Emory University junior Debora Adjibaba claimed all-America honors in two events, and set a school record in the 100-meter dash, at the 2014 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Adjibaba finished seventh in the 100-meter dash, after becoming the first woman in the program’s history to break the 12-second mark in the event with a time of 11.90 seconds in the preliminaries. She also finished sixth as a part of the Eagles’ 4x100-meter relay team, which ran a time of 47.00 seconds in the preliminaries. Adjibaba helped the Eagles finish in a tie for 39th-place in the team standings with seven points scored during the meet.
Emory University junior Debora Adjibaba broke the school record in the 60-meter dash at the Cardinal Twilight, hosted by the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday. Adjibaba was the top Division III finisher in the event at the meet, and placed fourth overall with a time of 12.03 seconds. The mark ranks as the 11th-fastest in Division III this season, and broke the previous school record of 12.11 seconds, set by former Eagle Jane Ukandu during the 2006 campaign. She also ran the anchor leg of the Eagles’ 4x100-meter relay team, which finished second in a time of 48.00 seconds. Adjibaba will be competing in both events at the 2014 NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships next weekend.
Emory University senior Meredith Lorch set a new personal record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Dr. Keeler Invitational on Friday, hosted by North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Lorch broke her previous best mark by over 10 seconds, finishing sixth in the event with a time of 11:01.07. Her time currently ranks as the 25th-fastest mark in Division III this season, in addition to being the fifth-fastest time ever recorded by an Eagle.
Emory University junior Electra Korn won two individual events and a relay at the 2014 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships. Korn won the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.97 seconds, and claimed a victory in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:03.76. The UAA Titles were the first two individual conference titles of her career. Korn also ran the second leg on the Eagles’ UAA Championship 4x100-meter relay team, which finished in a time off 47.99 seconds, and scored in the 200-meter dash with a seventh-place finish, after running a time of 25.57 seconds in the preliminaries. Korn scored 24.5 points for the Eagles, helping the team finish third in the team standings.
Emory University junior Ulrica Tull won the first conference title of her career at the 2014 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships. Tull won the hammer throw with a toss of 46.14 meters, a career-best mark. She became the first Eagle to win the UAA Title in the event since Danielle LeSure accomplished the feat in 2002. Tull also finished 12th in the shot put with a measure of 8.99 meters. She contributed 10 points towards the Eagles’ team total, helping the squad to a third-place finish.
Emory University senior Morgan Monroe won three events at the Mountain Laurel Invitational on Friday, hosted by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Monroe was victorious in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.64 seconds, her best mark in the event this season and the seventh-best time by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor in 2014. She added a first-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.78 seconds, and remained the only conference competitor to break 15-seconds in the event this season. Monroe capped off her day with a win in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.21 seconds. Monroe totaled 30 of the Eagles’ 147 points at the meet, helping the squad to a second-place finish.
Emory University junior Ulrica Tull recorded career-best marks in both the hammer throw and shot put at the Mountain Laurel Invitational on Friday, hosted by the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Tull won the hammer throw with a distance of 45.84 meters, improving on her previous career-best throw by over four meters. The mark was also the second-best by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor in the event this year. She added a fourth-place finish in the shot put with a career-best throw of 9.73 meters, a .09-meter improvement on her previous personal best, and the 12th-best mark in the UAA in 2014. Tull scored 15 of the Eagles’ 147 points at the meet, helping the squad to a second-place finish.
Emory University junior Electra Korn broke the school record in the 400-meter hurdles at the Blue Shoes Collegiate Track and Field Meet, hosted by Furman University in Greenville, SC on Saturday. Korn’s time of 1:01.94 in the event smashed the previous school record of 1:02.23, set by former Eagle Kahlilah Jennings at the 1997 NCAA Championships, and was good for a second-place finish at the meet. In addition, it was the top time in the University Athletic Association (UAA) this season, and third among all NCAA Division III competitors. She also recorded the top time by a UAA competitor this season in the 200-meter dash, finishing second with a mark of 25.01 seconds, the 10th-fastest in Division III in 2014. Korn added a fourth-place finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.45 seconds in the preliminaries, and ran the second leg of the Eagles’ winning 4x100-meter relay team, which finished in a time of 48.99 seconds.
Emory University junior Stephanie Crane recorded the second-fastest time among NCAA Division III competitors in the 800-meter run at the VertKlasse Meeting in High Point, NC last weekend. Crane finished eighth overall in the event at the meet with a time of 2:14.45. In addition to ranking second in the country and first among University Athletic Association (UAA) competitors this year, it was the fifth-fastest 800-meter run time in school history, and a .21 second improvement on her previous career-best time.
Emory University junior Katie Wilson won the high jump at the VertKlasse Meeting in High Point, NC last weekend. Wilson cleared the bar at 1.60 meters to earn the win in the participation section of the event at the meet. The height was a hundredth of a meter improvement on her previous career-best in the event, in addition to being ranked second in the University Athletic Association (UAA) and 23rd among all Division III competitors in 2014.
