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MD-Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering Shannon O’Connor hopes that her close involvement with graduate student life will make her a graduate Young Trustee who can help the University “be even more extraordinary than it already is.”
Saturday evening junior Curtis Beach lined up for the final event of the decathlon, the 1500m race, knowing he was too far behind in the competition to qualify for the Olympic Team, even if he could break his personal record of 3:59.12. Next to him on the line was Ashton Eaton, who, if he could finish with a time of 4:16.37, would become the world record holder in the multi-event competition. Eaton, though, had never before run faster than 4:18.94 and so would have to break his personal record in order to break the world record.
Both the men's and women's cross country teams will race in NCAA Division I championships held in Terre Haute, Indiana today.
The No. 9 Blue Devils left the courts with mixed results this weekend—after showing their determination with a comeback win against Florida State, they fell the next day to No. 10 Miami.
For divers, the road to the NCAA Championship takes a few steps to travel. First, there are the regular season competitions, which include qualifying for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships. Then, the journey continues with a complicated qualification process at the Zone meet that determines if they receive a berth to the NCAA Championship.
After a successful showing at home, Duke will head to the Temple Duals for the last meet of the regular season.
After a successful showing at home, Duke will head to the Temple Duals for the last meet of the regular season.
After finishing last weekend with a 23-0 shutout against Presbyterian at home, the No. 7 Blue Devils (2-0, 1-0 in the ACC) are looking to carry their momentum into the tougher matchups against Richmond and William & Mary this weekend.
Thursday, Charles Copti will take time off from his classes and midterms to travel to the Junior Olympics for the last time—as a freshman.
This past weekend the majority of the Blue Devils headed to Blacksburg, Va. to compete in the Virginia Tech Elite Meet, with just three—Juliet Bottorff, James Kostelnik and Brian Atkinson—heading to Seattle, Wash. instead. In each location, the Duke athletes proved that they were up to the competition, taking wins in several events and breaking a couple of school records along the way.
While most Blue Devils will head to Blacksburg, Va. for the Virginia Tech Elite Meet this weekend, three Blue Devils—Brian Atkinson, Juliet Bottorff and James Kostelnik—will travel with associate head coach Kevin Jermyn to Seattle, Wash. to take on high-level competition at the Husky Classic.
The Blue Devils have created a tradition of success at the Armory Collegiate Invitational in N.Y.—one that they hope to carry on this weekend as they travel north to compete in the Invitational once again. This time, however, many of the athletes are looking to do more than just win their races.
After splitting to compete at the Hokie Invitational in Blacksburg, Va. and the Dick Taylor Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C., the Blue Devils returned to Duke triumphant. In their first full weekend of competition several athletes ran or jumped to top finishes, and some even found themselves breaking school records.
After starting their season in December at the JDL meet in Winston-Salem, N.C., the Blue Devils have had more than a month to identify target areas for improvement and practice for their next competition. This weekend, the team will head to the Hokie Invitational in Blacksburg, Va. and the Dick Taylor Invitational in Chapel Hill to see if its practicing has paid off.
The Blue Devils will head to Winston-Salem this Saturday for the JDL Fast Track Kick Off, their first meet of the indoor season.
In 2009, the Duke men’s cross country team placed fourth in the Southeast Regional meet, and for the first time in eight years, it seemed like an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship meet might be in the cards. Long before any running websites posted results or the NCAA made its anxiously-awaited announcement, one runner on the Duke team predicted the result.
With one successful meet after another, the 10th-ranked Duke women managed to exceed expectations at the NCAA Championship meet in Louisville, Ky. this past Saturday with a seventh-place finish.
Both the men and women’s teams will head to Louisville, Ky. this year after receiving an at-large bid and an automatic bid, respectively, to the national meet.
In a dominating performance this past Friday, the Blue Devil women earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship meet in Louisville, Ky. when they pulled together for a first-place finish at the Southeast Regional meet.
After the Duke men stated earlier in the week that they would be sure to get either an at-large or automatic bid to the national championship if they finished in a top-four spot, the Blue Devils crossed the line in fifth overall at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet in Charlotte this past weekend.
