2007-08 Indoor Season Recap

The 2007-08 Indoor Track and Field season was one of broken records and numerous honors for Emory University, which recorded one of its most successful indoor campaigns in recent history.

Emory sent four runners, competing in three different events to the NCAA Division III National Championships.  Emory’s 4x400-meter relay team, composed of Alex Greenhouse, Jason Campbell, Naoki Murai, and Frederick Linton, finished seventh nationally, becoming the first relay team in school history to earn all-America honors.  In addition, Linton recorded a seventh-place finish in the 400-meter dash to earn the first individual indoor all-America honor for Emory since the 2004 season.  Greenhouse also competed in the 55-meter dash, recording a school-record time of 6.41 seconds, but finishing just one-hundredth of a second shy of qualifying for the events finals.  The Eagles scored four points during the meet, finishing in 46th-place.

The National Championship Meet followed an extremely successful showing at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships, finishing second out of seven teams.  The Eagles were paced by the UAA’s Most Valuable Performer, Frederick Linton, who finished first and set conference records in the 200-meter dash, and the 400-meter dash.  Linton also teamed with Greenhouse, Murai, and Campbell on the 4x400-meter relay team, which also finished first in a UAA-record time of 3:20.02.  Emory’s other first-place finisher, Steve Dry, claimed the top spot in the 55-meter dash with a provisional qualifying time of 7.74 seconds.

For the second-consecutive year, the Eagles swept the top-three spots in the UAA 200-meter dash.  Besides Linton’s first-place finish, Greenhouse finished second, and Jim LePorte third.  All together, Emory athletes earned 14 all-UAA honors at the meet.

The Eagles set school records in six different events during the season.  Linton led the way with school-record times in the 60-meter dash (6.94 seconds at the Clemson Opener), the 200-meter dash (22.03 at the UAA Championships), the 300-meter dash (33.85 at the Kent State Tune-Up) and the 400-meter dash (48.47 at the UAA Championships).  Alex Greenhouse set the school record in the 55-meter dash, recording a mark of 6.41 seconds at the UAA Championships and the National Championships.  Linton and Greenhouse, along with Campbell and Murai, also were part of the Eagles’ record-setting 4x400-meter relay team, which recorded a time of 3:15.89 at the Kent State Tune-Up.

Emory competed in four meets with team scoring last season.  Besides the second-place finish out of seven teams at the UAA Championships, and the 46th-place finish out of 61 teams at the NCAA Division III Championships, the Eagles finished second out of 10 teams at the University of the South Invitational, and seventh out of 14 teams with a limited squad at the Sewanee Indoor Invitational.

The following Eagles earned honors during the 2007-08 season:

The following were the top-marks by Emory athletes during the 2007-08 season: