Emory University juniors Electra Korn, Debora Adjibaba and Stephanie Crane combined to record five top-10 times among NCAA Division III competitors this season, leading the Eagles during the VertKlasse Meeting in High Point, NC on Friday and Saturday.

Korn recorded a time of 56.51 seconds in the 400-meter dash, the fastest this season in Division III.  Her time was a career-best mark, and ranks as the fourth-fastest time in school history.  Korn was also Emory's top finisher in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:03.65, placing 11^th overall.

Crane recorded the second-fastest time in Division III this season in the 800-meter run, finishing eighth overall with a time of 2:14.45.  The time ranks as the fifth-fastest ever by an Eagle in the event, as was a new personal-record for Crane.

Adjibaba was a part of three top-10 national times on Saturday, including an eighth-place finish in the finals of the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.15 seconds.   It was the third-fastest mark in Division III this season and the fourth-fastest in school history, just four-hundredths of a second off the program record.  She placed 13^th in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.18 seconds, the eighth-fastest time in the country this year.  In addition, she teamed with junior Pollara Cobb, freshman Harley Barrera, and senior Morgan Monroe to finish fourth in the 4x100-meter relay with a mark of 48.69 seconds, the fourth-fastest time by a Division III squad in 2014.

Junior Katie Wilson added a win in the participation section of the high jump, clearing the bar at an outdoor personal-best height of 1.60 meters.  In the women's pole vault, junior Elaina Kim claimed 10^th with a season-best height of 3.27 meters.  Cobb claimed top performances by an Eagle during the weekend in both horizontal jumps, finishing 14^th in the triple jump with a mark of 9.75 meters, and 21^st in the long jump with a distance of 4.84 meters.

Other top performers for the Emory women included senior Morgan Monroe in the 100-meter hurdles (17^th, 14.89 seconds), junior Ulrica Tull in the hammer throw (eighth, 41.66 meters), freshman Mackenzie Levy in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (seventh, 12:36.70), junior Marissa Gogniat in the 1,500-meter run (23^rd, 4:55.14), freshman Sophie Cemaj in the 5,000-meter run (14^th, 19:12.34) and sophomore Alexandra Aiello in the shot put (33^rd, 7.89 meters).

For the men, sophomore Jacob Seigel recorded career-best marks in a pair of events during the weekend.  Seigel claimed sixth in the discus throw with a toss of 44.10 meters, the second-best among University Athletic Association (UAA) competitors this year.  He also claimed 13^th in the shot put with a career-best throw of 12.94 meters.

Sophomore Maxwell Hoberman added a fifth-place finish in the triple jump with a distance of 13.39 meters, the best mark by a UAA athlete this season.  Freshman Dennis Kamara claimed 24^th in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.13 seconds, a career-best mark and the third-fastest time in the UAA.  In the 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Adam Rabushka finished 11^th with a time of 55.72 seconds, the second-fastest in the UAA in 2014.  Rabushka also claimed 15^th-place in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.64 seconds.

Recording top-five finishes in individual events at the meet were senior Brandon Bassell in the high jump (fifth, 1.79 meters), senior Alex Fleischhacker in the 5,000-meter run (third, 15:09.95), freshman Ian McIsaac (fifth, 1:57.35), and junior Gui Silva in the 400-meter dash (fourth, 48.91 seconds).  Sophomore Young Jin Kim recorded an outdoor personal-best mark in the pole vault, clearing the bar at a height of 4.17 meters and finishing sixth in the event.

The Eagles added a pair of solid performances in relays.  In the 4x100-meter relay, senior Samuel Jean-Baptiste, Kamara, Hoberman and Silva claimed ninth with a time of 44.24 seconds, while the 4x400-meter relay team of junior Zachary Rosenberg, Rabushka, Silva and Hoberman placed 10^th with a time of 3:25.37.

Other top finishers for the Emory men at the meet included freshman Christian Johnson in the 1,500-meter run (30^th, 4:04.99), junior Tyler Cooke in the 10,000-meter run (seventh, 33:50.85), junior Louis Mennel in the javelin throw (22^nd, 35.51 meters), Jean-Baptiste in the 200-meter dash (15^th, 23.20 seconds), sophomore Taylor Jarl in the hammer throw (10^th, 37.21 meters) and senior Mike Moserowitz in the long jump (22^nd, 6.16 meters).

The Eagles will be back in action next weekend, when the squad is scheduled to participate in a pair of weekend meets – the Seminole Invitational at Florida State University and the Blue Shoes Collegiate Track and Field Meet at Furman University.