Completed Event: Track & Field at NCAA Outdoor Championships on June 11, 2025 , , M: T-35th/72 (8.5) || W: T-34th/68 (8)
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Thursday, June 10
Eugene, Ore.
Duke University
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Day One at NCAA Outdoor Championships
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Blue Devils Prepare for NCAA Outdoor Championships
6/9/2021 4:38:00 PM | Track & Field
DURHAM, N.C. – After a record-breaking regular season and an ACC Outdoor Championship, eight women from Duke track & field are set to compete in the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships, hosted by the University of Oregon at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Representing the Blue Devils will be graduate students Brittany Aveni, Elena Brown-Soler, Zoe Hughes, Cha'Mia Rothwell and Iman Sule, seniors Lauren Hoffman and Erin Marsh and sophomore Halle Bieber. The elite group will compete across six different events over the course of three of the four days of nationwide competition.
Action begins at 6:32 p.m. ET on Thursday, with the women's 4x100m relay team set to compete in the semifinals. Bieber, Aveni, Brown-Soler and Rothwell are looking to beat their own school record of 44.02 seconds and break 44 seconds for the first time, with eyes on All-America status for the 4x100m relay team for the first time in program history.
Rothwell will be back in action one hour later at 7:32 p.m. ET, competing in the 100m hurdles semifinals. The Durham, N.C., native has been one of the best in the nation in this event all season, most recently crushing her own school record with a mark of 12.95 seconds at the NCAA East Regional. Rothwell enters with the third-fastest time in her heat in her first NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Aveni will be up next in her second event of a busy day, competing in the 400m. The Geneva, Ohio native enters with a personal best of 51.60 seconds, which is a school record and ranked 16th in the nation entering the NCAA East Regional. A two-time USTFCCCA All-America Second Team honoree in the 4x400m relay (2018, 2019), Aveni will take her first crack at two other events in addition the 4x400m. It has been a record-setting year for Aveni, who became an ACC Champion in the 4x400m and 400m, a bronze medalist in the 200m and the school record holder in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m this season.
Hoffman makes her return to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, as she is set to compete at 8:30 p.m. ET in the 400m hurdles. Hoffman is hoping to improve on her previous best finish in the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championships, in which she took 19th overall. It has been a brilliant year for the Haymarket, Va., native, in which she has won a silver medal at the ACC Outdoor Championships, broke 57 seconds in the 400m hurdles for the first time and set the school record.
Thursday's final event will be the 4x400m relay, with the Blue Devils fielding one of the strongest groups in the country. Sule, Brown-Soler, Hoffman and Aveni will run for Duke, aiming to set a program record for the third straight event and enter as one of 10 teams with a sub 3:30.00 time. After winning gold at the ACC Outdoor Championships, Hoffman cycled into the relay team to help them set a new top mark at 3:29.19. The Blue Devil unit is hoping to join the rich 4x400m tradition at Duke, who have seen an honorable mention All-America or better in every season since 2016.
Friday will see the start of the women's heptathlon, as Hughes and Marsh will represent the Blue Devils in the two-day event. Marsh remains one of the most prominent multi-event student-athletes in the country, entering competition with the sixth-best score this season at 5,903. The Buford, Ga., native is no stranger to NCAA Championship success, having finished third at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships in the pentathlon. The 2021 ACC silver medalist is hoping to cap off a sterling 2020-21 campaign, competing alongside her teammate Hughes, who is making her NCAA Outdoor debut after previously competing in the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships. The day will begin with the 100m hurdles at 3 p.m. ET, followed by the high jump, shot put and 200m.
Should any student-athletes from day one advance out of the semifinals, the finals for each women's track event will begin at 6:02 p.m., on Saturday, June 12. Day four will also mark the final day of action in the heptathlon, with Hughes and Marsh set to compete in the long jump, javelin and 800m.
All eight women are seeking to become the program's first national champion since Juliet Bottorff, who won the 10,000m in 2011. They are also hoping to become Duke's first USTFCCCA All-America First Team honoree since Katelyn Gochenour did in the javelin in 2017.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils track & field, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeTFXC."
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Representing the Blue Devils will be graduate students Brittany Aveni, Elena Brown-Soler, Zoe Hughes, Cha'Mia Rothwell and Iman Sule, seniors Lauren Hoffman and Erin Marsh and sophomore Halle Bieber. The elite group will compete across six different events over the course of three of the four days of nationwide competition.
Action begins at 6:32 p.m. ET on Thursday, with the women's 4x100m relay team set to compete in the semifinals. Bieber, Aveni, Brown-Soler and Rothwell are looking to beat their own school record of 44.02 seconds and break 44 seconds for the first time, with eyes on All-America status for the 4x100m relay team for the first time in program history.
Rothwell will be back in action one hour later at 7:32 p.m. ET, competing in the 100m hurdles semifinals. The Durham, N.C., native has been one of the best in the nation in this event all season, most recently crushing her own school record with a mark of 12.95 seconds at the NCAA East Regional. Rothwell enters with the third-fastest time in her heat in her first NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Aveni will be up next in her second event of a busy day, competing in the 400m. The Geneva, Ohio native enters with a personal best of 51.60 seconds, which is a school record and ranked 16th in the nation entering the NCAA East Regional. A two-time USTFCCCA All-America Second Team honoree in the 4x400m relay (2018, 2019), Aveni will take her first crack at two other events in addition the 4x400m. It has been a record-setting year for Aveni, who became an ACC Champion in the 4x400m and 400m, a bronze medalist in the 200m and the school record holder in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m this season.
Hoffman makes her return to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, as she is set to compete at 8:30 p.m. ET in the 400m hurdles. Hoffman is hoping to improve on her previous best finish in the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championships, in which she took 19th overall. It has been a brilliant year for the Haymarket, Va., native, in which she has won a silver medal at the ACC Outdoor Championships, broke 57 seconds in the 400m hurdles for the first time and set the school record.
Thursday's final event will be the 4x400m relay, with the Blue Devils fielding one of the strongest groups in the country. Sule, Brown-Soler, Hoffman and Aveni will run for Duke, aiming to set a program record for the third straight event and enter as one of 10 teams with a sub 3:30.00 time. After winning gold at the ACC Outdoor Championships, Hoffman cycled into the relay team to help them set a new top mark at 3:29.19. The Blue Devil unit is hoping to join the rich 4x400m tradition at Duke, who have seen an honorable mention All-America or better in every season since 2016.
Friday will see the start of the women's heptathlon, as Hughes and Marsh will represent the Blue Devils in the two-day event. Marsh remains one of the most prominent multi-event student-athletes in the country, entering competition with the sixth-best score this season at 5,903. The Buford, Ga., native is no stranger to NCAA Championship success, having finished third at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships in the pentathlon. The 2021 ACC silver medalist is hoping to cap off a sterling 2020-21 campaign, competing alongside her teammate Hughes, who is making her NCAA Outdoor debut after previously competing in the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships. The day will begin with the 100m hurdles at 3 p.m. ET, followed by the high jump, shot put and 200m.
Should any student-athletes from day one advance out of the semifinals, the finals for each women's track event will begin at 6:02 p.m., on Saturday, June 12. Day four will also mark the final day of action in the heptathlon, with Hughes and Marsh set to compete in the long jump, javelin and 800m.
All eight women are seeking to become the program's first national champion since Juliet Bottorff, who won the 10,000m in 2011. They are also hoping to become Duke's first USTFCCCA All-America First Team honoree since Katelyn Gochenour did in the javelin in 2017.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils track & field, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeTFXC."
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