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The University of Mississippi Athletics
2024 Track and Field Roster
Long, McKenzie
McKenzie Long
- Year (Indoor/Outdoor):
- R-Sr. / R-Sr.
- Position:
- Sprints
- Hometown:
- Ironton, Ohio
- High school:
- Pickerington Central
- Prev. School:
- NC State
Bio
TFRRS Bio
2024 Outdoor (Senior)
2x U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter)
3x NCAA Champion (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
3x First-Team All-American (100m, 1st; 200m, 1st; 4x100m Relay, 1st)
22.5 NCAA Points
3x NCAA Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
3x NCAA East Region Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
SEC Champion (200-Meter)
First-Team All-SEC
2x SEC Medalist (200-Meter, Gold; 4x100m Relay, Silver)
2x SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 1st; 4x100-Meter Relay, 2nd)
3x School Record Holder (100m, 200m, 4x100-Meter Relay)
USATF Athlete of the Week (June 14)
USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (May 13)
SEC Women's Runner of the Week (April 30)
Dazzled the nation wth her performance at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships, winning three national titles for Ole Miss in a span of 90 minutes ... Helped push the Rebel women to a program record fifth-place national team finish, scoring 22.5 of Ole Miss' 38 total meet points by herself ... Extended her world lead in the 200-meter dash with a winning time of 21.83 (+1.0), the No. 2 time in collegiate history, No. 10 in U.S. history and No. 24 in World history ... Ran wind-legal 21.95 (+0.3) in the semifinal, making her the lone woman in collegiate history with multiple wind-legal sub-22's within the collegiate season ... Ended collegiate season with the three fastest times worldwide in the 200-meter, as well as four of the top-seven ... Won the 100-meter dash on a slightly windy 10.82 (+2.2) ... Ran a wind-legal PR of 10.91 (+0.0) in the semifinal, good for No. 10 in collegiate history ... One of 15 women in NCAA Division I history to sweep the 100 and 200-meter dashes ... Ran second leg on Ole Miss' winning 4x100-meter relay team, the first outdoor relay title in Ole Miss history and only the second overall across indoor and outdoor alongside the 2017 Rebel men's win in the distance medley relay indoors ... Also ran second leg on Ole Miss' winning semifinal time of 42.22 that ranks the Rebels as the No. 5 relay squad all-time ... One of six women in NCAA Division I history to sweep the 100 and 200 while also run on a winning 4x1 team ... First Rebel to win an NCAA Outdoor title in an event shorter than 800-meters, men or women ... First Rebel women to win an NCAA title, indoors or outdoors, in an event shorter than 1500-meters ... First Rebel to win two national titles in the same meet, let alone three, let alone on the same day ... One of four Rebels to ever win multiple national titles in the same season, only the second Rebel woman to do so alongside four-time Olympian Brittney Reese (indoor/outdoor long jump, 2008) ... Earned three First-Team All-America awards ... Named USATF Athlete of the Week following NCAAs (June 14) ... Earned three NCAA qualifying berths and NCAA East Region berths in each of her national title events, only the second ever 100/200/4x1 triple in Ole Miss history after her own triple in the same events in 2023 ... SEC Champion in the 200-meter dash at what was then a world-leading and SEC meet record 22.03 (+0.6) ... First repeat SEC Champion in the women's 200-meter outdoors since LSU's Kimberlyn Duncan, who won three in a row from 2011-13 ... SEC silver medalist as the second leg on Ole Miss' 4x100-meter relay ... USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week following SECs (May 13) ... SEC Women's Runner of the Week (April 30) ... Ended Ole Miss career with outdoor school records in the 100-meter (10.91/+0.0), 200-meter (21.83/+1.0) and 4x100-meter relay (42.22), all from the national meet.
2024 Indoor (Senior)
NCAA Runner-Up (200-Meter)
First-Team All-American (200-Meter, 2nd)
NCAA Qualifier (200-Meter)
Second-Team All-SEC
SEC Bronze Medalist (200-Meter Dash)
SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 3rd)
Finished as NCAA runner-up in the 200-meter dash at a season-best 22.51, the best finish ever by a Rebel woman in the 200-meter indoors ... Tied for best NCAA Indoor finish ever on the track in Ole Miss history ... First-Team All-American ... Helped push Ole Miss women to a program record fifth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Second-Team All-SEC honors after her bronze medal performance in the 200-meters at the SEC Indoor Championships.
