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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Friday, May 1
Starkville, Miss.
4:40 PM
Ole Miss
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Maroon and White Tune Up
Track & Field at LSU for Regular Season Finale
5/1/2026 | Track and Field
BATON ROUGE, La. – Ole Miss track & field will wrap its outdoor regular season this weekend, with one athlete running tonight at Mississippi State's Maroon and White Tune-Up while the rest of the Rebel squad heads back to Baton Rouge for the LSU Invite.
MEET NOTES
• This is the first action in two weeks for the Rebels, who last competed on April 17-18 at the Virginia Challenge, and the last before heading to Auburn for the 2026 SEC Outdoor Championships on May 14-16.
• The Ole Miss men remain in the national top-25 for a fifth straight week, coming in at No. 19 in the Week Five USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index for the outdoor season. Ole Miss' 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith has tallied 78 of the 142 outdoor rankings appearances in combined program history (31 men, 47 women).
• Much of that No. 19 national ranking is thanks to 14-time All-American and four-time NCAA shot put champion Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who remains as the national leader in the shot put but now ranks third in the hammer as competition elsewhere in the NCAA has heated up.
• His shot put season-best 20.86m/68-05.25 came in his last time out at the Virginia Challenge, and this season it ranks him third among all Americans and 10th worldwide outdoors. His overall career-best 21.18m/69-6 from the indoor season still has him at No. 9 on the absolute world list for 2026.
• Robinson-O'Hagan's superb hammer season-open of 77.62m/254-8 at the Ole Miss Classic had led the nation by nearly two meters just two weeks ago, but performances by Air Force's Texas Tanner (78.87m/258-9) and Iowa's Ryan Johnson (77.64m/254-9) have made the race for the top tight heading into the collegiate postseason. As of two weeks ago, Robinson-O'Hagan was the second-best American-born collegian ever in the hammer behind Oregon's Ken Flax in 1986 (78.34m/257-0), but now ranks fourth behind Tanner, Flax and Johnson. That throw still ranks as the best all-time that early into the collegiate season (March 20).
• Robinson-O'Hagan's hammer distance, coupled with his outdoor shot PR of 20.88m, improved his career combined collegiate record to 98.50m – making him the first collegian to surpass 98 meters, and he now stands as one of two to ever do so collegiately alongside Tanner (98.11m). Last June at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Robinson-O'Hagan broke the collegiate record of 97.68m set by Georgia's Denzel Comenentia in 2019 with his then-record of 97.89m. Robinson-O'Hagan also ended his indoor career second in collegiate history in combined shot/weight PRs at 45.53m.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is coming off an indoor season that saw him win his fourth career NCAA shot put title, his third in a row indoors. Across his superb career, Robinson-O'Hagan is a four-time national champion, 14-time All-American, 11-time SEC Champion, five-time SEC Field Athlete of the Year, four-time SEC points trophy winner and 12-time SEC medalist with 75 career NCAA points and 124 SEC points scored.
• Ole Miss also owns two additional top-50 hammer marks from seniors Bryson Smith (24th, 67.16m/220-4) and Mason Hickel (38th, 65.53m/215-0). The Rebels have averaged 23.5 SEC points in the hammer over the last two seasons, and sent four to the national meet in 2025: Robinson-O'Hagan, Smith, Hickel and the graduated Jake Dalton.
• On the women's side, All-American junior Akaoma Odeluga etched her name among the best collegiate shot putters all-time with a bombastic career-best performance at the Virginia Challenge. Odeluga launched a one-foot PR of 19.23m/63-01.25 for the win, which ranks her second in both SEC and Ole Miss history behind Olympian Raven Saunders. In collegiate history, Odeluga is now the No. 7 performer all-time outdoors, No. 9 in absolute collegiate history and No. 19 in overall American history.
• This season, that throw ranks Odeluga second in the NCAA behind Nebraska's Axelina Johansson, who threw an otudoor PR 19.62m/64-04.50 that leads the nation and ranks fifth in outdoor collegiate history. Elsewhere on the 2026 lists, Odeluga ranks No. 2 in the United States, No. 4 on the world outdoor list and No. 8 on the world absolute list.
