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The Blue Devils split for separate competitions this weekend looking to add to their list of athletes in the hunt for a trip to Hoover, Ala., for the NCAA championships March 11-12, and may have done just that.
GREENSBORO, N.C.—The Blue Devils battled for fifth in the team standings with Virginia Tech, holding on through the second and third days of the conference championships but could not withstand the Hokies' battery of A-final swims on the last day.
With one weekend left before the conference championships, the Blue Devils will split up in search of the nation’s best competition to prepare them for the postseason.
The Blue Devils have not finished in the top five of the ACC since 1981—when only six teams competed at the conference championships.
Senior Anima Banks fell short of qualifying for the NCAA indoor championships last year, but when her final time lit up on the scoreboard Friday afternoon, any doubt that she would compete on the national stage in 2016 disappeared.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but a small contingent of Blue Devils are aiming to score a date to the national championships in Hoover, Ala., March 11-12.
CHAPEL HILL—With the conference championships just two weeks away, the Blue Devil freestylers set the tone for the postseason with strong performances this weekend.
Last year, Megan Clark claimed the silver medal in the pole vault at the NCAA indoor championships with a school record of 14 feet, 9 inches, and wasted no time in setting new goals—qualifying for the NCAA outdoor championships for the first time and vaulting 15 feet, 1 inch, or 4.60 meters. The Fort Benning, Ga., native checked the first off her list by qualifying with just one jump for the 2015 outdoor national championships in Eugene, Ore., but “Project Four-Sixty” was incomplete—until Saturday.
With the ACC indoor championships looming just three weeks away, the Blue Devils will look to kick into high gear this weekend at their first of two elite meets in New York.
The Blue Devils ended the regular season with a close dual against their Tobacco Road rivals Jan. 30, and a select group of swimmers will face the Tar Heels again less than a week later.
This weekend’s meet in Winston-Salem, N.C., got most of the Duke squad back on the track after a one-weekend hiatus. But for one Blue Devil, the competition marked a comeback nearly two years in the making.
In November, the Blue Devils made program history at the Tar Heels’ Koury Natatorium by earning the Nike Cup Invitational team title on the men’s side and nearly upsetting the host squad on the women’s side. But North Carolina will look to even the score and spoil Duke’s Senior Day Saturday in the final dual meet of the season for both squads.
With winter storm Jonas canceling their second meet of the indoor season and preventing them from practicing over the weekend, the Blue Devils are anxious to get going again.
Winter storm Jonas may have cancelled the Hokie Invitational in Blacksburg, Va., but it could not keep Karli Johonnot from a record-breaking performance at the Tobacco Road Cup.
Update, 1:10 p.m. The Hokie Invitational has been cancelled due to expected winter weather in Blacksburg, Va.
Duke and Elon are less than an hour’s drive apart, but the two squads have never crossed paths in dual match play.
The Blue Devils entered Saturday’s quad meet undefeated but were unable to defend their perfect record against a pair of ranked Big Ten opponents.
The Blue Devil men upset No. 19 South Carolina by a slim eight-point margin on the road last week, but their dual meet schedule only gets tougher as Duke prepares for its first quad meet since 2012 featuring two ranked opponents Saturday.
CHAPEL HILL—The Blue Devils hoped to walk away from their first meet of the indoor season with team titles for the men and women, but fell short on both sides.
The Blue Devils are back in the saddle and ready to come running out of the gates at their first meet of the indoor season.
