Emory Men's Cross Country Team Finishes Third at UAA Championships

The 13th-ranked Emory University men's cross country team recorded a third-place finish at the University Athletic Association Championships on Saturday morning. The event was held at the Georgia International Horse Park in nearby Conyers.

The Eagles finished with 78 points, trailing New York University's No. 1 mark of 35 points and runner-up Carnegie Mellon's 52 points.  Brandeis (102 pts.) was fourth while Case Western Reserve (108) held down the No. 5 position.  Rounding out the field was Chicago (146 pts.), Washington University (190 pts.) and Rochester (204 pts.).

Junior Tommy Fyffe (Cincinnati, OH) led the Emory effort and finished third overall in the 78-runner field with an 8K time of 25:44.  Junior Charles Meade (Wellesley, MA) crossed the finish line in seventh position with a showing a 25:57.  Both Fyffe and Meade earned First Team All-UAA honors by virtue of their finishes.  NYU's Jesse Schneider took home first place with a time of 25:34.  Other scorers for the Eagles included junior Alex Robin (Evanston, IL) who posted an 18th-place finish (26:35), Greg Decker (22nd, 26:39) and junior Paul Winterhalter (28th, 26:49).

Emory's third-place finish represented the program's best showing at the UAAs since 2002 when that team recorded a second-place performance.