The Emory University track and field programs competed at the South Carolina Invite on Friday afternoon with graduate students Eva Carchidi and Dawit Dean breaking program records in the 200m dash and 600m dash respectively.
 
Carchidi took home a first place finish in the 200m dash running a 24.77 followed by a fourth place finish in the event from senior Audrey Johnson with a time of 25.54. Also taking a top-10 finish was senior Kaya Binetti who took eighth in the 60m dash prelims (7.82) before later finishing sixth in the finals (7.82).
 
Teammates Rowan Miller (2:15.66) and Hannah Riley (2:26.96) both competed in the 800m run finishing first and fifth respectively in the event followed by a fourth place run from senior Dashiel Tao Harris in the 400m dash with a time of 58.87. Senior Paige Murdock finished in the top spot in the 600m dash running a 1:42.59 while junior Payton Sullivan followed right behind with a time of 1:44.81.
 
Three more Eagles, senior Liesl Scherrer (10:05.16, 1^st), freshman Ashlyn Pallotta (10:18.52, 3^rd), and freshman Davis Johnson (10:31.94, 5^th), all competed in the 3000m run. Rounding out the individual events was senior Madison Tiaffay who took first in the mile (5:04.05) while sophomore Payton Fleming took fourth (5:11.30).
 
Riley had the best finish in field events for the Emory women taking first in pole vault with a height of 3.53m. Teammates Erin Makhanian (3.38m) and Emerson Sobich (3.23m) finished third and fourth respectively. Graduate student Nikki Boon jumped right back into things taking fourth in the long jump with a distance of 5.55m while freshman Jeanette Hydukovich finished fifth in the shot put (11.92m). Finishing the field events was Johnson who took sixth in the triple jump with a distance of 11.09m.
 
Dean led things off on the track for the men taking first in the 600m run with a time of 1:20.70 followed by a fifth place finish in the 800m run by freshman Ryan McGonigle (1:54.91). Also competing in distance events was graduate students Spencer Watry (4:09.91) and Ethan Thompson (4:20.31) in the mile finishing second and fifth respectively.
 
Teammates Olin Gilster (15:06.01, 2^nd), Matthew McClure (15:18.28), and Lucas Moskovitz (15:39.49, 5^th) all competed in the 5000m run while freshman Dalton Lowery (8:35.08, 4^th), junior Nikhil Makker (8:38.11, 6^th) and graduate student Scott Masterson (8:48.85, 7^th) ran in the 3000m run.
 
Starting things in field events was junior Henry Brandstadter who took first in the long jump with a distance of 7.39m and fifth in the high jump with a distance of 1.92m. Senior Geoff Point-du-Jour also competed in the high jump with a distance of 1.92m followed by a second place finish in the pole vault from junior Steven Ditelberg with a height of 4.33m.
 
Rounding out the competition on the field was freshman Sam Gouvalaris in the triple jump (13.78m, 7^th) and sophomore Rohan Vasandani in the shot put (12.00m, 9^th).
 
The Emory women had two DMR groups compete with the group of freshman Avery McAdams, senior Paige Murdock and sophomores Elise Picard and Elizabeth Csikai taking second with a time of 12:39.27. The group of freshmen Sophia Powell and Arden Gray, junior Karsten Bobb and senior Samantha Glass who took third with a time of 13:23.31.
 
 In the 4x400m relay, the group of Johnson, Miller, Carchidi and Boon finished second running a 3:55.30 followed by a third place finish from freshman Sophia Deeney, Binetti, Tiaffay and Riley with a time of 4:04.10.
 
For the men, the DMR group of sophomores Kirin Karver and Sebastian Kou and seniors Chris Belz and Jonathan Orelowitz finished first with a time of 10:35.66 followed by a second place finish from the group of freshman Carsen Valenta, junior Jason Huang and seniors Justin Whitney and Turner Goetsch running a 10:45.94. In the 4x400m, the group of Dean, McGonigle, Watry and sophomore Jayden Bai finished fifth with a time of 3:23.16.
 
The Eagles will send a few throwers to the Tiger Indoor Open at Sewanee University in Mount Laurel, Tennessee on Saturday, February 1.