Six members of the Emory University Track and Field teams have been selected to compete in the upcoming NCAA Division III Indoor Championships on March 9th and 10th at the Birmingham Crossplex in Birmingham, Alabama.
Senior Gabrielle Stravach and junior Dani Bland will participate in individual events for the women with Bland also set to compete in the 4x400m Relay along with senior Erica Goldman, junior Dilys Osei and sophomore Kaitlyn Leonard. Senior Max Brown will represent the Eagles on the men’s side as he is set to run in the Mile Run.
Emory has seen great success in the women’s 4x400m Relay in recent years, earning All-America honors at the last two NCAA Indoor Championships including a second place finish in 2016. Goldman and Osei have assisted on both All-American relays with Leonard helping the Eagles place sixth at last year’s meet. This season’s edition of the relay captured the UAA Championship at CWRU, posting a winning time of 3:56.40.
Bland and Stravach earned another shot for Indoor All-America acclaim after narrowly missing out on the podium in 2017. Bland will compete in both the 60m and 200m Dashes for the second straight year after finishing ninth in the 60m and 11th in the 200m a season ago and enters the national meet with the eighth-fastest seed time in the 60m (7.71) and 14th-fastest in the 200m (25.13). She was named the UAA’s Most Outstanding Performer of the Year after winning conference titles in both events as well as in the 4x400m Relay. Stravach, the UAA Champion in the Mile, enters with the fourth-fastest seed time in the event (4:54.51) and will try to improve upon her 11th-place showing from a year ago.
Brown qualified for NCAAs in the Mile Run for the third consecutive season after posting a season-best time of 4:12.60 this past weekend at the Roanoke College Final Qualifier. In 2015, Brown garnered All-America honors in the event with an eighth-place showing and earlier this season, he collected his second straight All-UAA finish in the Mile, placing third. He brings a seed time of 4:09.42, ninth-fastest, into competition on Friday.
Prelims of all four events will take place Friday afternoon at the Crossplex with the finals to follow on Saturday: Women’s 60m (2:15pm), Men’s Mile (2:35pm), Women’s Mile (2:50pm), Women’s 200m (4:30 PM), Women’s 4x400m Relay (5:45 PM). All Friday times are listed in Central Standard Time.