Duke volleyball closes out tough weekend on a high note with win against Penn
Traveling to the west coast this weekend, Duke survived a whirlwind of three games in 24 hours and a test of team confidence.
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Traveling to the west coast this weekend, Duke survived a whirlwind of three games in 24 hours and a test of team confidence.
Duke will head back to Virginia to compete in the James Madison Invitational Saturday. The 18 athletes’ performances will determine the roster for the Panorama Farms Invitational later this month.
Plagued by service errors in their loss to Michigan Friday, the Blue Devils needed a total team effort to rally back for a victory against a ranked opponent less than 24 hours later.
Opening the season with a tournament sweep at the Duke Invitational and a win against Campbell Tuesday, the Blue Devils will head north with hopes of taking down Big Ten opponents this weekend.
Sophomore Wesley Frazier set the tone for a new season and put the setbacks of 2013 far behind her at the Virginia Duals Friday.
After a short two weeks of practice, Duke hits the road for the first race of the season Friday.
A host of new faces will toe the line for Duke this season, but not all the Blue Devils looking for a fresh start are new to the collegiate environment.
The reigning ACC champions begin the 2014 season with head coach Jolene Nagel in her 16th year at the helm. The 2013 ACC and American Volleyball Coaches Association All-East Coast Region Coach of the Year has led the Blue Devils to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances in the past 13 years, establishing Duke as one of the premier volleyball programs on the East Coast.
Led by graduate student Juliet Bottorff, the Blue Devils closed out the outdoor season with four All-America Honors at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., this weekend.
Chasing another title in her final races in a Duke uniform, national championship veteran Juliet Bottorff leads seven other Blue Devils into their first NCAA Championships.
The NCAA East Regional meet was an emotional roller coaster for Duke.
With one meet left before the NCAA Championships, Duke athletes will have to produce and advance or go home.
Several Blue Devils will look to add themselves to Duke’s growing NCAA First Round roster following their performances in Raleigh, N.C., and Atlanta, Ga., this weekend.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Senior Hannah Goranson had a big weekend to help wrap up her Duke career, taking home a new school record in the 100-meter hurdles Saturday and a diploma Sunday.
Representing Duke at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, graduate students Bottorff, Audrey Huth and Mike Moverman competed against the nation’s fastest collegiate distance runners drawn to Stanford’s ideal racing conditions.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Blue Devils will continue a program tradition dating back before World War II when they take collegiate track and field’s biggest stage this weekend at the country’s oldest and largest competition.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Duke had never won a conference decathlon title prior to this weekend. The Blue Devils atoned for this by sweeping the podium at the ACC Champioships.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With records falling right and left, Duke is setting itself up to have the most impressive season in recent memory with its first championship test starting Thursday.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Blue Devils continued to forecast an impressive ACC Championship showing with yet another group of athletes taking center stage this weekend.The women’s middle distance runners shined at the Joe Hilton Invitational Saturday in Chapel Hill, bringing home two first-place finishes in the final meet before conference competition. Freshman Haley Meier and junior Abby Farley debuted their best events Saturday after holding off from competition in the first month of the outdoor season for intensive training. The strategy looks like it will pay off in Meier’s first collegiate outdoor season.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With the momentum of an explosive indoor season and one school record after another falling outdoors, the Blue Devils are off to the strongest start to the outdoor season in recent memory.