Emory University senior Morgan Monroe, juniors
Electra Korn and Debora Adjibaba
and freshman Harley Barrera each claimed
all-America honors in 2014 to pace the Eagles during the outdoor
track and field campaign.
Other highlights from the 2014 outdoor for the Emory Women’s
Track and Field team include a 39th-place finish out of
81 scoring teams at the NCAA Division III Championships, four
broken program records, and a third-place finish at the University
Athletic Association (UAA) Championships, which included a Most
Valuable Performer honor for Korn.
Emory athletes combined to score seven points and set three
program records at the 2014 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and
Field Championships, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University in
Delaware, Ohio. The Eagles’ 4x100-meter relay team
recorded the squad’s top finish of the meet, as Barrera,
Korn, Monroe and Adjibaba placed sixth to score six points.
Individual all-American finishes came from Adjibaba in the
100-meter dash (seventh), Monroe in the 100-meter hurdles
(eighth-place) and Korn in the 400-meter dash (eighth-place).
Both Adjibaba and Monroe set Emory records in the preliminaries of
their events, with Adjibaba registering a time of 11.90 seconds in
the prelims of the 100-meter dash (becoming the first Emory woman
to break the 12-second barrier in the race) and Monroe recording a
mark of 14.16 seconds in the preliminaries of the 100-meter
hurdles.
Korn added the third record-setting performance of the meet,
finishing 11th in the preliminaries of the 400-meter
hurdles to best her own record time (set earlier in the year) with
a mark of 1:01.78 seconds. Senior Meredith
Lorch made her debut appearance in the NCAA Championships,
qualifying for the finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase and
finishing ninth overall with a personal-best time of 10:52.76.
The Eagles’ fourth program-record setting performance came
earlier in the season, when junior Stephanie Crane
recorded a time of 5:02.84 in the mile run (which is more commonly
run during the indoor season) at the Blue Shoes Collegiate Track
and Field Meet at Furman University.
At the 2014 UAA Championships, the Eagles totaled 155 points,
finishing in third place behind first-place Washington University
(211 points) and the second-place University of Chicago (201.5
points). It marked the 11th-straight top-three
finish for the Eagles, and their 24th overall top-three
finish in the history of UAA competition. Emory athletes
combined to win five individual events and one relay, while
amassing 13 all-UAA honors for top-three finishes in events.
Korn paced the Eagles at the meet and was named the UAA Most
Valuable Performer for Running Events, after becoming just the
second woman in 27 years of conference meets to win both the
400-meter dash and the 400-meter hurdles (along with
Washington’s Alli Alberts in 2009). Korn also teamed
with Barrera, Monroe and Adjibaba to win the 4x100-meter relay,
while Adjibaba (100-meter dash) and Monroe (100-meter hurdles) each
claimed individual titles. In addition, junior Ulrica
Tull claimed the UAA Championship in the hammer throw,
becoming the first Eagle to win the event since 2002.
In other scored collegiate meets during the season, the Eagles
came away win at the 13-team Emory Classic, a second-place finish
out of seven teams at the Mountain Laurel Invitational (hosted by
the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee) and a
fifth-place finish out of 25 teams at the Emory Invitational.
Emory finished the regular season ranked second in the
South/Southeast Region.
In addition to the athletic honors, Monroe, Adjibaba and Korn were
each named to the Capital One Academic All-District Team as well in
2014 for their academic success.
