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Duke Athletics Releases 2020-21 Annual Report
8/31/2021 10:00:00 AM | Athletics
DURHAM -- The Duke University Department of Athletics has released its 2020-21 annual report, which details the storylines, moments and accomplishments of another outstanding year for the Blue Devils.
Check out some of the highlights below:
• Duke finished 2020-21 with seven conference championships -- tying the school record for most in an academic year and leading all ACC institutions. Duke's seven titles came in baseball, softball, women's outdoor track and field, men's and women's fencing, women's golf and men's lacrosse. The Blue Devils finished the year as the ACC leader in team titles, three clear of North Carolina and Florida State which each captured four. The Blue Devils' seven titles also matched the school record for most in an academic year that was originally set in 2000-01.
• Nina King was named Duke's next Vice President and Director of Athletics. She succeeds Kevin White, who is retiring after 13 years at Duke, on Sept. 1. Among Power 5 institutions, King joins Vanderbilt's Candice Storey Lee and Virginia's Carla Williams as Black female ADs. She is the first woman to hold the position at Duke.
• Hall of Fame Head Men's Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has been at Duke for 41 years, announced in June that this coming season would be his final year coaching. The Blue Devils also named Coach K's successor, Jon Scheyer, who was a Duke Basketball captain, helped lead the program to the 2010 NCAA Championship and currently the team's associate head coach.
• Duke posted a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 98 percent. The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2010-13 and allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left Duke in good academic standing. Nationally, Duke, Notre Dame and Northwestern tied for the lead among Power 5 institutions with their 98 percent GSR. A total of 17 Duke teams achieved a 100 percent GSR for the 2010-13 period: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country/track & field, women's cross country/track & field, men's fencing, women's fencing, field hockey, men's golf, women's golf, women's lacrosse, rowing, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's tennis, women's tennis and volleyball.
• Nationally, the Duke football program tied with Northwestern among FBS schools with its 97 percent rate. Within the ACC, Duke's 97 percent rate was the highest and one of four schools in the 90 percent range. In men's basketball, Duke tied for the national lead with its 100 percent GSR rate.
• Duke had four players selected in the 2020 NFL draft as Michael Carter II, Victor Dimukeje, Noah Gray and Chris Rumph II were among the draftees over the course of the three-day event. The four Blue Devils chosen were the most since four choices in 1973. Duke's four picks in 2021 also set a program record for most selections within the first seven rounds.
• Senior track and field athlete Erin Marsh set the program record in the pentathlon and took home bronze at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She is Duke's first track and field athlete to medal at the NCAA Championships since 2016.
• Duke placed an ACC-record 618 student-athletes on the 2020-21 ACC Academic Honor Roll. Duke has led the conference in ACC Honor Roll selections in 33 of the past 34 years. Among the 618 was six-time ACC Honor Roll selection, Turner Uppgren from men's lacrosse. Duke had 14 student-athletes garner the award for the fifth time in their careers. The Honor Roll is comprised of varsity student-athletes who registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year.
• The Atlantic Coast Conference and its Board of Directors announced in July that Duke University President Vincent Price will serve as the league's Chair of the Board of Directors. He will serve in that role for the next two academic years.
• Women's soccer sophomore Emmy Duerr, field hockey sophomore Josie Varney and the Duke softball team all garnered the ACC Top Six for Service award for their efforts within the Duke community during the challenging year.
• Five Blue Devil fencers garnered ACC Fencer of the Year awards in their weapons. Huda Aldadah (Epee), Alex Gorman (Saber) and Zoe Superville (Foil) each earned the honor on the women's side, while Finn Hossfeld (Foil) and Stephen Kim (Saber) picked up the accolades on the men's. Duke fencing head coach Alex Beguinet was named the ACC Women's Fencing Coach of the Year.
• Along with Beguinet, Duke had two more coaches earn ACC Coach of the Year honors in their respective sports -- Dan Brooks (women's golf) and Shawn Wilbourn (women's outdoor track & field)
• Three Blue Devils were named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans – Brittany Aveni (women's track & field), Delaney Graham (women's soccer), Finn Hossfeld (men's fencing).
• A total of 16 with Duke connections – either coaches, former student-athletes or Duke alumni – participated in nine sports across seven nations in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to mark the largest number of Blue Devils appearing in a single Olympic competition. Gold medals went to Quinn of the Canadian women's soccer team, former basketball stars Jayson Tatum and Chelsea Gray of the U.S. men's and women's basketball teams, while Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson led the USA women's 3x3 basketball to gold.
• Duke had four student-athletes garner postgraduate scholarships. Rakavius Chambers (football), Meible Chi (women's tennis) and Caroline Olsen (rowing) each were named Weaver-James-Corrigan Award recipients. Michael Rothenberg (baseball) was an honorary selection.
• Senior Gina Kim was named the ACC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year following her stellar season on and off the course. She became the sixth different Blue Devil to garner the accolade.
• The Duke men's basketball creative content team won a Sports Video Group award for the third consecutive year as the program's popular series, Duke Blue Planet, was named Outstanding Program Series in College Athletics for the second time in three years. The Duke Blue Planet series, which was also honored with the same SVG award during its debut season in 2019, annually features the Blue Devils with exclusive and authentic content.
