Women’s Track & Field Finishes Program Record Fourth at SEC Indoor Championships

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Ole Miss women’s track & field received a handful of historic performances to push it to a program record fourth place finish, concluding an excellent stay at the SEC Indoor Championships for both Rebel squads on Saturday.
 
The No. 15 Ole Miss women – led by some of the best performances in collegiate history – tied with No. 6 Alabama for fourth place at 54 points, falling just 2.33 points shy of No. 10 Tennessee in third. No. 2 Arkansas ran away with the women’s team title, besting No. 3 Florida 130.5 to 84. The fourth-place finish for Ole Miss tops its previous SEC Indoor record of fifth, which happened in 2017 and 2022 – both under eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith. That finish is also an overall program record for the Rebel women, who have a top outdoor finish of fifth in 2018.
 
One night removed from snagging a gold medal and becoming the No. 5 performer in collegiate history in the weight throw, All-American senior Jalani Davis made world history with her silver medal performance in the shot put on Saturday. Davis unleashed a two-foot PR of 18.43m/60-05.75 in the third round, and combined with her weight throw performance of 24.63m/80-09.75 from last night, Davis is now the first woman in world history to break both 80 feet in the weight throw and 60 feet in the indoor shot put.
 
Davis held onto that lead until the final throw by Florida’s Alida Van Daalen, who took the gold at 18.66m/61-02.75. Heartbreak aside, Davis’ prolific weekend was still crucial for the Rebel women. Davis scored 18 of Ole Miss’ 54 points by herself, adding to her extraordinary career tally of 60 total SEC points – 41 now at the SEC Indoor meet alone.
 
Davis now ranks No. 4 in the NCAA, No. 4 in the United States and No. 15 worldwide in the shot put this season at her mark tonight, as well as the No. 14 performer in collegiate history. In the Ole Miss record books, Davis now ranks second behind Olympian Raven Saunders’ 19.56m/64-02.25 from 2017 that was the collegiate record up until a few weeks ago.
 
Senior McKenzie Long topped an already incredible weekend of competition with a spectacular race in the 200-meter dash…