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Track & Field Splits for LSU's Battle on the Bayou, Stanford Invite
4/2/2026 | Track and Field
BATON ROUGE, La. / PALO ALTO, Calif. – Ole Miss track & field will split for the first time this outdoor season, sending a delegation of distance runners to the Stanford Invite, while the remainder of the squad heads to LSU for the Battle on the Bayou this weekend.
Battle on the Bayou
April 3-4 • Baton Rouge, La.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
Stanford Invitational
April 3 • Palo Alto, Calif.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
MEET NOTES
• At Stanford, the Rebels will run in both the men's and women's editions of the 5K, as well as the men's races in the 3000-meter steeplechase and the 10K. Each year the Stanford Invite ends up proving crucial for regional qualifying times. Last year alone it produced four of Ole Miss' seven regional times in the long distance events, as well as a school record in the men's 10K by Kidus Misgina.
• Misgina (men's 10K) is one of 12 Rebel distance runners toeing the line in Palo Alto this Friday alongside Beth Arentz (women's 5K), Sophie Baumann (women's 5K), Aiden Britt (men's 10K), Sergio Del Barrio (men's 3000-meter steeplechase), Hannah Doyle (women's 5K), Ella Johnson (women's 5K), Owen Kelley (men's 5K), Adie Luna (women's 10K), Marco Perez (men's 5K), Evan Thornton-Sherman (men's 5K) -- as well as the season debut for All-American senior Loral Winn, who will begin her final campaign with the Rebels in the invitational section of the women's 5K.
• At LSU, Ole Miss will be one of 17 schools in attendance for a high-powered showdown that includes 12 total top-25 teams across both men's (8) and women's (4) competition -- including the No. 5 Rebel men. Ranked men's teams include No. 1 LSU, No. 3 Minnesota, No. 5 Ole Miss, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 11 Georgia, No. 12 Alabama, No. 13 USC and No. 19 Oklahoma. Ranked women's teams in attendance include No. 1 LSU, No. 4 Georgia, No. 6 USC and No. 7 Texas A&M.
• The Rebel men opened the outdoor season at that No. 5 slot in the Week One USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index, the best ever for the Ole Miss men outdoors that ties the overall program record set by the Rebel men indoors in 2023 (Week One) and the Ole Miss women outdoors in 2024 (Week Two).
• Of the 41 total top-10 rankings in Ole Miss track & field history, 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith owns 38 of them (11 men, 27 women). In the outdoor season, she owns 15 of 17 total top-10 slots (2 men, 13 women), while indoors she owns 23 (9 men, 14 women). In total, Price-Smith has tallied 74 of the 138 outdoor rankings appearances in combined program history (27 men, 47 women).
• Much of that high national ranking is thanks to senior Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan's spectacular season open at the Ole Miss Classic two weeks ago. Robinson-O'Hagan won both SEC Field Athlete of the Week and the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors after taking both crowns in the shot put and the hammer, setting the current collegiate lead in the shot (20.42m/67-0) but winning the hammer in historic fashion, unleashing an eye-opening 77.62m/254-8 in the third round.
• That toss shattered both the facility and all-time Ole Miss records, it stands as the best all-time this early into the collegiate season (March 20), and it makes Robinson-O'Hagan the second-best American-born collegian. Overall, Robinson-O'Hagan now ranks second in SEC history, 11th in collegiate history and 16th in American history, and for 2026 he leads all collegians, ranks third among all Americans and ranks 10th worldwide.
• 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. Combined with his shot put win of 20.42m, his weekend combo alone was a whopping 98.04m. 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. He 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.
• Robinson-O'Hagan has been the leader of a powerful Ole Miss men's hammer squad the last few seasons, and 2026 looks to be shaping up strong again with returning national qualifiers Bryson Smith (10th, 67.16m/220-4) and Mason Hickel (18th, 65.53m/215-0) both joining him in the national top-20 following their season openers at the Ole Miss Classic.
• Ole Miss' relay units are already in full force, with both the Rebel men's 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays contributing greatly toward the No. 5 opening national rank.
• 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. That time currently leads the SEC and the East Region, and it ranks third nationally.
• In the 4x4, the quartet of Todd, Carson Turner, Cade Flatt and Urrutia passed the stick in 3:06.13 for another win, the seventh-best in Ole Miss history and the best by a Rebel 4x4 since 1999. That time ranks third nationally and second in the SEC, and was helped greatly by a third-leg 46.1 by Flatt and a scorching 45.8 anchor by Urrutia.
