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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Wednesday, May 27
Lexington, Ky.
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Ole Miss
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NCAA East Regional
Track & Field Ready for 2026 NCAA East Regional
5/26/2026 | Track and Field
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tickets to the national meet are on the line this week for Ole Miss track & field, as the Rebels send 31 athletes via 34 total entries to the 2026 NCAA East Region First Round Championships. Competition runs May 27-30 at the University of Kentucky, and fans can watch the evening sessions live on ESPN+.
To qualify for this first round of the NCAA Championships, student-athletes must have finished the season ranked within the top-48 of their individual events or as a member of a top-24 relay team on their respective regional qualifying list (East or West), which was released by the NCAA on Thursday. The top-12 athletes in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon in the East and West automatically receive entry to the national meet.
From there, the top-12 finishers in each event at each regional meet advance to the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships, which this year returns to the University of Oregon on June 10-13.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Wed., May 27)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Two (Thurs., May 28)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Three (Fri., May 29)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Four (Sat., May 30)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Live Results
Flash Results
Rebel Men's Qualifiers (19 entries, 18 athletes)
4. 4x100-Meter Relay (Minor, Urrutia, Todd, Wright) – 38.65
4. Sterling Scott – Triple Jump – 16.43m/53-11 (+2.4)
6. Kidus Misgina – 5K – 13:31.19
7. Max Armstrong – 800-Meter – 1:46.06
7. Bryson Smith – Hammer – 68.07m/223-4
8. Kidus Misgina – 10K – 28:17.69
13. Sergio Del Barrio – 3000-Meter Steeplechase – 8:38.05
14. Jordan Urrutia – 200-Meter Dash – 20.31 (+2.7)
14. Arvesta Troupe – High Jump – 2.17m/7-01.50
15. Aiden Britt – 10K – 28:28.35
16. Logan Kelley – Pole Vault – 5.40m/17-08.50
17. Kyle Johnson – Triple Jump – 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6)
20. 4x400-Meter Relay (Todd, Flatt, Turner, Armstrong) – 3:05.09
21. Ashton Hearn – Discus – 58.12m/190-8
22. Mason Hickel – Hammer – 65.74m/215-8
28. Chase Rose – 800-Meter – 1:46.89
32. Aiden Britt – 5K – 13:43.19
35. Jordan Urrutia – 100-Meter Dash – 10.19 (+0.3)
45. Carson Turner – 800-Meter – 1:47.71
Rebel Women's Qualifiers (15 entries, 13 athletes)
4. Alicia Burnett – 100-Meter Dash – 10.94 (+3.7)
9. 4x100-Meter Relay (Lockette, Compere, Farmer, Burnett) – 43.27
14. Lily Beattie – Pole Vault – 4.30m/14-01.25
18. Patchnalie Compere – 200-Meter Dash – 22.94 (+1.6)
18. Lizzie Hatton – Long Jump – 6.33m/20-09.25 (+0.0)
19. Mary Cate Doughty – Pole Vault – 4.23m/13-10.50
19. Nyah Edwards – Hammer – 62.16m/203-11
27. Beth Arentz – 5K – 15:51.89
28. Skylar Soli – Hammer – 60.97m/200-0
32. Loral Winn – 1500-Meter – 4:15.50
35. Sophie Baumann – 5K – 15:54.69
38. Loral Winn – 5K – 15:55.23
43. Patchnalie Compere – 100-Meter Dash – 11.35 (+0.6)
43. Temidayo Owoyemi – Shot Put – 15.56m/51-00.75
45. Sophie Baumann – 1500-Meter – 4:16.73
MEET NOTES
• In 11 years at Ole Miss, head coach Connie Price-Smith has averaged 31.0 athletes and 34.9 entries at the regional meet, and from there she has sent an average of 11.2 athletes and 10.2 entries to the national meet. Of the 454.5 total NCAA points scored outdoors in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith owns 195 points (42.9 percent), which includes 103 of the 142 points in women's history (72.5 percent).
• Outdoors at Ole Miss, Price-Smith's athletes have won eight NCAA Outdoor titles while earning 96 outdoor First or Second-Team All-America nods (56 women, 40 men). Her teams have finished in the national top-25 eight times outdoors, including an overall program-record fifth-place finish on the women's side in 2024 and a tie for the best men's finish overall with an eighth-place showing in 2025.