2023 Outdoor (Senior*)
3x NCAA Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
3x NCAA East Region Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
First-Team All-SEC
SEC Champion (200-Meter)
2x SEC Medalist (200-Meter, Gold; 100-Meter, Bronze)
3x SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 1st; 100-Meter, 3rd; 4x100-Meter Relay, 4th)
3x School Record Holder (100m, 200m, 4x100-Meter Relay)
Earned three national berths to NCAA Outdoors in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 4x100-meter relay ... First Rebel woman to ever attempt the 100/200/4x100 triple ... Sixth Rebel woman to ever attempt a triple at the outdoor national meet ... Third Rebel to ever qualify in the 100-meter dash, first since 2019 ... One of two to ever attempt the 100/200 double alongside multiple time All-American Teneeshia Jones, who did so three times from 1999-2001 ... Scored 17.25 points at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where she earned First-Team All-SEC honors ... Became the first Rebel woman to win the SEC 200-meter title ... Her bronze medal in the 100-meter dash marked the best finish by a Rebel woman in the event since 2000 ... Set school records in the all-conditions 100-meter dash (10.80/+3.5), wind-legal 100-meter dash (11.00/+0.2), all-conditions 200-meter dash (22.13/+2.9), wind-legal 200-meter dash (22.31/+1.8) and the 4x100-meter relay (43.43) ... First Rebel woman to break 11.00 in the 100-meter and 22.70 in the 200-meter ... One of seven women worldwide in 2023 and one of two collegians to have wind-legal times at or below 11.00 in the 100-meter dash (11.00) and 22.31 in the 200-meter dash (22.31) ... In all-conditions, ranks sixth in collegiate history in the 100-meter dash at her windy 10.80 (+3.5) from the Texas Relays ... Also No. 11 in collegiate history in the 200-meter dash in all-conditions at 22.13 (+2.9).
2023 Indoor (Senior*)
2x First-Team All-American (200-Meter, 4th; 60-Meter, 7th)
2x NCAA Qualifier (60-Meter, 200-Meter)
Second-Team All-SEC
SEC Silver Medalist (200-Meter Dash)
2x SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 2nd; 60-Meter, 5th)
3x School Record Holder (60m, 200m, 300m)
Earned two First-Team All-America honors in her first career NCAA meet ... Finished fourth at NCAAs in the 200-meter dash, the best ever by a Rebel woman ... Ran a school record 22.48 in the prelims ... Finished seventh in the 100-meter dash, ran a school record 7.10 in the prelim ... Both school records at NCAAs came at altitude for the first time in her career ... One of two Rebel women all-time to ever attempt the 60/200 double at NCAA Indoor ... Scored 12 SEC points, which included a silver medal in the 200-meter dash and a fifth-place finish in the 60-meter dash ... Silver medal performance in the 200-meter dash marked the best-ever finish by a Rebel woman in the event at the SEC Indoor meet ... Also set a school record in the 300-meter dash (37.38) ... First Rebel woman to break 7.10 in the indoor 60-meter (7.10) and 23.00 in the indoor 200-meter (22.48) ... Broke 23.00 three different times across the SEC and NCAA Indoor meets.
At NC State
Qualified in both the 100-meter and 200-meter at the 2019 U.S. U20 Championships ... 3x NCAA East Region qualifier ... Left NC State as school record holder in: outdoor 200 (23.00), 4x100-meter relay (44.11), indoor 4x400-meter relay (3:44.51) ... Did not compete for the entirety of the 2021-22 school year due to injury ... Had PRs of 7.39 in the 60-meter dash, 11.40 (+3.1) and 11.49 (+0.3) in the 100-meter dash, 23.00 (+1.3) in the outdoor 200-meter and 23.99 in the indoor 200-meter.
High School
2017 Ohio state champion in the indoor 60-meter dash ... 2x AAU Nationals All-American in 2017 ... Ranked eighth nationally in the 60-meter in 2017 ... 2017 Ohio AAA state outdoor runner-up in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes ... Also played basketball.
