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What to Watch: Ole Miss at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships
6/11/2025 | Track and Field
EUGENE, Ore. – National titles are on the line beginning this afternoon for Ole Miss track & field at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships, which this year have returned to Oregon's Hayward Field. In total, 15 Rebel athletes will be competing against the best of the best in search of national glory.
Like any other scored track competition, the national outdoor meet uses the standard scoring system for the top-eight places in each event, assigning points of 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 in descending order. Those top-eight scorers each earn First-Team All-America honors, places 9-16 receive Second-Team status, while the remainder of finishing athletes from places 17-24 earn Honorable Mention All-America.
Competition is split between men's and women's days, with the men on the first and third days, and the women on the second and fourth days.
Unlike regular season competitions or conference meets where entries are plentiful, points are hard to come by at the national meet, where each school is at the mercy of how many qualifiers they were able to get through. In order to qualify, athletes had to make their way through the NCAA Regional meets by finishing top-12 in their respective events in either the East or West region.
Ole Miss has 13 total entries from those 15 athletes, including a program record 11 entries from 13 athletes on the men's side.
Men's entries are from Jake Dalton (hammer), Toby Gillen (5K), Mason Hickel (hammer), Logan Kelley (pole vault), John Kendricks (pole vault), Kidus Misgina (5K), Bryson Smith (hammer), Arvesta Troupe (high jump), the 4x100-meter relay of Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley, Jordan Urrutia, Wesley Todd and Joseph Michel, and three-time reigning national champion Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who is yet again doubling in the shot put and hammer.
Women's entries include sophomores Akaoma Odeluga (shot put) and Skylar Soli (hammer).
Below are some key points to watch for in Oregon this week. For more information on the team and how to follow along, check out our preview HERE.
HAMMER TIME
Men's Hammer Final: Wed., June 11, 1:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. CT
Right off the bat is perhaps the most crucial event for Ole Miss' chances in the men's team standings: the men's hammer final.
Four Rebels qualified at the NCAA East Regional – Jake Dalton, Mason Hickel, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan and Bryson Smith – who this season constituted the nation's second-best hammer squad at a season average of 70.15m/230-2. This year's four qualifying berths doubled the entire total of hammer tickets in Ole Miss men's history prior, and this marks return trips for Dalton – who finished 20th last season – and Robinson-O'Hagan, who has scored in each of his last two NCAA finals.
However, the men's hammer has gotten excruciatingly difficult recently, with 2023 and 2024 ranking as the toughest hammer finals in NCAA history.
Multiple Rebels coming away with points would be a great start. The Ole Miss men's record for most points in a single event is 15 by Ralph Spry, who won the 1983 long jump title in an era when the scoring 15-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Anything more than 10 points would mark a modern era men's record within a single event, while the women's record stands at 18 from 2022 in the weight throw indoors.
* Scoring rules at the time were 15-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
DOUBLE TROUBLE AGAIN FOR TARIK
Men's Hammer Final: Wed., June 11, 1:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. CT
Men's Shot Put Final: Wed., June 11, 6:10 p.m. PT / 8:10 p.m. CT
Doubling at the national meet is nothing new for 10-time All-American Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan. Wednesday will mark his sixth national double in as many tries, but the task before him today will be familiarly grueling.
The three-time reigning national shot put champion and mainstay on The Bowerman watch lists will have roughly three hours in between the men's hammer final – where he has scored in each of the last two seasons that have ranked as the toughest finals in NCAA history – and the beginning of the men's shot put, where he will look to become only the 13th repeat winner in the event outdoors.
History looms all around Robinson-O'Hagan on Wednesday. A fourth consecutive shot put crown would make him one of only five men in Division I history to pull off the four-peat, the first since Arizona State's Jordan Clarke from 2011-13.
A stunning double win in both the hammer and shot put would put him in even rarer company, as only three Division I men have ever pulled off the hammer/shot sweep all-time.
Robinson-O'Hagan enters today already ranked among the best combo hammer/shot throwers in collegiate history, currently ranked third at his combined distance of 96.83m.
