As winter sports kick off, The Chronicle is back with our College Sports 101 breakdown, explaining key rules, terminology, meet formats and more. Here's indoor track and field.
Friday, the Blue Devils took to WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., for the ultimate test: the ACC Championships. The men placed 11th with 345 points and the women took 18th with a total of 549 points.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
