Junior Debora Adjibaba broke her own school record in the 60-meter dash twice on Friday, to pace the Emory University Track and Field team to a successful opening meet of its 2013-14 season at the Panther Indoor Icebreaker in Birmingham, Alabama.

Adjibaba recorded a time of 7.70 seconds in the preliminaries of the 60-meter dash, and bested that mark with a time of 7.69 seconds in the finals of the event to finish in fifth place, despite being the only non-Division I runner in the heat.  The times surpassed her own school record of 7.71 seconds, set during last year's NCAA Indoor Championships.

Adjibaba was also Emory's top finisher in the 200-meter dash, claiming 23^rd with a time of 25.81 seconds, the fourth-fastest mark in school history. 

Making her Emory debut, junior Josephine Akinwumiju led the Eagles in a pair of throwing events, finishing 18^th in the shot put with a toss of 10.72 meters, and 19^th in the weight throw with a distance of 11.05 meters.  Other top finishers for the Emory women at the meet included junior Pollara Cobb in the triple jump (13^th place, 10.36 meters), junior Elaina Kim in the pole vault (11^th place, 3.10 meters) and the long jump (26^th place, 4.57 meters), senior Morgan Monroe in the 60-meter hurdles (seventh-place in the preliminaries, 9.25 seconds), junior Electra Korn in the 400-meter dash (10^th place, 59.75 seconds), sophomore Julie Williamson in the 800-meter dash (11^th-place, 2:23.87), junior Margaret Gregg in the 3,000-meter run (20^th place, 11:27.95), and juniors Carolyn Barnett and Katie Wilson in the high jump (1.50 meters, tied for 12^th place).

For the men, Maxwell Hoberman led the Eagles in a pair of events.  The sophomore finished seventh in the triple jump with a distance of 13.96 meters, eclipsing the longest indoor mark of his career by over a tenth of a meter, and claimed 10^th in the 400-meter dash with an indoor career-best time of 50.32 seconds. 

Emory also had a pair of solid finishes in the 60-meter hurdles, with sophomore Adam Rabushka registering a career-best time of 8.87 seconds to finish seventh in his heat, while junior Ankush Mohile claimed sixth in his heat with a mark of 8.90 seconds. 

In the long jump, senior Mike Moserowitz led all Eagles with a leap of 6.21 meters to finish ninth overall, while freshman Craig Shytle was close behind, finishing 10^th with a distance of 6.13 meters.  In the 800-meter dash, senior William Matheson topped all Emory finishers with a time of 1:58.04 to claim sixth-place, while freshman Walker Marsh earned a seventh-place finish with a time of 1:58.90.

Sophomore Taylor Jarl was the Eagles' top finisher in both throwing events with a 13^th-place finish in the shot put (12.04 meters) and a 15^th-place finish in the weight throw (11.80 meters).  Other top finishers for the Emory men included freshman Dennis Kamara in the 60-meter dash (7.19 seconds, ninth-place in the preliminaries) and the 200-meter dash (23.36 seconds, 27^th-place), senior Brandon Bassell in the high jump (1.80 meters, 10^th place), and junior Louis Mennel and sophomore Young Jin Kim in the pole vault (3.70 meters, tied for ninth-place).  Emory also placed 13^th in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:37.07.

There was no team scoring for the meet on Friday.

Emory will be off for the remainder of the calendar year, resuming its indoor season on Friday, January 17^th at the Niswonger Invitational, hosted by East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN.