Track & Field Opens 2023 Indoor Season at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Challenge

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ole Miss track & field is back in action, as the Rebels open the 2023 indoor season at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Challenge this weekend (Jan. 13-14).
 
MEET NOTES
 
• This marks the first of three stops to Vanderbilt this indoor season for Ole Miss, with subsequent trips to Nashville on Jan. 20-21 for the Vanderbilt Invitational and Feb. 10-11 for the Music City Challenge.
 
• Ole Miss also has two trips to Arkansas on Jan. 27-28 for the Razorback Invitational and Feb. 10-11 for the Tyson Invitational before returning to Fayetteville for the 2023 SEC Indoor Championships on Feb. 24-25.
 
• Ole Miss is coming off a historic 2022 campaign that saw the Rebel women finish a program record No. 5 in the final USTFCCCA Program of the Year standings. It was another banner year for the Ole Miss men as well, appearing in the final rankings for the fourth time in the last six seasons at No. 12.
 
• All eight appearances by Ole Miss in final Program of the Year rankings — four apiece by the Rebel men and women — have all come under head coach Connie Price-Smith, who is in her eighth season at the helm.
 
• On the track under Price-Smith, the Rebels have collected 10 NCAA top-25 team finishes, 10 NCAA individual champions, eight NCAA runners-up, 130 First or Second-Team All-Americans, 231 NCAA points, 63 SEC individual champions and a bevy of the best team finishes in program history at both the SEC and NCAA levels.
 
• Three of the six all-time NCAA top-10 track finishes in Ole Miss history have come within the last two years: 2022 women’s indoor (T-6th), 2022 men’s indoor (T-10th), 2021 men’s indoor (10th), 2013 men’s outdoor (8th), 2001 men’s indoor (10th) and 1991 men’s indoor (9th).
 

• Last year, Ole Miss was one of just four teams nationally to place both men and women within the top-10 at the indoor national meet (alongside Arkansas, Texas and Texas A&M).
 
• In 22 seasons as a head coach at both Ole Miss and Southern Illinois dating back to 2002, Price-Smith has collected 15 NCAA event titles and mentored 203 All-Americans on the track.
 
• In its history indoors, Ole Miss has finished in the NCAA top-25 of the team standings 19 total times (13 times on the men’s side, six times on the women’s side).
 
• Ole Miss owns 136 First or Second-Team All-Americans indoors…