Duke ends season with 24th-place finish at NCAAs
By Adrienne Greenough | November 20, 2007Duke capped off a successful season with a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. Monday.
Duke capped off a successful season with a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. Monday.
The women's cross country team earned its sixth straight trip to the NCAA Championships with a second-place finish at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet Saturday in Louisville, Ky.
"It's always good to beat UNC," head coach Norm Ogilvie said after his team's strong finish Friday at the Blue Ridge Open in Boone, N.C.
Freshman Katelyn Bastert won her first collegiate cross country race and led Duke to victory at the Catamount Classic in Cullowhee, N.C. Saturday.
The Blue Devils picked up their first victory of the season, beating ACC-rival Virginia and seven other teams at the Lou Onesty Invitational Saturday in Charlottesville, Va.
Duke opened its season Friday at the Wake Forest Relays in Winston-Salem, NC.
Infused with new talent, the Blue Devils are preparing to make a run at the regional and national cross country championships this fall.
Duke enters the 2007 season looking to build off of an IC4A championship in 2005 and fourth-place finish at the IC4As last year.
Senior Emily McCabe-a transfer from Cornell-and sophomore Maddie McKeever received All-American honors for finishing in 14th and 17th places, respectively. Despite having never competed in the...
"Cross country is only about the top five, and we didn't have the up-front strength that we needed to defend our title," head coach Norm Ogilvie said.
"We put forth our best effort of the season, and we were really thrilled with the results," head coach Kevin Jermyn said. "We're in the position I hoped we'd be in going into the last weekend of...
Strong performances by the senior captains highlighted the men's and women's cross country teams' second and fourth place finishes, respectively, at the ACC Cross Country Championships in...
The men's and women's cross country teams raced in two different states, with two very different results Saturday. In Fayetteville, Ark., the 20th-ranked women's team finished second behind...
The women's and men's cross country teams finished in fifth and 10th places, respectively, against strong fields Friday at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in Eugene, Ore.
Duke's cross country teams got to see what their second strings were capable of this weekend at the Wake Forest Relays.
The 2005 IC4A champions are not content to end their season in the same way this year.
Riding high on a No. 1 ranking for the majority of the season in 2005, Duke's seven seniors thought the team's last race together-the 2005 NCAA Championships-would also result in its first national...
Although their final season together did not end in a national championship, the six seniors on the women's cross country team have little else about which to be disappointed.
In its final meet of the season, the men's cross country team won its first IC4A Championship in program history Saturday.
The men's cross country team placed fourth out of 30 teams at the NCAA Southeast Regional in Greenville, N.C., Saturday.