Tess Boade, Caitlin Cosme and Lily Nabet to return to Duke women’s soccer for fifth seasons
By Jonathan Browning | June 9, 2021Fear not Duke fans—you don’t have to say goodbye to all the Blue Devil seniors just yet.
Fear not Duke fans—you don’t have to say goodbye to all the Blue Devil seniors just yet.
From the opening kickoff of the first game to the final penalty in the Blue Devils' NCAA tournament run, 242 days elapsed—a long time in itself. But their season truly began July 21, when the team arrived back on campus.
It was one of the boldest ideas in recent memory.
For 110 minutes, No. 9-seed Duke held top-ranked Florida State without a goal—the only team in the country to accomplish that feat all season. But it wasn’t enough to give the Blue Devils the win.
The road to the College Cup is long and winding, but sometimes, if you can weave through traffic just right, you can set your cruise control and just ride for a few miles.
If styles make fights, then one shared style makes for a long, slow, painful battle to the death. A battle where one Maggie Graham-Sophie Jones connection was enough to provide the deadly blow.
After Duke’s longest regular season ever and a nonconference schedule designed to prove the team's worth, the Blue Devils are in the NCAA tournament for the sixth straight year.
With Duke and North Carolina facing off on the Blue Devils’ Senior Night in the last regular season game of the season for both teams, it’s natural that tensions were running high.
In a year that’s been anything but normal , a muted tie on Senior Day feels almost symbolic of the season.
An even score doesn’t necessarily reflect an evenly matched game. Despite leaving Raleigh without a win, the Blue Devils controlled play for almost the entire night.
It’s easy to forget how much you miss the feel of a crowd, and how little you pine for soccer fans’ yelling over offsides and fouls. Duke took the opportunity to remind me of both Friday.
Freshman forward Thorleifur Ulfarsson took matters into his own hands Sunday afternoon.
As the saying goes, there’s no place like home.
“Strikers are judged on their goal production, and apart from the Virginia Tech game, we've been struggling,” Kerr said. “And that has to change.”
A total of 113 days passed between Duke's fall finale and its spring opener, the longest gap between games in the same season in team history.
After failing to notch a goal in any of their first three games of the spring season, anticipation for when one would finally sneak past the goalie was high in Blacksburg, Va., this past Saturday.
Hamill was Duke mens’ soccer’s savior Friday night.
Duke played energetically, swiftly retrieving the ball from Kentucky and getting plenty of shot opportunities. However, finishing those opportunities remains a recurring issue for the Blue Devils.
Rarely are scoreless games entertaining. But what the Blue Devils couldn’t deliver on the scoreboard Friday evening they certainly delivered in excitement.
"I actually didn't know that I was going to be getting drafted. I didn't enter in the draft,” Boade told The Chronicle.