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Track & Field Set for 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships

Track & Field Set for 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships


BATON ROUGE, La. – Ole Miss track & field will look for some conference hardware down on the bayou at this week’s 2023 SEC Outdoor Championships, held at LSU’s Bernie Moore Track Stadium on May 11-13. Fans will be able to watch all three days live online via SEC Network+ and a live window on SEC Network for Championship Saturday.
 
ON THE AIR
 
Day One (Thurs., May 11)
SEC Network+
Noon CT – WATCH
5:30 PM CT – WATCH
 
Day Two (Fri., May 12)
SEC Network+
11:30 AM CT – WATCH
5 PM CT – WATCH
 
Day Three (Sat., May 13)
SEC Network+ / SEC Network
2 PM CT – WATCH (SECN+)
5 PM CT – WATCH (SEC Network)
 
Talent
Dwight Stones (Play-by-Play)
Dan O’Brien (Analyst)
Larra Overton (Analyst)
John Anderson (Reporter)
 
MEET NOTES
 
• Ole Miss enters the championship meet ranked No. 10 on the women’s side, extending its school record top-10 streak to seven straight. The Rebel men, meanwhile, fell just outside the top-25 at No. 26 in the Week Seven release.
 

• Other ranked SEC women’s schools: No. 2 Florida, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 6 LSU, No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 8 Georgia, No. 9 Kentucky, No. 18 Alabama and No. 20 Tennessee.
 
• Ranked SEC men’s schools include: No. 1 Arkansas, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 Alabama, No. 5 Tennessee, No. 6 LSU, No. 16 Georgia and No. 24 Auburn.
 
• Ole Miss has won 52 SEC Outdoor individual titles, 39 from the men and 13 from the women. Of those, 15 have come under eighth-year head coach Connie Price-Smith (10 men, five women).
 
• Last season, Ole Miss became the first school to sweep the men’s and women’s 1500-meter races since Arkansas in 2002 after wins from current professional runners Mario Garcia Romo and eventual NCAA women’s champion Sintayehu Vissa.
 
• Returning SEC champs overall include senior Tedreauna Britt in the women’s discus (2021).
 
• Ole Miss currently owns 24 total times or marks within the NCAA top-50, 14 from the Rebel women and 10 from the men. Of those, 11 fall within the NCAA top-10 and five within the top-five.
 
• Senior McKenzie Long currently ranks as the top sprinter in the SEC in both the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes at both of her school record times. Long’s windy 10.80 (+3.5) from the Texas Relays puts her No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 3 worldwide on the all-conditions list, and her legal 11.00 (+0.2) also from the Texas Relays ranks…

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