Emory University junior Electra Korn won three events at the Emory Classic last weekend, each in personal-best times that rank among the top-ten among NCAA Division III competitors this season. Korn finished first in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.39, bettering her previous career-best mark by over a second for the second-straight week. Her time in the event is the third-fastest in Division III this season, and was the second-fastest in school history, just .16 seconds off the program record. She won the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.45 seconds, the eighth-fastest time in Division III this year. Korn added an event win in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.39 seconds, a .99-second improvement on her previous personal best, and tied for the ninth-fastest time in Division III. All three marks were the fastest by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor in 2014. Korn contributed 30 points towards the Eagles’ team total, helping the Eagles finish first out of 13 teams at the meet.
Emory University junior Electra Korn recorded a personal-best time in the 400-meter hurdles at the Emory Invitational last weekend, the first outdoor meet of the season for the Eagles. Korn won the event with a time of 1:03.74, over a second better than her previous career-best mark. The time was also the third-fastest time by a Division III athlete so far this season. Korn contributed 10 points to the team total, helping the Eagles finish fifth out of 25 teams at the meet.
Emory University junior Ulrica Tull recorded a career-best distance in the hammer throw, scoring in the event for the Eagles during the Emory Invitational last weekend. Tull finished sixth overall in the event, contributing three points towards the Eagles’ team total. Her throw of 41.45 meters was over 10 meters better than her previous career-best mark in the event. Tull’s mark ranks as the 36th-best mark in Division III so far this season. Her performance helped Emory finish fifth out of 25 teams at the meet.
Emory University junior Debora Adjibaba set three school records and recorded an all-America finish during the 2014 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Adjibaba finished fifth in the finals of the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.68 seconds, after breaking her own school record with a time of 7.61 seconds in the preliminaries. She broke her own record in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.06 seconds in the preliminaries, placing 12th and finishing just six-hundredths of a second away from qualifying for the finals of the event. Adjibaba also ran the 400-meter leg of the Eagles’ distance medley, helping the squad to a ninth-place finish with a school-record time of 11:51.85. Adjibaba now has three-career all-America honors during the indoor season, tied for the most in the program’s history. She contributed four points towards the team total, helping the squad tie for 23rd-place at the NCAA Championships.
The Emory University women’s distance medley relay team of junior Stephanie Crane, junior Debora Adjibaba, sophomore Julie Williamson and senior Emily Caesar set a school record in the event at the Point National Qualifier last weekend, hosted by the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. The quartet became the first Emory women’s relay to break the 12-minute mark in the distance medley relay, finishing second with a time of 11:59.08. The time bested the previous school record of 12:05.26, set at the 2012 UAA Championships, and converts to the 10th-fastest time by a Division III relay this season, tentatively qualifying the Eagles for next weekend’s NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Emory University junior Debora Adjibaba won two events and set a conference-meet and school recordrecord during the 2014 University Athletic Association (UAA) Indoor Track and Field Championships. Adjibaba won the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.16 seconds, breaking the conference mark of 7.19 seconds that she previously held, along with former Eagle Jami Edwards. The time also broke the previous school record of 7.18 seconds, set by Edwards at the 2008 NCAA Championships. She later won the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.80 seconds to claim her second UAA title of the meet. Adjibaba also ran the third leg of the Eagles’ second place 4x400-meter relay team (3:58.86) and finished 13th in the long jump with a distance of 4.65 meters. She totaled 22 points towards the Eagles’ team score, as the Emory women finished in second place in the team standings at the meet.
Emory University senior Morgan Monroe recorded the top time by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor this season in the 60-meter hurdles at the DePauw Indoor Classic on Saturday. Monroe finished second in the 60-meter hurdles at the meet, as her career-best time of 8.94 seconds was the best in the UAA in 2014, and tied for the seventh-fastest in all of Division III. In addition, she became just the second Eagle ever to break the nine-second threshold in the event, and her time was eight-hundredths of a second shy of the school record. Her time of 9.01 seconds in the preliminaries of the event on Saturday ranked as the third-fastest mark in school history. Monroe also finished fourth in the finals of the 60-meter dash with a career-best time of 8.09 seconds, the third-fastest in the UAA this season. She scored 13 points during the meet, helping the Eagles finish 13th out of 17 teams, despite sending just two runners to compete.
Emory University junior Stephanie Crane recorded a season-best mark by an Eagle in the 800-meter run at the UCS Invitational, hosted by the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, NC on Saturday. Crane finished ninth in the event with a time of 2:17.21, the third-best time in the University Athletic Association (UAA) this season, and the 25th-best time by a Division III competitor in the 800-meter run in 2014. Her time also matched the sixth-fastest mark ever recorded by an Eagle.
