The 2006 Emory men's cross country team was a youthful squad
that featured just two key contributing seniors on a 24-man
roster. While the youth and inexperience showed itself at
various stages throughout the campaign, a number of bright
prospects came through with outstanding efforts, promising to lay
the groundwork for a solid future.
The Eagles of Head Coach John Curtin took home one first-place
finish, that coming at the Great American Cross Country Festival
where it topped a 15-team field. Emory saved its best team
performance for the South/Southeast Region Championships where it
recorded a third-place showing out of 21 squads, narrowly missing
out on earning a bid to the NCAA Championships.
The Eagles were recognized by the National Track and Field &
Cross Country Coaches Association as an All-Academic Team, posting
a grade-point average of 3.41, 12th best among all NCAA Division
III Schools.
Freshman Tommy Fyffe distinguished himself in his
first season of competition and brought home University Athletic
Association Rookie of the Year honors by virtue of his finish at
the conference meet. Fyffe finished among the Eagles' top
five finishers in all six of his competitions highlighted by
ranking as the team's No. 1 runner and fourth overall out of 152
entrants at the Region Championships, running the 8K course in a
season-best time of 26:11.2. Fyffe's showing that afternoon
enabled him to earn one of two at-large bids awarded to Emory to
the NCAA Division IIII Championships.
Sophomore Vikram Srivastava, who made his mark as
a freshman in 2005, continued his development and concluded the
year by finishing among the squad's top five runners in all six of
his competitions. Srivastava earned the Eagles' other
at-large NCAA Championships bid following his 13th-place effort
overall at the Region Championships, crossing the line in
26:35.5
Senior Kile Krol closed out his career with a
consistent season, finishing among the top five Eagle runners in
four of his five competitions. Krol, who paced Emory's effort
at the Alabama Crimson Classic with a 26th-place finish out of 120
runners, ran a season-best 26:17 at the US-Oshkosh
Invitational. Krol earned All-Region honors after registering
an 18th-place finish at the South/Southeast Region Championships.
Rob Leventhal was the other Emory senior who
capped off his career with top-five Eagle finishes in four of five
events. Leventhal's best finish was a ninth-place showing out
of 109 competitors at the Great American Cross Country
Festival.
Junior Mike Rothbart enjoyed a fine season and set
the stage for what appears to be an outstanding senior year.
Rothbart was Emory's top performer in two meets, the Great American
Cross Country Festival and the UW-Oshkosh Invitational.
Rothbart's best time came at UW-Oshskosh (26:05) while his best
finish came at the Great American with a sixth-place mark out of
109 harriers.
All-South/Southeast /Region
Tommy
Fyffe
Cincinnati, OH
Vikram
Srivastava
Chattanooga, TN
Kile
Krol
Moline, IL
Bryan
Forsyth
Franklin, TN
Rob
Leventhal
Maitland, FL
All-UAA Rookie of the Year
Tommy
Fyffe
Cincinnati, OH
United States Track & Field And Cross Country Coaches
Association Academic All-American
Bryan Forsyth
Tommy Fyffe