Clark, Price Break School Records on Home Track

Saturday, April 2

Durham, N.C.

1:30 PM

Duke University

vs. Michigan & North Carolina

Clark, Price Break School Records on Home Track

4/2/2016 10:43:00 PM | Track & Field

Domonique Panton Interview Megan Clark Interview Olivia Anderson Interview Colt Sessions Interview Norm Ogilvie Interview Final Results

By: Duke Sports Information

DURHAM, N.C. – On the final day of the Battle of the Blues track meet at Morris Williams Stadium, two Duke records fell and nine event victories were claimed by Blue Devils to highlight Saturday's action for the home team. Senior Megan Clark bested her own school record in the women's pole vault, while sophomore sprinter Maddy Price broke her second record in as many weeks.

In the team standings, Michigan took home the women's trophy with 83 points, followed by Duke with 68 and North Carolina tallying 48. On the men's side, North Carolina secured the team title with 83 points, while Michigan and Duke finished second and third with 78.5 and 40.5 points, respectively.

Clark put together a career performance in front of the home crowd, setting both the Duke and facility records with a vault of 14-9.50 (4.51m), besting each of the previous standards by half an inch. In addition to the height being an all-time best for the Duke program, the vault currently ranks first among NCAA Division I vaulters this season and ties her as the sixth-best performer all-time in the women's pole vault during an NCAA outdoor campaign. Sophomore Madison Heath finished just behind Clark in second with a height of 13-9.25 (4.20m).

“I was really happy with today,” Clark said. “The crowd was huge and my teammates were there, so it was really exciting. We don't get a lot of home meets, so when we have them, we like to take advantage of them … I was happy with the result. I was a lot happier with the technique that I had this week and I'm really excited to go forward with that.”

On the track, Price set the school standard in the 200 a week after breaking the record in the 100. Crossing the line second overall, the sophomore out of Hillsborough, Calif., clocked a 23.48, surpassing recent graduate Elizabeth Kerpon's all-time mark of 23.69.

“[The race] felt really good,” Price said. “Coming off the 100 last weekend, I was feeling good and wanted to try and get [the record] in the 200, as well. I knew that Cindy Ofili, the really good sprinter from Michigan, was going to be in both of my races, so it was really helpful to have someone really fast to run against and push me to the finish. I wish I could have got her at the end, but it was still a really good race and I'm super happy with the time.”

Price contributed additional points for Duke in the 100 and 4x400, taking second in the 100 with a time of 11.74 before winning the 4x400 with junior Madeline Kopp and freshmen India Lowe and MacKenzie Kerr with a combined time of 3:40.21. In the one other relay event for the women, Duke ran the 4x100 uncontested as the team of Lowe, Kerr, Kopp and rookie Domonique Panton clocked a winning time of 47.40, the third-best time in the Duke records book.

In addition to the relay events, senior Olivia Anderson picked up a win on the track in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Anderson crossed the line in 10:21.86 to place first, a personal best by more than 30 seconds and the fifth-fastest time in school history.

Elsewhere in the running events, Duke added three runner-up finishes from Kopp in the 400, senior Anima Banks in the 1,500 and redshirt senior Teddi Maslowski in the 100-meter hurdles. Banks' second-place time of 4:19.99 ranks as the fourth-fastest clocking in school history.

The Duke women added four event wins in the field events, including a sweep of Saturday's throwing events. Junior Amarie Bremel picked up the victory in the women's discus competition, sending the implement a distance of 148-8 (45.31m) on her sixth and final throw. Redshirt junior Urina Harrell then won the women's shot put with a mark of 48-0.75 (14.65m) on her last attempt, moving ahead of Michigan's Kayla Deering's throw of 47-6.50 (14.49m). Completing the sweep, junior Christine Streisel made her 2016 debut by winning the women's javelin with a toss of 148-11 (45.41m). Redshirt senior Karli Johonnot added two points in the event for the Blue Devils, taking third with a throw of 111-5 (33.96m). Duke's fourth win in the women's field events came from Panton in the triple jump, registering a leap of 40-2.00 (12.24m), the second-best mark in Duke history.

On the men's side, the Blue Devils picked up 9.5 points in the men's high jump, highlighted by sophomore Colt Sessions winning the event with a leap of 6-10.25 (2.09m), a height that matches the fourth-best jump in school history. Senior Carl Heinz followed in second with a jump of 6-9.00 (2.06m), while freshman Rivers Ridout tied for third at 6-8.00 (2.03m).

In the other field events, redshirt senior Thomas Lang finished second in the men's javelin with a season-best throw of 220-9 (67.29m), while classmate and fellow thrower Stephen Boals took third in both the men's shot put [56-4.75 (17.19m)] and the discus [169-1 (51.55m)]. Junior Grant Emrie and sophomore Jordan Hatfield rounded out the field event scoring for the home team, placing third in the men's triple jump and men's pole vault, respectively.

On the track, graduate student Shaun Thompson, running his first 3,000-meter steeplechase in over two years, placed second overall with a time of 8:58.56, roughly half a second off his personal best and No. 3 time in the Duke records book of 8:58.04 set back in 2013. In the other distance races, junior Dylan Murphy clocked a personal-best 1:50.31 to place third in the men's 800, while classmate Alec Kunzweiler finished third in the men's 1,500 with a 3:49.87 performance.

Sophomore Tionne Barmer claimed a second-place finish of his own in the 110-meter hurdles, running a 14.84, followed by junior Connor Hall in third at 15.76. Junior Chaz Hawkins rounded out the individual sprints with a personal-best 10.78 in the 100 to place third.

In the men's relay events, the Duke quartet of Barmer, sophomore Brett Bofinger, senior Matthew Rodio and freshman Riley Satterfield took second in the 4x100 at 42.90, while the 4x400 squad of Hawkins, Murphy, junior Michael Wilson and freshman Kyle Francis finished third with a time of 3:18.43.

Duke will return to action next weekend with the the Spec Towns Invitational in Athens, Ga., April 8-9.

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