Through the first day of competition at the UAA Indoor Championships in Waltham, Massachusetts, the Emory University men's indoor track & field team sits in third place while having turned in three All-UAA performances.
The Eagles accumulated 41 points through one day of competition with five of the 16 events having been scored thus far. The WashU Bears lead with 54 points tallied while the Carnegie Mellon Tartans hold the silver medalist position having accumulated 49.33 points.
Freshman Henry Brandstadter was responsible for two of the Eagles All-UAA performances as he took home the UAA title in both the long jump and the high jump events. Brandstadter registered a distance of 7.15m to win the long jump, marking the fourth time this season he has registered a distance to land himself in the top five in program history. Brandstadter registered a height of 1.98m to win the high jump making him the first freshman to secure two All-UAA performances since teammate Jackson Price did it last season.
Junior Kenya Sei turned in the Eagles third and final All-UAA performance of the day as he finished third in the weight throw having recorded a program record distance of 16.16m. Sei broke the 15.99m program record of Joe Cook which was set at the NCAA Championships back in 1995.
Junior Tristan Olpin secured a point for the Eagles as he finished eighth in the 5,000m run with a time of 14:44.75 which is the third fastest time in program history. The DMR team of junior Scott Masterson, freshman Bryce Wurster, sophomore Marcus Cheema and senior Spencer Moore crossed the finish line in a time of 10:05.45 which secured a fifth place finish good for four points.
Sophomore Geoff Point-du-Jour secured four points for the Eagles as he turned in a fifth place finish in the high jump, registering a distance of 1.88m. Sophomore John Zhai also turned in a four point performance, as he notched a distance of 6.58m in the long jump which was good for a fifth place finish.
Competing in the prelims with the finals set to take place tomorrow, sophomore Sam Ryba showed out in the 60m dash running the fastest time in prelims at 6.97 seconds which is the second fastest mark in program history. Ryba also competed in the 200m dash where he ran a time of 22.80 seconds which was fast enough to qualify him for tomorrow's final. Sophomore Jackson Price also qualified for the finals in both the 60m dash and 200m dash, as he recorded times of 7.00 seconds and 22.55 seconds, respectively, with his 200m time placing first amongst the field at the meet. Senior Thomas Davis was a qualifier for the finals in the 60m dash and 200m dash as well with times of 7.08 and 22.28, respectively.
Junior Dawit Dean recorded the fastest time in the 400m dash prelim as his time of 50.84 seconds paced the field for tomorrow's final. Wurster and sophomore Tristan Moore also qualified for the 400m dash final with times of 51.48 and 51.82, respectively.
Competing in the 800m run, Cheema (1:54.32) and junior Spencer Watry (1:54.87) qualified for the final coming in second and seventh, respectively in preliminaries.
The final 11 events will take place at the UAA Indoor Championships tomorrow with the first event set to get underway beginning at 10:00 AM in Waltham, Massachusetts.