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Duke Track and Field – Top Moments of 2022
12/31/2022 10:59:00 PM | Track & Field
DURHAM – 2022 was a historic one for the Duke track & field, which saw the Blue Devils qualify a program-high 17 individuals to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, USTFCCCA All-America honors from 16 Blue Devils and an ACC Indoor Women's Championship among several standout moments. Before ringing in the new year, let's recap some of the top moments from the 2022 campaign.
No. 25 Duke Women Capture Indoor ACC Title
Déjà vu was in the Rector Fieldhouse air for the 25th-ranked Duke women's track and field team. In a finish eerily similar to the 2021 ACC Outdoor Women's Championship, the Blue Devil women headlined a historic day for the Blue Devils as they delivered a first-place finish in the women's 4x400m relay to claim the 2022 ACC Indoor Championship and bring the trophy back to Durham. Duke shared the title with host Virginia Tech as the teams totaled 86 points apiece.
The tightly contested women's meet came down to the final event – Duke entered as the favorites but trailed the Hokies by 10 points, 86-76, needing to win the women's 4x400m relay and for Virginia Tech to finish eighth or worse to secure at least a share of the team title.
Duke's quartet of Jenna Crean, Erin Marsh, Megan McGinnis and Lauren Hoffman answered the bell and produced a run of 3:38.05 to come-from-behind and claim the gold medal. Virginia Tech finished 10th, delivering the Blue Devils another ACC Championship.
Duke Women Earn Highest Program Ranking of No. 12 in USTFCCCA Poll
Fresh off a historic weekend at the Texas and Raleigh Relays, the Duke women's track and field team was tabbed 12th in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Week One national outdoor rankings, earning it's highest regular-season national ranking in program lore.
Duke's quartet of graduate students Lauren Hoffman, Erin Marsh and Michaela Reinhart and senior Isabel Wakefield combined to produce 104 points towards the team's TRFI team total of 159.73. Hoffman held the nation's second-fastest 400m hurdles time of 55.98 seconds, while Wakefield (5,850) and Marsh(5,735 points)'s heptathlon totals ranked second and third nationally.
Reinhart posted the country's fifth-fastest 10,000m time at the Raleigh Relays, finishing in 33:22.49.
Dahl, Marsh, Wakefield Shine at NCAA Indoor Championships
Graduate student Erin Marsh took home a silver medal in the women's pentathlon to headline a historic day for the Duke track and field program on the first day of the NCAA Indoor Championships. Marsh finished as runner-up with 4383 points and beat her school record in the event, which she set at the 2021 national meet, by 39 points.
Senior Isabel Wakefield delivered a strong showing in her NCAA Indoors debut, as she bested her No. 3 all-time pentathlon mark by 17 points, finishing with 4,176 overall to place seventh. The duo's performances earned them both All-America First Team honors, marking the first time in program history that Duke had two first team All-Americans in the same event in the same year.
Competing amid some of the nation's most elite runners, graduate student Nick Dahl raced to a 4:07.78 finish in the men's mile run, which was good for sixth among the field. The Philadelphia, Pa., native's sixth-place finish in the event marked the first time since 2015 that the Duke men scored points at the national meet and made him the first individual to do so since Curtis Beach in 2014.
Duke Qualifies Program-Record 17 to NCAA Outdoor Championships, 15 Earn All-America Status
Behind some strong performances at the NCAA East Regional, the Duke track and field program was able to qualify a program-record 17 athletes and have 16 of them compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships across nine different events. The Blue Devils were represented by Dana Baker, Halle Bieber, Scott Campbell, Jenna Crean, Emily Cole, Nick Dahl, Erick Duffy, Abby Geiser, Lauren Hoffman, Luke Jackson, Carly King, Erin Marsh, Megan McGinnis, Michaela Reinhart, Kelcie Simmons, Chyler Turner and Isabel Wakefield.
Duke carried its performances into the national meet as 15 different athletes achieved All-America honors. The stoutest performances of the outdoor championships came from graduate students Lauren Hoffman and Erin Marsh, who both earned bronze medals and garnered All-America First Team honors in the 400m hurdles and heptathlon, respectively. With the third-place finishes, the pair posted the highest placements of their careers at the national outdoor meet.
Hoffman finished off an outstanding season, one that saw her reset her own school record four times, with another stellar performance. She improved her 10th-place finish from 2021, clocking 55.58 to finish third overall. After finishing fourth in the heptathlon at the 2021 Outdoor Championships, Marsh raised the bar once again as she upended her previous best and totaled 5,929 points to place third overall.
