Paced by all-America and conference Most Outstanding Performer honors during the season from junior Theresa Ford, the Emory University women’s indoor track and field team turned in one of its best campaigns in the program’s history in 2012.

Ford earned an all-America honor in the high jump at the 2012 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships, finishing fourth in the event after clearing the bar at 1.65 meters.  It was the ninth all-America honor recorded by a member of the Emory women’s track and field team during the indoor season, and the first in the high jump.  Ford scored all five of the Eagles’ points during the meet, leading the squad to a 32^nd-place finish, the fourth-best in the program’s history and best national placing by the team since 1998.

Two other athletes represented Emory at the 2012 NCAA Championships.  Senior Lauren Attiah placed 12^th in the triple jump, while senior Jasmine McCullough recorded a 14^th-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles.

Emory took second-place at the 2012 UAA Championships, scoring 136 points to finish only behind Washington University (149 points) and well ahead of the third-place University of Chicago (63 points).  Senior Alix Dyer led the Eagles with UAA Championships in three events, winning the 400-meter dash in an Emory and UAA record time of 57.28 seconds, the 200-meter dash in a time of 25.84 seconds, and joining freshman Debora Adjibaba, sophomore Gabrielle Clark, and junior Kaele Leonard on the winning 1,600-meter relay team.  Adjibaba also won the 60-meter dash in a UAA-record time of 7.80 seconds and finished second in the 200-meter dash, en route to becoming the second women’s athlete in Emory history to be named UAA Indoor Track and Field Rookie of the Year.

Ford was named the UAA’s Most Outstanding Performer in Field Events after winning the high jump by clearing the bar at a school-record height of 1.68 meters, and claiming an individual title in the long jump with a distance of 5.48 meters.  She was the first Eagle to earn the honor during the indoor season specifically for her performance in the meet’s field events, and it marked the seventh time overall an Emory athlete has been named the UAA  Women’s Most Outstanding Performer for an indoor campaign.

Attiah added Emory’s final UAA Championship of the meet with a win in the triple jump.  Additional all-UAA honors were claimed by second-place finishes for McCullough in the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles and Leonard in the 400-meter dash, and third-place finishes for Attiah in the 200-meter dash, freshman Emily Mitchell in the long jump, senior Tess Gallegos in the 5,000-meter run, and the Eagles’ distance medley relay team of junior Calley Edwards, Clark, sophomore Emily Caesar and freshman Stephanie Crane.  The Eagles totaled seven UAA Championships and 15 all-UAA honors at the conference meet.

In addition to Emory records set in the high jump and 400-meter dash, a number of other program high-water marks were reached during the 2011-12 indoor campaign.  Twice during the season, Gallegos broke a five-year old record in the 3,000-meter run, including an Emory-best mark of 10:07.80 at the UAA Championships.  Crane’s time of 5:01.92 in the mile run at the NYU D-III Challenge broke former Eagle Angela Davies’ record in the event, which stood since the 2005 campaign.  Attiah broke her own record in the triple jump with a leap of 11.89 meters at the NCC Last Chance Invitational, while McCullough became the first Eagle to break the nine-second mark in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.86 seconds at the UAA Championships, breaking her own record.  Emory also saw its two indoor relay records fall, as the 1,600-meter relay team of Adjibaba, Clark, Leonard and Dyer set a mark of 3:55.26 at the Vulcan Invitational, and the all-UAA distance medley relay team set a program record with a time of 12:05.26 at the conference championships.

For her efforts and achievements during the 2011-12 indoor season, Emory’s Madeleine Outman was named the South/ Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year by the USTFCCCA, marking the second time in school history an Emory coach has earned the honor for the indoor season.

A number of Emory athletes were recognized for the contributions in the classroom, in addition to their athletic accomplishments.  Senior Charlotte Diggs, Ford and Gallegos were each named to the Capital One/ CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team in 2012.

The Eagles earned the following honors during the 2011-12 season:

The following were the top marks by Emory athletes during the 2011-12 season:

*E – Emory Record
*U – UAA Record