• 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).
• In total, Price-Smith 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 and 87 SEC individual champions amid a bevy of the best team finishes in program history on both a conference and national level.
• The Rebel men lead the way with 19 entries from 18 athletes, while the Rebel women tallied 15 entries from 13 athletes. Among those are a total of eight Ole Miss student-athletes competing in their first regional meet: freshman Patchnalie Compere (women's 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 4x100-meter relay), redshirt sophomore Mary Cate Doughty (women's pole vault), senior Nyah Edwards (women's hammer), junior Royanah Farmer (women's 4x100-meter relay), freshman Ashton Hearn (men's discus), redshirt freshman Zion Lockette (women's 4x100-meter relay), junior Dekell Minor (4x100-meter relay) and freshman Temidayo Owoyemi (women's shot put).
• A total of eight Rebels will be attempting a double: sophomore Max Armstrong and junior Carson Turner in the men's 800-meter and 4x400-meter relay; senior Alicia Burnett in the women's 100-meter dash and 4x100-meter relay; seniors Aiden Britt and Kidus Misgina in the men's 5K and 10K; sophomore Wesley Todd in the men's 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays; and seniors Loral Winn and Sophie Baumann in the women's 1500-meter and 5K.
• Ole Miss also has two potential triplers in sophomore Jordan Urrutia and freshman Patchnalie Compere, who are scheduled to attempt their respective 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay triples.
• Ole Miss will be without several key athletes that were scratched from the regional meet due to injury, thus ending their 2026 campaigns. Four-time NCAA Champion and 14-time All-American Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, fresh off becoming the winningest men's athlete in SEC history across all sports, will miss the final two meets of his outstanding college career due to a signficant leg injury suffered in his first practice back from the conference meet. Two days prior, fellow All-American thrower and junior Akaoma Odeluga broke her foot in the discus at the SEC Outdoor Championships, prematurely ending what had been the best season of her career (and among the best shot put seasons in women's collegiate history). Senior Evan Thornton-Sherman, who was qualified in both the 1500-meter and 5K, was also forced to withdraw due to an injury.
MEN'S NOTES
• Ole Miss' men's 4x100-meter relay of Dekell Minor, Jordan Urrutia, Wesley Todd and Tarique Wright leads the way with an East Region seed of No. 4 overall at their school record 38.65. That time came last time out at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where the Rebel men finished fifth -- the best by an Ole Miss men's 4x1 since 2011 -- dropping an impressive three tenths off their previous record 38.98, the first sub-39 in school history. Ole Miss has not run slower than 39.20 in four attempts this season, all faster than the school record a year ago at this time (39.34).
• The Rebel men are looking for their second consecutive national ticket in the 4x1, with their 2025 qualifying performance the first at Ole Miss since 2015. A repeat trip to Oregon would be the first back-to-back national tickets for the Rebel men since 2014-15, and would feature two of the four on that 2025 squad that finished 15th nationally in Urrutia and Todd.
• Urrutia is the lone Ole Miss men's athlete attempting a triple, as he is also the No. 14 qualifier in the 200-meter dash and No. 35 seeded athlete in the 100-meter in addition to his duties on the 4x100.
• Urrutia's 200-meter qualifying time came at the LSU Invite, where he blazed to a win at an all-conditions PR 20.31 (+2.7). All-time at Ole Miss, Urrutia only trails Olympian Isiah Young's record 20.12 (+3.2) from the 2013 NCAA Championships. Urrutia also owns a 20.37 that was carried by an illegal +4.3 wind reading at the Virginia Challenge, as well as his wind-legal overall PR 20.42 (+0.5) that earned him sixth at the SEC Championships two weeks ago -- the first points in the event by a Rebel since 2021 (Elijah Dryer, 8th place) and the best finish since Young's 2013 title.
• Urrutia has actually run his qualifying 100-meter time twice, first a 10.19 (+0.3) at Virginia and then again in the SEC prelims at 10.19 (+0.5) that saw him finish two thousandths of a second shy of making the final -- 10.189 to a 10.187 ran by Tennessee's Tranard Folson. All-time at Ole Miss, Urrutia ranks eighth in the 100-meter.