ONE LAP
Men's 4x100-Meter Relay Semifinal: Wed., June 11, 4:05 p.m. PT / 6:05 p.m. CT
Men's 4x100-Meter Relay Final: Fri., June 13, 4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. CT
Ole Miss' men's 4x100-meter relay has defied odds all season. Built by a jumper and three newcomers, the quartet of senior Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley, freshman Jordan Urrutia, freshman Wesley Todd and junior college transfer Joseph Michel (as well as alternate Tarique Wright) has rewritten the record books all outdoor season long.
This is only the fifth national ticket in the men's 4x1 in Ole Miss history, and a fitting end for this crew would be to make even more history: by becoming only the second to make the NCAA final alongside the 2002 squad that finished sixth.
Ole Miss has actually had multiple relays chart on the all-time top-10 list this outdoor season, highlighted by the school record qualifying relay of 39.11 at the NCAA East Regional two weeks ago.
SHOT PUT U?
Men's Shot Put Final: Wed., June 11, 6:10 p.m. PT / 8:10 p.m. CT
Women's Shot Put Final: Fri., June 13, 4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. CT
The track world knows Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is a prime suspect to win the men's shot put for his fourth time in a row, but sophomore and reigning World U20 champion Akaoma Odeluga enters this week seeded second in the women's shot put at her career-best 18.93m/62-01.25 – potentially setting Ole Miss up to join an exclusive club.
If Robinson-O'Hagan can secure the four-peat on Wednesday and Odeluga can take the women's crown on Thursday, they would become one of only three duos from the same school to sweep the men's and women's shot put outdoors, joining 2003 Nebraska (Carl Myerscough, Becky Breisch) and 1995 UCLA (John Godina, Valeyta Althouse).
HOW HIGH CAN HE GO?
Men's High Jump Final: Fri., June 13, 4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. CT
All-American junior Arvesta Troupe has been right in the thick of things in each of his last three championship meets.
Troupe – who has had a meteoric rise in the high jump at Ole Miss following a promising high school basketball career – has been among the last three competitors in the high jump final this season at the 2025 SEC Indoor (silver), 2025 NCAA Indoor (bronze) and 2025 SEC Outdoor (silver) meets.
Along the way, Troupe has soared to new heights. The Fulton, Mississippi native entered his junior campaign with a PR of 2.18m/7-01.75, but has since put together this impressive progression:
Troupe is one of only two high jumpers in Ole Miss history to have cleared 7-foot-5 alongside Olympian Ricky Robertson, and he looks to join Robertson in further exclusive company, as Robertson was the last Rebel to score in the high jump outdoors, finishing sixth back in 2012.
Like any other scored track competition, the national outdoor meet uses the standard scoring system for the top-eight places in each event, assigning points of 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 in descending order. Those top-eight scorers each earn First-Team All-America honors, places 9-16 receive Second-Team status, while the remainder of finishing athletes from places 17-24 earn Honorable Mention All-America.
Competition is split between men's and women's days, with the men on the first and third days, and the women on the second and fourth days.
Unlike regular season competitions or conference meets where entries are plentiful, points are hard to come by at the national meet, where each school is at the mercy of how many qualifiers they were able to get through. In order to qualify, athletes had to make their way through the NCAA Regional meets by finishing top-12 in their respective events in either the East or West region.
Ole Miss has 13 total entries from those 15 athletes, including a program record 11 entries from 13 athletes on the men's side.
Men's entries are from Jake Dalton (hammer), Toby Gillen (5K), Mason Hickel (hammer), Logan Kelley (pole vault), John Kendricks (pole vault), Kidus Misgina (5K), Bryson Smith (hammer), Arvesta Troupe (high jump), the 4x100-meter relay of Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley, Jordan Urrutia, Wesley Todd and Joseph Michel, and three-time reigning national champion Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who is yet again doubling in the shot put and hammer.
Women's entries include sophomores Akaoma Odeluga (shot put) and Skylar Soli (hammer).
Below are some key points to watch for in Oregon this week. For more information on the team and how to follow along, check out our preview HERE.
HAMMER TIME
Men's Hammer Final: Wed., June 11, 1:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. CT
Right off the bat is perhaps the most crucial event for Ole Miss' chances in the men's team standings: the men's hammer final.
