(Sept. 29) The Emory University women's track and field team has been recognized as an All-Academic Team by the U.S. Track Coaches Association (USTCA) for both the indoor and outdoor seasons. In addition, five Emory track-athletes were cited as All-Academic Individuals for the outdoor season.

Emory is one of six schools in NCAA Division III to receive All-Academic Team honors for both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Emory is the only school to receive honors for both seasons and to be listed among the 25 best national universities according to the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings.

The women's team had a cumulative grade point average of 3.48 in the indoor season and 3.40 for the outdoor season (on a 4.0 scale).

The All-Academic Individuals for the Eagles are Angela Davie, Meghan Callier, Janina Kreider, Christine Shin and Emily Watts. This is the second All-Academic honor for Davie.

To qualify, individuals must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.25, completed at least two semesters, and participated in the NCAA national track and field championships.

Teams are eligible for the honor if they have at least a 3.10 cumulative GPA with at least 14 competitors on the squad.

(June 3) Emory University's Angela Davie and Emily Watts have been named to the Academic All-District first team for women's cross country and track and field. Their names will be placed on the national ballot for the Academic All-America team to be announced later this summer.

This is the second consecutive year Davie has made the Academic All-District first team. Davie, a junior, had a 3.79 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as a business administration major. In cross country last season, Davie earned all-region and all-state honors for the third time in as many years. She is a 2002 cross country All-American.

Watts, a junior, had a 3.90 GPA while majoring in mathematics and political science. This season, she was the conference indoor track champion for the 55-meter dash and the conference outdoor track champion in the 100-meter dash.

Davie and Watts are two of the 10 athletes honored from their district. Emory is the only school with two representatives on the all-district team.

Voting for the all-district team is done by members of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) in the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

(May 29) Emory University had two entrants at the NCAA national outdoor championships.

Freshman Meghan Callier finished 14th in the 400-meter dash. She finishes the season with the top six times in school history in the event.

Callier teamed up with Janina Kreider, Christine Shin and Jane Ukandu on the Emory 4x400 relay that placed 12th. Their time of three minutes and 55.03 seconds was the second best in Emory history, behind their own record set earlier this season. The entire quartet, composed of three freshmen and one sophomore, returns next season.

(April 26) Emory University finished second at the University Athletic Association championships tying a school record with 15 all-conference performances.

Freshman Jane Ukandu earned all-conference honors in four events. She is the fourth Emory athlete and the first Emory freshman to ever garner all-UAA honors in four or more events at the outdoor championships. Ukandu won the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.61 seconds. The time is the fourth-best mark in Emory history. It is also the best time ever in the 200-meter dash by an Emory runner at the UAA championships.

Freshman Meghan Callier broke the school record in the 400-meter dash and sophomore Janina Kreider recorded the second-best mark in school history in that same event. The pair finished third and fourth respectively with times of 57.70 and 57.90 seconds.

Junior Angela Davie broke a 14-year-old school record in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:41.08. She finished second, qualifying provisionally for the NCAA Division III national championships.

Junior Emily Watts won the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.39 seconds. Ukandu finished one-hundredth of a second behind Watts. Watts' 100-meter time is the fourth best in school history and Ukandu's is fifth best.

Freshman Katie Anding finished second in the pole vault with a mark of 3.05 meters. The mark is the second best in Emory history.

The 4X100-meter relay team of Callier, Christine Shin, Ukandu and Watts set a school record with a time of 49.03 seconds while finishing second. The mark was a provisional qualifying time for NCAA national championships.

The 4X400-meter relay team of Callier, Kreider, Shin and Ukandu finished second with a time of 3:58.36. The time is the second-best mark in school history and 0.36 seconds away from provisionally qualifying for the NCAA national championships.

The Eagles also won "Coaching Staff of the Year" honors.

(April 19) Emory University finished eighth out of 15 schools competing against a field of athletes from NCAA Division I universities and athletes training for the 2004 Olympics.

Freshman Caroline Hagedorn finished second out of 23 mostly NCAA Division I runners in the 5000-meter run. Her time of 18 minutes and 0.39 seconds is a career best by almost 24 seconds. The time makes her the fifth-best individual in school history and the second best among freshmen.

Senior Kate Bowman finished second out of seven competitors with a time of 11:27.38 in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Her time is 4.38 seconds away from provisionally qualifying for NCAA Division III national championships.

(April 12) Several Emory athletes came close to reaching school records in their respective events competing against athletes from Division I universities at the UNC-Charlotte Invitational.

