Duke tightened up its defense in the second half but struggled on offense after the break
Going into the season, Gail Goestenkors knew it would be a struggle coaching a squad that lost six seniors and welcomed five freshmen.
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Going into the season, Gail Goestenkors knew it would be a struggle coaching a squad that lost six seniors and welcomed five freshmen.
Heading into Saturday's NCAA regional qualifying meet, the men's cross country team hoped to strengthen its case for an NCAA at-large bid by defeating William & Mary.
Three years ago, an NCAA Championship appearance was nothing more than a lofty, almost laughable, goal hung on the words of a brand new cross country coach taking over a non-scholarship program.
Krista Gingrich's first season at Duke could not have been going any better.
The defending conference tournament champion is staring straight into the possibility of a last-place finish. The league's most exciting player stars for a team that has never finished in the top three in the conference. And the defending national runner-up is picked to finish fourth in the preseason.
A collegiate team still searching for its identity matched up against the best assemblage of talent in America. A collection of teenagers barely removed from getting their first jobs faces a group of veterans who have pulled paychecks playing professionally for years.
I'm not jealous of Jim Gray.
Just seven months after splashing onto the national scene with their monumental upset of Tennessee in the East Regional Finals, Gail Goestenkors and the women's basketball program will look to score an equally monumental recruiting coup this weekend.
The Chronicle celebrates one of Duke's most successful decades by honoring our top 10 Devils of the Decade. Each Tuesday, The Chronicle will feature one of the selected athletes. Today we profile athlete No. 7, Ryan Jackson.
Standing atop the final hill of the Van Cortlandt Park course yesterday, women's cross country coach Jan Ogilvie's heart skipped a beat as the first group of runners ran past her.
You can excuse the men's cross country team if it isn't singing "boola-boola" anytime soon.
Nine games into the season, the conspicuous-looking '0' still hangs under the 'L' column for the men's soccer team.
For three years, senior Doug Root always knew he had the tools.
To the untrained eye of someone walking around East Campus Saturday morning, it looked like the men's cross country team was holding a practice session.
With the cool temperature, gentle breeze and lack of humidity serving as the backdrop for the tri-school cross country meet on East Campus Saturday morning, the women's coaches had a good idea that the old course record of 18:05 could be broken.
We weren't alive when man walked on the moon.
During the season's first two weeks, junior cross-country standout Terry Brennan has done a lot of head-scratching, rehabbing and cheering. What he hasn't done at all, however, is run in a meet.
The Chronicle celebrates one of Duke's most successful decades by honoring our top 10 Devils of the Decade. Each Tuesday, The Chronicle will feature one of the selected athletes. Today we profile athlete No. 9, Trajan Langdon.
Although Tom Becker, arguably Duke's finest cross country runner of the decade, graduated after last season, a group of three juniors gave the Blue Devils hope that the team could continue to build on the momentum from last season's NCAA appearance.
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