Four Rebels qualified at the NCAA East Regional – Jake Dalton, Mason Hickel, Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan and Bryson Smith – who this season constituted the nation's second-best hammer squad at a season average of 70.15m/230-2. This year's four qualifying berths doubled the entire total of hammer tickets in Ole Miss men's history prior, and this marks return trips for Dalton – who finished 20th last season – and Robinson-O'Hagan, who has scored in each of his last two NCAA finals.
However, the men's hammer has gotten excruciatingly difficult recently, with 2023 and 2024 ranking as the toughest hammer finals in NCAA history.
Multiple Rebels coming away with points would be a great start. The Ole Miss men's record for most points in a single event is 15 by Ralph Spry, who won the 1983 long jump title in an era when the scoring 15-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Anything more than 10 points would mark a modern era men's record within a single event, while the women's record stands at 18 from 2022 in the weight throw indoors.
| Most NCAA Points in Single Event, Ole Miss History | |||
| Year | Points | Events | Scorer(s) |
| 2022 | 18 | Women's Weight Throw (Indoor) | Shey Taiwo (1st) Jasmine Mitchell (2nd) |
| 2024 | 16 | Women's Weight Throw (Indoor) | Jalani Davis (1st) Jasmine Mitchell (3rd) |
| 2023 | 16 | Women's Weight Throw (Indoor) | Jalani Davis (1st) Jasmine Mitchell (3rd) |
| 1983 | 15 | Men's Long Jump (Outdoor) * | Ralph Spry (1st) |
| 1991 | 12 | Men's 800-Meter (Indoor) | George Kersh (1st) Thomas Johnson (5th) |
| 2021 | 11 | Women's Weight Throw (Indoor) | Shey Taiwo (3rd) Jasmine Mitchell (4th) |
| 2017 | 11 | Women's Shot Put (Indoor) | Raven Saunders (1st) Janeah Stewart (8th) |
* Scoring rules at the time were 15-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
DOUBLE TROUBLE AGAIN FOR TARIK
Men's Hammer Final: Wed., June 11, 1:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. CT
Men's Shot Put Final: Wed., June 11, 6:10 p.m. PT / 8:10 p.m. CT
Doubling at the national meet is nothing new for 10-time All-American Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan. Wednesday will mark his sixth national double in as many tries, but the task before him today will be familiarly grueling.
The three-time reigning national shot put champion and mainstay on The Bowerman watch lists will have roughly three hours in between the men's hammer final – where he has scored in each of the last two seasons that have ranked as the toughest finals in NCAA history – and the beginning of the men's shot put, where he will look to become only the 13th repeat winner in the event outdoors.
History looms all around Robinson-O'Hagan on Wednesday. A fourth consecutive shot put crown would make him one of only five men in Division I history to pull off the four-peat, the first since Arizona State's Jordan Clarke from 2011-13.
| Three Consecutive NCAA Men's Shot Put Titles, Division I History | ||
| Name | School | Consecutive NCAA Wins |
| Karl Salb | Kansas | 1969 Indoor 1969 Outdoor 1970 Indoor 1970 Outdoor 1971 Indoor 1971 Outdoor |
| Hans Hoglund | UTEP | 1973 Indoor 1973 Outdoor 1974 Indoor |
| Mike Carter | SMU | 1980 Indoor 1980 Outdoor 1981 Indoor 1981 Outdoor |
| Mike Carter | SMU | 1983 Indoor 1983 Outdoor 1984 Indoor |
| Mike Stulce | Texas A&M | 1988 Outdoor 1989 Indoor 1989 Outdoor |
| Brad Snyder | South Carolina | 1998 Indoor 1998 Outdoor 1999 Indoor |
| Ryan Whiting | Arizona State | 2009 Indoor 2009 Outdoor 2010 Indoor 2010 Outdoor |
| Jordan Clarke | Arizona State | 2011 Outdoor 2012 Indoor 2012 Outdoor 2013 Indoor |
| Ryan Crouser | Texas | 2013 Outdoor 2014 Indoor 2014 Outdoor |
| Turner Washington | Arizona State | 2021 Indoor 2021 Outdoor 2022 Indoor |
| Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan | Ole Miss | 2024 Indoor 2024 Outdoor 2025 Indoor |
A stunning double win in both the hammer and shot put would put him in even rarer company, as only three Division I men have ever pulled off the hammer/shot sweep all-time.
