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Ole Miss Track & Field Adds Three More
OXFORD,
Miss. – Head coach Joe Walker has announced the addition of three more
student-athletes that will join the Ole Miss track and field team for
the 2012-13 academic year.
High school seniors
Haley Cox (Madison, Miss.) and Racquel Moses (Baltimore, Md.) and
junior college standout Orlando Ezell (Opelika, Ala.) bring the 2012
Ole Miss track and field signing class to six. Previously signing with
the Rebels were Asia Cooper, Catie Daigre and Hunter Harrison.
“We
are really excited about this group of new signees and feel like each
one of them will make a valuable contribution to Rebel Track and
Field,” Walker said. “They are quality people off the track and each of
them has a huge upside that should come to fruition here at Ole Miss.”
Haley
Cox is a senior at Madison Ridgeland Academy in Madison, Miss. She won
the 2011 MAIS overall state meet with a long jump of 18-7 her junior
year, which broke the overall Mississippi private school record that
had lasted 40 years. She also placed third in the 200 and fourth in the
100 at the state meet. As an eighth grader, she broke a 26-year-old AAA
record with a jump of 18-0.25. In the 10th grade, she again broke that
record with an 18-3 leap.
Racquel Moses is a
senior at Milford Mill High School in Baltimore, Md. She was the
Baltimore County 2011 Indoor Athlete of the Year after finishing
runner-up at the state meet in the 55-meter hurdles. She also placed
second in the 2011 state outdoor meet as a member of the Milford Mill
4x200-meter relay team. As a sophomore, she was the 300-meter hurdles
state runner-up. She has a personal best of 1:00.80 in the 400-meter
hurdles. Already during the 2012 indoor season, she has won the county
and north regional championships in the 55-meter hurdles.
Orlando
Ezell is a sophomore at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College and will
have two years of eligibility when he arrives at Ole Miss. In his
freshman season in 2011, he was named an NJCAA All-American in the
indoor and outdoor long jump as he placed fifth at the national indoor
meet and seventh at the outdoor championships. Ezell was a three-time
6A state long jump champion while at Opelika High School in Opelika,
Ala, and won the Mobile Meet of Champions in 2010. He boasts a personal
best of 25-1.75 in the long jump, accomplished during his freshman year
at Coffeyville.
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