In the team's first meet of the 2009-10 indoor track and field season, a number of Emory University Eagles turned in solid performances at the Roaring Tiger Invitational, while facing mostly Division I competition.

The Emory men recorded four top-10 finishes in the track events and four in the field events during the meet.  The Eagles' strongest showing came in the 300-meter dash, where senior Alex Greenhouse finished third with a time of 35.45, and senior Tyler Faits followed right behind with a fourth-place finish in a time of 36.10.  In the 500-meter dash, freshman Isaac Chambers finished eighth with a mark of 1:08.54.  The Eagles' 4x400-meter relay team of senior Chike Brennen, Chambers, Greenhouse and Faits recorded a time of 3:27.02, good for a third-place finish.

In the field, freshman jumper Nelson Nwannunu recorded a fifth-place finish in the long jump with a distance of 6.81 meters, .11 meters shy of the provisional mark, while sophomore Ian Francis finished ninth with a distance of 6.32 meters.  In the throws, junior Thomas Bright claimed sixth in the weight throw with a mark of 11.30 meters, and junior Brad Pruente took eighth in the shot put with a distance of 11.35 meters.

On the women's side, three individuals and one relay team turned in top-10 finishes for the Eagles.  Emory junior Alisha Reynolds finished seventh in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:19.63, while the Eagles' 4x400-meter relay team of sophomore Alix Dyer, Reynolds, junior Melanie Levy and sophomore Hadiza Sa-Aadu finished fourth in a mark of 4:02.36.  In the field events, senior Leah Lomotey-Nakon finished sixth in the weight throw with a career-best distance of 13.13 meters, while sophomore Lauren Attiah finished seventh in the long jump with a distance of 5.31 meters.

In addition, Dyer finished just six-hundredths of a second shy of an NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 60-meter dash, setting a mark of 7.91 seconds, matching the sixth-fastest time in the program's history.

Following Friday's meet, the Eagles will not return to action until after the start of the New Year, as Emory will head to the Appalachian Open on January 15^th.