DUKE BY THE NUMBERS IN 2020-21
7 ACC Team Titles
53 All-America honors
1 ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year
17 Teams achieved 100% GSR
93 All-ACC honors
37 Individual NCAA qualifiers
3 ACC Coach of the Year honors
7 ACC individual award winners
3 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
10 Individual ACC titles
4 Postgraduate scholarship recipients
#GoDuke
Check out some of the highlights below:
• Duke finished 2020-21 with seven conference championships -- tying the school record for most in an academic year and leading all ACC institutions. Duke's seven titles came in baseball, softball, women's outdoor track and field, men's and women's fencing, women's golf and men's lacrosse. The Blue Devils finished the year as the ACC leader in team titles, three clear of North Carolina and Florida State which each captured four. The Blue Devils' seven titles also matched the school record for most in an academic year that was originally set in 2000-01.
• Nina King was named Duke's next Vice President and Director of Athletics. She succeeds Kevin White, who is retiring after 13 years at Duke, on Sept. 1. Among Power 5 institutions, King joins Vanderbilt's Candice Storey Lee and Virginia's Carla Williams as Black female ADs. She is the first woman to hold the position at Duke.
• Hall of Fame Head Men's Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has been at Duke for 41 years, announced in June that this coming season would be his final year coaching. The Blue Devils also named Coach K's successor, Jon Scheyer, who was a Duke Basketball captain, helped lead the program to the 2010 NCAA Championship and currently the team's associate head coach.
• Duke posted a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 98 percent. The GSR is based on student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2010-13 and allows for the removal of those individuals from the cohort who left Duke in good academic standing. Nationally, Duke, Notre Dame and Northwestern tied for the lead among Power 5 institutions with their 98 percent GSR. A total of 17 Duke teams achieved a 100 percent GSR for the 2010-13 period: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country/track & field, women's cross country/track & field, men's fencing, women's fencing, field hockey, men's golf, women's golf, women's lacrosse, rowing, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's tennis, women's tennis and volleyball.
• Nationally, the Duke football program tied with Northwestern among FBS schools with its 97 percent rate. Within the ACC, Duke's 97 percent rate was the highest and one of four schools in the 90 percent range. In men's basketball, Duke tied for the national lead with its 100 percent GSR rate.
• Duke had four players selected in the 2020 NFL draft as Michael Carter II, Victor Dimukeje, Noah Gray and Chris Rumph II were among the draftees over the course of the three-day event. The four Blue Devils chosen were the most since four choices in 1973. Duke's four picks in 2021 also set a program record for most selections within the first seven rounds.
• Senior track and field athlete Erin Marsh set the program record in the pentathlon and took home bronze at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She is Duke's first track and field athlete to medal at the NCAA Championships since 2016.
• Duke placed an ACC-record 618 student-athletes on the 2020-21 ACC Academic Honor Roll. Duke has led the conference in ACC Honor Roll selections in 33 of the past 34 years. Among the 618 was six-time ACC Honor Roll selection, Turner Uppgren from men's lacrosse. Duke had 14 student-athletes garner the award for the fifth time in their careers. The Honor Roll is comprised of varsity student-athletes who registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year.
• The Atlantic Coast Conference and its Board of Directors announced in July that Duke University President Vincent Price will serve as the league's Chair of the Board of Directors. He will serve in that role for the next two academic years.
• Women's soccer sophomore Emmy Duerr, field hockey sophomore Josie Varney and the Duke softball team all garnered the ACC Top Six for Service award for their efforts within the Duke community during the challenging year.
• Five Blue Devil fencers garnered ACC Fencer of the Year awards in their weapons. Huda Aldadah (Epee), Alex Gorman (Saber) and Zoe Superville (Foil) each earned the honor on the women's side, while Finn Hossfeld (Foil) and Stephen Kim (Saber) picked up the accolades on the men's. Duke fencing head coach Alex Beguinet was named the ACC Women's Fencing Coach of the Year.
• Along with Beguinet, Duke had two more coaches earn ACC Coach of the Year honors in their respective sports -- Dan Brooks (women's golf) and Shawn Wilbourn (women's outdoor track & field)
• Three Blue Devils were named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans – Brittany Aveni (women's track & field), Delaney Graham (women's soccer), Finn Hossfeld (men's fencing).
• A total of 16 with Duke connections – either coaches, former student-athletes or Duke alumni – participated in nine sports across seven nations in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to mark the largest number of Blue Devils appearing in a single Olympic competition. Gold medals went to Quinn of the Canadian women's soccer team, former basketball stars Jayson Tatum and Chelsea Gray of the U.S. men's and women's basketball teams, while Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson led the USA women's 3x3 basketball to gold.
• Duke had four student-athletes garner postgraduate scholarships. Rakavius Chambers (football), Meible Chi (women's tennis) and Caroline Olsen (rowing) each were named Weaver-James-Corrigan Award recipients. Michael Rothenberg (baseball) was an honorary selection.
• Senior Gina Kim was named the ACC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year following her stellar season on and off the course. She became the sixth different Blue Devil to garner the accolade.
• The Duke men's basketball creative content team won a Sports Video Group award for the third consecutive year as the program's popular series, Duke Blue Planet, was named Outstanding Program Series in College Athletics for the second time in three years. The Duke Blue Planet series, which was also honored with the same SVG award during its debut season in 2019, annually features the Blue Devils with exclusive and authentic content.
DUKE BY THE NUMBERS IN 2020-21
7 ACC Team Titles
53 All-America honors
1 ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year
17 Teams achieved 100% GSR
93 All-ACC honors
37 Individual NCAA qualifiers
3 ACC Coach of the Year honors
7 ACC individual award winners
3 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
10 Individual ACC titles
4 Postgraduate scholarship recipients
#GoDuke
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