Last year, Duke qualified six athletes for the NCAA Championships. But this year, the Blue Devils matched their program-record, sending 10—all of them from the women’s team.
Duke finished middle of the pack in both the men's and women's competitions.
In the annual Duke Invitational held at Morris Williams Stadium, two Blue Devil athletes posted top-five program marks—including one school record—while 30 others finished in the top 10 in their respective events.
Duke swept its Tobacco Road rival for the first time in program history.
With a 51.49-second anchor leg from senior Madeline Price, the Blue Devils topped ACC foe Clemson to finish first in the women's 4x400-meter Championship of America relay Thursday.
Competing in races stacked with professional runners in addition to some of the top college athletes on the East Coast, Duke held its own.
The Blue Devil women wore their blue best on the track at Morris Williams Stadium Friday night in their first home meet of the season.
Duke had some impressive individual performances from senior Maddy Price and graduate student Steven Solomon.
A quick glance at Duke’s record book reveals a recent wave of change in the sprints and jumps on the women’s side.
Duke had six first-place finishes in the four-team event.
During its tour leading up to the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, the torch made its way to Durham.
Freshman Katelyn Gochenour was one of two Blue Devils to finish in the top 10, securing sixth place in the javelin throw.
The women took fifth with 77.5 points while the men finished in eighth place with 53 points at Georgia Tech's George C. Griffin Track from Friday to Sunday.
In the 120-plus year history of the Penn Relays, the renowned competition has seen its fair share of Olympians as well as top collegiate and high school athletes grace the track at Franklin Field. This weekend in Philadelphia, some Blue Devils got to join that group for the first time. With Duke splitting its track and field squad between the 123rd Penn Relays and the Virginia Grand Prix at Lannigan Field in Charlottesville, Va., plenty of Blue Devils were able to put their best feet forward in their last weekend of "regular-season" competition before a break for finals and the ACC championships in two weeks. Sophomores Sydnei Murphy and Jeremy McDuffie captured third- and fourth-place honors in their respective events in Philadelphia—Murphy in both the long jump and sprint medley and McDuffie in the triple jump.
McDuffie is back on the track after missing two years as he recovered from a torn ACL and adjusted to college football.
In the Blue Devils’ biggest home meet of the season, Duke’s women defended their home track well against competition from up and down the East Coast.
After a solid performance in the Tennessee Relays, the Blue Devils sent a small squad of their top athletes to get exposure to national competition in this week’s Mt.
Coming off a successful weekend at the Tennessee Relays—including a first-place finish in the men’s sprint medley relay—Duke is traveling to the West Coast to compete in three different meets.
In their first home meet of the season, the Blue Devil women took down No. 17 Michigan and North Carolina Saturday at Morris Williams Stadium.
Although the race served as a tune-up for the Blue Devils’ home meet next Saturday, freshman Katelyn Gochenour highlighted the weekend by breaking a decade-old school record in the first outing of her career in the javelin.
