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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Thursday, May 14
Auburn, Ala.
All Day
Ole Miss
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SEC Outdoor Championships
Track & Field Opens Postseason at Auburn for 2026 SEC Outdoor Championships
5/13/2026 | Track and Field
AUBURN, Ala. – Ole Miss track & field opens championship season this week, as the Rebels are set to compete at Auburn for the 2026 SEC Outdoor Championships. Competition runs May 14-16, and fans will be able to watch all three days live on SEC Network+, as well as a live window on SEC Network for Championships Saturday.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Thurs., May 14)
SEC Network +
11:30 AM CT - SECN+
5:25 PM CT - SECN+
Day Two (Fri., May 15)
SEC Network+
11:30 AM CT - SECN+
5:00 PM CT - SECN+
Day Three (Sat., May 16)
SEC Network / SECN+
1:30 PM CT - SECN+
5:00 PM CT - SEC Network
Live Results
Xpress Timing
Talent
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O'Brien (Analyst)
Larra Overton (Analyst)
John Anderson (Infield)
MEET NOTES
• Ole Miss enters ranked No. 18 nationally in the latest men's USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index. Other ranked men's SEC teams are: No. 1 Arkansas, No. 3 Georgia, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Texas A&M, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 7 Auburn, No. 10 Alabama, No. 14 Texas, No. 16 Florida and No. 19 Kentucky.
• The Rebel women are just outside the top-25 at No. 33 in the Week Seven index, and this will will compete against: No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Florida, No. 3 South Carolina, No. 5 LSU, No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 10 Arkansas, No. 11 Texas, No. 12 Kentucky, No. 13 Tennessee, No. 22 Alabama and No. 25 Auburn.
• Ole Miss has won 63 SEC Outdoor individual titles, 45 from the men and 18 from the women. Of those, 26 have come under 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith (16 men, 10 women).
• Price-Smith owns four of the six top-five SEC Outdoor finishes in combined program history at Ole Miss, including the lone two on the women's side -- highlighted by a program-record fourth place finish in 2023 -- as well as last year's fifth-place showing outdoors by the 2025 Rebel men.
• The Ole Miss men are coming off a historic runner-up finish indoors this February, the best ever by a Rebel team indoors (men or women) that tied the 1984 outdoor men's squad for the best overall finish on the track.
• With 936.75 points in only nine SEC Outdoor meets, Price-Smith already owns 30.6 percent of all Rebel points scored at the outdoor conference meet since 1980. That includes 24.2 percent of all men's outdoor points (461.5) and 41.1 percent of all women's outdoor points (475.25).
• Ole Miss returns four SEC Outdoor medalists from 2025: senior and Commissioner's Trophy winner Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (men's shot put, gold; men's hammer, gold); sophomore Lily Beattie (women's pole vault, silver), junior Akaoma Odeluga (women's shot put, silver); and senior Arvesta Troupe (men's high jump, silver).
• Robinson-O'Hagan has been a one-man wrecking crew for the Rebels at every conference meet of his career, and he ranks among the greatest athletes in SEC history entering his final postseason at Ole Miss. Robinson-O'Hagan owns 11 SEC titles (five outdoors, six indoors), 124 career SEC points (52 outdoor, 72 indoor) and has won at least a share of the SEC points trophy four times in his career across the indoor and outdoor seasons (2024 indoor, 2024 outdoor, 2025 indoor, 2026 indoor).
• Per the USTFCCCA, Robinson-O'Hagan is one conference title away from tying, two from breaking the all-time SEC men's record across all sports set by Auburn's Harvey Glance, who won 12 titles with the Tigers from 1976-79. Across all sports and both men's and women's competition, a third straight SEC shot/hammer sweep will tie Robinson-O'Hagan with Arkansas women's track and cross country runner Amy Yoder (1997-2001) and Florida women's swimmer Tracy Caulkins (1982-84) for the overall conference record at 13 individual titles.
• Across his career, Robinson-O'Hagan averages 17.7 points per conference meet -- 17.3 across each of his prior three outdoor championships. In those same three SEC Outdoor meets, Robinson-O'Hagan's individual point total has eclipsed an entire team twice: once his freshman season with his 12 points, and again as a sophomore with 20 following his first shot/hammer sweep.