• Odeluga also ranks 19th nationally and fourth in the SEC in the hammer at her season-best 64.56m/211-10. Odeluga is one of only two women in collegiate history at 63 feet in the shot and 210 in the hammer, alongside Arizona State national champion Maggie Ewen.
• Junior transfers Sterling Scott and and Kyle Johnson both rank within the national top-30 in the triple jump. Scott's latest outing was an all-conditions PR of 16.43m/53-11(+2.4), which ranks him seventh nationally, third in the East Region and second in the SEC. Scott also ranks him fourth on the all-time list at Ole Miss outdoors, which accepts up to the NCAA qualifying allowable 4.0 meters per second wind reading. Johnson, meanwhile, ranks 30th nationally and sixth in the SEC at his outdoor debut 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6).
• Ole Miss' relay units and sprints group are in the midst of another strong season, led currently by the NCAA's No. 14 squad in the men's 4x100-meter relay. The foursome of Dekell Minor, Jordan Urrutia, Wesley Todd and Tarique Wright opened the season in blazing fashion, winning the 4x100-meter relay at the Ole Miss Classic at 38.98 -- breaking the school record and becoming the first sub-39 relay in Ole Miss history. Ole Miss has not run slower than 39.20 in three attempts this season, all faster than the school record a year ago at this time (39.34).
• Ole Miss also owns an impressive 4x400-meter time this outdoor season. The quartet of Todd, Carson Turner, Cade Flatt and Urrutia passed the stick in 3:06.13 at the Ole Miss Classic, the seventh-best in Ole Miss history and the best by a Rebel 4x4 since 1999. That time ranks 49th nationally, and was helped greatly by a third-leg 46.1 by Flatt and a scorching 45.8 anchor by Urrutia.
• Minor and Urrutia own additional NCAA top-50 times in the 100, with Minor's all-conditions PR 10.14 (+2.2) ranking 27th and Urrutia's overall PR 10.19 (+0.3) sitting 43rd. All-time at Ole Miss, those ranks sixth and eighth, respectively.
• The Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay ran its fastest time in nearly two years at the Joe Walker Invite, with the quartet of Zion Lockette, Patchnalie Compere, Royanah Farmer and Alicia Burnett passing the stick in 43.65 -- the No. 7 time in Ole Miss history that ranks 25th nationally.
• Compere is in the midst of a superb freshman season that has twice seen her break both the Haitian national record and the Ole Miss wind-legal freshman record in the 200-meter dash. At the Joe Walker Invite, Compere ran 22.96 (+0.5) before lowering that to 22.94 (+1.6) at the Virginia Challenge, ranking third all-time on Ole Miss' list behind NCAA Champion McKenzie Long's 21.83 (+1.0) from 2024 and Jayda Eckford's 22.72 (+2.2) from 2019, but ahead of Eckford's wind-legal 22.98 (+0.6) as a freshman that same year. Compere's time also ranks as a Haitian national record, making her the first in the country's history to break the 23-second barrier. Compere hails from Oakland Park, Florida but her parents' Haitian lineage allows her times to count on Haiti's all-time and season lists.
• The Rebel men's distance squad owns eight national top-50 times courtesy of: Kidus Misgina in the 5K (22nd, 13:31.19) and his 10K school record (30th, 28:17.69); Sergio Del Barrio in the 3000-meter steeplechase (23rd, 8:38.05); Evan Thornton-Sherman in both the 1500-meter (32nd, 3:39.42) and 5K (33rd, 13:32.99); Chase Rose (35th, 1:46.89) and Max Armstrong (38th, 1:46.98) in the 800-meter; and Aiden Britt in the 10K (41st, 28:28.35).
