Jane Ukandu

Past Entries

Entry 1

March 29, 2005

We started out strong in this outdoor season by winning our first meet, which happened to conveniently be at home. The weather was perfect (mid-80s).

It was especially exciting for me, because this was the first home meet of my career and I had invited several people to come watch. The first race of the day was one that senior Emily Watts and I have been waiting in anticipation for all year long: the 4x100!!! Our favorite race.

This year we have new legs on the relay -- Katie Anding and Janina Kreider -- who are some seriously fast chicks so hopefully good things are to come. We ended up finishing second in our first race by one hundredth of a second. However it's nothing that better handoffs and me wearing my regular spikes can't fix.

The best race of the day in my opinion however was the 100-meter dash with Emily Watts and I busting out with our one and two magic. Somehow in meets, especially with other DIII schools, it always ends up like that.

It was nice to be running with other DIII schools for a change and show the crowd that Emory is a dominant player in track as well as other Emory sports. A lot of us are ahead of where we were last year and hopefully we will continue to add on to the success of last weekend.

Jane Ukandu is a sophomore from Sugar Land, Texas. She would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.