The team of Janina Kreider, Christine Shin, Jane Ukandu and Meghan Callier came within one second of a school record in the 4X400-meter relay, finishing fourth out of six teams with a time of three minutes and 58.80 seconds. The mark is the second-best time in Emory history, just shy of the school-record of 3:57.91. It is also less than a second shy of 3:58.00 mark needed to provisionally qualify for the NCAA outdoor championships.

Junior Dorothy Boone and freshman Caroline Hagedorn finished second and third, respectively, out of a group of 26 runners in the 3,000-meter run. Boone's time of 10:24.31 is the third best mark in Emory history, and Hagedorn's time of 10:26.22 is the fourth-best time.

Freshman Kirsten Pfeiffer finished sixth out of 20 athletes in the 400-meter hurdles. Her time of 1:05.86 is the third-best mark in school history.

(April 6) Emory University finished third out of 14 teams at the Sewanee Relays.

Freshman Katie Anding set a school record in the pole vault finishing first out of eight competitors. Her jump of 3.20 meters (10 feet, 6 inches) is the second-best vault in the South region this season, according to Southregionrunning.com. She also finished fourth out of 15 runners in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.58 seconds.

Emory's 3200-meter relay team won the event with a time of 9 minutes and 49.83 seconds. The time is the third-best mark in school history.

Junior Esther Choi finished second out of 14 competitors in the long jump with a jump of jump of 5.03 meters (16'6").

Freshman Kirsten Pfeiffer finished second out of 11 competitors in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:07.23.

(March 27) Emory University finished third out of 25 teams at the Emory Classic.

Two Eagle runners won their events. Amy DiBianca finished first out of 48 runners in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4 minutes and 50.63 seconds. That time is the eighth best individual performance in outdoor school history and a career best for DiBianca.

Caroline Hagedorn won the 5000-meter run, beating 34 runners with a time of 18:24.23. That time is the sixth best individual performance in outdoor school history and the third best ever by a freshman. Teammate Dorothy Boone finished a close second in the event with a time of 18:24.82.

Other top five performers for Emory included Meghan Callier, who finished third in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.75 and Emily Hoyt who finished fifth in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 41:43.61.

In field events, Esther Choi finished fifth in the long jump with a jump of 4.92 meters (16 feet, 1.75 inches), Janina Kreider finished fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 9.98 meters (32' 9"), and Kelly McWilliams finished fifth in the javelin throw with a throw of 32.74 meters (107' 5"). This throw is the fifth best individual performance in school history.

In relays, the 4 x 400-meter relay team finished third with a time of 4:01.84 and the 4 x 100-meter relay finished fifth with a time of 49.40 seconds.

(March 22) In the first outdoor meet of the season, several Emory runners finished in the top three in their events at the Clemson Relays. The Eagles were competing against athletes from NCAA Division I universities.

Sophomore Rebecca Ely won her heat and placed second in a field of nine racers in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.28 seconds. She won the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:15.37.

The 4X200 meter relay team broke a ten-year-old school record in the event with a time of 1:47.30. The team of Emily Watts, Christine Shin, Janina Kreider, and Meghan Callier finished fourth in a field of seven teams.

Ashley DeMarco finished second out of five competitors in the high jump with a mark of five feet, one inch.

In her first outdoor competition for Emory, freshman Caroline Hagedorn finished third in a field seven competitors in the 5000 meter run with a time of 19:39.89.

(March 6) Emory University finished fourth at the University Athletic Association indoor championships.

Seven Emory athletes earned all-conference honors by finishing in the top three in their events.

Junior Emily Watts won the 55-meter dash. It was the seventh time in the UAA's 17-year history that an Eagle won the event.

Junior Dorothy Boone finished third in both the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs. She becomes the fourth Eagle ever to attain all-conference honors in both events in the same year. [The others are Karen Hourigan in 1989, Lochen Treadwell in 1993, Sarah Byrd in 2001, and Angela Davie in 2003.]

Other all-conference performers are Katie Anding, third in the pole vault; Amy DiBianca, third in the 1,500m run; Rebecca Ely, third in the 55m hurdles; Jane Ukandu, third in 55m dash; and Ashley DeMarco, third in the high jump.

(Feb. 28) Emory runners won the distance medley relay at the Clemson Invitational, competing against athletes from NCAA Division I universities.