• Other Rebels within the NCAA top-50 on both the men's and women's list are: Arvesta Troupe in the men's high jump (27th, 2.15m/7-00.50); Lily Beattie (28th, 4.30m/14-01.25) and Mary Cate Doughty (32nd, 4.23m/13-10.50) in the women's pole vault; Lizzie Hatton in the women's long jump (28th, 6.33m/20-09.25; +0.0); Ashton Hearn in the men's discus (31st, 58.12m/190-8); Nyah Edwards (33rd, 62.16m/203-11) and Skylar Soli (49th, 60.77m/199-4) in the women's hammer; and Logan Kelley in the men's pole vault (44th, 5.28m/17-03.75).
• Ole Miss is under the watch of 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to 21 NCAA top-25 team finishes while coaching 23 NCAA individual champions (17 titles), 15 NCAA runners-up, 197 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 456 NCAA points, 84 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history on both a conference and national level.
• Price-Smith owns eight of the 11 all-time NCAA top-10 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), 2021 men's indoor (10th).
MEET NOTES
• This is the first action in two weeks for the Rebels, who last competed on April 17-18 at the Virginia Challenge, and the last before heading to Auburn for the 2026 SEC Outdoor Championships on May 14-16.
• The Ole Miss men remain in the national top-25 for a fifth straight week, coming in at No. 19 in the Week Five USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index for the outdoor season. Ole Miss' 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith has tallied 78 of the 142 outdoor rankings appearances in combined program history (31 men, 47 women).
• Much of that No. 19 national ranking is thanks to 14-time All-American and four-time NCAA shot put champion Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who remains as the national leader in the shot put but now ranks third in the hammer as competition elsewhere in the NCAA has heated up.
• His shot put season-best 20.86m/68-05.25 came in his last time out at the Virginia Challenge, and this season it ranks him third among all Americans and 10th worldwide outdoors. His overall career-best 21.18m/69-6 from the indoor season still has him at No. 9 on the absolute world list for 2026.
• Robinson-O'Hagan's superb hammer season-open of 77.62m/254-8 at the Ole Miss Classic had led the nation by nearly two meters just two weeks ago, but performances by Air Force's Texas Tanner (78.87m/258-9) and Iowa's Ryan Johnson (77.64m/254-9) have made the race for the top tight heading into the collegiate postseason. As of two weeks ago, Robinson-O'Hagan was the second-best American-born collegian ever in the hammer behind Oregon's Ken Flax in 1986 (78.34m/257-0), but now ranks fourth behind Tanner, Flax and Johnson. That throw still ranks as the best all-time that early into the collegiate season (March 20).
• Robinson-O'Hagan's hammer distance, coupled with his outdoor shot PR of 20.88m, improved his career combined collegiate record to 98.50m – making him the first collegian to surpass 98 meters, and he now stands as one of two to ever do so collegiately alongside Tanner (98.11m). Last June at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Robinson-O'Hagan broke the collegiate record of 97.68m set by Georgia's Denzel Comenentia in 2019 with his then-record of 97.89m. Robinson-O'Hagan also ended his indoor career second in collegiate history in combined shot/weight PRs at 45.53m.
• Robinson-O'Hagan is coming off an indoor season that saw him win his fourth career NCAA shot put title, his third in a row indoors. Across his superb career, Robinson-O'Hagan is a four-time national champion, 14-time All-American, 11-time SEC Champion, five-time SEC Field Athlete of the Year, four-time SEC points trophy winner and 12-time SEC medalist with 75 career NCAA points and 124 SEC points scored.
• Ole Miss also owns two additional top-50 hammer marks from seniors Bryson Smith (24th, 67.16m/220-4) and Mason Hickel (38th, 65.53m/215-0). The Rebels have averaged 23.5 SEC points in the hammer over the last two seasons, and sent four to the national meet in 2025: Robinson-O'Hagan, Smith, Hickel and the graduated Jake Dalton.
• On the women's side, All-American junior Akaoma Odeluga etched her name among the best collegiate shot putters all-time with a bombastic career-best performance at the Virginia Challenge. Odeluga launched a one-foot PR of 19.23m/63-01.25 for the win, which ranks her second in both SEC and Ole Miss history behind Olympian Raven Saunders. In collegiate history, Odeluga is now the No. 7 performer all-time outdoors, No. 9 in absolute collegiate history and No. 19 in overall American history.
