Ole Miss track and field took over TitleTown USA this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tarik Robinson-O\u2019Hagan was the first to break through<\/a><\/strong>. Robinson-O\u2019Hagan, on Wednesday, tossed a personal-best 30.88 in the shot put for the first-ever throwing title in Ole Miss history.<\/p>\n Turns out Robinson-O\u2019Hagan was only getting the Rebels started.<\/p>\n McKenzie Long had long ago established herself as a world-class short-sprinter in a league of her own. But she somehow find yet another level of greatness on the final day of competition of the NCAA Outdoor Championships on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Long secured the seventh-ever sweep for the Ole Miss women in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4\u00d7100-meter relay.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the 100-meter, I literally went out on the blocks and my blocks setting was already set,\u201d Long said, in recalling feeling her late mother\u2019s presence as she readied to run<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou usually have to fix your blocks before you get into your lane. The 100-meter is the event where I\u2019m less comfortable compared to the 200-meter. When I went out there and the blocks were already set in my settings, I was shook.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI was like, \u2018Mom, this is instantly you.\u2019 That was her, and I felt her.\u201d<\/p>\n WATCH: All three races of McKenzie Long\u2019s triple crown at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n All Love For The Champ pic.twitter.com\/VzYPK96mpc<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ole Miss Track & Field (@OleMissTrack) June 8, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n 21.83. <\/p>\n The triple crown. McKenzie Long is a NCAA Champion! (for the third time today)<\/p>\n ESPN#NCAATF<\/a> x @OleMissTrack<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HM00yiYKfs<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 8, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n MCKENZIE LONG WINS THE WOMEN’S 100M FINAL (10.82) @OleMissTrack<\/a><\/p>\n She sets a new personal record pic.twitter.com\/ujWxsgOIol<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ESPN (@espn) June 8, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n She\u2019s one of six to sweep the 100\/200 and also run on a winning 4\u00d71.<\/p>\n The 4\u00d71 title \u2014 secured with a 42.34 second run from the team of Long, Akilah Lewis, Gabrielle Matthews and Jahniya Bowers \u2014 is the first for Ole Miss in program history. The Rebels are the first first-time 4\u00d71 champion since South Carolina in 2002.\u00a0<\/p>\n Long carried the second leg.<\/p>\n Ole Miss is also the first school not named Texas, USC or LSU to win the championship since Kentucky in 2017. The Rebels are the fourth in NCAA Outdoor history to sweep all three events<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been working really hard all year for this,\u201d Lewis said<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cWe knew the job wouldn\u2019t be complete until we won. So, it\u2019s really satisfying to go out there and run a good race and bring home the title.\u201d<\/p>\n Ole Miss clinched its best-ever outdoors finish (fifth place, 38 points<\/a><\/strong>) and tied for their best-ever finish in indoors and outdoors. The Rebel men and women ended up in the Top 25 outdoors for the first time in the same season. They were both in the Top 15 indoors.<\/p>\n Long heads off for her professional career ranked No. 2 in college history, as well as tied for No. 10 in the U.S. and tied for No. 24 in the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI talk to my mom every day,\u201d Long said<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cEverything I do is for her. And in those blocks, I told my mom, \u2018This is my last race. So, push me through.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cShe did.\u201d<\/p>\n Matthews was named an All-American<\/a><\/strong>, as was Toby Gillen on the men\u2019s side.<\/p>\n The post A League of Her Own: Ole Miss\u2019 McKenzie Long completes NCAA sprint title sweep<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ole Miss track and field took over TitleTown USA this week.\u00a0 Tarik Robinson-O\u2019Hagan was the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55285,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265\/revisions\/55285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Long is one of 15 women in Division-I history to complete the 100\/200 sweep.<\/h2>\n