Duke has five men's basketball national championships, a Lego mural in ESPN’s studios and now a Barbie modeled after one of its former athletes.
Mattel announced its first hijab-donning Barbie Monday, modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, a former Duke fencer and the first American to earn an Olympic medal while wearing a hijab.
The toy, which will hit stores in 2018, was unveiled at Glamour's Women of the Year summit.
Many other female athletes have had dolls modeled after them as a part of Barbie's Shero collection, including ballerina Misty Copeland and gymnast Gabby Douglas.
Muhammad competed for the Blue Devils from 2004-2007, earning All-American honors three times as a saber. She didn't waste much time once she got to Durham, finishing 49-8 in her freshman year en route to earning her first All-American honors.
Years after graduating in 2007, Muhammad qualified for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, but fell in the second round of the individual sabre competition. However, she made history in the team competition.
Along with three other Americans, Muhammad captured a bronze medal in the team competition by downing Italy 45-30—making Muhammad the first female Muslim-American to earn a medal for the United States.
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A member of the class of 2020 hailing from San Mateo, Calif., Ben is The Chronicle's Towerview Editor and Investigations Editor. Outside of the Chronicle, he is a public policy major working towards a journalism certificate, has interned at the Tampa Bay Times and NBC News and frequents Pitchforks.