Mixed results for Duke at ACC meet
This past Saturday, the Blue Devils walked away from the ACC meet in Clemson with mixed feelings.
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This past Saturday, the Blue Devils walked away from the ACC meet in Clemson with mixed feelings.
Duke heads to Clemson in preparation for Saturday’s ACC meet with a simple goal—improving on their previous results.
Both the men and the women headed into this past weekend’s meets with high expectations. Unfortunately, both programs fell just short.
The Blue Devils left for the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships in Pacific Palisades, Calif. in search of a learning experience. As the first competition of the year, the tournament would serve as the first opportunity for head coach Jamie Ashworth and his young Duke team to see how its new recruits would fit in and to test new doubles combinations.
The Blue Devil men finished just ahead of the rain this past Friday as they took the title at the Great American Cross Country Festival for the third straight year.
After setbacks, athletes have to learn from their mistakes and try again.
This year, the Duke men were not awarded a national ranking. They will set out to prove Saturday that they deserve one.
Despite describing their outlook on the season as low-key, the Blue Devil women proved this past Saturday at the Coastal Carolina Invitational that their running certainly is not.
It has been two weeks, but Duke can finally breathe easy.
For the Blue Devil women this year, there is no looking back.
The men’s cross country team is back and, according to head coach Norm Ogilvie, “better than ever.”
The word ‘competition’ took on a whole new meaning this past weekend when the Blue Devils sent six of their top athletes to contend with the nation’s best at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.
When Juliet Bottorff first stepped on the track at the NCAA championships, winning was not on her mind. The sophomore had set her sights on finishing in the top eight, thus earning the title of All-American, in the 10k race.
For the men, it was something that an ACC team hadn’t been able to do since 1981. For the women, a team that hailed from south of Virginia hadn’t accomplished it for the past 27 years. But despite the odds, this past weekend the Blue Devils found themselves making history yet again, as they took home team titles at the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) and Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) meets.
Duke’s performance at the Penn Relays this past weekend was nothing short of historic.
Duke is currently having its best outdoor season ever.
For the Duke seniors, the ACC Outdoor Championship’s return to Durham couldn’t come at a better time.
For the Blue Devils’ seniors, this past weekend’s Duke Invitational represented their last chance to shine in front of the home crowd and become champions.
As they move through their first few outdoor meets, the Blue Devils have carried on the success that was a hallmark of their indoor meets this season.
The lure of professional athletics can be hard to resist. Performing at the pinnacle of your sport, taking home paychecks, sponsorships and endorsements, being surrounded by media hype and adoring fans: It can all be hard for an aspiring athlete to turn down. It was no different for Mallory Cecil.