The 2010 season was a banner year for the Emory University
women’s outdoor track and field team, which won its fifth
University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Championship, and the
program’s first since the 1997 season.
The Eagles edged the University of Chicago by two points in a
thrilling finish to the UAA Championship meet. Emory and
Chicago entered the final race of the meet, the 4x400-meter relay,
tied with 191.50 points apiece. With the conference
championship on the line, the Eagles’ relay team of
Hadiza Sa-Aadu, Brittany Donino,
Melanie Levy and Alix Dyer
recorded a season-best time of 4:01.50 to best Chicago’s
representatives by just under two seconds and take home the UAA
crown.
For her efforts during the UAA Championships, Donino was named the
conference’s Most Outstanding Performer in running events,
after winning the 100-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles and
4x100-meter relay. Emory’s coaches, lead by head coach
John Curtin, also earned recognition as the UAA’s Coaching
Staff of the Year. All together, six different Eagles won a
total of seven individual events and two relays during the meet,
while garnering 23 all-UAA certificates.
Donino would also go on to earn all-America honors for the first
time during her outdoor track and field career, finishing eighth in
the finals of the 100-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division III
Championships with a career-best time of 14.32
seconds. Donino scored the Eagles' lone point during the
meet, helping Emory to a 66th-place finish.
A pair of Eagles recorded school records during the season.
Emory sophomore Alix Dyer set a school record with
a time of 56.75 seconds in the 400-meter dash at the Ole Miss
Invitational. In the triple jump, sophomore Lauren
Attiah’s distance of 11.86 meters at the UAA
Championships was also a school record, breaking her own previous
record mark of 11.82 meters, set in 2009.
Other highlights from the season include two high finishes at the
Eagles’ own meets, including a third-place finish out of 12
teams at the Emory Invitational, and a first-place finish out of 16
teams at the Emory Classic a week later.
The following Eagles earned honors during the 2010 outdoor
season:
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All-America |
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Brittany Donino |
Rye, NY (Harrison) |
100m Hurdles |
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NCAA Championship Participants |
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Brittany Donino |
Rye, NY (Harrison) |
100m Hurdles, 400m Relay |
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Mary Crystal Spence |
Cranston, RI (Providence Country Day) |
100m Dash, 400m Relay |
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Lauren Attiah |
Desoto, TX (Canterbury Episcopal School) |
Triple Jump |
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Alix Dyer |
Bethesda, MD (Lycee Rochambeau) |
400m Relay |
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Hadiza Sa-Aadu |
Coralville, IA (Iowa City West) |
400m Relay |
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University Athletic Association (UAA) Most Outstanding Performer (Running Events) |
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Brittany Donino |
Rye, NY (Harrison) |
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UAA Coaching Staff of the Year |
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John Curtin |
Head Coach |
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Carl Leivers |
Assistant Coach |
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Kevin Semanick |
Assistant Coach |
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Ross Smithey |
Assistant Coach |
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Pedro Vasquez |
Assistant Coach |
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UAA Champion |
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Brittany Donino |
Rye, NY (Harrison) |
100m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles, 400m Relay, 1600m Relay |
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Alix Dyer |
Bethesda, MD (Lycee Rochambeau) |
400m Dash, 400m Relay, 1600m Relay |
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Mary Crystal Spence |
Cranston, RI (Providence Country Day) |
100m Dash, 200m Dash, 400m Relay |
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Rebecca Flink |
Loudonville, NY (Shaker) |
5000m Run, 3000m Steeplechase |
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Hadiza Sa-Aadu |
Coralville, IA (Iowa City West) |
400m Relay, 1600m Relay |
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Melanie Levy |
Plainview, NY (Plainview JFK) |
1600m Relay |
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All-UAA (Top-Three Finisher at UAA Championships) |
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Brittany Donino |
Rye, NY (Harrison) |
100m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles, 400m Relay, 1600m Relay |
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Alix Dyer |
Bethesda, MD (Lycee Rochambeau) |
200m Dash, 400m Dash, 400m Relay, 1600m Relay |
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Hadiza Sa-Aadu |
Coralville, IA (Iowa City West) |
100m Dash, 200m Dash, 400m Relay, 1600m Relay |
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Mary Crystal Spence |
Cranston, RI (Providence Country Day) |
100m Dash, 200m Dash, 400m Relay |
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Lauren Attiah |
Desoto, TX (Canterbury Episcopal School) |
Long Jump, Triple Jump |
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Rebecca Flink |
Loudonville, NY (Shaker) |
5000m Run, 3000m Steeplechase |
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Natalie Fenn |
Evanston, IL (Evanston Township) |
3000m Steeplechase |
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Theresa Ford |
Minneapolis, MN (The Blake School) |
Javelin |
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Melanie Levy |
Plainview, NY (Plainview JFK) |
1600m Relay |
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Jasmine McCullough |
Montclair, NJ (Montclair) |
100m Hurdles |
The following were the top marks by Emory athletes during the 2010
outdoor season:
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100m Dash |
Mary Crystal Spence |
12.13 *B |
Gregory Invitational |
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200m Dash |
Mary Crystal Spence |
25.16 *B |
UAA Championships |
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400m Dash |
Alix Dyer |
56.75 *E, B |
Ole Miss Invitational |
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800m Run |
Melanie Frank |
2:17.36 |
Gregory Invitational |
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1500m Run |
Calley Edwards |
4:47.59 |
Gregory Invitational |
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5000m Run |
Rebecca Flink |
17:45.61 |
UAA Championships |
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10000m Run |
Jennifer Feinberg |
41:29.58 |
UAA Championships |
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100m Hurdles |
Brittany Donino |
14.32 *B |
NCAA DIII Championships |
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400m Hurdles |
Brittany Donino |
1:04.11 *B |
UAA Championships |
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3000m Steeplechase |
Rebecca Flink |
11:10.39 *B |
UAA Championships |
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High Jump |
Theresa Ford |
1.60m |
Gem of the Hills Invitational |
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Pole Vault |
Charlotte Diggs |
2.55m |
UAA Championships |
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Long Jump |
Lauren Attiah |
5.61m *B |
Ole Miss Invitational |
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Triple Jump |
Lauren Attiah |
11.86m *E, B |
UAA Championships |
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Shot Put |
Kara Cutrona |
11.13m |
UAA Championships |
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Discus |
Theresa Ford |
37.37m |
UAA Championships |
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Hammer |
Leah Lomotey-Nakon |
38.12m |
UAA Championships |
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Javelin |
Theresa Ford |
33.45m |
Emory Classic |
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400m Relay |
Donino, Dyer Sa-Aadu, Spence |
47.52 |
Ole Miss Invitational |
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1600m Relay |
Sa-Aadu, Donino, Levy, Dyer |
4:01.50 |
UAA Championships |
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3200m Relay |
Cardy, Edwards, Frank, Jeppsson |
9:36.49 |
UAA Championships |
*U – Indicates UAA Record
*B – Indicates NCAA DIII Provisional Qualifying Mark
*E – Indicates Emory Program Record