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Emory Men Finish Fourth at UAA Track & Field Championships

Emory Men Finish Fourth at UAA Track & Field Championships

Led by individual conference title winners in freshman Adam Rabushka and junior Mike Moserowitz, the Emory University Men's Track and Field team finished fourth at the 2013 University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Championship at Icahn Stadium in New York, NY.

The Eagles finished the meet with 112 points, including 94 during the final day of competition on Sunday, propelling themselves from sixth-place to fourth place.  Washington University won the meet with 191 points, while Carnegie Mellon followed with 177, and Chicago finished third with 122.  Trailing Emory in the standings were Case Western Reserve (97), New York University (65) and Brandeis (48).

Rabushka claimed the UAA Championship in the 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 54.77 seconds.  Earlier in the meet, he also scored in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing in fourth-place with a time of 15.74 seconds.

Moserowitz took home the conference title in the triple jump, winning with a leap of 13.80 meters, marking the first outdoor UAA Championship of his career.  He added an all-UAA honor as part of the Eagles' second-place 4x100-meter relay team, along with junior Samuel Jean-Baptiste, freshman Spencer Koh, and freshman Paul Nguyen, which recorded a time of 43.61 seconds.

Rabushka and Moserowitz were also part of Emory's fifth-place 4x400-meter relay team, along with senior Isaac Chambers and freshman Maxwell Hoberman, which finished with a time of 3:25.07.

Five other Eagles had all-UAA finishes during the final day of competition at the conference championships.  Senior Stephen Ellwood claimed second-place in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:57.38.  In the 100-meter hurdles, sophomore Ankush Mohile picked up a second-place finish with a time of 15.68 seconds.  Emory also had second-place finishes from junior Brandon Bassell in the high jump (1.93 meters) and sophomore James Bassen in the javelin throw (56.02 meters).  Rounding out Emory's all-UAA performers was Hoberman, who finished third in the 400-meter dash (50.01 seconds).

Other scorers on the final day for the Emory men included Chambers in the 400-meter dash (fourth place, 50.50 seconds), Mohile (seventh place, 1:00.56) and junior Nick Cortellessa (eighth place, 1:02.60) in the 400-meter hurdles, freshman Jacob Seigel (fifth place, 42.91 meters) and Bassen (seventh place, 41.60 meters) in the discus throw, Koh in the javelin throw (fifth place, 49.99 meters) and Hoberman in the triple jump (eighth place, 12.53 meters).

All together, Emory finished the two-day meet with the pair of UAA Championships, nine all-UAA honors, and 22 scoring performances.

Emory will return to action next weekend, competing at the Bob Pollack Invitational at Clemson University on Saturday, May 4th.