Emory University junior Katie Wilson matched her career-best mark in the high jump, while in action at the UCS Invitational, hosted by the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, NC on Saturday. Wilson cleared the bar at a height of 1.60 meters to finish 14th in the event at the meet. Her height ranks as the second-best in the University Athletic Association (UAA) this season.
Emory University junior Stephanie Crane recorded a season-best time in the 800-meter run at the Samford Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday. Crane finished 19th in the event with a time of 2:18.34, the fastest time this season by an Eagle. It ranked as the third-fastest converted mark by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor in the event in 2014, and the eighth-fastest raw time in the program’s history. The time was also the 42nd-best time in all of Division III for the campaign.
Emory University senior Morgan Monroe won the 55-meter hurdles at the Tiger Indoor Invitational in Sewanee, Tennessee on Saturday. Monroe claimed a win in the event with a time of 8.47 seconds in the finals. She ran a time of 8.45 seconds in the preliminaries of the 55-meter hurdles, which converts to the 10th-fastest mark in Division III this season, and the fastest in the University Athletic Association (UAA). Monroe was also Emory’s top finisher in the 55-meter dash, finishing fourth in the finals with a time of 7.65 seconds, after running a time of 7.54 seconds in the preliminaries, which converts to the third-fastest mark in the UAA this season.
Emory University junior Debora Adjibaba broke the school record in the 200-meter dash to lead the 11th-ranked Eagles at the Emory Crossplex Invitational on Sunday. Adjibaba was the top-Division III finisher in the 200-meter dash, claiming fourth overall in the event. Her time of 25.34 seconds stands as the second-fastest by a D-III competitor this season, and broke the previous school record of 25.58 seconds, set by Monique Osigbeme at the 2009 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships. Adjibaba was also the top-Division III finisher in the 60-meter dash, claiming third overall with a time of 7.71 seconds, and helped lead the 4x400-meter relay team to a fourth-place finish with a time of 4:06.09. Her performance helped Emory finish second overall, and first among NCAA Division III schools at the meet.
Emory University junior Ulrica Tull recorded a personal-best mark in the weight throw for the second-straight meet, while in action at the Emory Crossplex Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday. Tull notched a toss of 13.69 meters in the weight throw, an improvement of .84 meters of her previous career-best mark (set last weekend) and good for a fourth-place finish. The throw ranks as the second-best by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor this season. Tull also placed 38th in the shot put with a throw of 8.58 meters, her season-best mark and the 14th-best performance by a UAA athlete in the event this season. She contributed five points to the 11th-ranked Eagles team score, helping Emory finish second overall, and first among NCAA Division III schools at the meet.
Emory University junior Electra Korn recorded the third-fastest 400-meter dash time by an NCAA Division III athlete this season while in action at the Niswonger Invitational in Johnson City, Tennessee last weekend. Korn finished eighth overall in the 400-meter dash field, consisting of mostly NCAA Division I athletes, recording an indoor career-best time of 58.07 seconds. The time not only ranks as the third-fastest in Division III this year, but is the ninth-fastest 400-meter dash time in the program’s history. Korn also finished 34th in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.24 seconds, the 23rd-fastest mark in Division III this campaign.
Emory University junior Ulrica Tull recorded an indoor personal-best mark in the shot put at the Niswonger Invitational in Johnson City, Tennessee on Friday. Tull’s throw of 12.85 meters was good for a 23rd-place finish among a field consisting of mostly NCAA Division I athletes, and is the third-best mark by a University Athletic Association (UAA) competitor this season. In addition, the distance bested her previous career-long throw by nearly two meters.
Emory University junior co-captain Debora Adjibaba broke her own school record in the 60-meter dash twice during the Eagles’ season-opening meet, the Panther Indoor Icebreaker, in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday. Adjibaba opened the meet with a time of 7.70 seconds in the preliminaries of the 60-meter dash, and followed that with a mark of 7.69 seconds in the finals, breaking her own school record of 7.71 seconds in the event, set during last year’s NCAA Championships. She finished fifth in the finals, the best finish by a non-Division I runner, and her time was the fastest so far this season by a Division III runner in the 60-meter dash. Adjibaba also finished 23rd in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.81 seconds, the fourth-fastest time in the program’s history and second-fastest in Division III this year.
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May 30, 2014Emory University junior Debora Adjibaba claimed all-America honors in two events, and set a school record in the 100-meter dash, at the 2014 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Adjibaba finished seventh in the 100-meter dash, after becoming the first woman in the program’s history to break the 12-second mark in the event with a time of 11.90 seconds in the preliminaries. She also finished sixth as a part of the Eagles’ 4x100-meter relay team, which ran a time of 47.00 seconds in the preliminaries. Adjibaba helped the Eagles finish in a tie for 39th-place in the team standings with seven points scored during the meet.
