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The men's and women's track teams traveled to Philadelphia this past weekend to compete in the 103rd running of the Penn Relays, and neither team returned without several top performances.
It is the largest relay meet in the country with over 10,000 athletes competing from the high school and college levels and as unattached or sponsored runners. It is also the oldest, in existence for 103 years. And the Penn Relays, held this weekend in Philadelphia, will be a meet for the men's and women's track teams to show how they can compete with the best in the nation.
ATLANTA - The women's track and field team had a somewhat disappointing weekend at the Atlantic Coast Conference championships held at Georgia Tech, as it finished in ninth place with 11 points.
ATLANTA - They entered the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships hoping to score 30 points. Instead, the members of the men's track and field team managed to total 39.5 points-the highest Duke point total in two decades-to finish seventh at the weekend meet.
Both the women's and men's track and field teams will head to Atlanta this weekend for the Atlantic Coast Conference outdoor championships, and both teams are looking to build on the successes of their seasons thus far.
It was the first time in nearly a decade that the sun did not shine for the entire Duke Invitational, but despite the sparse crowds, the weather did little to dampen the women's track and field team's spirit. The Blue Devils managed to break two school records at the meet.
Throughout a steady drizzle Saturday afternoon, several bright spots stood out for the men's track and field team at the Duke Invitational this weekend.
With 1,779 participants and 102 teams and clubs entered, the Duke Invitational has set a new record for entries, and several Olympic athletes will be highlighting the meet, held Friday and Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium.
As a sophomore at Magnificat High School in Rocky River, Ohio, Stephanie Thomas watched from the side as her school's 4x800-meter relay team became national champ in the event. Thomas was primarily a 400-meter runner, and was only considered an alternate for the 800, having never really competed in the event.
The women's track and field team took advantage of a meet designed specifically with relay events to run several top five performances at the Raleigh Relays hosted by N.C. State this past weekend.
Although conditions were windy, and at times, wet, the weather seemed to have little effect on the men's track and field team at the Raleigh Relays this past weekend held at N.C. State.
The men's track and field team opened its outdoor season with one of its best starts ever, competing in the Florida State Relays in Tallahassee.
The last time the men's basketball team won an NCAA Tournament game, it defeated Florida, 70-65, in the 1994 Final Four at Charlotte Coliseum. On Friday, the Blue Devils will again head to Charlotte, hoping to find the success they had three seasons ago, as they meet the Murray State Racers in a first-round NCAA matchup.
Although the sting of the men's basketball team's 91-85 loss to North Carolina is slowly beginning to fade, the rivalry between the two schools never will. To offer a consolation to those fans who find the loss particularly hard to deal with, I have compiled several reasons which will help restore each reader's faith in being a Blue Devil.
The men's track and field team sent a number of athletes to the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America (IC4A) meet this past weekend in Cambridge, Mass., and four of these athletes combined for the highest finish for a Duke team at the IC4As since 1973.
CHAPEL HILL - Characteristic of any time the two Tobacco Road rivals meet, the contest between the seventh-ranked men's basketball team (23-7, 12-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) and the No. 8 Tar Heels (21-6, 11-5 in the ACC) was close.
GREENSBORO - Before this year, the women's track and field team had only managed to total 12.5 points in any Atlantic Coast Conference indoor meet. This year, however, the Blue Devils nearly equaled this mark in a single event on their way to scoring 23 points to finish eighth at the meet this past weekend.
GREENSBORO - The last time the men's track and field team scored over 30 points at the Atlantic Coast Conference indoor meet, Duke had track scholarships and a team with Olympic-caliber runners. As an indication of how long ago this was, most students weren't even born yet. In 1973, the Blue Devils scored 31 points at the ACC meet, and this year, the team nearly equalled that mark by totaling 30 points.
Sophomore Dmitry Muzyka got a late start in the game of tennis. Growing up in the Ukraine under a Communist regime, most kids his age had already been playing since they were seven years old, so when Muzyka first picked up a racket at age nine, he had some catching up to do.
The Blue Devil's headband read "ACC: every game is a battle," and in the case of the men's basketball team's seemingly easy 70-61 win over Georgia Tech (8-11, 2-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday, the statement was certainly accurate.
