Heat 5)
6:25 PM Music City Challenge Men's Mile Gabe Scales (Heat 1)
Evan Thornton-Sherman (Heat 1)
Zack Gilbertson (Heat 2)
John Shoemaker (Heat 2)
Stone Smith (Heat 5)
6:45 PM Tyson Invitational Men's 800-Meter Carson Turner (Heat 1)
Cade Flatt (Heat 4, Lane 4)
7:05 PM Music City Challenge Women's 600-Meter Jo-Lauren Keane (Heat 1)
7:35 PM Music City Challenge Women's 5K (Section 1) Beth Arentz
Leah Penick
7:55 PM Music City Challenge Men's 5K (Section 1) Aiden Britt
9:30 PM Music City Challenge Men's 5K (Section 2) Owen Kelley
Day Two | Saturday, February 14
Time Meet Event Athlete(s)
9:30 AM Music City Challenge Women's 3K (Unseeded) Ella Johnson (Heat 1)
Madison Archdale (Heat 2)
Brooke Preputnick (Heat 2)
10:30 AM Tyson Invitational Women's Pole Vault Mary Cate Doughty
Katie McFarland
10:45 AM Tyson Invitational Women's Shot Put Natalie Brown (Flight 1)
Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1)
Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 2)
10:55 AM Music City Challenge Women's 800-Meter (Unseeded) Addy Mitchell (Heat 2)
11:00 AM Tyson Invitational Women's Triple Jump Madison Martinez (Flight 2)
Tyson Invitational Men's Triple Jump Kyle Johnson
Sterling Scott
11:15 AM Music City Challenge Men's 800-Meter (Unseeded) Gabe Scales (Heat 1)
Stone Smith (Heat 3)
John Shoemaker (Heat 4)
12:10 PM Music City Challenge Women's Distance Medley Relay --
1:15 PM Tyson Invitational Women's 200-Meter Dash Alicia Burnett (Heat 12, Lane 6)
2:00 PM Tyson Invitational Men's Shot Put Ashton Hearn (Flight 1)
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2)
2:30 PM Tyson Invitational Men's High Jump (Invite) Arvesta Troupe
Tyson Invitational Women's Pole Vault (Invite) Lily Beattie
Rachel Homoly
3:20 PM Tyson Invitational Men's 4x400-Meter Relay Heat 3, Lane 3
3:45 PM Music City Challenge Women's 800-Meter Cassie Williamson (Heat 1)
3:55 PM Music City Challenge Men's 800-Meter Max Armstrong (Heat 1)
Chase Rose (Heat 1)
Evan Thornton-Sherman (Heat 1)
Connor Henson (Heat 3)
4:10 PM Music City Challenge Women's 3K Hannah Doyle
Leah Penick
4:20 PM Music City Challenge Men's 3K Aiden Britt
Owen Kelley
Kidus Misgina

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