Ole Miss announced plans for a new track and field/cross country facility on Monday. The $2 million project will include locker rooms with 50 lockers each for both men and women, a recovery area for the athletes and a team lounge.
“Under Coach Connie Price-Smith’s leadership, our track program is competing at the highest level, and we are committed to supplying them the resources to continue to win championships,” Ole Miss interim athletic director Keith Carter said in a statement.
Ole Miss has excelled in cross country and track and field under the direction of Connie Price-Smith, who is accompanied by a strong team of assistant coaches, such as Andre Scott and Ryan Vanhoy, the Associate Heads of Track and Field and Cross Country.
Under Price-Smith, Ole Miss has won four NCAA individual titles, 32 SEC individual titles and the first men’s cross country SEC title in program history in 2018.
Ole Miss’s national cross country team has recorded five top-25 team finishes in indoor and outdoor meets, joining a short list of schools who have had men and women’s cross country teams in the top 25 for the past three years. The only other schools to do so are Arkansas, Brigham Young University, Colorado, North Carolina State, Oregon and Stanford.
“Having this additional space, along with our current facility, is something that will benefit our program in a very positive way,” Price-Smith said. “The new locker rooms and team area will have a huge impact on our current student-athletes as well as our future student-athletes, and it will give them the space they need and a place that they can be proud of.”
Fans of Ole Miss athletics can help support the track and field/cross country program by sponsoring one of the 100 new lockers with a gift of $2,500.