• Todd will likely be pulling double-duty, having run the third leg on Ole Miss' record 4x1 and then the first leg on the best Rebel 4x4 since 1994. The Ole Miss foursome of Todd, Cade Flatt, Carson Turner and Max Armstrong crossed the line in 3:05.09, good for the No. 20 overall seed in the East Region and the fifth-best slot in Ole Miss history. This is the first Rebel men's 4x4 to qualify for regionals since 2014, and no Ole Miss mile relay has made it to nationals since 2004.
• Armstrong will also be one of three Rebels running in the men's 800-meter alongside Chase Rose and Carson Turner. Armstrong was the fifth-place finisher at the SEC Championships at a near full-second PR of 1:46.06, fourth all-time at Ole Miss outdoors and No. 7 among East Region entrants. Rose is seeded 28th at his career-best 1:46.89 and Turner 45th at 1:47.71. This is the second career NCAA East Regional for all three Rebels, with Turner making the quarterfinal last season.
• Junior Sterling Scott is tied for the highest men's seed for Ole Miss at his all-conditions PR leap of 16.43m/53-11 (+2.4) from the Virginia Challenge back in April, which ranks him fourth in school history outdoors. This is Scott's first trip to the East Regional, but while at Missouri he twice made the NCAA West Regional -- which included a national ticket as a freshman in 2024.
• Scott recently finished fourth at the SEC Championships at a wind-legal PR of 16.36m/53-08.25 (+0.3), the best by an Ole Miss men's triple jumper since 2014 when Ricky Robertson and Phillip Young took second and third, respectively.
• Scott will be joined in Lexington by fellow junior transfer Kyle Johnson, who is seeded 17th at 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6). This is the third career East Regional for Johnson, who twice qualified while at UConn.
• Ole Miss will also have two entrants in the men's hammer, with seniors Bryson Smith (7th, 68.07m/223-4) and Mason Hickel (22nd, 65.74m/215-8) attempting to punch their return tickets to Eugene.
• Seniors Aiden Britt and Kidus Misgina are doubling across the same two events, with the pair qualified in both the 5K and 10K. Misgina is seeded in the top-10 in both, rankning sixth in the 5K at 13:31.19 and eighth in the 10K at his school record 28:17.69. Britt, meanwhile, ranks 15th in the 10K (28:28.35) and 32nd in the 5K (13:43.19). Misgina will be looking for a return trip in the 5K after qualifying in 2025.
• Sophomore Sergio Del Barrio is the first Rebel to qualify in the men's 3000-meter steeplechase since Parker Scott and Sean Tobin in 2018, entering seeded No. 13 at his career-best 8:38.05 from the Stanford Invite. A national ticket would be the first by Ole Miss since Scott's in 2018.
• Defending NCAA Outdoor high jump champion Arvesta Troupe is competing in his fourth career NCAA East Regional in as many tries, seeded 14th at 2.17m/7-01.50.
• Also looking for a return trip to Eugene is senior pole vaulter Logan Kelley, who is seeded 16th at his outdoor PR 5.40m/17-08.50 from the SEC Championships.
• Freshman Ashton Hearn will be in his first regional meet, seeded 21st in the discus at 58.12m/190-8 (No. 2 all-time).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Senior Alicia Burnett leads the way for the Rebel women with her qualifying time in the 100-meter dash. Burnett's top time of the year is a windy all-conditions PR 10.94 (+3.7) from her first 100 as a Rebel at the LSU Invite, good for No. 4 on the East Region seeding list and second in Ole Miss history behind Olympian and three-time NCAA Champion McKenzie Long's 10.80 (+3.5).
• Last time out at the SEC Championships, Burnett was the silver medalist in the 100 at a wind-legal PR of 11.01 (+0.5), tied for the best finish by a Rebel woman in the event at the conference meet with All-American Teeneshia Jones in 2000. Indoors, Burnett finished fourth at NCAAs in the 60-meter dash after becoming the first in Ole Miss history to win the SEC women's 60-meter title.
