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Shannon Rowbury got the best of rival Erin Donohue from North Carolina once again as the Blue Devil broke her own school record in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:14.81 on her way to a first place finish at the ACC Championships Saturday.
The track team rested standout runners Shannon Rowbury and Nick Schneider but sent a handful of other performers to the Carolina Fast Times meet. Meanwhile, a select few athletes were invited to the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., one of the nation’s premier events.
With 200 meters left in the 1,500-meter run, Nick Schneider had just surrendered his lead for the first time in the race. But the senior came out of the curve for the last 100-meter stretch sprinting faster than his competition. In the last 10 meters, Schneider regained the lead for a 3:47.09 victory in his last meet at Wallace Wade.
More than 2,000 runners, jumpers and throwers will gather this weekend in Wallace Wade Stadium for the largest Duke Invitational in the track meet’s 17-year history.
In a typical set of early-season meets, a host of Blue Devils qualified for the postseason, Debra Vento won the high jump and the distance runners placed well among top competition.
Shannon Rowbury, Paige Miller and Debra Vento earned All-American honors at the NCAA Indoor Championship March 12 at the University of Arkansas.
After playing their last game in a Duke jersey—the 2004 national semifinal loss to the Connecticut Huskies—Chris Duhon and Luol Deng expected to go their separate ways.
The women’s track team continued to set new school records as it placed second—its highest ever—at the ECAC Championships in Boston this weekend. The men’s team placed 11th at the IC4A Championships, the ECAC’s counterpart, which also featured top talent from the East Coast.
Shannon Rowbury has proven herself on the outdoor track, cross country trails and now indoors at the ACC Championships—and she’s done it at distances ranging from 400 meters to six kilometers.
The men’s and women’s track teams traveled to Virginia Tech this weekend for indoor action at the Hokie Invitational.
The men’s and women’s track and field teams have been steadily building their programs over the past few years. Although Duke will not compete for many team titles this spring, a number of individuals will contend at the national level.
Freshman Jade Ellis broke the school record in the triple jump at his first collegiate meet. Just two weeks later at Saturday’s Armory Invitational, Ellis shattered his own record by more than a meter and a half to surpass the provisional qualifying mark for the NCAA Indoor Championships. With his fourth-place finish, Ellis became the first male Duke athlete to clear a provisional distance for indoor nationals in a field event.
In just her first meet of the year, Shannon Rowbury topped her All-American performance from last season in the mile, claiming first place and setting a Duke record.
Racing down the court pursued by Virginia"s J.R. Reynolds, J.J. Redick pulled up beyond the arc, dribbled behind his back to lose Reynolds and hit an off-balance fadeaway, giving Duke a 15-point lead.
While Luol Deng and Chris Duhon are out of town with the Bulls, the Blue Devils will replace their former teammates at Chicago’s United Center Saturday against Valparaiso.
J.J. Redick and Daniel Ewing masked the 10th-ranked Blue Devils' weaknesses in the frontcourt as each scored 29 points-combining for almost three quarters of the team's total. Duke topped Michagin State for the second-consecutive year in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge with a 81-74 win Tuesday.
The men's and women's cross country squads sent their B-teams to the Bronx, N.Y., this weekend to race in the historic IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships. The two races, which used to crown the nation's top men's and women's team, respectively, are now overshadowed by the NCAA Championship meet but still host the best of the rest from the east.
he women’s cross country team continued to write Duke history as it raced to its first ever NCAA Southeast Regional victory. Competing without their top two runners, the No. 5 Blue Devils nabbed one of the region’s two automatic bids to the NCAA National Championship meet.
Ludovic Walter could not match last year’s semifinal appearance at the ITA National Indoor Championships, despite a win over top-seeded Catalin Gard of Mississippi.
After last weekend’s conference championships, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams rested their top runners Saturday, leaving the racing to the B-teams. The men’s backup runners placed second at the Cavalier Open in Charlottesville, Va., while the second-tier women’s team participated in a non-scored meet in Raleigh.
