From Brandeis University Athletics
Brandeis track and field standout Emily Bryson continued her outstanding 2016-17 season at the University Athletic Association Outdoor Championships this weekend at the University of Chicago.
Bryson, a sophomore, won her second UAA title of the year and the fourth of her career by capturing the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:36.85. She defeated Emory's Gabrielle Strahavich by just over a second-and-a-half. The time put Bryson in 22nd place in Division III this season, putting her in position to qualify for the NCAA Championships in May. Bryson's previous UAA crowns have come at the cross country championships as a freshman, the 2016 5,000-meters outdoors and the 2017 mile run indoors. Bryson's twin sister Julia Bryson also earned a point in the 1,500, placing eighth with a time of 4:50.77.
The Brandeis women turned in a pair of fifth-place relay finishes. In the 4x100, it was the team of sophomore Kanya Brown (Amherst, Mass./Amherst Reg.), rookie Kayla Kurland-Davis (Colrain, Mass./Mohawk Trail Regional), rookie Courtney Page (Laurel, Md./Milton, Mass.) and junior Jessie Moore (Rye, N.Y./Rye), who ran 50.04, just four-hundredths of a second off the fourth-place time turned in by Case Western Reserve. In the 4x800, rookie Madeline Hayman (Worcester, Mass./Burncoat), sophomore Meaghan Barry (Marlborough, Mass./Worcester Acad.), sophomore Maya Sands-Bliss (Williamsburg, Mass./Amherst Regional) and junior Kyra Shreeve (Northborough, Mass./Algonquin Regional) posted a time of 10:01.09.
Sophomore Doyin Ogundiran (Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills East) added a national-caliber performance in an individual race as well, finishing fifth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:15.15, which is ranked 27th among Division III women.