• Robinson-O'Hagan stands as one of three in conference history to sweep the men's shot put and hammer twice, and a third this week will make him the first in SEC history to pull off the three-peat. Other shot/hammer sweepers in SEC history are Georgia's Denzel Comenentia (2017, '18) and Auburn's Cory Martin (2007, '08). Robinson-O'Hagan was also the first in conference history to sweep the shot and weight throw indoors, a feat he has done three times.
• This season, Robinson-O'Hagan leads the SEC in both the shot put and hammer, with his shot season-best 20.86m/68-05.25 currently leading the NCAA while ranking 11th worldwide and fourth in the U.S. this outdoor season. 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 a few 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. Prior, 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 (26th, 67.16m/220-4) and Mason Hickel (44th, 65.53m/215-0), who rank sixth and ninth in the SEC, respectively. 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 (and SEC Outdoor Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year) 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 18th nationally and fourth in the SEC in the hammer at her season-best 64.92m/213-0. 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.
• In her career, Odeluga owns four SEC medals and 35 total points scored -- including three medals in the shot put, twice outdoors.
• Sophomore Lily Beattie made history last spring with her silver medal performance at the conference meet, the highest finish by any Rebel woman in the pole vault. Beattie did so with a then PR height of 4.26m/13-11.75, but enters this year's outdoor meet with a new career-best of 4.30m/14-01.25 that ranks her fourth in the SEC and 29th nationally. Beattie is one of only four 14-foot vaulters in Ole Miss women's history, the third outdoors.
• Reigning NCAA Outdoor high jump champion Arvesta Troupe's silver medal performance last SECs was a thrilling back-and-forth affair against Georgia's Riyon Rankin, and proved to be a crucial test en route to his historic national title less than a month later in Oregon. Troupe was clean over his first five bars before a second-attempt PR of 2.26m/7-5 that put him in a jump-off with Rankin for the title. Rankin cleared 2.29m/7-6 on his third attempt for the win, but in Eugene it was Troupe who took the national crown at 2.27m/7-05.25.
• Ole Miss's relay units and sprints group enter the postseason in superb shape, led by Jordan Urrutia's breakout sophomore season.
• Last time out at LSU, Urrutia blazed to a win in the 200-meter dash at a slightly windy 20.31 (+2.7) that currently ranks him fourth in the SEC and sixth nationally. At Ole Miss, Urrutia only trails Olympian Isiah Young on the all-time list. Urrutia also ranks 49th nationally at his wind-legal 100-meter PR 10.19 (+0.3).
• Urrutia has been a key figure on the Ole Miss men's 4x100-meter relay squad that continues to make history. Alongside Dekell Minor, Wesley Todd and Tarique Wright, the foursome currently rank 21st nationally and seventh in the sprints-heavy SEC at their school record 38.98 from their outdoor open at the Ole Miss Classic on March 21 -- the first sub-39 relay in school 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).
• Minor owns a top-50 time of his own individually, currently ranking 31st nationally and 13th in the SEC at his 100-meter best 10.14 (+2.2).
• 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 was helped greatly by a third-leg 46.1 by Flatt and a scorching 45.8 anchor by Urrutia.
• 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 29th nationally and ninth in the SEC.
• Burnett made her 100-meter Rebel debut in stunning fashion at LSU two weeks ago, running a slightly windy but still all-conditions PR 10.94 (+3.7) that puts her right back into the national conversation heading into the postseason. That time ranks her fourth nationally and third in the SEC, and on Ole Miss' all-time list (which accepts up to the NCAA qualifying allowable 4.0 meters per second wind reading), she ranks only behind Olympian and three-time NCAA Champion McKenzie Long (10.80).
• Indoors, Burnett became the first athlete in Ole Miss history to win an SEC women's 60-meter title, and went on to finish fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
• 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.
• Junior transfers Sterling Scott and and Kyle Johnson both rank within the national top-50 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 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 36th nationally and eighth in the SEC at his outdoor debut 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6).
• The Rebel men's distance squad owns five national top-50 times courtesy of: Kidus Misgina in the 5K (30th, 13:31.19) and his 10K school record (30th, 28:17.69); Sergio Del Barrio in the 3000-meter steeplechase (25th, 8:38.05); Evan Thornton-Sherman in the 5K (41st, 13:32.99); 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: Ashton Hearn in the men's discus (33rd, 58.12m/190-8); Lizzie Hatton in the women's long jump (34th, 6.33m/20-09.25; +0.0); Mary Cate Doughty (36th, 4.23m/13-10.50) in the women's pole vault; Nyah Edwards (36th, 62.16m/203-11); and Logan Kelley in the men's pole vault (48th, 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).
