Arkansas wins NCAA women's outdoor track and field team title

EUGENE, Oregon — Ole Miss' McKenzie Long captured titles in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter relays, while Arkansas won the team title at the NCAA women's outdoor track and field championships on Saturday.

Long won the 100 meters in 10.82 seconds, finished the 200 with a personal-best time of 21.83 to finish the season undefeated in the event and helped Ole Miss, along with Akilah Lewis, Gabrielle Matthews and Jahniya Bowers, finish the relay in a program record 42.34 seconds.

Arkansas' Nickisha Pryce set college and meet records to win the 400 meters in 48.89 seconds, helping the Razorbacks finish 1-2-3-4 in the event along with Kaylyn Brown (49.13), Amber Anning ( 49.59) and Rosey Effiong (49.72). ).

Arkansas was victorious in the 1600-meter relay, setting university and meet records with a time of 3 minutes, 17.96 seconds, beating second-place Tennessee (3:23.32) by more than five seconds and becoming the first NCAA team in history to break 3:20.

The Razorbacks finished with 63 points, four ahead of second-place Florida. Texas was third with 41 points.

Stanford's Juliette Whittaker set an outdoor school record by winning the 800 meters in 1 minute, 59.61 seconds, breaking Olivia Baker's 2018 mark of 2:00.08.

In the 400-meter hurdles, Southern California's Jasmine Jones set a meet record and won in a personal best of 53.15 seconds.

Florida's Parker Valby broke his own NCAA record by winning the 5,000 meters in 14 minutes, 52.18 seconds.

Harvard's Maia Ramsden won her second straight title in the 1,500 meters, finishing in 4 minutes, 6.62 seconds, less than a second off the meet record.

Ackelia Smith, who won the NCAA long jump title for Texas on Thursday, won the triple jump at 47 feet, 7 3/4 inches on Saturday.

Florida's Grace Stark won the 100-meter hurdles in 12.47 seconds, the 10th fastest in NCAA history.

Doris Lemngole at Alabama set school, meet and university records to win the obstacle course in 9 minutes, 15.24 seconds, breaking Courtney Wayment's mark of 9:16.00 in 2022 for BYU.

Vanderbilt's Veronica Fraley won the discus with a throw of 208 feet, 10 1/4 inches, a personal best.

Hannah Dederick of Illinois won the wheelchair 100 meters in 16.15 seconds. It was the first time the event was included in the Division I outdoor championships.

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