• Outdoor National Ranking: #10
  • Outdoor Regional Ranking: #1
  • 1 Indoor National Champion
  • 4 Outdoor National Champions
  • 25 Indoor Individual All-Americans
  • 38 Outdoor Individual All-Americans
  • 3 Indoor UAA Team Championships
  • 8 Outdoor UAA Team Championships

2007-08 Women's Indoor Track & Field Season Recap

An infusion of talented young runners into a program with a number of veteran athletes proved to be a successful formula for the Emory University Women's Indoor Track and Field team during the 2007-08 season.

Freshman sprinter Jami Edwards made an immediate impact on the team during her first season.  She finished seventh in the 55-meter dash at the NCAA Division III Championships, becoming the first Emory all-American since the 1998 season.  Edwards was Emory's lone representative at the National Meet, scoring two points for the Eagles, good for a 61st-place finish.

The Eagles finished third out of seven teams at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships, marking the fourth-consecutive year that Emory has finished third or better at the meet.  Emory had two individuals earn UAA Championships, as Edwards finished first in the 55-meter dash in a meet-record time of 7.19 seconds, and Brittany Donino topped all other competitors in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.57 seconds.  Emory's second-place finishers at the meet included Edwards in the 200-meter dash, Rebecca Willett in the 800-meter run, Lauren Shores in the 3,000-meter run, Tracy Whittaker in the pole vault, and Jordan Beall in the long jump.  Junior Melissa Jones added third-place finishes in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs, to give the Eagles a total of nine all-UAA honors.

Edwards set two school records during the season, recording a time of 7.18 seconds in the 55-meter dash at the NCAA Championships, and a time of 7.78 seconds in the 60-meter dash at the Kent State Tune-Up, both provisional qualifying times.  Emory's other record setting performance came from Tracy Whittaker, who cleared a height of 3.40 meters in the pole vault at the Texas Roadhouse Carolina Classic.

Besides the Eagles' third-place finish at the UAA Championship and their 61st-place finish at the NCAA Championships, Emory also recorded a third-place finish at the University of the South Invitational and a sixth-place finish at the Sewanee Tiger Invitational.

The following Eagles earned honors during the 2007-08 season:

All-America

Jami Edwards

Madison, GA (Morgan County)

55-meter dash

University Athletic Association (UAA) Rookie of the Year

Jami Edwards

Madison, GA (Morgan County)

UAA Champion

Brittany Donino

Rye, NY (Harrison)

55-meter hurdles

Jami Edwards

Madison, GA (Morgan County)

55-meter dash

All-UAA (Top-three finisher)

Jami Edwards

Madison, GA (Morgan County)

55-meter dash, 200-meter dash

Melissa Jones

Zionsville, IN (Zionsville Community)

3000-meter run, 5000-meter run

Jordan Beall

Boulder, CO (Leavitt Area)

Long Jump

Brittany Donino

Rye, NY (Harrison)

55-meter hurdles

Lauren Shores

Manchester, MO (Parkway South)

3000-meter run

Tracy Whittaker

Gig Harbor, WA (Gig Harbor)

Pole Vault

Rebecca Willett

Mobile, AL (UMS Wright Preparatory)

800-meter run

The following were the top-marks by Emory athletes during the 2007-08 season:

55m Dash

Jami Edwards

7.18*

NCAA Championships

60m Dash

Jami Edwards

7.78*

Kent State Tune-Up

200m Dash

Jami Edwards

26.08

Captains' Invitational

400m Dash

Alisha Reynolds

1:01.31

UAA Championships

800m Run

Rebecca Willett

2:17.21

UAA Championships

3000m Run

Lauren Shores

10:26.45

UAA Championships

5000m Run

Lauren Shores

17:50.54

Clemson Tiger Invitational

Mile Run

Lauren Shores

5:09.11

Kent State Tune-Up

55m Hurdles

Brittany Donino

8.57

UAA Championships

60m Hurdles

Brittany Donino

9.32

Clemson Tiger Invitational

High Jump

Katie Sheehan

1.47m

Univ. of the South Invitational

Pole Vault

Tracy Whittaker

3.40m*

Carolina Classic

Long Jump

Jordan Beall

5.18m

Sewanee Tiger Invitational

Triple Jump

Tracy Whittaker

10.65m

UAA Championships

Shot Put

Kara Cutrona

11.43m

UAA Championships

Pentathlon

Katie Sheehan

2575 pts

Captains' Invitational

4x400m Relay

Reynolds, Willett, Etienne, Sheehan

4:10.14

UAA Championships

Distance Medley Relay

Reynolds, Jones, Waryck, Shores

12:37.50

Captains' Invitational

*Denotes school record