Four Individuals and One Relay to Represent Emory at the NCAA DIII Track & Field Championships
Emory University’s Alex Greenhouse,
Mary Crystal Spence, Brittany
Donino, Lauren Attiah, and the
women’s 4x100-meter relay team were selected to compete at
the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, to be
held in Berea, OH from May 27th-29th.
Greenhouse, the only member of the Emory men’s team to
qualify, will be competing in the 400-meter hurdles. His
season-best time of 52.59 ranks him sixth among all Division III
competitors this season. The preliminaries of the event will
be at 5:20 PM on Thursday, followed by the finals at 3:25 PM on
Saturday.
Spence will compete in the women’s 100-meter dash, following
her career-best time of 12.13 seconds in the event at the Gregory
Invitational last weekend, the 18th-fastest mark by a
Division III competitor this season. The preliminaries of the
event will be held at 4:40 PM on Friday, with the finals on
Saturday at 2:30 PM.
After earning all-America honors with a fifth-place finish in the
55-meter hurdles during at the 2010 NCAA DIII Indoor Track and
Field Championships, Donino will look for similar results in the
100-meter hurdles at the outdoor championships. Her
season-best time of 14.59 seconds ranks her 10th among
all Division III competitors this season. She will compete in
the preliminaries of the event at 3:30 PM on Friday, with the
finals at 1:45 PM on Saturday.
Attiah will look for the second all-America honor in the triple
jump of her career, following her sixth-place finish in the event
at the NCAA DIII Indoor Championships. Her season-best jump
if 11.86 meters, a school record, ranks her 10th in
Division III in the event. The preliminaries and finals of
the event will be held at 2:30 PM on Saturday.
Emory will also have its women’s 4x100-meter relay team of
Donino, Alix Dyer, Hadiza Sa-Aadu
and Spence competing at the championships. The team’s
season-best time of 47.52 seconds ranks them eighth among all DIII
schools this year. The preliminaries of the relay will be
held at 3:45 PM on Thursday, with the finals at 3:25 PM on
Saturday.
For all of the running events, including the relay, winners of each
of the three preliminary heats will advance to the finals, in
addition to the next five fastest overall times. For the
triple jump, the top nine preliminary finishers will advance to the
finals, to be held immediately after.
The 2010 NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships will be
hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH.
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