Ross Bjork continues his pace of home run head coaching hires, hauling in four-time Olympian and current Team USA women's coach Connie Price-Smith.
Give credit to the Ole Miss athletic department: all this talk of diversity and progressive thinking is more than lip service. Five days after Hugh Freeze publicly called for a change to the Mississippi state flag, the university announced the hiring of Connie Price-Smith to lead the track & field and cross country program, making her the first female head coach of a men's or combined gender sport in Ole Miss history.