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Duke will head to Greensboro, N.C., for the four-day ACC championships starting Wednesday, looking for their first top-five finish since 1981—when only six teams competed.
Ashleigh Shanley held onto the wall, tears streaming down her face. She had managed to finish the race, but the pain was unbearable.
Duke wrapped up the three-day Carolina College Invitational Sunday, with senior Kathryn Eckhart stealing the show on the women’s side by sweeping the 50- and 100-yard freestyle sprints.
The Blue Devils ended the regular season with a close dual against their Tobacco Road rivals Jan. 30, and a select group of swimmers will face the Tar Heels again less than a week later.
After years of uncompetitive, one-sided dual meets, the Blue Devils finally gave the Tar Heels a run for their money, coming up short but resetting several pool records on Senior Day Saturday.
In November, the Blue Devils made program history at the Tar Heels’ Koury Natatorium by earning the Nike Cup Invitational team title on the men’s side and nearly upsetting the host squad on the women’s side. But North Carolina will look to even the score and spoil Duke’s Senior Day Saturday in the final dual meet of the season for both squads.
The Blue Devils entered Saturday’s quad meet undefeated but were unable to defend their perfect record against a pair of ranked Big Ten opponents.
After an upset win at South Carolina, the Blue Devils' dual meet schedule only gets tougher as Duke prepares for its first quad meet since 2012 featuring two ranked opponents Saturday.
The No. 22 Duke men edged No.19 South Carolina 154-146 Friday at the Carolina Natatorium with the sixth lead change of the evening. On the women’s side, Duke cruised to a 187-113 victory.
With the holidays and its annual winter training trip to Islamorada, Fla., in the rearview, Duke will kick off its 2016 schedule Friday with its first of three consecutive meets against ranked opponents.
Abby Johnston and Laura Ryan climbed up to the boards needing 63.58 points for the lead—so the 2013 Duke graduate and her partner performed a forward two-and-a-half somersault with a full twist and earned 72 points.
Mackenzie Willborn and Olympic silver medalist Abby Johnston will head to Indianapolis for the six-day USA Diving Winter Nationals beginning Tuesday in Indianapolis.
Sophomore Isa Paez provided the highlight swims of the weekend for a quartet of Blue Devils racing at the USA Swimming winter championships.
The end of the semester is quickly approaching, but so are the Olympic Trials.
The No. 23 Blue Devil men finished the deal Saturday, claimed the team title at the Nike Cup Invitational in Chapel Hill. The No. 21 Duke women finished second to North Carolina.
The 21st-ranked Duke women and 23rd-ranked Duke men will close out their fall slate with the three-day, preliminaries-finals meet, hosted by North Carolina at the Koury Natatorium Thursday through Saturday in Chapel Hill.
The Blue Devils cruised through the tri-meet against William & Mary and Old Dominion from start to finish Saturday afternoon at Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion, claiming victories in 29 of 32 events and breaking two pool records and several team records.
With two dual meets left on their fall slate, the Blue Devils will look to end the semester undefeated for the first time in school history. Duke will host William & Mary and Old Dominion Saturday at 1 p.m. at Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion for a triple-dual meet.
Never in program history had the Blue Devils beaten Florida State in head-to-head competition—until they made it look easy Friday.