Blue Devils travel to Beantown to face Eagles
When the 2001-2002 schedule was released last fall, the first thing that Boston College forward Kenny Walls did was find the date of his Eagles' home game against defending national champion Duke.
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When the 2001-2002 schedule was released last fall, the first thing that Boston College forward Kenny Walls did was find the date of his Eagles' home game against defending national champion Duke.
Coming into Saturday's game against No. 1 Duke (16-1, 5-1 in the ACC), no current Wake Forest player had ever defeated the Blue Devils or won a road game against a top-10 opponent.
The women's basketball team's most recent victories against N.C. State, Clemson and Wake Forest have featured some inspired play by the No. 7 Blue Devils. Not surprisingly, the first of these three impressive wins against the Demon Deacons Jan. 6 marked the return of assistant coach Joanne Boyle to the Duke bench.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Maybe it's the national television coverage; maybe it's the top-10 opponent.
After an encouraging season-opening victory against then-No. 7 Texas Tech, the Duke women's basketball team appeared to have a stretch of nearly certain victories against several unranked opponents.
After he announced he would stay at Duke last year, it was obvious that by November, Jason Williams' photo would grace the cover of every sports magazine in the country.
The Duke women's rowing team entered the Head of the Chattahoochee in Atlanta this weekend as the two-time defending collegiate champion, and although official results will not be calculated until the end of the week, it appears that the Blue Devils have added a third consecutive title.
At last year's ACC Cross Country Championships, the Duke men's team shocked its competition by sweeping the individual and team titles.
In the Pre-NCAA Meet that featured many of the top-25 teams in the nation, both the women's and men's cross country teams turned in strong performances and solidified their place among the best teams in the nation.
Despite losing National Freshman of the Year and All-American Ansley Cargill to the professional circuit and co-captains Megan Miller and Kathy Sell to graduation, the Duke women's tennis team proved last weekend that this year's squad may be even stronger than last year's national championship contender.
The Duke women's basketball team took a giant step forward Tuesday in ensuring its status as a legitimate national championship contender for years to come when it received a verbal commitment from Brooke Smith, a 6-foot-3 center from San Anselmo, Calif.
For a program in only its fourth year at Duke, the women's rowing team has set an ambitious goal for itself: to qualify for the 20-team NCAA Championships in May 2002. And if Saturday's performance at the Lake Michie Invitational is any indication of what lies ahead, the Blue Devils are well on their way to meeting their lofty expectations.
Duke prides itself on having strong student-athletes, and the two most recent additions to the women's tennis team, junior transfer Julie DeRoo and freshman Saras Arasu, certainly will not diminish this sense of pride.
For the second consecutive year, both the men's and women's cross country teams were victorious at the Fordham Invitational.
For someone who hates to fly long distances, women's basketball star Alana Beard certainly racked up the frequent flyer miles this summer as she traveled extensively throughout the country and the world with the USA junior national team and the Duke women's basketball team.
Many Duke students live by the adage "work hard, play hard," and the women's basketball team certainly abided by this maxim during its 13-day tour of Australia this summer.
Having won 129 of its last 130 ACC matches and 13 straight ACC tournament titles, there is little doubt that Duke is the team to beat going into the four-day ACC women's tennis championship that begins tomorrow in Orlando, Fla.
While the women's tennis team claimed the regular-season ACC title this weekend by dominating Georgia Tech and Clemson, Duke's Amanda Johnson accomplished an amazing feat, becoming the first Blue Devil since current professional Vanessa Webb to go undefeated in dual singles matches.
On a blistering hot Senior Day against Virginia that honored two of Duke's all-time winningest women's tennis players, Megan Miller and Kathy Sell, the second-ranked Blue Devils pulled out a 5-2 win over Virginia
Last summer, two months before the women's tennis team's first tournament, coach Jamie Ashworth announced that rising junior Erica Biro had been released from her scholarship and removed from the team for disciplinary reasons.