![]() Robinson-O'Hagan, the collegiate freshman record holder, topped out at 22.96m/75-4 for his first career All-American nod. Since 2016, Ole Miss has scored five times – with four of those within the top-three and capped by a 2017 national title.įreshman Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan added six points of his own in the men's weight throw, finishing third to give the Ole Miss men 14 points after the first day of competition. The quartet of senior Shane Bracken (1200m: 2:58.01), freshman Cade Flatt (48.86), senior Tiarnan Crorken (1:47.27) and Camerieri all earn First-Team All-American honors, and are the latest in a long line of superb DMR teams at nationals for the Rebels. "At 600 and 400 out I still felt pretty decent, but I was kind of surprised I had that last gear at 100 to go. "I've actually never been at altitude in my life, so I wasn't really sure how I was gonna feel," Camerieri said. From there, Camerieri clocked a 15-second final 100 and passed three additional teams – including Wisconsin right at the line by one tenth of a second to put Ole Miss as the national runners-up at 9:31.63.Įven more impressive is this is the first time Camerieri had ever run at altitude. ![]() Camerieri began to make up some ground, moving the Rebels into scoring contention at the bell in sixth place and fifth with 100 meters to go. But the senior grad transfer from Miami of Ohio did what he's done all year long stretching back to the cross country season: prove everyone wrong.Ĭamerieri – who had never broken the four-minute mile barrier before coming to Ole Miss but has now done so five times in a row – dropped a 3:57.50 anchor, which registered as two seconds better than any other. The Rebels were seeded eighth entering competition, and when senior Anthony Camerieri received the baton for the anchor mile leg in ninth place, that prediction seemed not too far off. Ole Miss closed out the night with high-drama in the men's distance medley relay, where the Rebels threw a wrench into the formchart with a thrilling NCAA runner-up performance. Since 2021, Ole Miss has scored an eye-opening 45 points in the women's weight throw, with 19 alone coming from Mitchell. Mitchell has never finished worse than fourth in the weight at NCAAs in her career, finishing runner-up in 2022, fourth in 2021 and earning a blanket All-American honor for the canceled 2020 meet. At the conference meet, Davis became the first woman in world history to break 80 feet in the weight throw and 60 feet in the shot put, which is also coming up for Davis on Saturday as she completes her weight/shot double.įellow senior Jasmine Mitchell earned her fourth career All-American nod in the weight throw in as many attempts, finishing third at 23.14m/75-11 to give Ole Miss a wallop of 16 points in the team scores right off the bat. 12 in world history at her career-best 24.63m/80-09.75 from the SEC Championships two weeks ago. 5 performer in collegiate history and No. It also puts her into elite company as just the fourth Rebel woman to ever do so indoors alongside Olympian Brittney Reese in the long jump in 2008, Olympian Raven Saunders in the shot put in 2017, and teammate Shey Taiwo in the weight throw just last year in 2022.Ĭombined with Taiwo's win, Ole Miss is now just the sixth school in NCAA history to repeat as the women's weight throw champion, joining Louisville in 2009-10, the Connie Price-Smith led Southern Illinois Salukis in 2007-08, Florida four years in a row from 2002-05, SMU in 2000-01 and South Carolina for the first three years of the collegiate women's weight throw from 1996-98.ĭavis' win caps off an extraordinary 2023 indoor campaign in the weight throw, during which she became the No. This is the 11th indoor national title in Ole Miss history, and it makes Davis the 14th overall NCAA Indoor Champion. What it takes to be here and what it takes to do what I did in the meet, it paid off. "On my last throw I started crying, it's just a relief to get it done. The win was even more sweet for Davis, who has grinded for a full year after fouling out of both the weight throw and shot put at last year's indoor national meet. 4 performer in the history of the national meet with the sixth-best throw. On Friday night, Davis fully broke free as a star on her own, winning her first national championship to lead a stupendous first day of action for Ole Miss track & field at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships.ĭavis – a senior native of Hampton, Virginia – concluded a wire-to-wire indoor season as the NCAA's best in the weight throw, winning the national title on Friday at her third-round toss of 24.51m/80-5 – making her the No. ![]() – Jalani Davis came to Ole Miss as a walk-on four years ago and was immediately cast into the shadow of training partners who were among the best in the history of the sport.
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