• Burnett also ran anchor on Ole Miss' seventh-place 4x100-meter relay. The foursome of redshirt freshman Zion Lockette, freshman Patchnalie Compere, junior Royanah Farmer and Burnett passed the stick in 43.27 -- good for No. 9 on the East entry lists that ranks them as the second-best in Ole Miss history. The only foursome better is the 2024 national champion quartet of Akilah Lewis, McKenzie Long, Gabrielle Matthews and Jahniya Bowers, who broke the 43-second barrier four times that season, including their record 42.22 that still ranks fifth in collegiate history.
• Ole Miss will be looking for their 10th national ticket in the women's 4x100-meter in the last 11 seasons.
• Compere is the lone Rebel woman to attempt the triple, as she is also qualified in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes in addition to her duties on the 4x1. 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.
• Compere is seeded 18th in the 200 at that 22.94 (+1.6), and 43rd at her 100-meter PR 11.35 (+0.6).
• In the women's pole vault, sophomore Lily Beattie will compete in her second career NCAA East Regional, seeded 14th at her overall PR 4.30m/14-01.25 from LSU's Battle on the Bayou back in April. Redshirt sophomore Mary Cate Doughty will join in her first career trip to the regional meet, seeded 19th at her PR 4.23m/13-10.50. Beattie is one of only four 14-foot vaulters in Ole Miss women's history and ranks third outdoors, while Doughty sits behind her in fourth.
• Redshirt junior Lizzie Hatton enters her second career regional meet as well, seeded 18th in the long jump at her wind-legal PR 6.33m/20-09.25 (+0.0) earlier this year from the Joe Walker Invite.
• Ole Miss qualified a trio in the throwing events, with senior Nyah Edwards (19th, 62.16m/203-11) and junior Skylar Soli (28th, 60.97m/200-0) in the hammer and freshman Temidayo Owoyemi (43rd, 15.56m/51-00.75) in the shot put. Soli has qualified for the national meet twice in the hammer.
• There will also be a trio of Rebels in the women's 5K, three of the five fastest in Ole Miss history. School record holder Beth Arentz is ranked 27th at her record 15:51.89, with fellow seniors Sophie Baumann (35th, 15:54.69) and Loral Winn (38th, 15:55.23) not far behind. Winn (32nd, 4:15.50) and Baumann (45th, 4:16.73) are also doubling in the 1500-meter.
To qualify for this first round of the NCAA Championships, student-athletes must have finished the season ranked within the top-48 of their individual events or as a member of a top-24 relay team on their respective regional qualifying list (East or West), which was released by the NCAA on Thursday. The top-12 athletes in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon in the East and West automatically receive entry to the national meet.
From there, the top-12 finishers in each event at each regional meet advance to the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships, which this year returns to the University of Oregon on June 10-13.
ON THE AIR
Day One (Wed., May 27)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Two (Thurs., May 28)
5 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Three (Fri., May 29)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Day Four (Sat., May 30)
4 PM CT – ESPN+
Live Results
Flash Results
Rebel Men's Qualifiers (19 entries, 18 athletes)
4. 4x100-Meter Relay (Minor, Urrutia, Todd, Wright) – 38.65
4. Sterling Scott – Triple Jump – 16.43m/53-11 (+2.4)
6. Kidus Misgina – 5K – 13:31.19
7. Max Armstrong – 800-Meter – 1:46.06
7. Bryson Smith – Hammer – 68.07m/223-4
8. Kidus Misgina – 10K – 28:17.69
13. Sergio Del Barrio – 3000-Meter Steeplechase – 8:38.05
14. Jordan Urrutia – 200-Meter Dash – 20.31 (+2.7)
14. Arvesta Troupe – High Jump – 2.17m/7-01.50
15. Aiden Britt – 10K – 28:28.35
16. Logan Kelley – Pole Vault – 5.40m/17-08.50
17. Kyle Johnson – Triple Jump – 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6)
20. 4x400-Meter Relay (Todd, Flatt, Turner, Armstrong) – 3:05.09
21. Ashton Hearn – Discus – 58.12m/190-8
22. Mason Hickel – Hammer – 65.74m/215-8
28. Chase Rose – 800-Meter – 1:46.89
32. Aiden Britt – 5K – 13:43.19
