Emory University senior Greg Decker broke his own school-record time in the 10,000-meter run, and Alex Robin, Alex Greenhouse, Lauren Attiah, and the Eagles’ women’s 4x100-meter relay team all recorded provisional qualifying marks as the Eagles were in action at two meets this weekend.

The performances of Decker and Robin both came at the Dr. Keeler Invitational, hosted by North Central College in Naperville, IL.  Decker recorded a provisional qualifying time of 30:55.94, becoming the first Eagle to record a time under 31 minutes in the event, and breaking his previous school-record time of 30:55.94.  Decker finished 10^th in the 10,000-meter run, and was followed by teammate Paul Winterhalter, who finished 18^th in a time of 31:24.63.

Robin finished 12^th in the 800-meter run, with a provisional qualifying time of 1:52.92, a new personal best.  His mark currently places him 21^st among all Division III competitors in the event.  Junior Jason Campbell finished 31^st in the event with a time of 1:55.27. 

Also competing for the Emory men at the meet were distance runners Tommy Fyffe and Charles Meade, who finished 21^st and 26^th in the 5,000-meter run, respectively.

For the women at the Dr. Keeler Invitational, Rebecca Flink and Natalie Fenn both fell just shy of the NCAA provisional qualifying time of 11:13.00.  Flink finished 16^th in a time of 11:13.88, while Fenn was right behind her in 17^th place with a mark of 11:14.13.  Theresa Ford finished ninth in the high jump (1.55 meters), Calley Edwards claimed 20^th in the 1,500-meter run (4:48.33), and Melanie Frank took 22^nd in the 800-meter run (2:18.20).

The Eagles also sent a contingent of sprinters across town to compete against mostly Division I competition at the Georgia Tech Invitational.  On the men’s side, senior Alex Greenhouse improved on his provisional qualifying time in the 400-meter hurdles, finishing 18^th with a time of 52.72 seconds, the fourth-fastest mark by a Division III runner this season.  The Emory women’s 4x100-meter relay team of Alicia Adams, Jasmine McCullough, Hadiza Sa-Aadu and Mary Crystal Spence finished 14^th with a time of 48.39 seconds, good for a provisional qualifying mark as well.  In addition, Lauren Attiah claimed 29^th in the triple jump with a distance of 11.61 meters, good for a provisional mark as well.

Spence, a senior, was also just three hundredths of a second short of the provisional qualifying mark in the 100-meter dash, finishing 48^th with a time of 12.33 seconds and just eight hundredths of a second short of the provisional time in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.33 seconds, good for 40^th-place.  She was followed in the 100-meter dash by Sa-Aadu in 61^st place (12.69 seconds) and Adams in 63^rd place (13.05 seconds), while Sa-Aadu finished 45^th (25.86 seconds) and Adams 47^th (26.14 seconds) in the 200-meter dash. 

The Emory women also had competitors in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, as McCullough finished 35^th with a time of 15.28 seconds, and Laura Lambie-Hanson took 38^th with a mark of 15.68 seconds, and in the 400-meter hurdles, as Lambie Hanson finished 33^rd with a time of 1:06.30.

For the men, Greenhouse also finished 62^nd in the 100-meter dash (10.96 seconds), while Everett Bryant finished 45^th (15.34 seconds), Fritz Hain 49^th (15.52 seconds) and Steve Dry 51^st (15.84 seconds) in the 110-meter hurdles.  Hain also competed in the 400-meter hurdles, taking 37^th place with a time of 55.23 seconds.

The Eagles will look to take advantage of their last opportunity to qualify for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships next week, as Emory will head back to Naperville, IL for the Gregory Multi-Events and Invitational at North Central College from May 18^th – 21^st.