NC Mutual presents archives to Duke, NCCU
(09/28/09 8:00am)
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company will transfer its historical archives to Duke and North Carolina Central University, the company announced Friday.
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North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company will transfer its historical archives to Duke and North Carolina Central University, the company announced Friday.
In the first out-of-state trip on the conference schedule, the Blue Devils hope to continue their strong early-season play and maintain long winning streaks against two ACC foes.
For most teams, consistency is paramount, and being able to string together wins can make or break a season.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? To love and not be loved in return.
Rain slowed play at the Southern Intercollegiates this weekend as four Blue Devils competed in individual play. But despite the weather, Duke’s players on the whole performed well.
After falling to No. 1 Penn State in straight sets last weekend, Duke hopes to regain momentum as it heads into ACC play this weekend against in-state rival Wake Forest in the Black and Gold Challenge in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Blue Devils face the Demon Deacons (0-9, 0-0 in the ACC) Friday at 7 p.m., and then have two matches Saturday: the first against Liberty at 10 a.m. followed by Appalachian State later at 4:30 p.m. Despite having its six-game winning streak snapped by Penn State, Duke (8-2, 0-0) has the second most wins in the ACC this season. The Blue Devils have have been balanced offensively and defensively, ranking second in the conference with a .278 hitting percentage while holding their opponents to a .139 pace. Outside hitters Rachael Moss and Sophia Dunworth, along with middle blocker Becci Burling, have been Duke’s top offensive options thus far, each averaging more than 2.5 kills per set. Defensively, Burling, Amanda Robertson and Christiana Gray have been crucial to holding opponents to that low hitting percentage. Duke will not overlook Wake Forest despite its winless record, as the Demon Deacons shocked the Blue Devils with a 3-2 victory in Winston-Salem last year, although Duke bounced back with a 3-1 win in Durham later in the season. Wake Forest is led by Megan Carnell’s .302 hitting percentage and Andrea Beck’s 72 kills. Liberty (4-5) has lost three of its last four games after falling to Louisville last weekend. Appalachian State (3-7), meanwhile, has lost four of its last five games, including a straight-set loss to Charlotte in its most recent match.
Last weekend, the Blue Devils dropped a close match with one of the nation’s best teams on their own turf.
Plenty of Blue Devil fans consoled themselves after Duke lost to Richmond with the idea that the team could only count one win over an FCS opponent toward bowl eligibility, anyway, and N.C. Central was still on the schedule.
The Blue Devils swept competition from across the East Coast at the JMU Invitational this weekend to remain undefeated on both the women’s and men’s teams.
Mike Krzyzewski has one more accolade to add to his decorated coaching resume.
The Duke community will mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a number of events today in memory of the tragedy.
Durham City Council voted 6-0 Tuesday to cede control of two local streets to Duke.
Free wings and cans of Coca-Cola were aplenty yesterday as head football coach David Cutcliffe invited Duke students to the Great Hall for a film review of Saturday’s loss to the University of Richmond. The half-hour talk gave students the opportunity to listen to Cutcliffe speak about what went right and wrong at the game and how the team will improve. The Chronicle asked attendees their thoughts on the event. —compiled by Toni Wei
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The Blue Devils host Colorado State tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium for what should be a trying home opener against an out-of-conference foe.
Tenth-seeded Duke produced an up-and-down performance Monday at the NGCA Match Play Championship, winning one match and losing another to cap a second straight 36-hole day.
Mallory Cecil’s first match as a pro could not have ended more differently than her fairy tale season at Duke.
Duke and the ACC announced the Blue Devils’ 2009-2010 schedule Friday, and the slate of games is highlighted by a date in Cameron Indoor Stadium with the defending national champions. Connecticut travels to Durham for a high-profile matchup against Duke Jan. 18, in the middle of the ACC season. The Huskies went 39-0 last season and reached the Final Four unchallenged. There, they defeated Stanford by 19 and Louisville by 22 to earn the national title. The game with UConn will be shown on ESPN2. The Blue Devils will have four games total to air on national television. Duke’s other marquee nonconference game is a West Coast trip to Palo Alto, Calif. to face Stanford Dec. 15. The Blue Devils beat the Cardinal at home last season, 56-52, in one of their biggest victories of the season. In other non-ACC competition, Duke plays at Maine-- one of head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s former teams-- and hosts power conference teams Ohio State and USC in Cameron. The Blue Devils will also take part in the Caribbean Challenge in Cancun over Thanksgiving weekend. In the ACC, meanwhile, Duke faces a typically challenging calendar that includes home-and-home series with both Maryland and North Carolina. But the Blue Devils won’t have to travel to Tallahassee, where they collapsed late in the game in a loss to Florida State last season. —from staff reports
Due to a change in the University's academic calendar next year and resulting space constraints, the Panhellenic Association is considering a plan to hold formal recruitment prior to the beginning of the spring semester. Panhel says the plan, which would require women to return a week early from winter break, would avoid scheduling conflicts in Von Canon, attract a smaller, more dedicated group of girls and make recruitment "a more comfortable and low-stress process."
Q: When you first took the Duke job, Duke was a program with good tradition that was a little bit down with a huge national power that was your rival just 10 minutes away. Could you talk about, with respect to the rivalry with North Carolina, what you did? Did you just concentrate on what you had to do? Did you make the rivalry a focal point?