The Emory University Track and Field Team won conference championships in six events and claimed an additional nine all-conference honors (awarded for a top-three finish), as both Eagles squads finished third in the team standings at the 2015 University Athletic Association Indoor Track and Field Championships in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday and Sunday.

The Emory men finished the meet with 97 points, finishing 17 behind first-place Washington University (Mo.).  The University of Chicago placed second in the men's standings with 113 points.

On the women's side of the meet, Emory finished with 92 points, taking third behind first-place Chicago 154 points) and second-place Washington (131 points).

Junior Maxwell Hoberman paced the Emory men with a sweep of the horizontal jumps at the meet, claiming the conference title in both the long jump and triple jump.  Hoberman registered a distance of 6.66 meters to win the long jump on Friday, and notched a mark of 14.49 meters in the triple jump (the fifth-best mark in school history) to claim his second individual win of the meet.  Hoberman also scored for the Eagles in the 200-meter dash with a fourth-place finish in a time of 22.92 seconds.

Hoberman became just the fourth Eagle to sweep the horizontal jumps at the indoor UAA meet, joining Troy Thompson (1995, 1996 and 1997), Ian Francis (2012) and Mike Moserowitz (2013).  The UAA Titles were the first of Hoberman's career.

The other two individual championships for the Emory men came from a pair of freshmen.  Benjamin Rogin won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.33 seconds in the finals (the second-fastest time in school history in the event), while Daniel Pietsch came away with a victory in the 400-meter dash with a mark of 49.36 seconds.  Piestch was followed closely in the event by teammate Adam Rabushka, as the junior placed second with a time of 49.66 seconds.

Winning individual UAA Championships for the Emory women were seniors Katie Wilson and Electra Korn.  Wilson claimed her first career UAA Title in the high jump, clearing the bar at a height of 1.63 meters.  Korn added an individual title in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.39 seconds, winning the event for a second-straight year.  Korn added all-UAA honors with a second-place finish in the 200-meter dash (25.74 seconds) and a third-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles.

Other individual all-UAA finishers for the Emory included freshman Caitlin Cheeseboro in the 60-meter hurdles (second-place, 9.11 seconds), senior Elaina Kim in the pole vault (second-place, 3.30 meters), freshman Zoe Fowler in the weight throw (third-place, 13.38 meters) and junior Alexandra Aiello in the 60-meter dash (third-place, 7.97 seconds).  The Eagles also claimed third in the women's 4x400-medley relay with a time of 3:59.21 from freshman Erica Goldman, sophomore Alexa Young, junior Julie Williamson and senior Hannah Parra.

The Emory men's distance medley relay team of freshman Jordan Flowers, sophomore Ian McIsaac, freshman Max Brown and sophomore Grant Murphy set a school record in the event with a time of 10:09.62, en route to earning all-UAA honors in the event with a second-place finish.  Flowers added a third-place finish in the mile run with a time of 4:18.92 to earn an individual all-UAA honor, while senior Scott Greathouse finished as the runner-up in the high jump, clearing the bar at a height of 1.91 meters to cap off Emory's list of all-UAA honorees.

Emory will have one final weekend to improve its times for qualification for the 2015 NCAA Division III Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on March 13^th and 14^th.  The Eagles are currently scheduled to attend the Tufts Last Chance Meet in Boston, Massachusetts on March 6^th and the Pointers NCAA Qualifier on March 7^th in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.