Emory University athletes combined for season-best times by an Eagle in nine different events, while in action at the Catamount Classic in Cullowhee, North Carolina this weekend.

Both the Emory men and women placed fifth in the team standings, with the women scoring 41 points, and the men 43.5.  Host Western Carolina University was the winning squad on both the men's and women's sides.

For the women, freshman Erica Goldman recorded a career-best time of 57.82 seconds in the 400-meter dash, the 21^st-best mark by a Division III competitor this season, finishing fifth in the event.  She was also a part of the Eagles' fifth-place 4x100-meter relay team, along with freshmen Caitlin Cheeseboro and Julia Leventhal and sophomore Kellie Harunk, which notched a season-best time of 50.16 seconds.  Adding a season-best throw in the shot put was freshman Kora Dreffs, placing ninth with a toss of 11.35 meters.

On the men's side, freshman Phillip Greenfield placed sixth in the 100-meter dash with a mark of 11.03 seconds, while freshman Daniel Pietsch was 13^th in the 200-meter dash with a career-best time of 22.11 seconds.  In the 800-meter run, senior Kevin Delaney ran a career-best 1:56.31 to finish fifth in the event.

Senior Scott Greathouse claimed third in the high jump, clearing the bar at 1.94 meters, while junior Spencer Koh notched a height of 4.40 meters to finish sixth.  In the long jump, junior Maxwell Hoberman was seventh with a mark of 6.42 meters.

In addition, junior Lukas Mees won the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:36.24, setting a new meet record in the event.

Emory is currently scheduled to split the squad next weekend between a pair of meets, sending athletes to both the Mountain Laurel Invitational in Sewanee, Tennessee on Friday, and the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta on Friday and Saturday.