• This season, that throw ranks Odeluga second in the NCAA behind Nebraska's Axelina Johansson, who threw an otudoor PR 19.62m/64-04.50 that leads the nation and ranks fifth in outdoor collegiate history. Elsewhere on the 2026 lists, Odeluga ranks No. 2 in the United States, No. 4 on the world outdoor list and No. 8 on the world absolute list.
• Odeluga also ranks 19th nationally and fourth in the SEC in the hammer at her season-best 64.56m/211-10. Odeluga is one of only two women in collegiate history at 63 feet in the shot and 210 in the hammer, alongside Arizona State national champion Maggie Ewen.
• Junior transfers Sterling Scott and and Kyle Johnson both rank within the national top-30 in the triple jump. Scott's latest outing was an all-conditions PR of 16.43m/53-11(+2.4), which ranks him seventh nationally, third in the East Region and second in the SEC. Scott also ranks him fourth on the all-time list at Ole Miss outdoors, which accepts up to the NCAA qualifying allowable 4.0 meters per second wind reading. Johnson, meanwhile, ranks 30th nationally and sixth in the SEC at his outdoor debut 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6).
• Ole Miss' relay units and sprints group are in the midst of another strong season, led currently by the NCAA's No. 14 squad in the men's 4x100-meter relay. The foursome of Dekell Minor, Jordan Urrutia, Wesley Todd and Tarique Wright opened the season in blazing fashion, winning the 4x100-meter relay at the Ole Miss Classic at 38.98 -- breaking the school record and becoming the first sub-39 relay in Ole Miss history. Ole Miss has not run slower than 39.20 in three attempts this season, all faster than the school record a year ago at this time (39.34).
• Ole Miss also owns an impressive 4x400-meter time this outdoor season. The quartet of Todd, Carson Turner, Cade Flatt and Urrutia passed the stick in 3:06.13 at the Ole Miss Classic, the seventh-best in Ole Miss history and the best by a Rebel 4x4 since 1999. That time ranks 49th nationally, and was helped greatly by a third-leg 46.1 by Flatt and a scorching 45.8 anchor by Urrutia.
• Minor and Urrutia own additional NCAA top-50 times in the 100, with Minor's all-conditions PR 10.14 (+2.2) ranking 27th and Urrutia's overall PR 10.19 (+0.3) sitting 43rd. All-time at Ole Miss, those ranks sixth and eighth, respectively.
• The Rebel women's 4x100-meter relay ran its fastest time in nearly two years at the Joe Walker Invite, with the quartet of Zion Lockette, Patchnalie Compere, Royanah Farmer and Alicia Burnett passing the stick in 43.65 -- the No. 7 time in Ole Miss history that ranks 25th nationally.
• Compere is in the midst of a superb freshman season that has twice seen her break both the Haitian national record and the Ole Miss wind-legal freshman record in the 200-meter dash. At the Joe Walker Invite, Compere ran 22.96 (+0.5) before lowering that to 22.94 (+1.6) at the Virginia Challenge, ranking third all-time on Ole Miss' list behind NCAA Champion McKenzie Long's 21.83 (+1.0) from 2024 and Jayda Eckford's 22.72 (+2.2) from 2019, but ahead of Eckford's wind-legal 22.98 (+0.6) as a freshman that same year. Compere's time also ranks as a Haitian national record, making her the first in the country's history to break the 23-second barrier. Compere hails from Oakland Park, Florida but her parents' Haitian lineage allows her times to count on Haiti's all-time and season lists.
• The Rebel men's distance squad owns eight national top-50 times courtesy of: Kidus Misgina in the 5K (22nd, 13:31.19) and his 10K school record (30th, 28:17.69); Sergio Del Barrio in the 3000-meter steeplechase (23rd, 8:38.05); Evan Thornton-Sherman in both the 1500-meter (32nd, 3:39.42) and 5K (33rd, 13:32.99); Chase Rose (35th, 1:46.89) and Max Armstrong (38th, 1:46.98) in the 800-meter; and Aiden Britt in the 10K (41st, 28:28.35).
