Emory Women’s Track & Field Finishes Day 1 of the UAAs in Third Place

The Emory University women's track and field had its first University Athletic Association (UAA) Champion, and qualified 12 others for event finals on Saturday, during day one of the UAA Indoor Championships.

Sophomore Lauren Attiah won the conference championship in the long jump, recording a provisional qualifying distance of 5.51 meters.  Senior Brittany Donino also earned all-UAA honors in the event with a third-place finish.

Also scoring on the first day was Emory's distance medley relay team of Calley Edwards, Kaele Leonard, Melanie Frank and Sara Gelb, which earned UAA honors with a third-place finish and a time of 12:20.90.

The Eagles also qualified three athletes in each of the 55-meter hurdles, 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash.  In the 55-meter hurdles, Donino claimed first with a provisional time of 8.49, followed by teammate Jasmine McCullough in second and Laura Lambie-Hanson in fourth.  Senior Mary Crystal Spence finished first in the 200-meter dash (26.16), followed by Attiah in third and Hadiza Sa-Aadu in fourth.  In the 400-meter dash, sophomore Alix Dyer claimed first with a provisional time of 58.53, followed by Melanie Levy in second and Alisha Reynolds in third.

Emory's Sa-Aadu and Donino also qualified in the 55-meter dash with second and third-place finishes, respectively, while Frank qualified for the finals of the 800-meter run with a sixth-place finish.

The Emory women totaled 22 points during the first day of competition, trailing only the University of Chicago (60 points) and Washington University (23 points).  The Eagles are tied with Case Western for third, and sit ahead of Brandeis University (17 points), New York University (10 points) and Carnegie Mellon University (1 point).

The Eagles will look to move up in the standings tomorrow, when action resumes at 10:00 AM.