In the team’s second and final home track and field meet
of the season, the Emory University women came away with a team
win, while the men finished second, at the Emory Classic and
Decathlon this weekend.
The women finished first out of the 16 teams competing, scoring
168.50 points during the two-day meet. Hope College finished
second with 118 points, while Murray State University finished
third with 93 points. On the men’s side, Emory’s
157 points placed the team second only to Hope College’s 194
points, while Taylor University finished third with 155 points.
Emory senior Brittany Donino once again paced the
women, recording first-place finishes in both the hurdle
events. In the 400-meter hurdles on day one, Donino recorded
the sixth-fastest time in school history, 1:04.41, just .21 seconds
shy of the NCAA provisional qualifying time. She returned on
day two to win the 100-meter hurdles, after recorded a provisional
time of 14.94 seconds in the preliminaries of the event.
Emory sophomores Charlotte Diggs and Laura
Lambie-Hanson finished second and third, respectively, in
the 400-meter hurdles, while sophomore Jasmine
McCullough and Lambie-Hanson claimed second and third in
the 100-meter hurdles.
Also on the first day, freshman Theresa Ford won
the javelin throw with a toss of 33.45 meters, and finished second
in the high jump, clearing a height of 1.57 meters. Senior
Natalie Fenn won the 3,000-meter steeplechase with
a time of 11:21.85, just under nine seconds short of a provisional
mark, while teammate and fellow senior Rebecca
Flink finished second. Sophomore Lauren
Attiah finished third in the long jump with a distance of
5.15 meters.
On the second day, freshman Melanie Frank won the
800-meter run with a time of 2:20.74, while also running the third
leg of the Eagles’ winning 4x400-meter relay team (4:04.31),
along with Hadiza Sa-Aadu, Lambie-Hanson, and
Melanie Levy. Ford claimed her second
victory of the meet as well, winning the discus throw with a
distance of 37.27 meters.
Other top three finishers from Emory on day two of the
Classic included sophomore Alix Dyer in the
200-meter dash (2nd, 25.53 seconds) and Kara
Cutrona in the shot put (2nd, 10.71
meters).
Senior Alex Greenhouse came away with victories in
two events during the meet for the men. On the first day,
Greenhouse won the 400-meter hurdles with a personal season-best
and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 53.09 seconds. On day
two, he was victorious 400-meter dash with a time of 49.52
seconds. His fellow senior Tyler Faits
finished second in the 400-meter dash in a mark of 49.73
seconds.
The Eagles also placed well in the 3,000-meter run, where senior
Charles Meade won the event with a time of
8:54.48. Emory athletes claimed the next four spots in the
event as well, with Paul Winterhalter finishing
second, Stephen Ellwood third, Michael
Spewak fourth and Andrew Sullivan
fifth.
Also finishing first at the meet for Emory was Anthony
Lombardo, who won the pole vault by clearing a height of
4.35 meters, matching his season best.
Other top three-finishers for Emory at the meet included
Ben Euwer in the hammer throw (3rd,
40.77 meters), Tommy Fyffe in the 3,000-meter
steeplechase (2nd, 9:34.22), Everett
Bryant in the 110-meter hurdles (3rd, 15.42
seconds), Jason Campbell in the 800-meter run
(1:57.42), Xavier Fowler in the triple jump
(2nd, 13.60 meters) and the Eagles’ 4x400-meter
relay team of Chike Brennen, Isaac
Chambers, Campbell and Faits (3rd,
3:22.30).
Emory senior Stephen Beehler and junior
Brad Pruente also competed in the decathlon at the
meet. Beehler earned a third-place finish with 5,703 points,
while Pruente came in fourth with 5,649 points.
The Emory Classic also marked the final home meet of the careers of
a number of Emory’s senior athletes. The Eagles
celebrated the achievements of their departing seniors during a
ceremony held in the middle of the meet on Saturday.
With the Emory Classic in the books, the Eagles have completed
their home meet schedule for the 2010 Outdoor Track and Field
season. Emory will return to action next weekend at the Duke
Invitational on Friday and Saturday, and the Gem of the Hills
Invitational at Jacksonville State on Saturday.
Emory Women Win the Emory Classic; Men Finish Second
Posted: Mar 27, 2010