Q and A with Coach G
By Staff Reports | July 21, 1999Women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors arrived at Duke in 1992. She took over a struggling program, but by last year had the Blue Devils in the national championship game.
Women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors arrived at Duke in 1992. She took over a struggling program, but by last year had the Blue Devils in the national championship game.
When NBA Commissioner David Stern announced Trajan Langdon the 11th pick of the draft and a new Cavalier, Langdon didn't put on a Cleveland hat and walk up to the podium to shake hands with Stern.
Last year, the women's basketball team waged a war for respect.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The night before the NBA Draft, Elton Brand and his old friend Ron Artest talked until 4 a.m.
The three captains have heard the doomsday preachers.
Seven months into the Carl Franks era, things are running smoothly over in the football office.
Very rarely do athletes of non-revenue sports become celebrities.
The women's golf team began the season with the No. 1 ranking and four straight tournament wins. They entered the NCAA Championships with a school record eight tournament wins.
Carla Overbeck, an assistant coach for the women's soccer team, co-captained the United States' victorious World Cup team. Overbeck, a defender, played every minute of every game in the tournament.
Chris Carrawell may not be able to peer up into the Cameron rafters and see his national championship banner, but this summer he earned something nearly as impressive-a gold medal.
Although the Duke academic year ended in early May, a majority of the spring sports teams' seasons extended into the summer.
CHAPEL HILL - After a poor start to the season, the baseball team had seemingly righted its ship of late, improving its play and coming away with victories against ACC powers Georgia Tech and Clemson.
Elton Brand swept all of the major national player of the year honors this season, but the team award he had to share.
A year ago, it might have looked like a disappointing conclusion to Aspen Branch-Moore's rowing career.
As the only ACC school in the top 25, the men's tennis team came into this weekend's conference championships as the overwhelming favorite.
CHAPEL HILL - It was the moment the men's lacrosse team had been waiting for all season long.
It didn't matter to Karen Goldstein that the ACC tournament title already had Duke's name engraved on it before the season started.
CHAPEL HILL - For Superman, there's Lex Luthor. For Batman, there's the Joker. For Sherlock Holmes, there's Professor Moriarty.
What the women's track team lacks in experience, it makes up for in raw talent, as the Blue Devils found out this weekend at the ACC Championships in Clemson, S.C.
At the beginning of the season, each men's lacrosse player filled out a goal sheet. These sheets said many different things, but there were a few wishes that appeared over and over again.