35. Jordan Urrutia – 100-Meter Dash – 10.19 (+0.3)
45. Carson Turner – 800-Meter – 1:47.71
Rebel Women's Qualifiers (15 entries, 13 athletes)
4. Alicia Burnett – 100-Meter Dash – 10.94 (+3.7)
9. 4x100-Meter Relay (Lockette, Compere, Farmer, Burnett) – 43.27
14. Lily Beattie – Pole Vault – 4.30m/14-01.25
18. Patchnalie Compere – 200-Meter Dash – 22.94 (+1.6)
18. Lizzie Hatton – Long Jump – 6.33m/20-09.25 (+0.0)
19. Mary Cate Doughty – Pole Vault – 4.23m/13-10.50
19. Nyah Edwards – Hammer – 62.16m/203-11
27. Beth Arentz – 5K – 15:51.89
28. Skylar Soli – Hammer – 60.97m/200-0
32. Loral Winn – 1500-Meter – 4:15.50
35. Sophie Baumann – 5K – 15:54.69
38. Loral Winn – 5K – 15:55.23
43. Patchnalie Compere – 100-Meter Dash – 11.35 (+0.6)
43. Temidayo Owoyemi – Shot Put – 15.56m/51-00.75
45. Sophie Baumann – 1500-Meter – 4:16.73
MEET NOTES
• In 11 years at Ole Miss, head coach Connie Price-Smith has averaged 31.0 athletes and 34.9 entries at the regional meet, and from there she has sent an average of 11.2 athletes and 10.2 entries to the national meet. Of the 454.5 total NCAA points scored outdoors in Ole Miss history, Price-Smith owns 195 points (42.9 percent), which includes 103 of the 142 points in women's history (72.5 percent).
• Outdoors at Ole Miss, Price-Smith's athletes have won eight NCAA Outdoor titles while earning 96 outdoor First or Second-Team All-America nods (56 women, 40 men). Her teams have finished in the national top-25 eight times outdoors, including an overall program-record fifth-place finish on the women's side in 2024 and a tie for the best men's finish overall with an eighth-place showing in 2025.
• 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).
• In total, Price-Smith 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 and 87 SEC individual champions amid a bevy of the best team finishes in program history on both a conference and national level.
• The Rebel men lead the way with 19 entries from 18 athletes, while the Rebel women tallied 15 entries from 13 athletes. Among those are a total of eight Ole Miss student-athletes competing in their first regional meet: freshman Patchnalie Compere (women's 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 4x100-meter relay), redshirt sophomore Mary Cate Doughty (women's pole vault), senior Nyah Edwards (women's hammer), junior Royanah Farmer (women's 4x100-meter relay), freshman Ashton Hearn (men's discus), redshirt freshman Zion Lockette (women's 4x100-meter relay), junior Dekell Minor (4x100-meter relay) and freshman Temidayo Owoyemi (women's shot put).
• A total of eight Rebels will be attempting a double: sophomore Max Armstrong and junior Carson Turner in the men's 800-meter and 4x400-meter relay; senior Alicia Burnett in the women's 100-meter dash and 4x100-meter relay; seniors Aiden Britt and Kidus Misgina in the men's 5K and 10K; sophomore Wesley Todd in the men's 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays; and seniors Loral Winn and Sophie Baumann in the women's 1500-meter and 5K.
• Ole Miss also has two potential triplers in sophomore Jordan Urrutia and freshman Patchnalie Compere, who are scheduled to attempt their respective 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay triples.
• Ole Miss will be without several key athletes that were scratched from the regional meet due to injury, thus ending their 2026 campaigns. Four-time NCAA Champion and 14-time All-American Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, fresh off becoming the winningest men's athlete in SEC history across all sports, will miss the final two meets of his outstanding college career due to a signficant leg injury suffered in his first practice back from the conference meet. Two days prior, fellow All-American thrower and junior Akaoma Odeluga broke her foot in the discus at the SEC Outdoor Championships, prematurely ending what had been the best season of her career (and among the best shot put seasons in women's collegiate history). Senior Evan Thornton-Sherman, who was qualified in both the 1500-meter and 5K, was also forced to withdraw due to an injury.