The team of Meghan Callier, Angela Davie, Amy DiBianca, and Julia Morton, won the distance medley with a time of 12 minutes and 29.80 seconds, setting a school record in the event. The mark beat the previous school record of 12 minutes and 35.14 seconds, which was set earlier this season. It is the fastest time in the South region this season by 45 seconds, according to Southregionrunning.com. The time is 10 seconds away from provisionally qualifying for the NCAA indoor championships.

Junior Dorothy Boone finished third out of 12 competitors in the 3000-meter run. Her time of 12:29.70 is the fastest in the South region this season. Freshman Caroline Hagedorn finished sixth in the event with a time of 10:44.76. Her time is the third best in the South region.

As a result, Emory now has the top three times in the 3000-meter run in the South region this season. Between Boone and Hagedorn is freshman Amy DiBianca who is second with a time of 10:44.45, which she ran at the East Tennessee State Invitational earlier this season.

(Feb. 23) A pair of Emory runners earned Emory's best times of the season in their respective events at the Tennessee Indoor Classic last weekend. Emory's competition included athletes from NCAA Division I universities.

Janina Kreider finished fourth in a field of 27 runners in the 400-meter dash. Her time of 61.17 seconds is the third-best time in the event in school history. It is the sixth fastest time in the South region this season according to southregionrunning.com.

Emily Watts ran the fastest 55-meter dash of the season with a time of 7.51 seconds. During her Emory career her personal best time in the event is 7.49 seconds.

(Feb. 16) Seven Emory athletes finished in the top three in their events as Emory finished third out of seven teams at Sewanee's Tiger Indoor Invitational. Emory finished with 91 points, five points behind the second-place school.

Meghan Callier won the 400-meter dash, finishing first out of 16 runners. Her time of 61.65 seconds is the fourth best in the South region, according to Southregionrunning.com. It is also less than two tenths of a second away from being among the best three times in school history in the event.

The team of Callier, Janina Kreider, Christine Shin, and Kelly McWilliams won the 1600-meter relay. The team finished first out of six teams with a time of 4 minutes and 11.27 seconds. The time is just two tenths of a second away from the third best in indoor school history.

Shin finished third out of 13 competitors in the long jump and Kreider finished third out of nine competitors in the triple jump.

(Feb. 9) Several Emory University runners finished in the top four in their events, competing against runners from Divisions I, II, III schools at the Christopher Newport Invitational. Emory's distance medley relay team won its event, setting a new school record.

The team of Amy DiBianca, Kirsten Pfeiffer, Julia Morton, and Angela Davie won the distance medley relay with a time of 12 minutes and 35.14 seconds. The mark set a new school record in the indoor distance medley relay, beating the previous school record by 10 seconds. It is the fastest time in the South region this season, according to Southregionrunning.com, and is just 15 seconds away from provisionally qualifying for the NCAA indoor championships.

Morton finished second out of 13 runners in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:25.19. She has won the event in two of three meets this season.

Caroline Hagedorn won the 5000-meter run in of a field of six runners. Dorothy Boone finished third in the event.

Angela Davie and Amy DiBianca finished third and fourth, respectively, in a field of 17 runners in the mile run.

Junior Emily Watts finished second among Division III competitors in the 60-meter dash with a career-best time of 8.13 seconds.

(Feb. 1) Emory University beat the University of the South, 81-20, in a dual meet.

Freshman Christine Shin finished first in the long jump. Her jump of 17 feet even (5.20 meters) is the second best in the South region this season. Her jump is the best indoor long jump for the Eagles since 1998 and the best by an Emory freshman in 10 years. She came within 0.20 meters of reaching the provisional qualifying mark for the NCAA championship meet.

Freshman Jane Ukundu won the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.54 seconds, Ukundu finished 0.21 seconds short of the NCAA provisional qualifying time. She also finished less than one-tenth of a second behind Emily Watts' 2003 top time for Emory.

Freshman Julia Morton won the 800-meter run for the second straight week. She finished with a time of 2:28.08.

(Jan. 26) Four Emory runners finished in the top six in their respective races at the East Tennessee Invitational last week.

Freshman Julia Morton won the 800-meter run at Emory's first indoor track meet of the season. She finished first in a field of 17 runners with a time of two minutes and 24.13 seconds.

Junior Dorothy Boone finished in fourth out of 33 runners in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 18:40.24. Freshman Caroline Hagedorn placed fifth in the same race finishing one-tenth of a second behind Boone.

Freshman Amy DiBianca placed sixth out of 32 runners in the 3,000-meter run.