The Emory University Women's Track and Field team put together a dominating final day of competition at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Outdoor Championships in New York, NY to win its fourth-straight conference title, and eighth overall outdoor championship in the program's history.

After ending the day on Saturday in third place, Emory athletes accounted for 161 points on the second day of action at Icahn Stadium to pass Washington University (Mo.) and the University of Chicago in the standings and move into first place.  The Eagles finished with a total of 209 points, while Washington claimed second with 186 points and Chicago third with 157.  Following the top three teams were Case Western Reserve (101), New York University (84), Carnegie Mellon (53) and Brandeis (26).

Emory has now won the UAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship each of the last four years, in addition to 1990, 1993, 1994, and 1997.  Emory also won the UAA Women's Indoor Title earlier this year, in addition to 1995 and 2011.

The Eagles' second day was paced by sophomore Debora Adjibaba, who set a pair of conference records and claimed four first-place finishes.  Adjibaba broke her own UAA record in the 100-meter dash (set last year) with a mark of 12.14 seconds to repeat as the champion in the event.  It was the ninth-fastest 100-meter dash time in Division III this season.  She also broke her own conference record in the 200-meter dash, set during yesterday's preliminaries, with a first-place finishing time of 24.83 seconds.

Adjibaba was also a member of two championship relays.  She teamed with junior Pollara Cobb, senior Kaele Leonard and junior Morgan Monroe to win the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 48.51 seconds.  Adjibaba capped off the meet with a win the 4x400-meter relay, along with sophomore Electra Korn, freshman Julie Williamson and Leonard, with a time of 3:56.28.

Senior Theresa Ford concluded her final UAA Championship meet with a total of five all-UAA finishes, including four on the final day.  After winning the long jump with a UAA-record leap during day one, Ford was a second-day runner-up in both the high jump (1.69 meters) and triple jump (11.32 meters).  She added third-place finishes in both the discus throw (36.80 meters) and 100-meter hurdles (15.13 seconds), and scored with a fourth-place finish in the javelin throw (37.91 meters).

Emory athletes added five other second-place finishes to earn all-UAA honors on day two, including Monroe in both the 100-meter hurdles (14.45 seconds, ninth in Division III this year) and 100-meter dash (12.54 seconds), Leonard in the 400-meter dash (57.01 seconds), sophomore Stephanie Crane in the 800-meter run (2:17.19), and Korn in the 400-meter hurdles (1:04.77). 

Finishing third in their respective events to also earn all-UAA honors were Korn in the 400-meter dash (57.67 seconds) and Leonard in the 200-meter dash (25.82 seconds).

Other scoring performances on the final day for the Eagles came from senior Calley Edwards in the 1,500-meter run (seventh place, 4:43.21), sophomore Hannah Parra in both the 100-meter hurdles (fourth place, 16.32 seconds) and 400-meter hurdles (sixth place, 1:07.34), Williamson (fourth place, 2:19.53) and junior Emily Caesar (seventh place, 2:24.40) in the 800-meter run, sophomore Tamara Surtees in the 5,000-meter run (sixth place, 18:08.50), sophomore Madison Hoeninghausen in the javelin throw (fifth place, 34.51 meters), and sophomores Katie Wilson (fourth place, 1.56 meters) and Anja Matthes (fourth place, 1.56 meters) in the high jump.

The Emory women finished the meet with a total of six UAA Championships, 18 all-UAA finishes, and 35 scoring performances.

Emory will return to action next weekend, competing at the Bob Pollack Invitational at Clemson University on Saturday, May 4^th.