The Eagles earned the following honors during the 2014 outdoor
season:
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All-America (Top-Eight Finisher at NCAA Championships) |
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Debora Adjibaba |
Chambersburg, PA (Mercersberg Academy) |
100m Dash (7th), 4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
400m Dash (8th), 4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Morgan Monroe |
Bridgewater, NJ (Bridgewater-Raritan Regional) |
100m Hurdles (8th), 4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Harley Barrera |
San Gabriel, CA (Mayfield Senior) |
4x100m Relay (6th) |
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NCAA Championship Participant |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
400m Dash (8th), 400m Hurdles (11th), 4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Debora Adjibaba |
Chambersburg, PA (Mercersberg Academy) |
100m Dash (7th), 4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Morgan Monroe |
Bridgewater, NJ (Bridgewater-Raritan Regional) |
100m Hurdles (8th), 4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Harley Barrera |
San Gabriel, CA (Mayfield Senior) |
4x100m Relay (6th) |
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Meredith Lorch |
Concord, MA (Concord-Carlisle Regional) |
3000m Steeplechase (9th) |
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University Athletic Association (UAA) Most Valuable Performer |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
Running Events |
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UAA Champion |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
400m Dash, 400m Hurdles, 4x100m Relay |
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Debora Adjibaba |
Chambersburg, PA (Mercersberg Academy) |
100m Dash, 4x100m Relay |
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Morgan Monroe |
Bridgewater, NJ (Bridgewater-Raritan Regional) |
100m Hurdles, 4x100m Relay |
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Harley Barrera |
San Gabriel, CA (Mayfield Senior) |
4x100m Relay |
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Ulrica Tull |
Buford, GA (Mountain View) |
Hammer Throw |
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All-UAA (Top-Three Finisher at UAA Championships) |
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Debora Adjibaba |
Chambersburg, PA (Mercersberg Academy) |
100m Dash (1st), 200m Dash (3rd), 4x100m Relay (1st) |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
400m Dash (1st), 400m Hurdles (1st), 4x100m Relay (1st) |
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Morgan Monroe |
Bridgewater, NJ (Bridgewater-Raritan Regional) |
100m Hurdles (1st), 4x100m Relay (1st) |
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Pollara Cobb |
Tamuning, Guam (John F. Kennedy) |
Long Jump (2nd), Triple Jump (3rd) |
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Harley Barrera |
San Gabriel, CA (Mayfield Senior) |
4x100m Relay (1st) |
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Meredith Lorch |
Concord, MA (Concord-Carlisle Regional) |
3000m Steeplechase (2nd) |
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Hope Olszewski |
Montgomery, AL (St. James) |
Javelin Throw (2nd) |
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Ulrica Tull |
Buford, GA (Mountain View) |
Hammer Throw (1st) |
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Julie Williamson |
Chatham, NJ (Chatham) |
800m Run (3rd) |
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Katie Wilson |
Solon, OH (Hawken School) |
High Jump (2nd) |
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Capital One/ CoSIDA Academic All-District |
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Debora Adjibaba |
Chambersburg, PA (Mercersberg Academy) |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
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Morgan Monroe |
Bridgewater, NJ (Bridgewater-Raritan Regional) |
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UAA Athlete of the Week |
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Electra Korn |
Woodinville, WA (Eastside Preparatory) |
Mar. 24th, Mar. 31st, Apr. 14th |
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Debora Adjibaba |
Chambersburg, PA (Mercersberg Academy) |
May 19th |
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Stephanie Crane |
Annapolis, MD (Broadneck) |
Apr. 7th |
The following were the top marks by Emory athletes during the 2014 outdoor season:
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100m Dash |
Debora Adjibaba |
11.90 *E |
NCAA Championships |
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200m Dash |
Electra Korn |
25.01 |
Blue Shoes Collegiate Track & Field Meet |
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400m Dash |
Electra Korn |
56.04 |
Cardinal Twilight |
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800m Run |
Stephanie Crane |
2:14.45 |
VertKlasse Meeting |
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1500m Run |
Stephanie Crane |
4:44.03 |
UAA Championships |
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3000m Run |
Shannon Palmer |
11:38.51 |
Mountain Laurel Invitational |
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5000m Run |
Tamara Surtees |
18:10.81 |
Blue Shoes Collegiate Track & Field Meet |
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10000m Run |
Sophie Cemaj |
39:50.99 |
UAA Championships |
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Mile Run |
Stephanie Crane |
5:02.84 *E |
Blue Shoes Collegiate Track & Field Meet |
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100m Hurdles |
Morgan Monroe |
14.16 *E |
NCAA Championships |
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400m Hurdles |
Electra Korn |
1:01.78 *E |
NCAA Championships |
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3000m StplCh |
Meredith Lorch |
10:52.76 |
NCAA Championships |
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High Jump |
Katie Wilson |
1.60m |
VertKlasse Meeting |
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Pole Vault |
Elaina Kim |
3.27m |
VertKlasse Meeting |
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Long Jump |
Pollara Cobb |
5.34m |
UAA Championships |
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Triple Jump |
Pollara Cobb |
10.88m |
UAA Championships |
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Shot Put |
Josephine Akinwumiju |
11.11m |
Emory Invitational |
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Discus |
Josephine Akinwumiju |
30.95m |
Emory Classic |
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Hammer |
Ulrica Tull |
46.14m |
UAA Championships |
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Javelin |
Madison Hoeninghausen |
33.53m |
Emory Classic |
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4x100m Relay |
Harley Barrera, Electra Korn, Morgan Monroe, Debora Adjibaba |
47.00 |
NCAA Championships |
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4x400m Relay |
Debora Adjibaba, Stephanie Crane, Julie Williamson, Emily Caesar |
4:03.91 |
UAA Championships |
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4x800m Relay |
Marissa Gogniat, Alexa Young, Hannah Smith, Julie Williamson |
9:47.61 |
UAA Championships |
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DMR |
Marissa Gogniat, Julie Williamson, June Ilowite, Elizabeth Magno |
13:01.86 |
Emory Invitational |
* E – Indicates Emory record