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Track & Field’s Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan on The Bowerman Watch List Post-Indoor Update
3/26/2026 | Track and Field
NEW ORLEANS – Ole Miss track & field senior and four-time NCAA Champion Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan remains on the watch list for The Bowerman for 2026, as announced in its post-indoor update on Thursday afternoon.
The Bowerman – collegiate track & field's version of the Heisman Trophy – began in 2009 and is presented each year to the most outstanding male and female athletes in the nation. The trophy is named after famed Oregon head coach, Bill Bowerman.
This is the 12th watch list appearance for Robinson-O'Hagan, all consecutively, since first doing so in the preseason for the 2025 season. His first connection with The Bowerman, however, was as an award semifinalist following his superb sophomore campaign in 2024. Robinson-O'Hagan is one of three throwers on the March watch list and one of three athletes overall from the SEC alongside Auburn sprinter Kanyinsola Ajayi, Oklahoma thrower Ralford Mullings, Alabama sprinter Samuel Ogazi and Auburn hurdler Ja'Kobe Tharp.
Robinson-O'Hagan opened his final outdoor season in tremendous fashion at the Ole Miss Classic last weekend. He won both the shot put and the hammer, but it was his eye-opening 77.62m/254-8 in the latter that landed him among the best Americans ever in the event.
That toss shattered both the facility record and his own Ole Miss record, and it ranks as the best all-time this early into the collegiate season (March 20). Historically, Robinson-O'Hagan is now the second-best American-born collegian behind Oregon's Ken Flax in 1986 (78.34m/257-0) as well as second-best in SEC history, No. 11 in collegiate history overall and No. 16 in American history. For 2026, Robinson-O'Hagan currently leads all Americans and ranks eighth worldwide.
Robinson-O'Hagan entered 2026 already as the collegiate record holder in combined outdoor shot/hammer PRs, but his new hammer best combined with his outdoor shot PT of 20.88m puts him at 98.50m – making him the first collegian to surpass 98 meters.
Indoors, Robinson-O'Hagan won USTFCCCA South Region Men's Field Athlete of the Year, SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Year and was the sole winner of the men's SEC Cliff Harper Trophy following his third straight conference sweep and scored all 16 national points for the 15th-place Rebel men after winning his third consecutive indoor national title in the shot put and finishing third in the weight throw.
Robinson-O'Hagan's three-peat made him one of only three in Division I men's history to claim three indoor shot put titles in a row alongside Kansas' Karl Salb (1969-71), UTEP's Hans Hoglund (1973-75) and Arizona State's Ryan Whiting (2008-10). He ended his spectacular indoor career at Ole Miss with those three national titles, seven First-Team All-America awards and an astounding 50 career NCAA Indoor points scored. He also ended his indoor career second in collegiate history in combined shot/weight PRs (45.53m), No. 13 all-time in the weight throw (24.35m/79-10.75) and No. 20 all-time in the shot indoors (21.18m/69-6).
Across his spectacular career, Robinson-O'Hagan is a four-time NCAA 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.
The Bowerman 2026
Men's Watch List – March 26, 2026
Kanyinsola Ajayi, Auburn (Sprints)
Peyton Bair, Oregon (Combined Events)
Ryan Johnson, Iowa (Throws)
Garrett Kaalund, USC (Sprints)
Ralford Mullings, Oklahoma (Throws)
Samuel Ogazi, Alabama (Sprints)
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, Ole Miss (Throws)
Colin Sahlman, Northern Arizona (Distance)
Habtom Samuel, New Mexico (Distance)
Ja'Kobe Tharp, Auburn (Hurdles)
* Watch List career debuts
Also receiving votes:
Jonathan Seremes, Texas Tech (Jumps)
ABOUT THE BOWERMAN
The Bowerman, which debuted in 2009 and is named after former University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman, is presented annually by the USTFCCCA to the most outstanding male and female NCAA track & field athletes in the nation.
The Bowerman – collegiate track & field's version of the Heisman Trophy – began in 2009 and is presented each year to the most outstanding male and female athletes in the nation. The trophy is named after famed Oregon head coach, Bill Bowerman.
This is the 12th watch list appearance for Robinson-O'Hagan, all consecutively, since first doing so in the preseason for the 2025 season. His first connection with The Bowerman, however, was as an award semifinalist following his superb sophomore campaign in 2024. Robinson-O'Hagan is one of three throwers on the March watch list and one of three athletes overall from the SEC alongside Auburn sprinter Kanyinsola Ajayi, Oklahoma thrower Ralford Mullings, Alabama sprinter Samuel Ogazi and Auburn hurdler Ja'Kobe Tharp.
Robinson-O'Hagan opened his final outdoor season in tremendous fashion at the Ole Miss Classic last weekend. He won both the shot put and the hammer, but it was his eye-opening 77.62m/254-8 in the latter that landed him among the best Americans ever in the event.
That toss shattered both the facility record and his own Ole Miss record, and it ranks as the best all-time this early into the collegiate season (March 20). Historically, Robinson-O'Hagan is now the second-best American-born collegian behind Oregon's Ken Flax in 1986 (78.34m/257-0) as well as second-best in SEC history, No. 11 in collegiate history overall and No. 16 in American history. For 2026, Robinson-O'Hagan currently leads all Americans and ranks eighth worldwide.
Robinson-O'Hagan entered 2026 already as the collegiate record holder in combined outdoor shot/hammer PRs, but his new hammer best combined with his outdoor shot PT of 20.88m puts him at 98.50m – making him the first collegian to surpass 98 meters.
Indoors, Robinson-O'Hagan won USTFCCCA South Region Men's Field Athlete of the Year, SEC Men's Field Athlete of the Year and was the sole winner of the men's SEC Cliff Harper Trophy following his third straight conference sweep and scored all 16 national points for the 15th-place Rebel men after winning his third consecutive indoor national title in the shot put and finishing third in the weight throw.
Robinson-O'Hagan's three-peat made him one of only three in Division I men's history to claim three indoor shot put titles in a row alongside Kansas' Karl Salb (1969-71), UTEP's Hans Hoglund (1973-75) and Arizona State's Ryan Whiting (2008-10). He ended his spectacular indoor career at Ole Miss with those three national titles, seven First-Team All-America awards and an astounding 50 career NCAA Indoor points scored. He also ended his indoor career second in collegiate history in combined shot/weight PRs (45.53m), No. 13 all-time in the weight throw (24.35m/79-10.75) and No. 20 all-time in the shot indoors (21.18m/69-6).
Across his spectacular career, Robinson-O'Hagan is a four-time NCAA 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.
The Bowerman 2026
Men's Watch List – March 26, 2026
Kanyinsola Ajayi, Auburn (Sprints)
Peyton Bair, Oregon (Combined Events)
Ryan Johnson, Iowa (Throws)
Garrett Kaalund, USC (Sprints)
Ralford Mullings, Oklahoma (Throws)
Samuel Ogazi, Alabama (Sprints)
Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, Ole Miss (Throws)
Colin Sahlman, Northern Arizona (Distance)
Habtom Samuel, New Mexico (Distance)
Ja'Kobe Tharp, Auburn (Hurdles)
* Watch List career debuts
Also receiving votes:
Jonathan Seremes, Texas Tech (Jumps)
ABOUT THE BOWERMAN
The Bowerman, which debuted in 2009 and is named after former University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman, is presented annually by the USTFCCCA to the most outstanding male and female NCAA track & field athletes in the nation.
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