Personal
Born July 11, 2000 to Michael Long and Tara Jones ... Graduated from NC State prior to transferring to Ole Miss as a graduate student ... Set to complete her master's in criminal justice in August 2023
| CAREER HIGHLIGHTS |
| • 2024 Bowerman Award Semifinalist • 2x Bowerman Award Watch List Member • 3x NCAA Champion (2024 Outdoor: 100m, 200m, 4x100m Relay) • 2x NCAA Runner-Up (2023 Outdoor, 200m; 2024 Indoor, 200m) • 8x All-American (7x First-Team) • 45.5 NCAA Points (30.5 Outdoor, 15 Indoor) • 9x NCAA Qualifier • 9x NCAA East Region Qualifier • 2x SEC Champion • 2x First-Team All-SEC • 2x Second-Team All-SEC • 6x SEC Medalist • 47.5 SEC Points • 2x U.S. U20 Finalist • USATF National Athlete of the Week (June 14, 2024) • USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (May 13, 2024) • SEC Women's Runner of the Week (April 30, 2024) • 2024 SEC Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year • 2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic |
2024 Outdoor (Senior)
2x U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter)
3x NCAA Champion (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
3x First-Team All-American (100m, 1st; 200m, 1st; 4x100m Relay, 1st)
22.5 NCAA Points
3x NCAA Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
3x NCAA East Region Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
SEC Champion (200-Meter)
First-Team All-SEC
2x SEC Medalist (200-Meter, Gold; 4x100m Relay, Silver)
2x SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 1st; 4x100-Meter Relay, 2nd)
3x School Record Holder (100m, 200m, 4x100-Meter Relay)
USATF Athlete of the Week (June 14)
USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (May 13)
SEC Women's Runner of the Week (April 30)
Dazzled the nation wth her performance at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships, winning three national titles for Ole Miss in a span of 90 minutes ... Helped push the Rebel women to a program record fifth-place national team finish, scoring 22.5 of Ole Miss' 38 total meet points by herself ... Extended her world lead in the 200-meter dash with a winning time of 21.83 (+1.0), the No. 2 time in collegiate history, No. 10 in U.S. history and No. 24 in World history ... Ran wind-legal 21.95 (+0.3) in the semifinal, making her the lone woman in collegiate history with multiple wind-legal sub-22's within the collegiate season ... Ended collegiate season with the three fastest times worldwide in the 200-meter, as well as four of the top-seven ... Won the 100-meter dash on a slightly windy 10.82 (+2.2) ... Ran a wind-legal PR of 10.91 (+0.0) in the semifinal, good for No. 10 in collegiate history ... One of 15 women in NCAA Division I history to sweep the 100 and 200-meter dashes ... Ran second leg on Ole Miss' winning 4x100-meter relay team, the first outdoor relay title in Ole Miss history and only the second overall across indoor and outdoor alongside the 2017 Rebel men's win in the distance medley relay indoors ... Also ran second leg on Ole Miss' winning semifinal time of 42.22 that ranks the Rebels as the No. 5 relay squad all-time ... One of six women in NCAA Division I history to sweep the 100 and 200 while also run on a winning 4x1 team ... First Rebel to win an NCAA Outdoor title in an event shorter than 800-meters, men or women ... First Rebel women to win an NCAA title, indoors or outdoors, in an event shorter than 1500-meters ... First Rebel to win two national titles in the same meet, let alone three, let alone on the same day ... One of four Rebels to ever win multiple national titles in the same season, only the second Rebel woman to do so alongside four-time Olympian Brittney Reese (indoor/outdoor long jump, 2008) ... Earned three First-Team All-America awards ... Named USATF Athlete of the Week following NCAAs (June 14) ... Earned three NCAA qualifying berths and NCAA East Region berths in each of her national title events, only the second ever 100/200/4x1 triple in Ole Miss history after her own triple in the same events in 2023 ... SEC Champion in the 200-meter dash at what was then a world-leading and SEC meet record 22.03 (+0.6) ... First repeat SEC Champion in the women's 200-meter outdoors since LSU's Kimberlyn Duncan, who won three in a row from 2011-13 ... SEC silver medalist as the second leg on Ole Miss' 4x100-meter relay ... USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week following SECs (May 13) ... SEC Women's Runner of the Week (April 30) ... Ended Ole Miss career with outdoor school records in the 100-meter (10.91/+0.0), 200-meter (21.83/+1.0) and 4x100-meter relay (42.22), all from the national meet.
2024 Indoor (Senior)
NCAA Runner-Up (200-Meter)
First-Team All-American (200-Meter, 2nd)
NCAA Qualifier (200-Meter)
Second-Team All-SEC
SEC Bronze Medalist (200-Meter Dash)
SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 3rd)
Finished as NCAA runner-up in the 200-meter dash at a season-best 22.51, the best finish ever by a Rebel woman in the 200-meter indoors ... Tied for best NCAA Indoor finish ever on the track in Ole Miss history ... First-Team All-American ... Helped push Ole Miss women to a program record fifth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Second-Team All-SEC honors after her bronze medal performance in the 200-meters at the SEC Indoor Championships.
