Bulldogs Set to Compete at NCAA East First Rounds

Wednesday, May 22

Lexington, Ky.

Mississippi State

NCAA First Rounds

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Bulldogs Set to Compete at NCAA East First Rounds

May 21, 2024 | Track & Field

By: Christina Shadid, Communications Fellow

LEXINGTON, KY - The Mississippi State Track and Field team's 30 qualifiers are set to compete at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships East First Round hosted by the university of Kentucky, May 22-25.

The Bulldog's are represented by 13 women and 16 men with multiple competitors in two or more events in addition to three relays.

The men will compete on Wednesday and Friday while the women will compete on Thursday and Saturday. The East First Rounds will feature the top 48 student athletes from the east region in each event. The top 12 in each event will move on to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The top 16 nationally in decathlon and heptathlon are qualified for Eugene.

Live Results can be found here and the event will be broadcast on ESPN+ all four days.

State begins Wednesday's competition with the Javelin at 11 a.m. CT featuring seniors Remi Rougetet and Franck Di Sanza.

Starting at 5 p.m. CT Sophomore Peyton Bair will kick off running events with the 110 Hurdles. Bair has already punched a ticket to Eugene in the men's decathlon with 7730 pts earned at the Bryan Clay Invitational that ranks third in the East region and 10^th nationally.

Thursday's events will be similar to the men's and will beginning with the javelin at noon with the women's javelin featuring senior Ella Knott followed by the 100m hurdles at 6 p.m. CT featuring indoor Championships qualifier Rosealee Cooper. Cooper placed seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championship in the 60m hurdles.

The men's 4x100m relay will start Friday's events at 4 p.m. CT while the men's 4x400m relay will conclude the days events. The Bulldog men's 4x100m ran the second fastest time on State's all time top five performance list with a time of 39.04 at the 2024 SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

The women's 4x100m relay team will kickoff Saturday's events and Kennedy Jackson will conclude the events in the long jump at 7:45 p.m. CT. The women's 4x100m relay team featuring Rosealee Cooper, Jaitlyn Ware, Kyndall Sessom and McKenzie Calloway broke the school record for the second time this season with a time of 43.93 at the SEC Championship.

Below is a list of student-athletes competing in the meet along with the events they qualified for.

Women