Two more prizes for Beard
(04/05/04 4:00am)
Alana Beard may have wanted to lead her team to victory in New Orleans this weekend, but instead she had to settle for picking up several individual national honors.
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Alana Beard may have wanted to lead her team to victory in New Orleans this weekend, but instead she had to settle for picking up several individual national honors.
When the sixth-ranked Duke women's lacrosse team faces No. 5 Virginia Saturday, it hopes to repeat regular season history against the Cavaliers and make ACC history of its own.
Last week Liz Janangelo teed off in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship against some of the best golfers in the world, including Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie. Tuesday, she was back in the Gothic Wonderland as the ultimate student athlete--balancing her courses as a sophomore history major with her place at the top of the Duke women's golf team and the national collegiate rankings.
Without the luster of a perennial powerhouse such as Notre Dame, the winner of six national team titles, or the luxury of a recruiting program complete with athletic scholarships, the Duke fencing squad, particularly the women's squad, showed that it is a rising power over the weekend at the NCAA Championships held at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
Duke's fencing squad has shown that power doesn't necessarily come in numbers at the NCAA Championships that kicked off yesterday in Waltham, Mass. After the first day, which consisted of four women's rounds, the two Blue Devil female rookie fencers have gotten off to a strong start, despite their inexperience at this level of competition.
It took eight years for the Duke men's tennis ACC win streak to end, and when it did yesterday against Florida State, it took a grueling three-hour singles match to do so.
Squeezed between a tough week in Hawaii, which included victories over Notre Dame and Tennessee, and a big home matchup with No. 7 North Carolina Sunday, the No. 5 Duke women's tennis team cruised to a 7-0 win over Yale yesterday afternoon in the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.
Luol Deng thinks J.J. Redick is the best shooter in college basketball. Chris Duhon once called his shooting inhuman. Even high school junior Ruthie Furman of Providence, R.I., though removed from the Duke basketball program, thinks so highly of Redick and his talent that she leads an 80-member Redick fan club hosting "Watch Parties" complete with makeovers, pillow fights and, of course, Duke basketball.
It was going to be a struggle. After losing to then-No. 12 Notre Dame on March 10 and barely sliding past North Carolina in sudden death on March 13, the No. 4 Duke women's lacrosse team traveled to Princeton last night for their toughest matchup of the year.
With anything but a break last week, Duke men's tennis knocked down a ladder of talented teams on the west coast to come back to Durham with wins against some of the strongest squads in the nation.
It's hard enough for any average student to adjust to college life. But add a knee injury that requires about a year of recovery along with the pressures associated with being one half of the best women's basketball recruiting class in the nation, and you've got the situation Alison Bales faced when she arrived on campus this summer.
The Duke women's rowing team finally got their oars wet in 2004. After sitting idle from competition since November, the Blue Devils returned to the water to knock off the rival Tar Heels in seven-of-eight races Saturday at Lake Michie.
In 1996, when the Duke men's tennis team started its ACC regular season winning streak, Phillip King was still in junior high, far from his three consecutive All-America selections, and Ludovic Walter was in grade school in France, yet to achieve his national No. 9 national ranking.
After posting three ACC wins for the first time in over 40 years, and beating UNC for the first time in more than 30 years, it seemed fitting that the Duke wrestling team would conclude its season with a home win on senior night against Gardner-Webb.
George Soros has done it all--from surviving Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary, where he was born, to living under communism, to establishing a network of philanthropic organizations.
It is inevitable that, as much as a university's residential service tries to match up first-year students with each other, there will be roommates who by the end of the first semester hate each other. Others are more fortunate and bond together in their tiny quarters over freshmen meal plans, boring classes and relationship woes.
After bringing the game into extra innings against Elon last night, the Duke baseball team fell to the Phoenix 9-8 after it was unable to match Elon's extra-inning runs.
If there was ever a game to avenge a loss, it was Saturday's women's basketball game versus Georgia Tech.
Ten states and eight different positions add up to a 24-man football recruiting class that head coach Ted Roof is "very, very excited about."
It was like practice--with a few record setting performances along the way--for the Duke track team this weekend at the North Carolina Invitational.