| Men's Hammer/Shot Put Sweep, NCAA Division I History | ||
| Name | School | Year |
| Denzel Comenentia | Georgia | 2018 |
| Cory Martin | Auburn | 2008 |
| Jack Merchant | Cal | 1922 |
Robinson-O'Hagan enters today already ranked among the best combo hammer/shot throwers in collegiate history, currently ranked third at his combined distance of 96.83m.
| Men's Hammer/Shot Combo, Collegiate History | ||||
| Name | School | Combo | Shot | Hammer |
| Denzel Comenentia | Georgia | 97.68m | 20.88m | 76.80m |
| Jordan Geist | Arizona | 97.56m | 21.59m | 75.97m |
| Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan | Ole Miss | 96.83m | 21.11m | 75.72m |
ONE LAP
Men's 4x100-Meter Relay Semifinal: Wed., June 11, 4:05 p.m. PT / 6:05 p.m. CT
Men's 4x100-Meter Relay Final: Fri., June 13, 4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. CT
Ole Miss' men's 4x100-meter relay has defied odds all season. Built by a jumper and three newcomers, the quartet of senior Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley, freshman Jordan Urrutia, freshman Wesley Todd and junior college transfer Joseph Michel (as well as alternate Tarique Wright) has rewritten the record books all outdoor season long.
This is only the fifth national ticket in the men's 4x1 in Ole Miss history, and a fitting end for this crew would be to make even more history: by becoming only the second to make the NCAA final alongside the 2002 squad that finished sixth.
Ole Miss has actually had multiple relays chart on the all-time top-10 list this outdoor season, highlighted by the school record qualifying relay of 39.11 at the NCAA East Regional two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago, the Rebs just narrowly missed out on the Ole Miss record 39.34 from 2014.
— Ole Miss Track & XC (@OleMissTrack) May 30, 2025
Today they left no doubt, blazing around the track at a new school record 39.11 to earn an auto qualifier to Oregon for the national meet 😤#HottyToddy x #NCAATF pic.twitter.com/OHSbUQEFK3
SHOT PUT U?
Men's Shot Put Final: Wed., June 11, 6:10 p.m. PT / 8:10 p.m. CT
Women's Shot Put Final: Fri., June 13, 4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. CT
The track world knows Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan is a prime suspect to win the men's shot put for his fourth time in a row, but sophomore and reigning World U20 champion Akaoma Odeluga enters this week seeded second in the women's shot put at her career-best 18.93m/62-01.25 – potentially setting Ole Miss up to join an exclusive club.
If Robinson-O'Hagan can secure the four-peat on Wednesday and Odeluga can take the women's crown on Thursday, they would become one of only three duos from the same school to sweep the men's and women's shot put outdoors, joining 2003 Nebraska (Carl Myerscough, Becky Breisch) and 1995 UCLA (John Godina, Valeyta Althouse).
HOW HIGH CAN HE GO?
Men's High Jump Final: Fri., June 13, 4:30 p.m. PT / 6:30 p.m. CT
All-American junior Arvesta Troupe has been right in the thick of things in each of his last three championship meets.
Troupe – who has had a meteoric rise in the high jump at Ole Miss following a promising high school basketball career – has been among the last three competitors in the high jump final this season at the 2025 SEC Indoor (silver), 2025 NCAA Indoor (bronze) and 2025 SEC Outdoor (silver) meets.
Along the way, Troupe has soared to new heights. The Fulton, Mississippi native entered his junior campaign with a PR of 2.18m/7-01.75, but has since put together this impressive progression:
Arvesta Troupe's progression this year 👀
— Ole Miss Track & XC (@OleMissTrack) May 18, 2025
PR entering: 2.18m/7' 1.75"
01/10: 2.20m
02/08: 2.21m
02/28: 2.22m (SEC 🥈)
05/17: 2.26m (SEC 🥈)#HottyToddy x #SECTF pic.twitter.com/irfaQ2Zuje
Troupe is one of only two high jumpers in Ole Miss history to have cleared 7-foot-5 alongside Olympian Ricky Robertson, and he looks to join Robertson in further exclusive company, as Robertson was the last Rebel to score in the high jump outdoors, finishing sixth back in 2012.
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