Outdoor National Ranking: #20
Outdoor Regional Ranking: #1
Two Outdoor National Champions
10 Indoor Individual All-Americans
18 Outdoor Individual All-Americans
7 Indoor UAA Team Championships
5 Outdoor UAA Team Championships

2017 Emory Men's Outdoor Track & Field Season Recap

Posted: Jul 03, 2017

The Emory University Men's Track and Field team sent one runner to the NCAA Championships while two other performers captured University Athletic Association titles during the 2017 outdoor season.

Junior Shane Sullivan qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships for the first time in his career as he was selected to compete in the 5000m Run. Sullivan turned in a 14^th place finish, recording a time of 15:00.27. Earlier in the season, Sullivan broke the school record in the event, posting a time of 14:24.23 at the Dr. Keeler Invitational. The record was one of two Sullivan broke on the year as he was also part of the Distance Medley Relay along with seniors Brandon Cromer, Michael McBane and freshman Samuel Branson which recorded a time of 10:23.10 at the Emory Invitational.

At the UAA Outdoor Championships held in Chicago, Illinois, juniors Benjamin Rogin and Charlie Hu led the Eagles to a fifth place showing, total two event championships. For the third straight season, Rogin was an All-UAA finisher in the 110m Hurdles, collecting his second straight UAA crown with a time of 15.11. Hu scored in three events including a first place effort in the Triple Jump.

Sullivan added All-UAA honors with a second place performance in the 5000m Run while senior Kyle Veator was second in the Long Jump and sophomore Bennett Shaw placed second in the 3000m Steeplechase. In total, the Eagles secured five All-UAA finishes, two event titles and scored 78 points at the two-day championship meet.

In other scored meets throughout the outdoor season, Emory was seventh in its home invitational, third in the Emory Classic, second in the Berry Field Day Invitational and sixth at the Mountain Laurel Invitational.

Four of the five team members that earned All-UAA acclaim were honored by the USTFCCCA, earning All-Region accolades. Hu in the Triple Jump, Rogin in the 110m Hurdles, Shaw in the 3000m Steeplechase and Sullivan in the 5000m Run.

Hu, Rogin and junior Max Brown added academic honors to go along with their on-field performances as the trio was selected to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District team in late May. The selection was the second straight for both Brown and Rogin while Hu earned his first Academic All-District honor of his career.

The Eagles earned the following honors during the 2017 season:

NCAA Division III Championship Participant
Shane Sullivan	Johns Creek, GA (Mt. Pisgah Christian)		5000m Run (14^th)

USTFCCCA South/Southeast All-Region (Top 5 in Respective Event)
Charlie Hu		Shanghai, China (Shanghai American School)		Triple Jump
Benjamin Rogin		Highland Park, IL (Highland)		110m Hurdles
Bennett Shaw		San Jose, CA (Bellarmine College Prep)		3000m Steeplechase
Shane Sullivan		Johns Creek, GA (Mt. Pisgah Christian)		5000m Run

UAA Champion
Benjamin Rogin		Highland Park, IL (Highland)		110m Hurdles
Charlie Hu		Shanghai, China (Shanghai American School)		Triple Jump

All-UAA (Top-3 Finisher at UAA Championships)
Benjamin Rogin	Highland Park, IL (Highland)		110m Hurdles (1^st)
Charlie Hu	Shanghai, China (Shanghai American School)		Triple Jump (1^st)
Bennett Shaw	San Jose, CA (Bellarmine College Prep)		3000m Steeplechase (2^nd)
Kyle Veator	Potomac, MD (Winston Churchill)		Long Jump (2^nd)
Shane Sullivan	Johns Creek, GA (Mt. Pisgah Christian)		5000m Run (2^nd)

CoSIDA Academic All-District
Max Brown	Warren, NJ (Watchung Hills)
Charlie Hu	Shanghai, China (Shanghai American School)
Benjamin Rogin	Highland Park, IL (Highland Park)

UAA Athlete of the Week
Shane Sullivan	Johns Creek, GA (Mt. Pisgah Christian)		March 27
Charlie Hu	Shanghai, China (Shanghai American School)		May 8

The following were the top marks by Emory athletes during the 2017 season:

100m Dash	Kyle Veator	11.05	UAA Championships
200m Dash	Kyle Veator	22.35	Emory Classic
400m Dash	Aria Mohseni	50.09	Emory Classic
800m Run	Max Brown	1:55.07	Berry Field Day Invitational
1500m Run	Max Brown	3:57.70	Berry Field Day Invitational
3000m Run	Phil Edwards	9:07.20	Mountain Laurel Invitational
5000m Run	Shane Sullivan	14:24.23*	Dr. Keeler Invitational
10000m Run	Martin Pimental	32:14.51	UAA Championships
110m Hurdles	Benjamin Rogin	14.84	Berry Field Day Invitational
400m Hurdles	Benjamin Rogin	55.27	Emory Classic
3000m Steeplechase	Bennett Shaw	9:18:13	Dr. Keeler Invitational
High Jump	Charlie Hu	1.82m	UAA Championships
Pole Vault	Nathan Harper	3.66m	Mountain Laurel Invitational
Long Jump	Kyle Veator	7.04m	UAA Championships
Triple Jump	Charlie Hu	14.29m	Torrin Lawrence Memorial
Shot Put	Jackson Hoit	11.05m	Emory Classic
Discus	Zachary Lembersky	42.66m	UAA Championships
Hammer	Zachary Lembersky	41.23m	Emory Invitational
Javelin	Jackson Hoit	52.01m	Emory Invitational
4x100m Relay	Kyle Veator, Aria Mohseni, Max Helfman, Benjamin Rogin	42.85	Emory Classic
4x400m Relay	Aria Mohseni, Alex Rand, Robert Wilhelm III, Benjamin Rogin	3:29.47	Emory Classic
4x800m Relay	Michael McBane, Brandon Cromer, Robert Wilhelm III, Max Brown	7:50.84	UAA Championships
DMR	Samuel Branson, Brandon Cromer, Michael McBane, Shane Sullivan	10:23.10*	Emory Invitational

* - Indicates Emory record

Men's Track & Field

2017 Emory Men's Outdoor Track & Field Season Recap