2011-12 Emory Women's Track & Field Athletes of the Week

  • Adjibaba, Attiah & Dyer
    May 29, 2012
    Emory University senior Lauren Attiah, senior Alix Dyer and freshman Debora Adjibaba were each a part of two all-America relays at the 2012 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend.
  • Morgan Monroe
    May 21, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University sophomore Morgan Monroe qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships in the 100-meter hurdles with her time in the event at the North Central College Gregory Invitational last week.
  • Alix Dyer
    May 13, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Alix Dyer broke school records in both the 400-meter dash and as the anchor leg of the 4x400-meter relay at the Georgia Tech Invitational last weekend. Dyer ran a 400-meter dash time of 56.34 seconds, passing Kaele Leonard’s previous school record time of 56.54 seconds, set last week.
  • Lauren Attiah
    May 07, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Lauren Attiah recorded season-best marks by an Eagle in two jump events at Saturday’s Bob Pollock Invitational. Attiah’s long jump of 5.71 meters ranks as the second-best in school history and 12th-best among Division III athletes this season, as she finished sixth in the event.
  • Kaele Leonard
    May 07, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University junior Kaele Leonard broke the school record in the 400-meter dash at the Bob Pollock Invitational last Saturday. Leonard ran a time of 56.54 seconds, breaking the previous school record of 56.75 seconds, set by Alix Dyer in 2010.
  • Debora Adjibaba
    April 30, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Debora Adjibaba claimed University Athletic Association (UAA) titles in four events, setting new conference records in three, at the 2012 UAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Pittsburgh, PA last weekend.
  • Morgan Monroe
    April 23, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University sophomore Morgan Monroe recorded the best time by an Eagle in the 100-meter hurdles this season, while competing at the War Eagle Invitational at Auburn University on Saturday.
  • Debora Adjibaba
    April 16, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Debora Adjibaba turned in a pair of performances that rank among the top-10 in Division III this season at last weekend’s Johnson C. Smith Invitational. In the 400-meter dash, Adjibaba finished 11th with a time of 56.90 seconds, the second-fastest in school history and ninth among Division III runners this season.
  • Charlotte Diggs
    April 16, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Charlotte Diggs recorded the third-best Division III time in the 400-meter hurdles this season, while competing at the Johnson C. Smith Invitational last weekend. Diggs’ time of 1:02.54 in the event, good for a fourth-place finish, was also the second-fastest mark in school history.
  • Lauren Attiah
    April 10, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Lauren Attiah was part of two school-record breaking efforts at the Auburn Tiger Classic last weekend. Attiah became the first woman in school history to surpass the 12-meter mark in the triple jump, breaking her own school record with a leap of 12.03 meters.
  • Tess Gallegos
    April 10, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Tess Gallegos set a school record in the 5,000-meter run at the Duke Invitational last weekend. Gallegos finished fourth in the event with a time of 17:18.98, the eighth-best time by a Division III athlete this season.
  • Lauren Attiah
    April 02, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Lauren Attiah finished second in both the long jump and triple jump at the Emory Classic last weekend. Attiah recorded distances of 5.26 meters in the long jump, and 11.32 meters in the triple jump, both ranking as her second-best distances of the season.
  • Alix Dyer
    April 02, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Alix Dyer won two events at the Emory Classic last weekend. Dyer finished first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.71 seconds, the fourth-fastest mark in school history, and eighth-fastest among all Division III competitors this season.
  • Stephanie Crane
    March 26, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Stephanie Crane was part of a pair of school record-breaking efforts during the Emory Invitational last weekend. Crane broke the Emory record in the 1,500-meter run, finishing third in the event with a time of 4:40.99.
  • Theresa Ford
    March 12, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University junior Theresa Ford earned all-America honors in the high jump at the 2012 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Ford finished fourth in the event by clearing a height of 1.65 meters, the second-best mark of her career and the third-best mark in school history.
  • Lauren Attiah
    March 05, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Lauren Attiah broke the school record in the triple jump at the North Central College Last Chance Qualifier on Friday. Attiah finished third in the event with a jump of 11.89 meters, besting her previous school-record distance of 11.65 meters.
  • Alix Dyer
    February 27, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Alix Dyer won three events and set a University Athletic Association (UAA) record at the conference Indoor Track and Field Championship meet last weekend. Dyer won the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.28 seconds, breaking the previous UAA record set during the 2004 season.
  • Stephanie Crane
    February 20, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Stephanie Crane set a school record in the mile run at the NYU Division III Challenge on Saturday. Crane’s raw time of 5:01.92 was good for a third-place finish, and broke former Eagle Angela Davie’s record of 5:05.03, set during the 2005 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships.
  • Debora Adjibaba
    February 13, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Debora Adjibaba helped the Eagles set a school record in the 4x400-meter relay at the Vulcan Invitational last weekend. Adjibaba ran the leadoff leg of the fifth-place relay, which broke its own program record with a time of 3:55.26.
  • Tess Gallegos
    February 13, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Tess Gallegos broke the school record in the 3,000-meter run, while competing at last weekend’s Vulcan Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama. Gallegos finished 10th overall in the event with a time of 10:09.69, besting the previous school record of 10:11.34, set by Melissa Jones during the 2007 season.
  • Emily Mitchell
    February 06, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Emily Mitchell won the long jump at the Sewanee Indoor Invitational in Sewanee, TN on Saturday. Mitchell claimed the event victory with a jump of 5.26 meters, the second-best in the University Athletic Association (UAA) this season and 41st among all Division III athletes.
  • Kaele Leonard
    January 30, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University junior Kaele Leonard helped the Eagles’ 4x400-meter relay team set a school record during the Birmingham Invitational last week. Leonard ran the third leg of the relay, which finished sixth in the event with a time of 3:57.36, besting the previous school record by almost a full second.
  • Debora Adjibaba
    January 23, 2012
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Debora Adjibaba recorded two first-place finishes and a second-place finish at the Cardinal Opener on Friday night. Adjibaba won the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.01 seconds, the second-fastest time by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor this year.
  • Electra Korn
    December 12, 2011
    (Track & Field) Emory University freshman Electra Korn finished 16th in the 400-meter dash at the Birmingham Ice Breaker with a time of 1:02.13. The mark was the second-fastest raw time by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor this season, and the fastest by a Division III competitor at the meet.
  • Jasmine McCullough
    December 05, 2011
    (Track & Field) Emory University senior Jasmine McCullough recorded the fifth-fastest 60-meter hurdle time in school history at the Orange and Purple Classic on Saturday. McCullough’s time of 9.15 seconds was good for a ninth-place finish among a field consisting entirely of NCAA Division I competition. She also recorded a time of 9.23 seconds during the preliminaries of the event.