Duke Set to Compete at Raleigh, Texas Relays

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Duke Set to Compete at Raleigh, Texas Relays

3/22/2022 8:19:00 PM | Track & Field

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DURHAM – After opening the outdoor season last weekend at the Bob Davidson Invitational, Duke track and field heads for a split weekend at two of the premier meets in the country – the Texas and Raleigh Relays.

Multis open the Texas Relays on Wednesday with the University/Collegiate women's heptathlon scheduled for a 10 a.m. CT start and the University/Collegiate men in the decathlon at 10:30 a.m. CT, while the Raleigh Relays open Thursday morning with the seeded women's pole vault at 10 a.m. ET.

Both meets will conclude with the men's and women's 4x400 relay on Saturday night.

Texas Relays | Austin, Texas | March 23-26 | Schedule (PDF)| Live Results | LHN (Watch)

Eleven women and four men head to the Lone Star State where they will represent the Blue Devils in the 94th installment of the Texas Relays, hosted by the University of Texas at Mike A. Myers Stadium. The historic four-day meet will feature University, College and Invitational divisions, as well as the return of the high school division.
The Longhorn Network will have exclusive coverage of the meet with the following schedule (all times listed below are Central):

Wednesday, March 23 – Tape delayed
Thursday, March 24 – 7 p.m.
Friday, March 25 – 9:30 am & 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 26 – 1:30 p.m.

Raleigh Relays | Raleigh, N.C. | March 24-26 | Schedule (PDF) | Live Results | ACCNX (Watch)

Duke is sending 50 members (17 women and 33 men) of the team up the road for the Raleigh Relays hosted by NC State at Paul Derr Track from March 24-26. The Blue Devils will compete across distance, middle distance, sprints, jumps and throws events.

ACC Network Extra will provide select coverage of the meet across the three days based on the schedule below:

Thursday, March 24 – 7-9 p.m.
Friday, March 25 – 7:15 -9:15 p.m.
Saturday, March 26 – 3-5 p.m.

What to Watch

Duke features a trio of multis athletes competing in the heptathlon at Texas in graduate students Zoe Hughes and Erin Marsh and senior Isabel Wakefield.
Hughes holds the third-highest Duke heptathlon mark of 5,541 points and garnered All-ACC Second Team and USTFCCCA All-America Honorable Mention honors in the event during the 2021 season.
She enters the weekend after a solid performance at the Bob Davidson Invitational that included a win in the long jump and a fourth-place finish in the 100m hurdles.
Marsh sees action for the first time this spring following a sensational indoor season, culminated by All-America First Team honors and a second-place finish in the pentathlon (4,383 points) at the NCAA Indoor Championships, where she improved her school record in the event by 39 points.
A two-time All-ACC First Team selection and USTFCCCA All-America First (2021) and Second (2019) Team honoree, Marsh also owns the school record in the heptathlon of 5,924 points.
Wakefield is also competing for the first time this spring. The senior capped her indoor season as a first team All-American following a seventh-place finish in the pentathlon at NCAA Indoors that saw her best her No. 3 all-time mark by 17 points.
Junior Halle Bieber and senior Kelcie Simmons gear up for the Texas Relays' 100m dash.
Simmons currently holds the fourth-fastest event time in program lore (11.69 seconds), while Bieber is coming off a first-place finish in the 100m at the season-opening meet via a personal best of 11.47 seconds.
Graduate student Lauren Hoffman will take part in the 400m hurdles following a stellar event performance at the Bob Davidson Invitational.
Hoffman clocked 56.53 seconds to finish first and shatter the seven-year-old Vert Stadium record set.
She finished three seconds faster than the event's runner-up, while registering a new personal best and lowering her school-record time in the process.
Brianna Smith gets set to represent Duke in the women's high jump this weekend. The last time the sophomore competed in the event, she was crowned ACC Indoor Champion via a height of 1.81m (5-11.25 feet) that moved her into No. 3 all-time at Duke.
Competing in the men's 4x400m will be Gage Knight, Ezra Mellinger, Miles Mingo, Alex Schwedt and Job Trahan.
Mellinger, Mingo and Schwedt were members of the men's unit that clocked the second-fastest time of 3:10.24, Mellinger and Schwedt were featured on the squad that clocked the No. 3 all-time mark (3:10.34), while Mellinger and Trahan ran the second and third legs, respectively, of the fifth-ranked 4x400m relay team (3:10.47) in program lore.
Graduate student Michaela Reinhart will take the track for the first time at Raleigh Relays as she gets set to take part in the 5,000m and 10,000m runs, holding top-five program marks in each.
Reinhart's 5000m time of 15:55.38 ranks second, while her 33:26.61 finish in the 10,000m sits in fourth.
In his first action of the spring, junior Zach Kinne looks to improve on his No. 4 program mark of 29:21.37 in the 10,000m run, which he set at the 2021 ACC Outdoor Championships
Moorea Mitchell gets ready to compete in the women' s hammer throw in Raleigh. Last weekend at the Bob Davidson Invitational, Mitchell improved her No. 4 all-time Duke mark and finished second among the field behind a toss of 54.20m (177-10 feet).

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