2023 Outdoor (Senior*)
3x NCAA Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
3x NCAA East Region Qualifier (100-Meter, 200-Meter, 4x100-Meter Relay)
First-Team All-SEC
SEC Champion (200-Meter)
2x SEC Medalist (200-Meter, Gold; 100-Meter, Bronze)
3x SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 1st; 100-Meter, 3rd; 4x100-Meter Relay, 4th)
3x School Record Holder (100m, 200m, 4x100-Meter Relay)
Earned three national berths to NCAA Outdoors in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 4x100-meter relay ... First Rebel woman to ever attempt the 100/200/4x100 triple ... Sixth Rebel woman to ever attempt a triple at the outdoor national meet ... Third Rebel to ever qualify in the 100-meter dash, first since 2019 ... One of two to ever attempt the 100/200 double alongside multiple time All-American Teneeshia Jones, who did so three times from 1999-2001 ... Scored 17.25 points at the SEC Outdoor Championships, where she earned First-Team All-SEC honors ... Became the first Rebel woman to win the SEC 200-meter title ... Her bronze medal in the 100-meter dash marked the best finish by a Rebel woman in the event since 2000 ... Set school records in the all-conditions 100-meter dash (10.80/+3.5), wind-legal 100-meter dash (11.00/+0.2), all-conditions 200-meter dash (22.13/+2.9), wind-legal 200-meter dash (22.31/+1.8) and the 4x100-meter relay (43.43) ... First Rebel woman to break 11.00 in the 100-meter and 22.70 in the 200-meter ... One of seven women worldwide in 2023 and one of two collegians to have wind-legal times at or below 11.00 in the 100-meter dash (11.00) and 22.31 in the 200-meter dash (22.31) ... In all-conditions, ranks sixth in collegiate history in the 100-meter dash at her windy 10.80 (+3.5) from the Texas Relays ... Also No. 11 in collegiate history in the 200-meter dash in all-conditions at 22.13 (+2.9).
2023 Indoor (Senior*)
2x First-Team All-American (200-Meter, 4th; 60-Meter, 7th)
2x NCAA Qualifier (60-Meter, 200-Meter)
Second-Team All-SEC
SEC Silver Medalist (200-Meter Dash)
2x SEC Scorer (200-Meter, 2nd; 60-Meter, 5th)
3x School Record Holder (60m, 200m, 300m)
Earned two First-Team All-America honors in her first career NCAA meet ... Finished fourth at NCAAs in the 200-meter dash, the best ever by a Rebel woman ... Ran a school record 22.48 in the prelims ... Finished seventh in the 100-meter dash, ran a school record 7.10 in the prelim ... Both school records at NCAAs came at altitude for the first time in her career ... One of two Rebel women all-time to ever attempt the 60/200 double at NCAA Indoor ... Scored 12 SEC points, which included a silver medal in the 200-meter dash and a fifth-place finish in the 60-meter dash ... Silver medal performance in the 200-meter dash marked the best-ever finish by a Rebel woman in the event at the SEC Indoor meet ... Also set a school record in the 300-meter dash (37.38) ... First Rebel woman to break 7.10 in the indoor 60-meter (7.10) and 23.00 in the indoor 200-meter (22.48) ... Broke 23.00 three different times across the SEC and NCAA Indoor meets.
At NC State
Qualified in both the 100-meter and 200-meter at the 2019 U.S. U20 Championships ... 3x NCAA East Region qualifier ... Left NC State as school record holder in: outdoor 200 (23.00), 4x100-meter relay (44.11), indoor 4x400-meter relay (3:44.51) ... Did not compete for the entirety of the 2021-22 school year due to injury ... Had PRs of 7.39 in the 60-meter dash, 11.40 (+3.1) and 11.49 (+0.3) in the 100-meter dash, 23.00 (+1.3) in the outdoor 200-meter and 23.99 in the indoor 200-meter.
High School
2017 Ohio state champion in the indoor 60-meter dash ... 2x AAU Nationals All-American in 2017 ... Ranked eighth nationally in the 60-meter in 2017 ... 2017 Ohio AAA state outdoor runner-up in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes ... Also played basketball.
Personal
Born July 11, 2000 to Michael Long and Tara Jones ... Graduated from NC State prior to transferring to Ole Miss as a graduate student ... Set to complete her master's in criminal justice in August 2023
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Monday, June 23
HIGHLIGHTS: Arvesta Troupe Makes History as NCAA High Jump Champ
Friday, June 13
PRESSER: Arvesta Troupe Talks Historic NCAA High Jump Win
Friday, June 13
