(June 3, 2004) - Emory University's Angela Davie and Emily Watts have been named to the Academic All-District first team for women's cross country and track and field. Their names will be placed on the national ballot for the Academic All-America team to be announced later this summer.

This is the second consecutive year Davie has made the Academic All-District first team. Davie, a junior, had a 3.79 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as a business administration major. In cross country last season, Davie earned all-region and all-state honors for the third time in as many years. She is a 2002 cross country All-American.

Watts, a junior, had a 3.90 GPA while majoring in mathematics and political science. This season, she was the conference indoor track champion for the 55-meter dash and the conference outdoor track champion in the 100-meter dash.

Davie and Watts are two of the 10 athletes honored from their district. Emory is the only school with two representatives on the all-district team.

Voting for the all-district team is done by members of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) in the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

(Jan. 15, 2004) - Three Emory University runners were awarded spots on the Regional All-Freshmen Teams selected by Southregionrunning.com.

Amy DiBianca and Caroline Hagedorn were both placed on the all-freshmen first team. DiBianca finished among the top 10 runners overall in seven of eight races this season, including first overall out of 104 non-Division I runners at the Georgia Collegiate Championships. Hagedorn was Emory's top finisher at the NCAA regional meet, finishing fifth overall out of 157 runners with a time of 23 minutes and 32 seconds.

Jennifer Cronin was awarded a spot on the Regional All-Freshmen second team. She was Emory's sixth finisher at the NCAA regional meet finishing 36th overall.

(Nov. 22) - Emory University finished 21st at the NCAA Division III national championships. This was Emory's 14th consecutive appearance at the nationals, the longest active streak in NCAA Division III.

Freshman Amy DiBianca was Emory's top finisher in 58th place with time of 23 minutes and 22 seconds for the 6,000-meter course. That is the ninth-best time ever by an Eagle at that distance.

Angela Davie, an All-American last year, was next for Emory at 23:42.

Of the team's seven entrants, only its No. 7 runner graduates next spring.

(Nov. 15) - Emory University finished first out of 20 teams at the NCAA Division III Regional Championship. The Eagles, ranked 25th in the nation, won the regional meet for the 13th consecutive year.

The Eagles had five runners on the all-region team and four runners among the top 10 finishers. Caroline Hagedorn led Emory with a fifth-place finish out of 157 runners and a time of 23 minutes and 32 seconds. This was the first time Hagedorn had been the top runner for the Eagles.

She was followed closely by Dorothy Boone in sixth place, Amy DiBianca in seventh place and Angela Davie in 10th place. Erin Manning rounded out the top five for Emory in 15th place.

Davie earned her third consecutive all-region honor and Boone and Manning made their second straight appearance on the all-region team. Freshmen Hagedorn and DiBianca earned their first all-region honor.

With the win at the regional meet, the Eagles advance to the NCAA National Championships Saturday in Hanover, Indiana.

(Nov. 4) - Amy DiBianca was named Freshman of the Week by Southregionrunning.com for the third time this season. DiBianca was the top finisher for the Eagles at the University Athletic Association championship meet with a time of 22 minutes and 49 seconds. She finished 4th out of 78 runners.

(Nov. 1) - Emory University finished third at the University Athletic Association championships. This extends a streak of 13 consecutive top-three finishes at the conference meet for the Eagles.

Freshman Amy DiBianca was honored as the conference Rookie of the Year. She received the honor after finishing fourth out of 78 runners to earn a spot on the all-conference first team.

DiBianca is the second freshman in school history to make the all-UAA first team. The other is Alexis Llewellyn who was fifth at the 1992 conference meet.

DiBianca's time of 22 minutes and 49 seconds for the 6,000-meter course is 52 seconds faster than her time at the NCAA pre-national meet Oct. 10, Emory's only other 6,000-meter race this season. Her time also is the fifth fastest ever by an Eagle in any 6,000-meter race.

Junior Angela Davie was Emory's No. 2 finisher in 10th place with a time of 23:19, which is nine seconds faster than her time at the NCAA pre-nationals. Davie earned a spot on the all-conference second team, her third consecutive year with all-UAA honors.

Freshman Caroline Hagedorn was next for Emory in 12th place at 23:24, a 38-second improvement from the NCAA pre-nationals. She received a spot on the all-conference second team.

This is the third time in Emory history that at least two freshmen have made the all-conference team. The Eagles had three freshmen so honored in 1992 (Alexis Llewellyn, Lochen Treadwell, Shannon Taich) and 2001 (Angela Davie, Lauren Kretz, Dorothy Boone).

Emory began the week ranked 17th in the nation. The Eagles will try to extend their streak of 13 consecutive NCAA regional titles

(Oct. 25) - In a tuneup for the conference championships, Emory University finished second out of 23 teams at the Southeastern Classic.

For the second time this season, the team had seven runners better 20 minutes for the 5,000-meter course. The first was Oct. 4 at the state championships when the team's No. 7 runner was clocked at 19 minutes and 44 seconds.

Today, the team's No. 7 runner, Adele Blum, finished at 19:39. That is a career-best time for Blum.