MEN'S NOTES
• Ole Miss' men's 4x100-meter relay of Dekell Minor, Jordan Urrutia, Wesley Todd and Tarique Wright leads the way with an East Region seed of No. 4 overall at their school record 38.65. That time came last time out at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where the Rebel men finished fifth -- the best by an Ole Miss men's 4x1 since 2011 -- dropping an impressive three tenths off their previous record 38.98, the first sub-39 in school history. Ole Miss has not run slower than 39.20 in four attempts this season, all faster than the school record a year ago at this time (39.34).
• The Rebel men are looking for their second consecutive national ticket in the 4x1, with their 2025 qualifying performance the first at Ole Miss since 2015. A repeat trip to Oregon would be the first back-to-back national tickets for the Rebel men since 2014-15, and would feature two of the four on that 2025 squad that finished 15th nationally in Urrutia and Todd.
• Urrutia is the lone Ole Miss men's athlete attempting a triple, as he is also the No. 14 qualifier in the 200-meter dash and No. 35 seeded athlete in the 100-meter in addition to his duties on the 4x100.
• Urrutia's 200-meter qualifying time came at the LSU Invite, where he blazed to a win at an all-conditions PR 20.31 (+2.7). All-time at Ole Miss, Urrutia only trails Olympian Isiah Young's record 20.12 (+3.2) from the 2013 NCAA Championships. Urrutia also owns a 20.37 that was carried by an illegal +4.3 wind reading at the Virginia Challenge, as well as his wind-legal overall PR 20.42 (+0.5) that earned him sixth at the SEC Championships two weeks ago -- the first points in the event by a Rebel since 2021 (Elijah Dryer, 8th place) and the best finish since Young's 2013 title.
• Urrutia has actually run his qualifying 100-meter time twice, first a 10.19 (+0.3) at Virginia and then again in the SEC prelims at 10.19 (+0.5) that saw him finish two thousandths of a second shy of making the final -- 10.189 to a 10.187 ran by Tennessee's Tranard Folson. All-time at Ole Miss, Urrutia ranks eighth in the 100-meter.
• Todd will likely be pulling double-duty, having run the third leg on Ole Miss' record 4x1 and then the first leg on the best Rebel 4x4 since 1994. The Ole Miss foursome of Todd, Cade Flatt, Carson Turner and Max Armstrong crossed the line in 3:05.09, good for the No. 20 overall seed in the East Region and the fifth-best slot in Ole Miss history. This is the first Rebel men's 4x4 to qualify for regionals since 2014, and no Ole Miss mile relay has made it to nationals since 2004.
• Armstrong will also be one of three Rebels running in the men's 800-meter alongside Chase Rose and Carson Turner. Armstrong was the fifth-place finisher at the SEC Championships at a near full-second PR of 1:46.06, fourth all-time at Ole Miss outdoors and No. 7 among East Region entrants. Rose is seeded 28th at his career-best 1:46.89 and Turner 45th at 1:47.71. This is the second career NCAA East Regional for all three Rebels, with Turner making the quarterfinal last season.
• Junior Sterling Scott is tied for the highest men's seed for Ole Miss at his all-conditions PR leap of 16.43m/53-11 (+2.4) from the Virginia Challenge back in April, which ranks him fourth in school history outdoors. This is Scott's first trip to the East Regional, but while at Missouri he twice made the NCAA West Regional -- which included a national ticket as a freshman in 2024.
• Scott recently finished fourth at the SEC Championships at a wind-legal PR of 16.36m/53-08.25 (+0.3), the best by an Ole Miss men's triple jumper since 2014 when Ricky Robertson and Phillip Young took second and third, respectively.
• Scott will be joined in Lexington by fellow junior transfer Kyle Johnson, who is seeded 17th at 15.75m/51-08.25 (+1.6). This is the third career East Regional for Johnson, who twice qualified while at UConn.
• Ole Miss will also have two entrants in the men's hammer, with seniors Bryson Smith (7th, 68.07m/223-4) and Mason Hickel (22nd, 65.74m/215-8) attempting to punch their return tickets to Eugene.
