Herzog Wins Men’s Triple Jump, Duke Posts 12 Top-Five Finishes

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Herzog Wins Men’s Triple Jump, Duke Posts 12 Top-Five Finishes

2/12/2022 7:15:00 PM | Track & Field

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Freshman Mike Herzog won the men's triple jump, while the Blue Devil track and field team closed the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational with a dozen total top-five placements.

Herzog continued his impressive start to his freshman campaign and captured the first event win of his young collegiate career, recording a leap of 15.16m (49-9 feet).

Four Duke athletes – juniors Beau Allen and Halle Bieber, sophomore Brianna Smith and senior Isabel Wakefield – finished as the runner-up in their respective events, with three of the four notching personal-best marks. Allen registered a new personal best in the men's high jump with a height of 2.16m (7-1 feet), Bieber dashed the women's 200m final in 7.63 seconds for an event PR, while Smith's leap in the women's high jump measured 1.69m (5-6.50 feet). Wakefield also clocked an event-best of 8.15 seconds in the women's 60mH final and improved her No. 2 all-time spot on the program list.

The men's 300m dash saw Alejandro Rodriguez claim a third-place finish as the sophomore ran in 34.90 seconds. Junior Ezra Mellinger finished fourth in the men's 200m dash on a run of 21.48 seconds while on the women's side, Bieber took fifth with a 24.42 second finish. Mellinger also dashed 6.86 seconds in the men's 60m final, good for fifth among the field.

Graduate student Erick Duffy and freshman Michael Fairbanks closed out the Duke field event entries with the men's pole vault. Duffy and Fairbanks both tallied vaults of 5.16m (16-11 feet) to finish fourth and fifth among the field, respectively – a mark that has them tied for fourth all-time in program lore.

Duke's women's 4x400m relay team of seniors Rylee Bowen, Nikki Merritt and Wakefield and junior Carly King registered a third-place finish with a time of 3:44.74.

The Blue Devils also received a strong performance from their relay team competing down in Fayetteville, Ark.

Tyson Invitational
Competing against some of the premier women's 4x400m relay teams in the nation, Duke's representatives posted a top-five finish and set a program mark in the process. The unit composed of junior Jenna Crean, freshmen Abby Geiser and Megan McGinnis and graduate student Lauren Hoffman clocked a season-best time of 3:34.03 (5th), which checks in at No. 3 all-time at Duke.

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