Both mascots had plenty of novel insight to share, along with anecdotes of close calls, crazy experiences — and commentary on the strange, hyper-exclusive club that those select few students in the cape and muscle suit belong to.
After nearly a decade of innovation, the award secured Duke’s spot as one of the top fields in the nation and reaffirmed what the groundskeepers already knew. Brooks Field is more than a playing surface — it’s both a science and a passion.
Ten years on, Dyson — a recent graduate of Duke’s men’s lacrosse team from Ontario, Canada — has tried his best to emulate Tucker’s ability to say “what’s next” and find peace in his passion for the sport. Tucker’s teachings have made him a better athlete and a better person, Dyson says.
Ten years ago, in the early days of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), few people were confident in the league’s longevity, even in the feasibility of women’s professional soccer. Now, teams like the Courage are proving those skeptics wrong.
As the Blue Devils set their sights on further aspirations, the talent on the court is only outmatched by the genuine bonds of brotherhood surrounding this team.
Morgan’s Message is a nonprofit geared toward equalizing treatment of mental and physical health by reducing the surrounding stigma, named for former Duke women's lacrosse player Morgan Rodgers.
Kimchi has been forced to shoulder lofty standards on top of the normal difficulties of being a freshman and international student. That’s not to mention the unexpected hurdles that would come with being Israeli on a college campus this year, something Kimchi wasn’t expecting when she came to Duke.
After formed head coach Dan Colella passed away from a battle with cancer, it was unclear whose shoulders the future of Duke swimming and diving would rest upon.
Amidst the new obstacles and adjustments that come with the transition to Division-I basketball, the friendship that formed in Worcester, Mass., is guiding them through it all.
While she may not have the flashiest stats every night in the box score due to her defensive emphasis, Brown’s presence down low is undeniable. She is an imposing anchor in the post and leads by example for one of the country’s premier defensive units.
She is standing, figuratively, on the precipice of her second season with Duke — one that expects the star pitcher to be one of the best players in the conference and the country. But Curd's tattoos tell a grander tale.
As soon as Console arrived in Durham for preseason workouts in the summer of 2022, coaches and teammates alike could tell that there was something different about him.
No model can truly predict the future, and the more complicated the scenario, the tougher it gets. As it turns out, Duke-North Carolina is a pretty complicated scenario.
After three semesters fully immersed in their home institution’s classes, culture and extracurriculars, Robertson Scholars must pack up their collegiate lives and move down the road into enemy territory.
The triumvirate of sophomores has faced challenges this season, but has proved in the early days of ACC play that it is more than capable of taking those challenges head-on.
Many Duke fans experience the spectacle of the Duke-North Carolina rivalry through the voice of Shumate, Duke athletics’ director of broadcasting and radio announcer since June 2017. Shumate uses his captivating voice to entice Blue Devil fans into feeling like they are at the game, and he does the same for Duke football.
He developed a condition in his second year of collegiate basketball: the age-old sophomore slump. All of a sudden, he found himself on the negative side of Duke basketball fandom. With millions of eyes come millions of opinions, and the sophomore unwittingly gave them a target.
All 32 names on Duke’s roster lived and breathed the beautiful game, such that an amalgam of different nationalities not only fit into the team but actively built its chemistry.
It has certainly been a hectic few days for Duke football — a set that will define the future of the program. There has been no shortage of fan reactions, and a wide variety of opinions regarding former head coach Mike Elko’s Monday departure to Texas A&M and quarterback Riley Leonard’s Wednesday entrance into the transfer portal.
From the outside, one could easily assume that the Dallas native is a veteran player — someone who has been with the team for several years and has become a leader by way of his experience with the college game. It might surprise a spectator, then, to learn that Julian Eyestone is just a 17-year-old freshman.
