• Outdoor National Ranking: #18
  • Outdoor Regional Ranking: #1
  • Two Outdoor National Champions
  • 10 Indoor Individual All-Americans
  • 18 Outdoor Individual All-Americans
  • 7 Indoor UAA Team Championships
  • 5 Outdoor UAA Team Championships

Ian Francis

Ian Francis

Emory University senior Ian Francis recorded a pair of first-place finishes during the Emory Invitational last weekend.  Francis won the long jump with a leap of 7.03 meters, the fifth-best mark by a Division III athlete this season.  He also won the triple jump with a distance of 14.09 meters, sixth-best in the nation thus far.  Francis turned in a number of strong performances in the running events as well, finishing sixth in the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.49 seconds, eighth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.78 seconds, and ninth as part of Emory’s 4x100-meter relay with a time of 45.90 seconds.  Francis accounted for 21 of Emory’s 93.5 points during the meet, helping the squad to a fourth-place finish.