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Although Duke came up short of bringing home the gold, the Blue Devils showed marked improvement.
Both the Blue Devil men and women defeated North Carolina for the second straight year.
Duke’s women’s team took second of nine teams with 807 points behind only No. 7 Tennessee, and the men’s team took fourth of six teams.
Following a tough ACC test on the road Friday, Duke still has a ways to go before it can match up evenly with the top tier of its conference.
Despite a pair of losses to two top-10 Wolfpack squads, the Blue Devils were able to salvage their trip to Raleigh with one victory.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ryan Held swam with Michael Phelps and won a gold medal for the U.S. Friday, Held will take on Duke.
Duke began action Friday at Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion against Florida State and Virginia Tech in a two-day competition.
Barton taught a full-credit class—Physical Education 191—open only to juniors and seniors, which was considered an independent study class. The only requirement for the class was one paper.
Two All-American performances were added to the list of accolades earned by the Blue Devils this season at the men’s and women’s NCAA championships. Among those accolades included several performances rewriting the program's record book—19 records were broken during head coach Dan Colella's 12th-year leading Duke's program.
Despite a full month off—many of Duke's swimmers last raced Jan. 28 against North Carolina—the Blue Devils were not able to improve upon last year’s scoring totals, dropping from 643 to 607 total points.
Since the program’s first victory against North Carolina since 1939 Jan. 29, the Duke men have trained patiently in anticipation of their trip to Atlanta this week.
The Blue Devils came up just short of their first top-five finish in the ACC in several years.
After coming up just shy of a coveted top-five finish at last year's ACC championship, the Blue Devils have their eye on another program milestone in Atlanta just a few weeks removed from their first-ever win against North Carolina.
One week removed from the most impressive win in program history, the Blue Devils continued to make the case for the 2016-17 season as the team’s best ever.
Duke's No. 22 women’s team defeated North Carolina 163-137 led by consistent performances throughout the meet. The men’s team wasn’t far behind, pushing past the Tar Heels with a 173-126 ledger.
The Blue Devils will close out their dual meet portion of the season Saturday at 1 p.m. at Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill looking to erase a losing streak that dates back to World War II and win for the first time ever on the road.
Although Duke got several standout performances on Senior Day, the Cavaliers were too dominant in the distance events for the Blue Devils to stay close.
Back in the water for their first meet of 2017, the Blue Devils opened their spring season with the first of three consecutive dual meets leading up to February’s Janis Hape Dowd Nike Cup. After securing wins against South Carolina, the Duke men and women squads could not have asked for a better start to that stretch.
Duke will close out the dual meet portion of its schedule with three meets in 14 days, beginning with Saturday’s matchup against South Carolina.
Duke swept through the competition at the Royals’ Levine Center Pool in Charlotte, taking home first-place finishes in 18 of 24 individual events and sweeping all four relay events.