• Other Rebel men currently in the national top-25 are: Kyle Johnson in the triple jump (6th, 15.75m/51-08.25), Ashton Hearn in the discus (15th, 58.12m/190-8), Carson Turner in the 800-meter (17th, 1:49.03), Logan Kelley in the pole vault (20th, 5.26m/17-3) and Joshua Knox in the 100-meter dash (24th, 10.28).
• The Rebel women are currently led by two top-10 performances by All-American junior Akaoma Odeluga, who currently ranks second nationally in the shot put (17.42m/57-2) and ninth in the hammer (64.38m/211-3). Odeluga scored her first career NCAA points indoors with a runner-up finish in the shot and a fourth-place showing in the weight, earning her USTFCCCA South Region Field Athlete of the Year honors.
• 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).
Battle on the Bayou
April 3-4 • Baton Rouge, La.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
Stanford Invitational
April 3 • Palo Alto, Calif.
Meet Info | Schedule | Live Results
MEET NOTES
• At Stanford, the Rebels will run in both the men's and women's editions of the 5K, as well as the men's races in the 3000-meter steeplechase and the 10K. Each year the Stanford Invite ends up proving crucial for regional qualifying times. Last year alone it produced four of Ole Miss' seven regional times in the long distance events, as well as a school record in the men's 10K by Kidus Misgina.
• Misgina (men's 10K) is one of 12 Rebel distance runners toeing the line in Palo Alto this Friday alongside Beth Arentz (women's 5K), Sophie Baumann (women's 5K), Aiden Britt (men's 10K), Sergio Del Barrio (men's 3000-meter steeplechase), Hannah Doyle (women's 5K), Ella Johnson (women's 5K), Owen Kelley (men's 5K), Adie Luna (women's 10K), Marco Perez (men's 5K), Evan Thornton-Sherman (men's 5K) -- as well as the season debut for All-American senior Loral Winn, who will begin her final campaign with the Rebels in the invitational section of the women's 5K.
• At LSU, Ole Miss will be one of 17 schools in attendance for a high-powered showdown that includes 12 total top-25 teams across both men's (8) and women's (4) competition -- including the No. 5 Rebel men. Ranked men's teams include No. 1 LSU, No. 3 Minnesota, No. 5 Ole Miss, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 11 Georgia, No. 12 Alabama, No. 13 USC and No. 19 Oklahoma. Ranked women's teams in attendance include No. 1 LSU, No. 4 Georgia, No. 6 USC and No. 7 Texas A&M.
• The Rebel men opened the outdoor season at that No. 5 slot in the Week One USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index, the best ever for the Ole Miss men outdoors that ties the overall program record set by the Rebel men indoors in 2023 (Week One) and the Ole Miss women outdoors in 2024 (Week Two).
• Of the 41 total top-10 rankings in Ole Miss track & field history, 11th-year head coach Connie Price-Smith owns 38 of them (11 men, 27 women). In the outdoor season, she owns 15 of 17 total top-10 slots (2 men, 13 women), while indoors she owns 23 (9 men, 14 women). In total, Price-Smith has tallied 74 of the 138 outdoor rankings appearances in combined program history (27 men, 47 women).
• Much of that high national ranking is thanks to senior Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan's spectacular season open at the Ole Miss Classic two weeks ago. Robinson-O'Hagan won both SEC Field Athlete of the Week and the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors after taking both crowns in the shot put and the hammer, setting the current collegiate lead in the shot (20.42m/67-0) but winning the hammer in historic fashion, unleashing an eye-opening 77.62m/254-8 in the third round.
• That toss shattered both the facility and all-time Ole Miss records, it stands as the best all-time this early into the collegiate season (March 20), and it makes Robinson-O'Hagan the second-best American-born collegian. Overall, Robinson-O'Hagan now ranks second in SEC history, 11th in collegiate history and 16th in American history, and for 2026 he leads all collegians, ranks third among all Americans and ranks 10th worldwide.
• 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. Combined with his shot put win of 20.42m, his weekend combo alone was a whopping 98.04m. 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. He 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.
• Robinson-O'Hagan has been the leader of a powerful Ole Miss men's hammer squad the last few seasons, and 2026 looks to be shaping up strong again with returning national qualifiers Bryson Smith (10th, 67.16m/220-4) and Mason Hickel (18th, 65.53m/215-0) both joining him in the national top-20 following their season openers at the Ole Miss Classic.
• Ole Miss' relay units are already in full force, with both the Rebel men's 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays contributing greatly toward the No. 5 opening national rank.
• 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. That time currently leads the SEC and the East Region, and it ranks third nationally.
• In the 4x4, the quartet of Todd, Carson Turner, Cade Flatt and Urrutia passed the stick in 3:06.13 for another win, the seventh-best in Ole Miss history and the best by a Rebel 4x4 since 1999. That time ranks third nationally and second in the SEC, and was helped greatly by a third-leg 46.1 by Flatt and a scorching 45.8 anchor by Urrutia.
