Outstanding Athletics

From Olympic gold medalist to Super Bowl winner to World Series champion, Ole Miss Rebels can be found at the pinnacle of many sports.

(Clockwise from top) - Ole Miss Baseball won its 10th NCAA Regional title in 2019, and was well on its way to a historic season in 2020 before the global coronavirus pandemic cut the year short; Rafaelle Souza was a starting defender on the Brazilian national team during the 2015 Women’s World Cup and played in the 2016 Rio Olympics; Oxford native and American pole vault record holder Sam Kendricks was an Olympic bronze medalist in 2016 and has claimed nine of the last 10 U.S. pole vault titles he has competed in; Seven-time world champion, 12-time USA champion and 2012 Olympic gold medal long jumper Brittney Reese has competed for Team USA in three Olympiads in Beijing (2008), London (2012) and Rio (2016); Aaron Barrett was a member of the 2019 World Series Champion Washington Nationals pitching staff, the 13th Rebel to be on a World Series winning team.

CLASS OF THE SEC

Ole Miss has won five SEC team titles in the last four years

2019: Men’s Cross Country 2019: Women’s Golf

Ole Miss Men’s Cross Country repeated as SEC Champions in dominant fashion, recording the largest margin of victory in the SEC since 2015 with a 55-point win over Alabama. The Rebel men were ranked as high as No. 8 nationally during the year, a program-best.

Women’s Golf won the 2019 SEC Championship in thrilling fashion, needing playoff holes in its final three matches before prevailing over South Carolina. Ole Miss went on to qualify for the NCAA Championships for the second time in as many years, finishing tied for 13th overall.

2018: Men’s Cross Country

Ole Miss won the 2018 SEC Men’s Cross Country title, the first in program history and the first school not named Arkansas or Alabama to win since 1990. The Rebel men went on to win the NCAA South Region title and finish 17th at the NCAA Championships, the second-best national team finish in program history. 2018: Baseball (SEC Tournament Champions) 2017: Softball (SEC Tournament Champions)

Baseball won its third SEC Tournament title in dramatic fashion in 2018, battling back with four straight wins after falling to Auburn in the opening round. Nick Fortes was named Tournament MVP, and was one of three Rebels on the All-Tournament Team.

Softball wrote and starred in its own Cinderella story in 2017, winning the SEC Tournament title as the No. 8 seed on the arm of Tournament MVP, Kaitlin Lee. Ole Miss became the lowest seed to ever make the title game, let alone win the tournament, and beat No. 1 seed Florida, No. 5 seed Alabama and No. 6 seed LSU along the way for the title.