• Seniors Aiden Britt and Kidus Misgina are doubling across the same two events, with the pair qualified in both the 5K and 10K. Misgina is seeded in the top-10 in both, rankning sixth in the 5K at 13:31.19 and eighth in the 10K at his school record 28:17.69. Britt, meanwhile, ranks 15th in the 10K (28:28.35) and 32nd in the 5K (13:43.19). Misgina will be looking for a return trip in the 5K after qualifying in 2025.
• Sophomore Sergio Del Barrio is the first Rebel to qualify in the men's 3000-meter steeplechase since Parker Scott and Sean Tobin in 2018, entering seeded No. 13 at his career-best 8:38.05 from the Stanford Invite. A national ticket would be the first by Ole Miss since Scott's in 2018.
• Defending NCAA Outdoor high jump champion Arvesta Troupe is competing in his fourth career NCAA East Regional in as many tries, seeded 14th at 2.17m/7-01.50.
• Also looking for a return trip to Eugene is senior pole vaulter Logan Kelley, who is seeded 16th at his outdoor PR 5.40m/17-08.50 from the SEC Championships.
• Freshman Ashton Hearn will be in his first regional meet, seeded 21st in the discus at 58.12m/190-8 (No. 2 all-time).
WOMEN'S NOTES
• Senior Alicia Burnett leads the way for the Rebel women with her qualifying time in the 100-meter dash. Burnett's top time of the year is a windy all-conditions PR 10.94 (+3.7) from her first 100 as a Rebel at the LSU Invite, good for No. 4 on the East Region seeding list and second in Ole Miss history behind Olympian and three-time NCAA Champion McKenzie Long's 10.80 (+3.5).
• Last time out at the SEC Championships, Burnett was the silver medalist in the 100 at a wind-legal PR of 11.01 (+0.5), tied for the best finish by a Rebel woman in the event at the conference meet with All-American Teeneshia Jones in 2000. Indoors, Burnett finished fourth at NCAAs in the 60-meter dash after becoming the first in Ole Miss history to win the SEC women's 60-meter title.
• Burnett also ran anchor on Ole Miss' seventh-place 4x100-meter relay. The foursome of redshirt freshman Zion Lockette, freshman Patchnalie Compere, junior Royanah Farmer and Burnett passed the stick in 43.27 -- good for No. 9 on the East entry lists that ranks them as the second-best in Ole Miss history. The only foursome better is the 2024 national champion quartet of Akilah Lewis, McKenzie Long, Gabrielle Matthews and Jahniya Bowers, who broke the 43-second barrier four times that season, including their record 42.22 that still ranks fifth in collegiate history.
• Ole Miss will be looking for their 10th national ticket in the women's 4x100-meter in the last 11 seasons.
• Compere is the lone Rebel woman to attempt the triple, as she is also qualified in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes in addition to her duties on the 4x1. 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.
• Compere is seeded 18th in the 200 at that 22.94 (+1.6), and 43rd at her 100-meter PR 11.35 (+0.6).
• In the women's pole vault, sophomore Lily Beattie will compete in her second career NCAA East Regional, seeded 14th at her overall PR 4.30m/14-01.25 from LSU's Battle on the Bayou back in April. Redshirt sophomore Mary Cate Doughty will join in her first career trip to the regional meet, seeded 19th at her PR 4.23m/13-10.50. Beattie is one of only four 14-foot vaulters in Ole Miss women's history and ranks third outdoors, while Doughty sits behind her in fourth.
• Redshirt junior Lizzie Hatton enters her second career regional meet as well, seeded 18th in the long jump at her wind-legal PR 6.33m/20-09.25 (+0.0) earlier this year from the Joe Walker Invite.
• Ole Miss qualified a trio in the throwing events, with senior Nyah Edwards (19th, 62.16m/203-11) and junior Skylar Soli (28th, 60.97m/200-0) in the hammer and freshman Temidayo Owoyemi (43rd, 15.56m/51-00.75) in the shot put. Soli has qualified for the national meet twice in the hammer.