ON THE AIR
Day One (Thurs., May 14)
SEC Network +
11:30 AM CT - SECN+
5:25 PM CT - SECN+
Day Two (Fri., May 15)
SEC Network+
11:30 AM CT - SECN+
5:00 PM CT - SECN+
Day Three (Sat., May 16)
SEC Network / SECN+
1:30 PM CT - SECN+
5:00 PM CT - SEC Network
Live Results
Xpress Timing
Talent
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O'Brien (Analyst)
Larra Overton (Analyst)
John Anderson (Infield)
MEET NOTES
• Ole Miss enters ranked No. 18 nationally in the latest men's USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index. Other ranked men's SEC teams are: No. 1 Arkansas, No. 3 Georgia, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Texas A&M, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 7 Auburn, No. 10 Alabama, No. 14 Texas, No. 16 Florida and No. 19 Kentucky.
• The Rebel women are just outside the top-25 at No. 33 in the Week Seven index, and this will will compete against: No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Florida, No. 3 South Carolina, No. 5 LSU, No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 10 Arkansas, No. 11 Texas, No. 12 Kentucky, No. 13 Tennessee, No. 22 Alabama and No. 25 Auburn.
• Ole Miss has won 63 SEC Outdoor individual titles, 45 from the men and 18 from the women. Of those, 26 have come under 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith (16 men, 10 women).
• Price-Smith owns four of the six top-five SEC Outdoor finishes in combined program history at Ole Miss, including the lone two on the women's side -- highlighted by a program-record fourth place finish in 2023 -- as well as last year's fifth-place showing outdoors by the 2025 Rebel men.
• The Ole Miss men are coming off a historic runner-up finish indoors this February, the best ever by a Rebel team indoors (men or women) that tied the 1984 outdoor men's squad for the best overall finish on the track.
• With 936.75 points in only nine SEC Outdoor meets, Price-Smith already owns 30.6 percent of all Rebel points scored at the outdoor conference meet since 1980. That includes 24.2 percent of all men's outdoor points (461.5) and 41.1 percent of all women's outdoor points (475.25).
• Ole Miss returns four SEC Outdoor medalists from 2025: senior and Commissioner's Trophy winner Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (men's shot put, gold; men's hammer, gold); sophomore Lily Beattie (women's pole vault, silver), junior Akaoma Odeluga (women's shot put, silver); and senior Arvesta Troupe (men's high jump, silver).
• Robinson-O'Hagan has been a one-man wrecking crew for the Rebels at every conference meet of his career, and he ranks among the greatest athletes in SEC history entering his final postseason at Ole Miss. Robinson-O'Hagan owns 11 SEC titles (five outdoors, six indoors), 124 career SEC points (52 outdoor, 72 indoor) and has won at least a share of the SEC points trophy four times in his career across the indoor and outdoor seasons (2024 indoor, 2024 outdoor, 2025 indoor, 2026 indoor).
• Per the USTFCCCA, Robinson-O'Hagan is one conference title away from tying, two from breaking the all-time SEC men's record across all sports set by Auburn's Harvey Glance, who won 12 titles with the Tigers from 1976-79. Across all sports and both men's and women's competition, a third straight SEC shot/hammer sweep will tie Robinson-O'Hagan with Arkansas women's track and cross country runner Amy Yoder (1997-2001) and Florida women's swimmer Tracy Caulkins (1982-84) for the overall conference record at 13 individual titles.
• Across his career, Robinson-O'Hagan averages 17.7 points per conference meet -- 17.3 across each of his prior three outdoor championships. In those same three SEC Outdoor meets, Robinson-O'Hagan's individual point total has eclipsed an entire team twice: once his freshman season with his 12 points, and again as a sophomore with 20 following his first shot/hammer sweep.
• Robinson-O'Hagan stands as one of three in conference history to sweep the men's shot put and hammer twice, and a third this week will make him the first in SEC history to pull off the three-peat. Other shot/hammer sweepers in SEC history are Georgia's Denzel Comenentia (2017, '18) and Auburn's Cory Martin (2007, '08). Robinson-O'Hagan was also the first in conference history to sweep the shot and weight throw indoors, a feat he has done three times.