Emory's top runner was Angela Davie who ran an 18:29 to finish fourth out of 193 runners. Right behind her was Amy DiBianca in sixth place at 18:36.

Rounding out the top seven after Davie and DiBianca were Caroline Hagedorn (19:02), Dorothy Boone (19:06), Sarah Couyoumjian (19:28), Erin Manning (19:29) and Blum.

Next weekend, Emory aims for its second conference championship in three years. The Eagles have been runner-up six times in the last 11 years.

The Eagles are ranked 17th in the nation by the cross country coaches. At the conference meet, Emory faces the No. 22 ranked team in the nation.

(Oct. 10) - Emory University finished second out of 16 teams at the NCAA pre-national meet in Indiana. Emory, ranked No. 16 in the nation, placed behind a team ranked 20th nationally.

The meet was held at the same location to be used for the NCAA national meet in November. By rule, the courses for NCAA post-season meets are 6,000 meters rather than the 5,000 meters run in most regular-season meets.

(Oct. 4) - For the fourth time in school history, Emory University won the non-NCAA Division I team title at the Georgia Collegiate Championships. The Eagles also won in 1993, 2000 and 2001.

Emory freshman Amy DiBianca won the individual title among 105 non-Division I runners with a time of 18 minutes and 25 seconds for the 5,000-meter course. She joins Sarah Byrd (2001) as the only Eagles ever to win the state individual championship.

DiBianca's time is the second fastest ever by an Emory runner at the state meet, five seconds behind Byrd's time in 2001. The time also is the 14th fastest by an Eagle in any race.

DiBianca was one of nine Emory runners to break 20 minutes in the race, a feat never before accomplished in school history. The previous record was eight runners under 20 minutes at the Oglethorpe-Emory Invitational on Oct. 8, 1994.

Six Emory runners placed among the top 14 overall in the non-Division I race to earn all-state honors. They are DiBianca (1st), Angela Davie (3rd), Caroline Hagedorn (5th), Dorothy Boone (8th), Sarah Couyoumjian (11th), and Erin Manning (12th). Adele Blum (15th) missed the all-state team by one spot.

The school record for all-state honorees in one year is seven, set in 1993. The Eagles also had six all-state honorees in 1994, 1996 and 2001.

Davie and Boone, both juniors, each made the all-state team for the third time. They are the sixth and seventh Eagles to accomplish that feat.

One of them, Jeanne Hoffman (1981-82, 1984), did so back in the days when all-state was awarded to the top 14, regardless of their school's NCAA affiliation. Two of them, Vista Beasley (1994-97) and Kim Lupo (1993, 1995-97), went on to become four-time honorees.

(Sept. 25) - Angela Davie was named Athlete of the Week and Amy DiBianca was named Freshman of the Week by Southregionrunning.com. Davie finished seventh out of 142 runners at the Georgia State University Invitational with the region's second fastest time this year of 18 minutes and 24 seconds. DiBianca became the first freshmen in the region to break 19 minutes at the GSU Invitational, running a time of 18 minutes and 51 seconds and placing 10th out of 142 runners.

(Sept. 20) - Emory University finished second out of 11 teams at the Georgia State University Invitational. The meet is a preview of the same course that will be used for the state championships in two weeks.

Angela Davie was the top runner for Emory, finishing seventh out of 142 runners. She placed ahead of 35 runners from NCAA Division I schools. Davie completed the 5,000-meter course with a time of 18 minutes and 34 seconds. That was 23 seconds faster than her time in the same race last year and the 19th fastest time in school history for any meet.

Davie was one of four veterans to place among the team's top seven runners. Three of them--Davie, Adele Blum and Erin Maning--improved their times from the same race a year ago. The average improvement among those three runners was two minutes and one second.

Behind Davie were Amy DiBianca (10th place), Caroline Hagedorn (15th), Boone (18th), and Sarah Couyoumjian (25th). All five finished under 20 minutes with Couyoumjian crossing the finish line at 19:44. That is the fastest time ever record by Emory's No. 5 runner in this meet. [The next fastest is 20:03 by Kari-Anna Wing in 2001.]

Emory is ranked No. 20 in the national coaches poll.

(September 6) - Emory University opened its season by winning the University of the South (Tenn.) Invitational. This is the 10th time the Eagles have won this meet dating back to 1987.

Junior All-American Angela Davie was the team's top finisher for the ninth consecutive race dating back to last season. Davie was third overall out of 117 runners with a time of 19 minutes and eight seconds for the 5,000-meter course. That time was 10 seconds faster than her time in the same race a year ago.

Of the team's top six finishers, three were freshmen. Amy DiBianca placed sixth overall, Caroline Hagedorn was eighth and Sarah Couyoumjian was 16th.

Couyoumjian was the team's No. 6 finisher with a time of 20:27. To find a comparable time by Emory's No. 6 runner at the U. of South meet, one has to go back to 1992. The top five finishers for the 1992 team at that race were all freshmen while its No. 6 runner was timed at 20:30.

The Eagles returned five of their top seven runners from last year's team which won the NCAA regional title for the 12th consecutive year. Emory was ranked No. 23 in the final national coaches' poll last season.