After winning the 2010 University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Track and Field Championship last weekend, Emory seniors Alex Greenhouse and Brittany Donino were named the conference’s Most Outstanding Performers in running events, and the Eagles’ coaching staff was named the conference Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year.

Greenhouse claimed victories in two individual events during the meet, winning the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.79 seconds, and the 400-meter hurdles with an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 54.07 seconds.  He also earned all-UAA honors as the second leg of Emory’s 4x100-meter relay team, which finished third in a time of 43.43 seconds.  This is the 11^th time an Emory men’s athlete has earned the honor, and the first since Frederick Linton did so in 2008.

Donino won both hurdle events at the meet, finishing first in the 100-meter hurdles with a provisional qualifying time of 14.86 seconds, and in the 400-meter hurdles with a provisional time of 1:04.11.  She was also part of two winning Emory relays, the meet-clinching 4x400-meter relay team and the provisional qualifying 4x100-meter relay team.  Donino is the sixth Emory woman to win UAA Most Outstanding Performer honors, and the first runner to do so since Andrea Midyett in 2003.

The Emory coaching staff of head coach John Curtin, and assistants Carl Leivers, Kevin Semanick, Ross Smithey and Pedro Vasquez earned recognition as Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year for the first time since the 2006 season, and the sixth time overall, after leading the team to its first UAA championship since 1997.  Curtin and his staff led the Eagle women to seven individual and two relay conference championships, in addition to 15 individual all-UAA honors, seven NCAA qualifying times and one school record at the meet.

Emory will continue its season on May 8^th at the Georgia Invitational.