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While five Blue Devils play this week in the high-profile Riviera/ITA All-American Championships in Pacific Palisades, Calif., two members of the team also spent this weekend in sunny California.
In its first race of the year, the Head of the Potomac, Duke Rowing won the top two places in three of the event’s four races.
After capturing five of six overall championships at the Duke Fab Four Invite last weekend, Duke will send four players to Charlottesville, Va., to compete in the UVA Ranked Plus One Invitational starting today at the Snyder Tennis Center. Seniors Reid Carleton and Jared Pinsky and freshmen Chris Mengel and Fred Saba will all participate in both the singles and doubles sections of the competition.
Highly touted freshman women’s golfer Laetitia Beck was named yesterday to the Israeli team in the World Amateur Team Championship. The tournament is scheduled to begin Oct. 16 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The ACC released the name of its volleyball player of the week yesterday, and for the second consecutive week, it was a Blue Devil.
This weekend’s three-day Fab Four Invitational at Cary Tennis Park had three Blue Devils in their singles finals—one of which came away with a title—and one doubles pair in the running for its bracket’s crown.
The Blue Devils will waste no time teeing it up with the best teams in the nation when they start play today at the Fighting Illini Invitational, their first tournament of the fall season.
Duke remains in a tie for sixth in the NCAA Fall Preview after a solid second day, but sophomore Lindy Duncan has vaulted up the individual leaderboard after a career-best round of 66. Now tied for fourth after a bogey-free Tuesday, Duncan is in prime position to challenge for the individual title. Currently at 4-under, Duncan trails overall leaders Brooke Pancake of Alabama and Alex Marina of Vanderbilt.
Back in May, Duke Men’s Basketball got to meet the president, a reward for winning the national championship.
After a scoreless first half, No. 11 Duke was finally able to find the back of the net—in a big way. Scoring four goals in only 6:35 of play to start the second half, the Blue Devils beat George Washington 4-0 Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium.
The Duke men’s and women’s cross country teams swept the Wake Forest Dual Saturday for each squad’s second win of the season.
After an up-and-down first few games in the FIBA World Championship, Team USA found its form Monday—in a big way. With a barrage of 3-pointers and thunderous dunks against an overmatched Angola squad, the Americans won 121-66 in the round of 16 in Instanbul.
Kyle Singler underwent minor arthroscopic knee surgery Friday at the Duke Medical Center, Duke Sports Information said in a statement. Singler is expected to make a full recovery in time for the start of practice October 15.
The path to defending their national championship has been laid out for the 2010-11 Blue Devils.
It’s been 16 years since the the U.S. won the FIBA World Championship—an unprecedented amount of time for a country that has always been considered the world’s premier breeding ground for basketball talent. It lost in 1998—a lockout year for the NBA—with a squad made up of college players; it lost on its home turf in 2002 in Indianapolis; it lost in 2006 with LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade due in part to defensive lapses.
Duke will be used to the trials of air travel—and thin air—after this weekend.
Propelled by 25 points and two crucial blocks from Kevin Durant, Team USA survived a close 86-85 battle with Spain Sunday in a pre-FIBA World Championships exhibtion match held in Instanbul, Turkey.
Gretchen Miller, a senior central-defender from Fairport, N.Y., has been hard at work this summer in Beaverton, Ore., at an internship with Nike, but the nine-hour time difference between South Africa and Oregon didn’t keep her from following the United States’ magical run to the round of 16. This transcript comes from a phone interview conducted on the eve of the United States’ loss to Ghana.
Henrique Cunha, who ended his freshman year ranked No. 3 in the country, will return for his sophomore year at Duke, the Jau, Brazil, native confirmed to The Chronicle Wednesday.
After 1,525 players were chosen, the 2010 First-Year Player Draft came to an end Wednesday with four Blue Devils now in the professional ranks.