Duke's women collected 12 team points to finished tied for 21st overall, closing the door on a historic 2021-22 season that saw the Blue Devils earn their highest ranking in program history of No. 12, set three school records and notch 23 top-five program marks overall. On the men's side, the team establish seven school records and set 22 top-five program marks.
To see the full list of Duke USTFCCCA All-Americans, check out the recap here.
Blue Devils Win Eight ACC Event Championships
Duke track and field put on strong performances at both the ACC Indoor and Outdoor Championships, claiming the indoor crown and finishing runner-up at the outdoor meet – both on the women's side. As a whole, the Blue Devils won eight ACC individual championships across both conference meets – several of which were program firsts.
INDOOR (4)
Nick Dahl opened the day in the mile run and left no doubt as he claimed the gold medal with a 4:04.72 finish to become the first Duke men's indoor champion in the mile since Bob Wheeler in 1973. Erin Marsh took the gold in the women's 60m hurdles, clocking 8.17 seconds to become the first Duke women's track athlete to win an ACC Championship in the hurdles.
Duke's quartet of Jenna Crean, Erin Marsh, Megan McGinnis and Lauren Hoffman answered the bell in the women's 4x400m relay and produced a run of 3:38.05 to come-from-behind and claim the gold medal.
Brianna Smith entered the women's high jump unseeded but put everyone in Rector Field House on notice as she came through with her best performance of the season, leaping 1.81m (5-11.25 feet) to win the event.
OUTDOOR (4)
Erin Marsh finished off an outstanding performance in the women's heptathlon en route to an outdoor title. Marsh's PR of 5,946 points won the event and made her the first Duke woman in program history to win an ACC heptathlon title.
Erick Duffy claimed the pole vault crown after breaking his own school record by seven via a height of 5.43m (7-9.75 feet), becoming the first Duke men's outdoor pole vault champion since Clint Brown in 1967.
Lauren Hoffman continued her incredible season in the hurdles by winning her first outdoor conference title behind a finish of 56 flat to claim the gold medal. The women's 4x400m relay of Carly King, Jenna Crean, Lauren Hoffman and Megan McGinnis put on a record-setting performance in the final women's event of the day, blazing to a season-best 3:33.88 finish to win the gold.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils cross country and track & field, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeTFXC."
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No. 25 Duke Women Capture Indoor ACC Title
Déjà vu was in the Rector Fieldhouse air for the 25th-ranked Duke women's track and field team. In a finish eerily similar to the 2021 ACC Outdoor Women's Championship, the Blue Devil women headlined a historic day for the Blue Devils as they delivered a first-place finish in the women's 4x400m relay to claim the 2022 ACC Indoor Championship and bring the trophy back to Durham. Duke shared the title with host Virginia Tech as the teams totaled 86 points apiece.
The tightly contested women's meet came down to the final event – Duke entered as the favorites but trailed the Hokies by 10 points, 86-76, needing to win the women's 4x400m relay and for Virginia Tech to finish eighth or worse to secure at least a share of the team title.
Duke's quartet of Jenna Crean, Erin Marsh, Megan McGinnis and Lauren Hoffman answered the bell and produced a run of 3:38.05 to come-from-behind and claim the gold medal. Virginia Tech finished 10th, delivering the Blue Devils another ACC Championship.
Duke Women Earn Highest Program Ranking of No. 12 in USTFCCCA Poll
Fresh off a historic weekend at the Texas and Raleigh Relays, the Duke women's track and field team was tabbed 12th in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Week One national outdoor rankings, earning it's highest regular-season national ranking in program lore.
Duke's quartet of graduate students Lauren Hoffman, Erin Marsh and Michaela Reinhart and senior Isabel Wakefield combined to produce 104 points towards the team's TRFI team total of 159.73. Hoffman held the nation's second-fastest 400m hurdles time of 55.98 seconds, while Wakefield (5,850) and Marsh(5,735 points)'s heptathlon totals ranked second and third nationally.
Reinhart posted the country's fifth-fastest 10,000m time at the Raleigh Relays, finishing in 33:22.49.
Dahl, Marsh, Wakefield Shine at NCAA Indoor Championships
Graduate student Erin Marsh took home a silver medal in the women's pentathlon to headline a historic day for the Duke track and field program on the first day of the NCAA Indoor Championships. Marsh finished as runner-up with 4383 points and beat her school record in the event, which she set at the 2021 national meet, by 39 points.
