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Emory University seniors Rebecca Flink and Greg Decker each came away with the first outdoor conference championships of their career, helping the Eagles to a strong start during the first day of competition at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

Flink’s title came in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, where she recorded a time of 11:10.39, good for an NCAA provisional qualifying mark.  The time was not only a personal-record for Flink, but also the seventh-fastest time in the program’s history.

Meanwhile, Decker became the second Eagle this season to break the school’s 10,000-meter run record, finishing first in the event with a time of 31:00.35, just under six seconds better than teammate Paul Winterhalter’s record time set earlier in the season.  The time was also good for a provisional qualifying mark, the second of the season for Decker, who has also provisionally qualified for the 5,000-meter run.

The Emory men finished the first day in third place, while the women will head into the second day in fourth place.


Emory’s Natalie Fenn joined Flink near the top of the podium in the 10,000-meter run, finishing second in the event with a time of 11:22.48, to earn all-UAA honors.

Also scoring on the first day for Emory was Leah Lomotey-Nakon, who finished sixth in the hammer throw with a distance of 38.12 meters. 

The Emory women set themselves up for a strong day on Sunday, as a number of Eagles qualified for the finals of the sprint, mid-distance and hurdle events.  Emory placed four of the top-five qualifiers in the finals of the 200-meter dash, as senior Mary Crystal Spence won the preliminaries with a time of 25.62 seconds, followed by Alix Dyer in second, Hadiza Sa-Aadu in fourth, and Alicia Adams in fifth.

In the 100-meter dash preliminaries, Spence advanced to the finals with a second-place finish, while Sa-Aadu and Lauren Attiah finished third and sixth, respectively, to advance as well.  Dyer won the preliminaries of the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.89 seconds, and will be joined in the finals by Adams (third) and Melanie Levy (sixth).

Senior Brittany Donino finished first in the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles, with a provisional qualifying time of 14.86 seconds.  Joining her in the finals of the event will be Jasmine McCullough, who finished third in the preliminaries, and Laura Lambie-Hanson, who finished sixth.  Sabrina Jeppsson also advanced to the finals of the 800-meter dash, qualifying with an eighth-place finish in the preliminaries.

For the men, junior Brad Pruente joined Decker as day one all-UAA honorees, finishing third in the long jump with a distance of 6.66 meters, as did senior Ed Robson, who finished second in the javelin throw with a distance of 51.53 meters.  Freshman Anthony Lombardo rounded out Emory’s day one all-UAA performers with a third-place finish in the pole vault (4.40 meters). 

Other scorers for the Emory men on day one included Winterhalter in the 10,000-meter run (fifth), Pat Lanter in the long jump (fifth), Robson (fifth) and Ben Euwer (sixth) in the shot put, Tommy Fyffe in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (fourth), Pruente (sixth) and Don Wang (eighth) in the javelin throw, and Euwer in the hammer throw (seventh).

Meanwhile, senior Alex Greenhouse was the top qualifier for two events after Saturday’s preliminaries, finishing first in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.82 seconds, and in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 53.24 seconds.  Senior Fritz Hain (fifth) and freshman Taylor Warren (eighth) will join Greenhouse in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles.

Emory also qualified three runners apiece in both the 800-meter run finals and the 110-meter hurdle finals on Sunday.  In the 800, senior Alex Robin finished second with a time of 1:56.41, followed by junior Jason Campbell in fifth and sophomore Aaron Gregg in sixth.  In the 110-meter hurdles, junior Everett Bryant finished fourth, followed by Steve Dry in fifth and Fritz Hain in sixth.

Emory freshman Isaac Chambers qualified for the finals of the 400-meter dash with a fifth-place finish in the preliminaries.

Action at the UAA Championships will resume Sunday morning with field events at 9:30 AM, followed by track events at 11:00 AM.  To follow the meet with live results and video (weather permitting), please visit the Championship Website.