The Emory University track and field team saw competition at both the Bulldog Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama and the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday afternoon.
 
Junior Steven Ditelberg highlighted the day smashing the pole vault record he se last week at the Camel City Invitational. In his fifth jump of the meet, he completed the 4.67m jump to break his previous record of 4.55m. Freshman Kevin Zhong kicked things off in the field events with a seventh place finish in the high jump (1.92m) while freshman Jason Bright (6.39m, 8^th), sophomore Kofi Igyan (6.37m, 9^th) and freshman Ohene Dah (6.32m, 10^th) all took top-10 finishes in the long jump. Bright also earned a seventh place finish in the triple jump (12.29m) to conclude the jump events.
 
Three Eagles saw top-15 finishes in the shot put with freshman Ari Klasky (14.34m, 11^th) and sophomores Rohan Vasandani (12.73m, 14^th) and Tyler Edwards (12.70m, 15^th) all competing in the event. Edwards and Klasky later finished in the top-15 in the weight throw with 13.90m and 13.76m marks respectively.
 
Senior Sam Ryba got things started on the track for the men qualifying for the 60m finals with a 6.97, third place finish in the prelims before later taking seventh in the finals with a time of 7.01. Teammate Ethan Lu followed with a qualifying time of 8.63 in the 60m hurdles and finished eighth in the finals (8.76). Senior Jackson Price started the long sprints running a 22.15 in the 200m for a 10^th place finish while sophomore teammate Theodore Drye took home a fifth place finish in the 400m with a 49.31 time.
 
 Starting the distance events for the men was freshman Ryan McGonigle taking seventh with a 1:54.99 time. He was followed by senior Ben Zamler taking 10^th with a time of 1:57.49. Four Eagles finished in the top five in the mile with senior Jonathan Orelowitz (4:17.99, 2^nd) and sophomore Kirin Karver (4:21.58, 5^th) taking the two best times for Emory. Teammates Dalton Lowery and Nikhil Makker both later competed in the 3000m run finishing second and fourth respectively. Sophomore Olin Gilster (14:52.36, 3^rd) and junior Lucas Moskovitz (15:14.48, 5^th) rounded out the distance events with top-five finishes in the 5000m run.
 
Teammates Dawit Dean and Scott Masterson both competed at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational against Division I opponents. Dean ran one of his best times in the 800m at the event finishing 68^th out of 232 runners with a time of 1:52.53. Masterson also ran an impressive time in the mile finishing 255^th out of 354 runners with a time of 4:15.60.
 
The first female field competitor to take a top-15 finish was freshman Anna Jennings who took a 15^th place finish in the long jump with a mark of 4.93m. Teammates Erin Makhanian and Hannah Riley finished in a tie for 13^th in the pole vault jumping a 3.22m mark. The jump events ended with graduate student Nikki Boon (11.25m, 3^rd) and sophomores Dijaye Carpenter (10.37m, 7^th) and Elsa Bildtsen (10.25m, 8^th) competing in the triple jump.
 
For the throwers, senior Sarah Fineman kicked things off taking a third place finish in the shot put with a distance of 13.34m followed by top-15 finishes from freshmen Jeanette Hydukovich (11.54m, 9^th) and Janelle Bobb (10.33m, 15^th). Hydukovich (10.25m, 12^th) and Bobb (9.09m, 14^th) as well as senior Kylie Hanson (11.50m, 11^th) finished the day in the weight throw.
 
Senior Maura Dianno started the sprints for the Emory women qualifying for the 60m finals with a time of 7.85 before taking fifth in the finals with a mark of 7.84. Graduate student Eva Carchidi continued her impressive season finishing fifth in the 200m dash running a 25.04. In the 400m, Senior Dashiel Tao Harris (58.58) and freshman Amaya Grant (59.37) both took top-10 finishes followed by more top-10 finishes in the 800m from freshman Rowan Miller (2:17.31) and juniors Madison Tiaffay (2:22.54) and Payton Sullivan (2:23.72).
 
Tiaffay later took the top spot in the mile event running a 4:59.25. Teammates Payton Fleming (5:10.34), Avery McAdams (5:15.61) and Sophia Powell (5:20.65) finished third, fifth and 10^th respectively. Rounding out the distance events was freshman Davis Johnson who ran a fifth place, 17:27.87 time in the 5000m setting the Bulldog Invitational record.
 
Tomorrow, February 15, senior Liesl Scherrer will be the lone Eagle competing as she will be running in the 5000m run at the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational at 6:30 PM.