Senior Isabel Wakefield delivered a strong showing in her NCAA Indoors debut, as she bested her No. 3 all-time pentathlon mark by 17 points, finishing with 4,176 overall to place seventh. The duo's performances earned them both All-America First Team honors, marking the first time in program history that Duke had two first team All-Americans in the same event in the same year.
Competing amid some of the nation's most elite runners, graduate student Nick Dahl raced to a 4:07.78 finish in the men's mile run, which was good for sixth among the field. The Philadelphia, Pa., native's sixth-place finish in the event marked the first time since 2015 that the Duke men scored points at the national meet and made him the first individual to do so since Curtis Beach in 2014.
Duke Qualifies Program-Record 17 to NCAA Outdoor Championships, 15 Earn All-America Status
Behind some strong performances at the NCAA East Regional, the Duke track and field program was able to qualify a program-record 17 athletes and have 16 of them compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships across nine different events. The Blue Devils were represented by Dana Baker, Halle Bieber, Scott Campbell, Jenna Crean, Emily Cole, Nick Dahl, Erick Duffy, Abby Geiser, Lauren Hoffman, Luke Jackson, Carly King, Erin Marsh, Megan McGinnis, Michaela Reinhart, Kelcie Simmons, Chyler Turner and Isabel Wakefield.
Duke carried its performances into the national meet as 15 different athletes achieved All-America honors. The stoutest performances of the outdoor championships came from graduate students Lauren Hoffman and Erin Marsh, who both earned bronze medals and garnered All-America First Team honors in the 400m hurdles and heptathlon, respectively. With the third-place finishes, the pair posted the highest placements of their careers at the national outdoor meet.
Hoffman finished off an outstanding season, one that saw her reset her own school record four times, with another stellar performance. She improved her 10th-place finish from 2021, clocking 55.58 to finish third overall. After finishing fourth in the heptathlon at the 2021 Outdoor Championships, Marsh raised the bar once again as she upended her previous best and totaled 5,929 points to place third overall.
Duke's women collected 12 team points to finished tied for 21st overall, closing the door on a historic 2021-22 season that saw the Blue Devils earn their highest ranking in program history of No. 12, set three school records and notch 23 top-five program marks overall. On the men's side, the team establish seven school records and set 22 top-five program marks.
To see the full list of Duke USTFCCCA All-Americans, check out the recap here.
Blue Devils Win Eight ACC Event Championships
Duke track and field put on strong performances at both the ACC Indoor and Outdoor Championships, claiming the indoor crown and finishing runner-up at the outdoor meet – both on the women's side. As a whole, the Blue Devils won eight ACC individual championships across both conference meets – several of which were program firsts.
INDOOR (4)
Nick Dahl opened the day in the mile run and left no doubt as he claimed the gold medal with a 4:04.72 finish to become the first Duke men's indoor champion in the mile since Bob Wheeler in 1973. Erin Marsh took the gold in the women's 60m hurdles, clocking 8.17 seconds to become the first Duke women's track athlete to win an ACC Championship in the hurdles.
Duke's quartet of Jenna Crean, Erin Marsh, Megan McGinnis and Lauren Hoffman answered the bell in the women's 4x400m relay and produced a run of 3:38.05 to come-from-behind and claim the gold medal.
Brianna Smith entered the women's high jump unseeded but put everyone in Rector Field House on notice as she came through with her best performance of the season, leaping 1.81m (5-11.25 feet) to win the event.
OUTDOOR (4)
Erin Marsh finished off an outstanding performance in the women's heptathlon en route to an outdoor title. Marsh's PR of 5,946 points won the event and made her the first Duke woman in program history to win an ACC heptathlon title.
Erick Duffy claimed the pole vault crown after breaking his own school record by seven via a height of 5.43m (7-9.75 feet), becoming the first Duke men's outdoor pole vault champion since Clint Brown in 1967.
Lauren Hoffman continued her incredible season in the hurdles by winning her first outdoor conference title behind a finish of 56 flat to claim the gold medal. The women's 4x400m relay of Carly King, Jenna Crean, Lauren Hoffman and Megan McGinnis put on a record-setting performance in the final women's event of the day, blazing to a season-best 3:33.88 finish to win the gold.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils cross country and track & field, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeTFXC."
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