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After an entire season spent focusing on gaining points towards qualifying for the NCAA championship meet, the Blue Devils will head to Charlotte for the NCAA Southeast Regional. Once there, the team hopes their hard work will earn them a top-four finish.
When the women step up to the line in Charlotte, N.C. today at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet, their performances will decide if their season will continue through to the national meet next weekend, or end as they cross the finish.
This past Saturday at the Three Stripe Invitational, graduate student Cydney Ross led the Blue Devils to a first-place finish as she ended her Duke cross country career.
Despite their impressive showing at the Pre-National meet just two weeks ago, the No. 18 Blue Devils were unable to pull together for the finish they needed at this past weekend’s ACC Championship meet.
After receiving their new and improved ranking as first in the region, the Blue Devils stepped up to the line at the ACC meet this past weekend and proved they deserved it.
The Duke women have moved up in both the regional and national polls after they passed 15 nationally-ranked teams en route to a seventh-place finish at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational.
After a strong performance at the Pre-National Meet in Louisville, Ky. led to a fifth-place finish for the team, Duke earned its first appearance in the national rankings this season, making its debut at No. 18.
This weekend the Duke men and women will split up as they head to meets in Madison, Wis., Charlotte, N.C. and Louisville, Ky.
After a two-week break to rest and recover from the N.C. Central Dual meet that started in Wallace Wade Stadium, the women returned to the starting line to take on several nationally-ranked teams in Louisville, Ky.
Although the Blue Devil men stepped up to the starting line at the Panorama Farms Invitational eager for a point-earning performance, they left with dashed hopes after injuries forced several runners off the course.
Three weeks after opening their season with a win at Virginia Tech, the Blue Devil men are heading to the Panorama Farms Invitational in Charlottesville, Va. for what senior Mike Moverman called the “first true test of the season.”
Just 15 minutes before this past weekend’s football game, Duke and N.C. Central raced along the track to the theme song from “Chariots of Fire.” Although the teams stayed together for the duration of the first lap, once the runners exited the stadium both Duke’s men’s and women’s teams left N.C. Central far behind.
To get to their meet this weekend, the Blue Devils will not have to go far. In fact, all they will have to do is take a short walk down the steps of Wallace Wade to the starting line in front of what will possibly be the largest turnout a Duke cross country meet has ever seen. Saturday, just fifteen minutes before they meet on the football field, Duke will take on N.C. Central on the track.
The Blue Devil women are gearing up to take a more aggressive stance as the gun goes off on the 2012 season.
After a disappointing and injury-filled 2011 season, the Blue Devils, ranked seventh in the Southeast Region, are not dwelling on the past. With a strong freshman class and healthy returners, confidence is in the air as Duke takes to the trail in search of its third appearance at the NCAA National meet in the past four seasons.
American decathlete Ashton Eaton earned the gold medal for the United States at this year’s 2012 Olympic Games in London, but his best performance had come more than a month earlier. It had been at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. that he broke an 11-year-old world record in the event. And Blue Devil senior Curtis Beach was there to lend Eaton a helping hand en route to his landmark performance.
For most athletes, going to the Olympics is a dream and nothing more. Although few athletes get to travel to the Olympic Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Friday, three current Blue Devils—Curtis Beach, Tanner Anderson and Michelle Anumba—will take their first official steps toward their Olympic goals.
For most of the Blue Devils, the season ended this Saturday with the close of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. For four of those athletes it ended on a high-note as Curtis Beach, Michelle Anumba, Juliet Bottorff and Amy Fryt walked away with All-America honors.
Last year, the Blue Devils turned in a historic performance at the Penn Relays, collecting two championships and six school records at one of the season’s biggest meets. This year the athletes earned four second-place finishes before leaving Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
A trio of Blue Devils highlighted a successful weekend at the ACC outdoor championships, earning individual titles in javelin, shot put and high jump.
