Sarah Dilley

February 2, 2004

Last week was an eventful one for women's track and field. We started off the week with the annual Fund Run on Monday. We found people to pledge us money for the number of laps completed in one hour, and the money raised goes towards funding more athletes' trips to the conference meets and a record board.

Athletes ran, jogged, hurdled, and walked around the track while listening to Emory 400-meter runner John Pitts' debut CD, J.A.W.O.L. We throwers enjoyed tossing a football back and forth while the runners completed workouts.

One of my favorite things about the Fund Run is that it's a rare opportunity to have the entire men's and women's teams practicing together on the track. Usually different event groups are spread out throughout the campus and the WoodPEC doing their individual workouts, but at the Fund Run, distance runners are running alongside sprinters and even throwers.

In fact, there was more than one occasion during which the distance guys confiscated the throwers' football, forcing us to chase them down to get it back.

We rounded out the week with the familiar drive to Sewanee, Tennessee, to compete in a dual meet against the University of the South. This was the first of several trips up North that we will be taking this semester, and it proved to be a successful one.

It was the first meet for some athletes and the second for others. It was a short and sweet meet, and the victorious Eagles were able to make it home by 8 p.m.

Sarah Dilley is a sophomore from Fishers, Indiana. She would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.