• Other Rebels within the NCAA top-50 on both the men's and women's list are: Arvesta Troupe in the men's high jump (27th, 2.15m/7-00.50); Lily Beattie (28th, 4.30m/14-01.25) and Mary Cate Doughty (32nd, 4.23m/13-10.50) in the women's pole vault; Lizzie Hatton in the women's long jump (28th, 6.33m/20-09.25; +0.0); Ashton Hearn in the men's discus (31st, 58.12m/190-8); Nyah Edwards (33rd, 62.16m/203-11) and Skylar Soli (49th, 60.77m/199-4) in the women's hammer; and Logan Kelley in the men's pole vault (44th, 5.28m/17-03.75).
• Ole Miss is under the watch of 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith, who has led the Rebels to 21 NCAA top-25 team finishes while coaching 23 NCAA individual champions (17 titles), 15 NCAA runners-up, 197 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 456 NCAA points, 84 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history on both a conference and national level.
• Price-Smith owns eight of the 11 all-time NCAA top-10 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), 2021 men's indoor (10th).
| 2026 LSU Invite, Master Schedule (all times CT) | ||
| Saturday, May 2 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 10:00 AM | Women's Hammer | Nyah Edwards Akaoma Odeluga Temidayo Owoyemi Skylar Soli Naomi Woolfolk |
| 11:15 AM | Men's Hammer | Mason Hickel Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
| 12:15 PM | Women's Shot Put | Akaoma Odeluga Temidayo Owoyemi |
| Men's Discus | Ashton Hearn | |
| 12:30 PM | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay | Lane 4 |
| Men's Pole Vault | Logan Kelley | |
| 12:35 PM | Men's 4x100-Meter Relay | Lane 7 |
| 12:40 PM | Women's 1500-Meter | Hannah Doyle (Heat 1) Addy Mitchell (Heat 1) Madison Archdale (Heat 2) Zoe Marsh (Heat 2) Brooke Preputnick (Heat 2) |
| 12:50 PM | Men's 1500-Meter | Zack Gilbertson Chase Rose Gabe Scales John Shoemaker Stone Smith |
| 1:00 PM | Women's 100-Meter Hurdles | Jordan Rochester (Heat 2, Lane 3) Nyajah Gordon (Heat 2, Lane 4) Carmela Coulter (Heat 2, Lane 7) |
| 1:15 PM | Men's Shot Put | Ashton Hearn Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan |
| Women's Discus | Akaoma Odeluga Temidayo Owoyemi Skylar Soli |
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| 1:20 PM | Men's 400-Meter Dash | Joshua Knox (Heat 2, Lane 4) Max Armstrong (Heat 3, Lane 4) Caughran Fowler (Heat 3, Lane 8) |
| 1:30 PM | Women's 100-Meter Dash | Royanah Farmer (Heat 1, Lane 2) Alicia Burnett (Heat 2, Lane 2) Zion Lockette (Heat 3, Lane 5) Myla Reed (Heat 3, Lane 6) |
| Women's Long Jump | Indya Dotson Nyajah Gordon |
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| 1:35 PM | Men's 100-Meter Dash | Tarique Wright (Heat 2, Lane 1) |
| 1:55 PM | Women's 400-Meter Hurdles | Jordan Rochester (Lane 8) |
| 2:00 PM | Women's Pole Vault | Lily Beattie Mary Cate Doughty Aly Francolini Katie McFarland |
| 2:05 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash | Alicia Burnett (Heat 3, Lane 5) Zion Lockette (Heat 3, Lane 7) |
| 2:15 PM | Men's 200-Meter Dash | Jordan Urrutia (Heat 1, Lane 7) Wesley Todd (Heat 3, Lane 6) Tarique Wright (Heat 3, Lane 7) |
| 2:25 PM | Women's 3000-Meter Steeplechase | Hannah Doyle |
| 2:30 PM | Women's High Jump | Carmela Coulter |
| 2:45 PM | Women's Triple Jump | Indya Dotson Bayli Major |
| Men's Triple Jump | Solomon Finley Mikoy Holmes |
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| 3:15 PM | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay | Lane 3 |
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