• This season, Robinson-O'Hagan leads the SEC in both the shot put and hammer, with his shot season-best 20.86m/68-05.25 currently leading the NCAA while ranking 11th worldwide and fourth in the U.S. this outdoor season. 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 a few 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. Prior, 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 (26th, 67.16m/220-4) and Mason Hickel (44th, 65.53m/215-0), who rank sixth and ninth in the SEC, respectively. 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 (and SEC Outdoor Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year) 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 18th nationally and fourth in the SEC in the hammer at her season-best 64.92m/213-0. 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.
• In her career, Odeluga owns four SEC medals and 35 total points scored -- including three medals in the shot put, twice outdoors.
• Sophomore Lily Beattie made history last spring with her silver medal performance at the conference meet, the highest finish by any Rebel woman in the pole vault. Beattie did so with a then PR height of 4.26m/13-11.75, but enters this year's outdoor meet with a new career-best of 4.30m/14-01.25 that ranks her fourth in the SEC and 29th nationally. Beattie is one of only four 14-foot vaulters in Ole Miss women's history, the third outdoors.
• Reigning NCAA Outdoor high jump champion Arvesta Troupe's silver medal performance last SECs was a thrilling back-and-forth affair against Georgia's Riyon Rankin, and proved to be a crucial test en route to his historic national title less than a month later in Oregon. Troupe was clean over his first five bars before a second-attempt PR of 2.26m/7-5 that put him in a jump-off with Rankin for the title. Rankin cleared 2.29m/7-6 on his third attempt for the win, but in Eugene it was Troupe who took the national crown at 2.27m/7-05.25.
• Ole Miss's relay units and sprints group enter the postseason in superb shape, led by Jordan Urrutia's breakout sophomore season.
• Last time out at LSU, Urrutia blazed to a win in the 200-meter dash at a slightly windy 20.31 (+2.7) that currently ranks him fourth in the SEC and sixth nationally. At Ole Miss, Urrutia only trails Olympian Isiah Young on the all-time list. Urrutia also ranks 49th nationally at his wind-legal 100-meter PR 10.19 (+0.3).
• Urrutia has been a key figure on the Ole Miss men's 4x100-meter relay squad that continues to make history. Alongside Dekell Minor, Wesley Todd and Tarique Wright, the foursome currently rank 21st nationally and seventh in the sprints-heavy SEC at their school record 38.98 from their outdoor open at the Ole Miss Classic on March 21 -- the first sub-39 relay in school 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).
• Minor owns a top-50 time of his own individually, currently ranking 31st nationally and 13th in the SEC at his 100-meter best 10.14 (+2.2).
• 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 was helped greatly by a third-leg 46.1 by Flatt and a scorching 45.8 anchor by Urrutia.
• 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 29th nationally and ninth in the SEC.
• Burnett made her 100-meter Rebel debut in stunning fashion at LSU two weeks ago, running a slightly windy but still all-conditions PR 10.94 (+3.7) that puts her right back into the national conversation heading into the postseason. That time ranks her fourth nationally and third in the SEC, and on Ole Miss' all-time list (which accepts up to the NCAA qualifying allowable 4.0 meters per second wind reading), she ranks only behind Olympian and three-time NCAA Champion McKenzie Long (10.80).
• Indoors, Burnett became the first athlete in Ole Miss history to win an SEC women's 60-meter title, and went on to finish fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
• 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.
• Junior transfers Sterling Scott and and Kyle Johnson both rank within the national top-50 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 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 36th nationally and eighth in the SEC at his outdoor debut 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6).