• There will also be a trio of Rebels in the women's 5K, three of the five fastest in Ole Miss history. School record holder Beth Arentz is ranked 27th at her record 15:51.89, with fellow seniors Sophie Baumann (35th, 15:54.69) and Loral Winn (38th, 15:55.23) not far behind. Winn (32nd, 4:15.50) and Baumann (45th, 4:16.73) are also doubling in the 1500-meter.
| 2026 NCAA East Regional, Master Schedule | ||
| Day One | Wednesday, May 27 | ||
| Time | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 9:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM ET | Men's Hammer | Mason Hickel (Flight 3) Bryson Smith (Flight 4) |
| 5:30 PM CT / 6:30 PM ET | Men's Pole Vault | Logan Kelley (Flight 2) |
| 6:00 PM CT / 7:00 PM ET | Men's 100-Meter Dash (First Round) | Jordan Urrutia (Heat 6, Lane 9) |
| 6:50 PM CT / 7:50 PM ET | Men's 800-Meter (First Round) | Max Armstrong (Heat 3, Lane 6) Carson Turner (Heat 6, Lane 2) Chase Rose (Heat 6, Lane 8) |
| 7:45 PM CT / 8:45 PM ET | Men's 200-Meter Dash (First Round) | Jordan Urrutia (Heat 1, Lane 8) |
| 8:10 PM CT / 9:10 PM ET | Men's 10K (Semifinal) | Aiden Britt Kidus Misgina |
| Day Two | Thursday, May 28 | ||
| 9:00 AM CT / 10:00 AM ET | Women's Hammer | Skylar Soli (Flight 2) Nyah Edwards (Flight 3) |
| 5:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM ET | Women's Long Jump | Lizzie Hatton (Flight 3) |
| 5:30 PM CT / 6:30 PM ET | Women's Pole Vault | Lily Beattie (Flight 2) Mary Cate Doughty (Flight 2) |
| Women's Shot Put | Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1) | |
| Women's 1500-Meter (First Round) | Loral Winn (Heat 2) Sophie Baumann (Heat 4) |
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| 6:00 PM CT / 7:00 PM ET | Women's 100-Meter Dash (First Round) | Alicia Burnett (Heat 2, Lane 5) Patchnalie Compere (Heat 5, Lane 2) |
| 7:45 PM CT / 8:45 PM ET | Women's 200-Meter Dash (First Round) | Patchnalie Compere (Heat 2, Lane 8) |
| Day Three | Friday, May 29 | ||
| 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET | Men's Discus | Ashton Hearn (Flight 3) |
| 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET | Men's High Jump | Arvesta Troupe (Flight 1) |
| 4:00 PM CT / 5:00 PM ET | Men's 4x100-Meter Relay (Quarterfinals) | Heat 3, Lane 7 |
| 4:40 PM CT / 5:40 PM ET | Men's 3000-Meter Steeplechase (Quarterfinals) | Sergio Del Barrio (Heat 3) |
| 5:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM ET | Men's Triple Jump | Kyle Johnson (Flight 3) Sterling Scott (Flight 4) |
| 5:35 PM CT / 6:35 PM ET | Men's 100-Meter Dash (Quarterfinals) | -- |
| 6:05 PM CT / 7:05 PM ET | Men's 800-Meter (Quarterfinals) | -- |
| 6:50 PM CT / 7:50 PM ET | Men's 200-Meter Dash (Quarterfinals) | -- |
| 7:10 PM CT / 8:10 PM ET | Men's 5K (Semifinals) | Aiden Britt (Heat 1) Kidus Misgina (Heat 2) |
| 7:45 PM CT / 8:45 PM ET | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay (Quarterfinals) | Heat 2, Lane 3 |
| Day Four | Saturday, May 30 | ||
| 4:00 PM CT / 5:00 PM ET | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Quarterfinals) | Heat 3, Lane 6 |
| 4:15 PM CT / 5:15 PM ET | Women's 1500-Meter (Quarterfinals) | -- |
| 5:35 PM CT / 6:35 PM ET | Women's 100-Meter Dash (Quarterfinals) | -- |
| 6:50 PM CT / 7:50 PM ET | Women's 200-Meter Dash (Quarterfinals) | -- |
| 7:10 PM CT / 8:10 PM ET | Women's 5K (Semifinals) | Beth Arentz (Heat 1) Sophie Baumann (Heat 1) Loral Winn (Heat 2) |
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