• Other Rebel men currently in the national top-25 are: Kyle Johnson in the triple jump (6th, 15.75m/51-08.25), Ashton Hearn in the discus (15th, 58.12m/190-8), Carson Turner in the 800-meter (17th, 1:49.03), Logan Kelley in the pole vault (20th, 5.26m/17-3) and Joshua Knox in the 100-meter dash (24th, 10.28).
• The Rebel women are currently led by two top-10 performances by All-American junior Akaoma Odeluga, who currently ranks second nationally in the shot put (17.42m/57-2) and ninth in the hammer (64.38m/211-3). Odeluga scored her first career NCAA points indoors with a runner-up finish in the shot and a fourth-place showing in the weight, earning her USTFCCCA South Region Field Athlete of the Year honors.
• 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).
| Battle on the Bayou / Stanford Invitational, Master Schedule (all times CT) | |||
| Day One | Friday, April 3 | |||
| Time | Meet | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 10:30 AM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Hammer | Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1) Naomi Woolfolk (Flight 1) Nyah Edwards (Flight 2) Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 2) Skylar Soli (Flight 2) |
| 12:00 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 5K (Section 4) | Owen Kelley |
| 12:16 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 5K (Section 4) | Hannah Doyle Ella Johnson |
| 12:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Hammer | Mason Hickel (Flight 2) Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan (Flight 2) Bryson Smith (Flight 2) |
| 2:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Pole Vault | Lily Beattie Mary Cate Doughty Aly Francolini Rachel Homoly Katie McFarland |
| 5:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Long Jump | Indya Dotson (Flight 1) Lizzie Hatton (Flight 2) |
| 5:50 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 200-Meter Dash | Zion Lockette (Heat 5, Lane 5) Royanah Farmer (Heat 5, Lane 8) |
| 6:45 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 3000-Meter Steeplechase | Samuel Ferguson |
| 7:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 1500-Meter | Madison Archdale (Heat 2) Zoe Marsh (Heat 2) Addy Mitchell (Heat 2) Brooke Preputnick (Heat 2) |
| 7:15 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 1500-Meter | Gabe Scales (Heat 1) Zack Gilbertson (Heat 2) Stone Smith (Heat 2) |
| 8:09 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 3000-Meter Steeplechase (Section 1) | Sergio Del Barrio |
| 8:59 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 5K (Section 3) | Beth Arentz Sophie Baumann |
| 9:56 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 5K (Section 2) | Marco Perez |
| 10:13 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 5K (Section 1) | Loral Winn |
| 10:31 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 5K (Section 1) | Evan Thornton-Sherman |
| 11:25 PM | Stanford Invitational | Men's 10K (Section 1) | Aiden Britt Kidus Misgina |
| 11:58 PM | Stanford Invitational | Women's 10K (Section 2) | Adie Luna |
| Day Two | Saturday, April 4 | |||
| Time | Meet | Event | Athlete(s) |
| 10:30 AM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Discus | Akaoma Odeluga (Flight 1) Temidayo Owoyemi (Flight 1) Skylar Soli (Flight 1) |
| Battle on the Bayou | Men's Shot Put | Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan | |
| 12:00 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's Triple Jump | Mikoy Holmes (Flight 1) Kyle Johnson (Flight 2) Sterling Scott (Flight 2) |
| Battle on the Bayou | Women's 4x100-Meter Relay | Heat 2, Lane 7 | |
| 12:10 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 4x100-Meter Relay | Heat 1, Lane 8 |
| 12:20 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 800-Meter | Addy Mitchell (Heat 2) Zoe Marsh (Heat 3) |
| 12:30 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's Shot Put | Akaoma Odeluga Temidayo Owoyemi |
| 12:35 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 800-Meter | Max Armstrong (Heat 1) Gabe Scales (Heat 1) Carson Turner (Heat 1) Connor Henson (Heat 2) |
| 1:25 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 400-Meter Dash | Jordan Urrutia (Heat 3, Lane 3) Joshua Knox (Heat 5, Lane 3) |
| 1:50 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Women's 100-Meter Dash | Zion Lockette (Heat 4, Lane 3) Patchnalie Compere (Heat 4, Lane 9) Myla Reed (Heat 5, Lane 8) |
| 2:10 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 100-Meter Dash | Dekell Minor (Heat 2, Lane 7) Wesley Todd (Heat 4, Lane 4) Tarique Wright (Heat 4, Lane 6) |
| 2:35 PM | Battle on the Bayou | Men's 4x400-Meter Relay | Heat 1, Lane 3 |
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