The Blue Devils had another strong season, highlighted by an ACC championship victory by the women's team. The Chronicle's beats are here to break down Duke's full 2024 campaign.
Shawn Wilbourn, the director of track and field and cross country at Duke, announced Jermyn's hire as the head cross country coach and the track distance coach.
From any angle, the meet was one for the record books. After a grueling four days, the Duke men and women returned seven All-Americans from nine events, headlined by graduate student Simen Guttormsen’s third-place finish in the men’s pole vault.
Wednesday through Saturday, Duke track and field competed in the NCAA East Regional meet in Lexington, Ky. The men and women earned four national qualifiers each.
Behind wicked speed from their sprints team, the Blue Devil women took home their second ACC outdoor title in a row. The championship meet spanned three days on the George C. Griffin Track in Atlanta.
After months of hard training and competition, the Blue Devils are finally about to face the ultimate test: the postseason. With ACC and NCAA competitions in May and June, the Blue Zone is here with a preview of the big-time meets.
They say the devil is in the details. But in Durham, the Blue Devils are in the details — and numbers.
Duke notched individual successes and all-time program marks, headlined by a school record in the women’s distance medley relay, at the Penn Relays and the Charlotte Invitational over the weekend.
Friday proved the women's team's depth: 16 Blue Devils placed in the top five of their events, many of whom are not the names typically earning Duke its points.
With several ACC teams coming to town in lieu of conference championships in a month, Duke put on a show on its home turf, displaying the completeness of its roster with top-five finishes across the board during the weekend. The women’s team proved particularly dominant, helping the Blue Devils shatter numerous meet and program records in the process.
With championship season on the horizon, this weekend was about trying new things: new, younger faces, new events and new relay lineups. Still, even with some of Duke’s top athletes training through the meet, the Blue Devils came through with several event wins and standout performances.
The Duke women topped most of they events they entered, and both track and field athletes helped rewrite the program record books in Raleigh.
Duke’s track and field team wasn’t fazed by the inclement weather, earning several standout performances in its outdoor opener, which included nine top-five finishes and multiple entries into the Blue Devil record books.
This weekend, Duke sent three women up to The Track at New Balance in Boston to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships. Two brand-new All-Americans — senior Brianna Smith and graduate student MaKayla Mason — returned.
Up in Boston for the ACC Championships this weekend, Duke saw plenty of success, but it wasn’t enough for its lofty standards.
In the last race of their last indoor track meet of the regular season, the Blue Devils delivered a final rewrite of their record books at the BU Terrier DMR Challenge over the weekend.
As winter sports are coming to a close, it’s time to look ahead to the spring season. Each week, Blue Zone will highlight an athlete who has performed especially well in their sport. This week, it’s Amina Maatoug.
On Friday and Saturday, Duke went for an East Coast takeover, splitting up the squad across the BU Valentine Invitational in Boston and the Tiger Paw Invitational in Clemson S.C. Versatility was the name of the game as the Blue Devils set new program records in almost every event group.
As sprinters, jumpers, throwers and long-distance athletes alike traveled to compete at Virginia Tech’s Doc Hale Invitational in Blacksburg, Va., over two days, the Blue Devils scorched more than just the track, jumping and throwing their way to yet another record-fest.
The conclusion of the 2024 BU Terrier Classic at Boston University Saturday brought forth a series of record-setting performances and five top-30 showings, as both male and female distance runners for Duke displayed their abilities ahead of the outdoor season.
