Spring sport spotlight: DeSimone wraps up stellar career with Duke women's lacrosse
As the collegiate sports spring season wraps up, the Blue Zone is once again here to analyze an outstanding spring athlete. Up next is Katie DeSimone:
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As the collegiate sports spring season wraps up, the Blue Zone is once again here to analyze an outstanding spring athlete. Up next is Katie DeSimone:
In recent months, pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses across the country have demanded universities disclose and cut off dealings tied to Israel, but institutions including Duke have not answered the call.
The results for North Carolina’s runoff elections races are in. Voters took to the polls to cast their ballot in the remaining primary races to determine which Republican candidates will proceed to the November general elections.
In the peak of her career, Carla Overbeck, assistant coach of the Duke women’s soccer team, was working two jobs. She balanced the assistant coaching gig for the Blue Devils with her position as a starter on the U.S. Women’s National Team. Most of the year, Overbeck trained by herself. In 1995, when the U.S. women got third place in the World Cup, there was not a professional women’s soccer league in America. In 1996, when they won Gold at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, there was not a professional women’s soccer league in America. In 1999, when Overbeck captained her team to a World Cup final victory, there was not a professional women’s soccer league in America.
With the conclusion of the regular season at the end of April, Duke rowing is gearing up to compete in the ACC and NCAA Tournaments throughout the month. The Blue Zone is here with a preview of the postseason:
Duke alumna Melinda French Gates announced her decision to resign from her role as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in a Monday morning Instagram post.
It has been a grueling run for the Blue Devils as of late.
Sportswrap is your one-stop shop for everything Duke athletics, where we’ll recap how each of Duke’s sports currently in competition performed over the last week and give a brief look ahead. Here’s our recap for the week of May 5-11:
Early Sunday, graduating students filed into Wallace Wade as scheduled for Duke’s Class of 2024 Commencement Ceremony. Attendees cheered on the graduates, many of whom did not have a traditional high school graduation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Actor and stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld spoke about the role of humor in leading a meaningful and successful life during his Commencement address to the Class of 2024.
With the second round of the NBA playoffs well under way, a few former Duke men’s basketball stars are in the midst of potential championship runs. The Blue Zone breaks down the recent performances of several Blue Devil alums:
Trinity senior Zahra Hassan and joint MD/MBA-candidate Kayla Thompson delivered welcoming remarks at the 2024 Commencement Ceremony.
In the ACC Championship track and field meet, everything can change in the last few hours.
Fresh off solid wins at home in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, the Duke men’s tennis squad flew to Texas with its postseason on the line. However, the team found its end in the Super Regionals for the second year in a row.
Last week, after a fast start propelled Duke to an ACC tournament victory over Syracuse, head coach John Danowski said “we hope we do that every week.”
Team 7 is ACC champs.
Coming into Friday afternoon’s matchup against Loyola Maryland, Duke needed to prove it deserved to be included in the NCAA tournament. And through three quarters of play, the team put on a selection-worthy performance. Yet the final 15 minutes — full of missed opportunities and slip-ups — dashed the Blue Devils’ chances of a redemptive postseason run.
As Duke baseball marches towards the end of the season, former Blue Devils are keeping busy in the professional leagues. The Blue Zone takes a look at some previous Duke stars making it big:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Academic Council voted to approve the nomination of candidates for earned degrees and a proposal from the School of Medicine to revise non-regular rank faculty titles during its final meeting of the 2023-2024 academic year.