The Emory University Track and Field Team combined for first-place finishes in 13 events and 25 top-three finishes on Friday and Saturday, as the Emory women came away with a win in the team standings, and the men finished third, at the 2014 Emory Classic at the Woodruff Physical Education Center.
The women won the meet by collecting 193 points during the two days of competition, besting second-place Alabama-Huntsville by 35 points. Rounding out the top-five women's squads were Columbus State (112 points), Clayton State (76 points) and Oglethorpe (55.5 points). 13 different women's college teams were in action at the meet.
The Emory men finished the meet with 166 points, placing second out of 14 squads in the team standings, trailing only Alabama-Huntsville (181.5 points). Cumberlands (100.5), Clayton State (80 points) and Columbus State (78 points) completed the top-five men's squads in the standings.
Highlighting the action throughout the meet was junior Electra Korn, who won three individual events. For the second-straight meet, Korn won the 400-meter hurdles and bested her personal-best time in the event by over a second. Her mark of 1:02.39 bettered her time from last week by 1.35 seconds, and ranks as the second-fastest in Division III this season. Korn's time was the second-fastest ever recorded by an Eagle, ranking only behind Kahlilah Jennings' time of 1:02.23.
Korn added individual victories on the second day in both the 100-meter dash, with a time of 12.39 seconds, and the 200-meter dash, with a time of 25.45 seconds. Her 100-meter dash time currently ranks in a tie for the sixth-fastest in Division III this year, while her 200-meter dash time is the sixth-fastest mark as well.
Senior Emily Caesar earned an event win in the women's 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:46.31, while senior Morgan Monroe won the finals of the 100-meter hurdles with a mark of 14.77 seconds, and junior Elaina Kim was victorious in the pole vault, clearing the bar at a height of 3.25 meters. In the 800-meter run, junior Debora Adjibaba ran a time of 2:19.45, the 12th-fastest in Division III this season, to top all other competitors on Saturday. Adding a victory on day one was junior Madison Hoeninghausen in the javelin throw with a distance of 33.53 meters, while senior Hope Olszewski claimed second in the event with a toss of 33.36 meters. The Emory women also received a win from the 4x400-meter relay team, which recorded a time of 4:06.88.
Other top finishers for the Emory women included senior Meredith Lorch in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (second, 11:23.77 – the third-fastest D-III mark this season), junior Katie Wilson in the high jump (second, 1.53 meters), junior Pollara Cobb in the long jump (fifth, 4.90 meters) and triple jump (seventh, 10.54 meters), junior Hannah Smith in the 400-meter dash (12th, 1:02.45), junior Josephine Akinwumiju in the shot put (sixth, 10.60 meters) and discus throw (10th, 30.95 meters), and junior Elise Viox in the 5,000-meter run (fifth, 18:53.21).
Junior Gui Silva led the Emory men in a pair of events at the meet, including a win in the 400-meter dash. His time in the event of 48.41 seconds ranks as the third-fastest by a Division III athlete this season. Silva also claimed sixth in the 200-meter dash with a mark of 22.89 seconds.
On the first day of competition for the men, freshman Christian Johnson was the runner-up in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:38.07, the seventh-fastest time by a Division III competitor this season. The Eagles' 4x800-meter relay team of junior Patrick Crews, freshman Ian McIsaac, junior Kevin Delaney and senior William Matheson won the event with a time of 7:49.78, the fifth-fastest mark in school history. Adding a first-place finish was junior James Bassen in the javelin throw with a distance of 50.78 meters.
Emory's other event victory came on Saturday from sophomore Adam Rabushka, who won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.44 seconds, tied for eighth among D-III runners this season. Junior Ankush Mohile was the runner-up in the event with a time of 15.69 seconds.
Rabushka in the 400-meter hurdles (56.60 seconds) and senior Brandon Bassell in the high jump (1.81 meters) each registered fourth-place finishes. Other top finishes from the Emory men on Friday came from freshman Austin Hunt in the 10,000-meter run (ninth, 33:29.37), senior Mike Moserowitz (sixth, 6.42 meters) and freshman Kyle Veator (seventh, 6.34 meters) in the long jump and sophomore Taylor Jarl in the hammer throw (fourth, 36.86 meters).
Other top finishers for the Emory men on Saturday included sophomore Jacob Seigel in the discus throw (third, 43.16 meters) and shot put (seventh, 12.15 meters), sophomore Young Jin Kim in the pole vault (second, 3.97 meters), Moserowitz in the triple jump (fourth, 12.73 meters), senior Alex Fleischhacker in the 1,500-meter run (fourth, 4:00.79), freshman Dennis Kamara in the 100-meter dash (fifth, 11.24 seconds), Delaney in the 800-meter run (third, 1:56.73) and sophomore Andrew Drumm in the 5,000-meter run (17th, 3:30.03).
The Eagles will resume their outdoor schedule next weekend, when the squad is scheduled to participate in a pair of meets on Saturday, April 5th. Emory will split its squad between the VertKlasse Meeting at High Point University in High Point, NC and the Wofford Relays at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.
Eagles Win 13 Events at Emory Track & Field Classic
Posted: Mar 29, 2014