• The Rebel men's distance squad owns five national top-50 times courtesy of: Kidus Misgina in the 5K (30th, 13:31.19) and his 10K school record (30th, 28:17.69); Sergio Del Barrio in the 3000-meter steeplechase (25th, 8:38.05); Evan Thornton-Sherman in the 5K (41st, 13:32.99); 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: Ashton Hearn in the men's discus (33rd, 58.12m/190-8); Lizzie Hatton in the women's long jump (34th, 6.33m/20-09.25; +0.0); Mary Cate Doughty (36th, 4.23m/13-10.50) in the women's pole vault; Nyah Edwards (36th, 62.16m/203-11); and Logan Kelley in the men's pole vault (48th, 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 SEC Outdoor Championships, Master Schedule (all times CT) | ||
| Day One | Thursday, May 14 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 12:00 PM | Women's Hammer (Final) | Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1) Naomi Woolfolk (Flight 1) Nyah Edwards (Flight 2) Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 2) Skylar Soli (Flight 2) |
| 2:15 PM | Men's Hammer (Final) | Mason Hickel Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Bryson Smith |
| 5:50 PM | Men's 800-Meter (Prelims) | Carson Turner (Heat 1, Lane 1) Cade Flatt (Heat 3, Lane 3) Chase Rose (Heat 4, Lane 6) Max Armstrong (Heat 4, Lane 8) |
| 6:10 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Patchnalie Compere (Heat 2, Lane 7) Zion Lockette (Heat 5, Lane 4) |
| 6:35 PM | Men's 200-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Jordan Urrutia (Heat 1, Lane 5) Wesley Todd (Heat 2, Lane 9) |
| 7:40 PM | Women's 10K (Final) | Beth Arentz |
| 8:20 PM | Men's 10K (Final) | Aiden Britt Kidus Misgina Marco Perez |
| Day Two | Friday, May 15 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 3:30 PM | Women's Shot Put (Final) | Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1) Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 2) |
| 4:00 PM | Women's Long Jump (Final) | Indya Dotson (Flight 1) Lizzie Hatton (Flight 2) |
| 5:00 PM | Men's Pole Vault (Final) | Logan Kelley |
| 5:45 PM | Women's 1500-Meter (Prelims) | Hannah Doyle (Heat 1) Sophie Baumann (Heat 2) Ella Johnson (Heat 2) Addy Mitchell (Heat 3) Loral Winn (Heat 3) |
| Men's Shot Put (Final) | Ashton Hearn (Flight 1) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2) |
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| 6:05 PM | Men's 1500-Meter (Prelims) | Zack Gilbertson (Heat 2) Gabe Scales (Heat 3) John Shoemaker (Heat 3) |
| 6:45 PM | Men's 400-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Joshua Knox (Heat 7, Lane 8) |
| 7:10 PM | Women's 100-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Royanah Farmer (Heat 1, Lane 3) Alicia Burnett (Heat 2, Lane 7) Patchnalie Compere (Heat 5, Lane 9) Myla Reed (Heat 6, Lane 9) |
| 7:25 PM | Men's 100-Meter Dash (Prelims) | Dekell Minor (Heat 1, Lane 5) Jordan Urrutia (Heat 3, Lane 4) Tarique Wright (Heat 4, Lane 1) |
| 8:30 PM | Men's 3000-Meter Steeplechase (Final) | Sergio Del Barrio Samuel Ferguson |
| Day Three | Saturday, May 16 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 1:30 PM | Women's Discus (Final) | Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 1) Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1) Skylar Soli (Flight 1) |
| 4:00 PM | Women's Pole Vault (Final) | Lily Beattie Mary Cate Doughty Aly Francolini Katie McFarland |
| 4:15 PM | Men's High Jump (Final) | Arvesta Troupe |
| Men's Discus (Final) | Ashton Hearn (Flight 1) | |
| 5:00 PM | Men's Triple Jump (Final) | Kyle Johnson (Flight 2) Sterling Scott (Flight 2) |
| 5:05 PM | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Final) | Heat 1, Lane 7 |
| 5:15 PM | Men's 4x100-Meter Relay (Final) | Heat 2, Lane 9 |
| 5:25 PM | Women's 1500-Meter (Final) | -- |
| 5:35 PM | Men's 1500-Meter (Final) | -- |
| 6:15 PM | Men's 400-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 6:25 PM | Women's 100-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 6:35 PM | Men's 100-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 6:55 PM | Men's 800-Meter (Final) | -- |
| 7:25 PM | Women's 200-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 7:35 PM | Men's 200-Meter Dash (Final) | -- |
| 7:45 PM | Women's 5K (Final) | Beth Arentz Sophie Baumann Hannah Doyle Ella Johnson Addy Mitchell Loral Winn |
| 8:05 PM | Men's 5K (Final) | Aiden Britt Sergio Del Barrio Samuel Ferguson Zack Gilbertson Kidus Misgina Marco Perez Gabe Scales John Shoemaker |
| 8:40 PM | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay (Final) | Heat 1, Lane 8 |
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/ Track and FieldINTERVIEW: Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Talks NCAA Shot Three-Peat
Saturday, March 14
HIGHLIGHTS: Alicia Burnett Finishes Fourth in NCAA 60-Meter Final
Saturday, March 14
HIGHLIGHTS: Akaoma Odeluga Finishes NCAA Runner-Up in Shot Put
Saturday, March 14
HIGHLIGHTS: Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan Wins Third Straight NCAA Indoor Shot Put Title
Saturday, March 14