Just two weeks away from the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and
Field Championships, Emory University continued to turn in a number
of impressive times during a pair of weekend meets – the Dr.
Keeler Invitational in Naperville, IL and the Clemson Final
Qualifier in Clemson, SC.
At the Dr. Keeler Invitational, junior Tess
Gallegos opened competition for Emory on Thursday with a
time of 18:45.36 in the 5,000-meter run, finishing
26th. On Friday, sophomore Melanie
Frank set a career-best mark in the 1,500-meter run with a
time of 4:42.97, finishing 19th overall. In the
3,000-meter steeplechase, senior Natalie Fenn
claimed 15th-place with a time of 11:11.43, while junior
Sara Gelb finished 23rd with a mark of
11:30.03.
Meanwhile, on the first day of competition at the Clemson Final
Qualifier on Friday, the Emory men had two near misses of NCAA
provisional qualifying times. In the 110-meter hurdles,
senior Everett Bryant ran a time of 14.94 seconds,
just four hundredths of a second above the provisional time,
finishing 20th in the event. Bryant added a time
of 11.55 seconds in the 100-meter dash, claiming 31st
place.
Senior Jason Campbell set a new career record in
the 800-meter run with a time of 1:53.07, .37 seconds slower than
the provisional mark and good for a 15th-place finish at
the meet. Freshman Mike Moserowitz added a
leap of 6.50 meters to finish 18th in the long jump,
capping off the men’s first-day performances.
For the women on the first day, junior Jasmine
McCullough recorded an NCAA automatic qualifying time in
the 100-meter hurdles for the second-straight meet, running a time
of 14.52 seconds and finishing 21st. Freshman
Morgan Monroe took 27th in the event
with a time of 15.49 seconds.
The Eagles were also represented in the women’s 100-meter
dash, where junior Alix Dyer finished
23rd with a time of 12.43 seconds, McCullough finished
24th with a time of 12.56 seconds, and Monroe claimed
26th with a time of 12.69 seconds.
The Emory women added a pair of provisional qualifying marks on the
second day at Clemson as well. Junior Lauren
Attiah reached 11.58 meters in the triple jump, good for a
provisional mark and a 10th-place finish. She was
also part of the Eagles’ 4x100-meter relay team, joining
McCullough, senior Alycia Adams, and Dyer for a
sixth-place finish in a provisional time of 48.25
seconds.
In the women’s 200-meter dash, Dyer finished 22nd
with a time of 25.74 seconds, while Adams took 25th in a
mark of 25.98 seconds. In the 400-meter dash, senior
Alicia Reynolds led all Eagles with a time of
59.69 seconds, placing 23rd, while sophomore
Kaele Leonard finished right behind her in
24th-place with a time of 1:01.14. Reynolds,
Adams, Leonard and Dyer also comprised Emory’s third-place
4x400-meter relay team, which recorded a time of 4:00.44.
Rounding out the meet for the women, junior Charlotte
Diggs placed 12th in the 400-meter hurdles with
a time of 1:05.38, while junior Laura
Lambie-Hanson was 13th with a mark of
1:06.10.
For the men, the Eagles’ 4x400-meter relay team of sophomore
Isaac Chambers, junior Ian
Francis, Moserowitz and Campbell claimed fourth with a
time of 3:21.38. Chambers also placed 16th in the
400-meter dash in a time of 50.22 seconds. In the triple
jump, Francis finished seventh (14.04 meters), junior
Xavier Fowler claimed ninth (13.85 meters) and
Moserowitz took 12th (13.08 meters).
Next up for the Eagles will be the Gregory Invitational in
Naperville, IL from May 19th – 20th,
the team’s final scheduled meet of the season before the NCAA
Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May
26th and 27th.