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Duke Gears Up for ACC Indoor Championships
2/22/2023 11:29:00 PM | Track & Field
DURHAM – With the regular season in the rearview mirror, the Duke track and field program turns its attention to the postseason as the Blue Devils gear up for the ACC Indoor Championships, hosted by Louisville, slated for Feb. 23-25 at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center in Louisville, Ky.
Duke's 22nd-ranked women will look to defend its 2022 ACC Indoor Championship, while the men's squad looks to improve upon last season's seventh place finish.
The three-day conference meet commences at 11 a.m. and 11:20 a.m., respectively, on Thursday morning with the men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon before closing out day one at 7p.m. with the men's distance medley relay. Friday's action packed slate opens with the final events of the men's heptathlon (11 a.m.) and concludes with the men's 800m preliminaries at 7:30 p.m. The women's triple jump kicks off the final day of competition at 11 a.m., while the men's 4x400m relay (3:50 p.m.) caps the weekend with an awards ceremony to following immediately after.
MEET INFO
WHAT TO KNOW
A LOOK BACK AT THE 2022 ACC INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
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Duke's 22nd-ranked women will look to defend its 2022 ACC Indoor Championship, while the men's squad looks to improve upon last season's seventh place finish.
The three-day conference meet commences at 11 a.m. and 11:20 a.m., respectively, on Thursday morning with the men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon before closing out day one at 7p.m. with the men's distance medley relay. Friday's action packed slate opens with the final events of the men's heptathlon (11 a.m.) and concludes with the men's 800m preliminaries at 7:30 p.m. The women's triple jump kicks off the final day of competition at 11 a.m., while the men's 4x400m relay (3:50 p.m.) caps the weekend with an awards ceremony to following immediately after.
MEET INFO
- The ACC Indoor Championships features six ranked teams competing this weekend – four on the women's side and two on the men's.
- The ACC currently boasts two teams among the top 10 of the USTFCCCA national women's rankings with NC State at No. 5 and Virginia Tech at No. 9. Duke checks in at No. 22 while Notre Dame is ranked 24th.
- Florida State leads the ACC men's teams among the top 20 of the USTFCCCA national poll. The Seminoles hold the No. 11 spot, followed by No. 13 Louisville.
- ACC Network Extra (ACCNX) plans live coverage of each day of the ACC Championships, with Shawn Kenney on play-by-play, former Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie as analyst and Hailey Hunter as sideline reporter. On-air coverage begins Thursday at 4 p.m., Friday at 11 a.m., and Saturday at 11 a.m. Additionally, ACC Network (ACCN) will re-air the final day of the competition on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 8 a.m.
- FlashResults will provide meet results throughout the weekend here.
WHAT TO KNOW
- The Duke women are ranked No. 22 in the USTFCCCA rankings.
- In the #EventSquad rankings, the Blue Devils have seven event groups ranked in the top 10, including the No. 3 pentathlon unit and the No. 5 400m squad.
- Duke has rewritten the record book through seven meets this season, breaking 11 school records while setting 43 top-five program marks.
- The Blue Devils will be represented by 44 athletes – 28 women and 16 men, including eight All-ACC honorees from a season ago in Beau Allen, Halle Bieber, Jenna Crean, Megan McGinnis, Brianna Smith, Chyler Turner, Isabel Wakefield and Jackson Walker.
- The full list of Duke entries can be found here.
- Of the eight all-conference honorees, Crean (4x400m), McGinnis (4x400m) and Smith (high jump) each won gold in their respective events and will look to defend their titles this weekend.
A LOOK BACK AT THE 2022 ACC INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
- Senior Isabel Wakefield earned silver in the women's pentathlon, securing her spot on the All-ACC First team while earning her second-career All-ACC honor in the process after finishing as runner-up in the event with 4,147 points.
- Day two saw Brianna Smith headline a strong day of competition for Duke and end the day with a win in the women's high jump to collect the gold medal in the event. Graduate student Erin Marsh earned the silver medal in the women's long jump, while sophomore Gage Knight and graduate student Michaela Reinhart earned bronze in the men's heptathlon and women's seeded 5000m.
- Smith leapt to the head of the field with a height of 1.81m (5-11.25 feet) – one that no one else in the 15-member field was able to clear. Her personal-best mark moved her into third all-time in the Duke record books, garnering the sophomore her second career and first indoor All-ACC honor.
- Marsh produced a career-best performance in the long jump, flying out to 6.32m (20-9 feet) on her final attempt to move into sole control of the No. 2 spot in program lore – one centimeter off the school record.
- In his ACC Indoors debut, Knight collected bronze and All-ACC First Team status after wrapping up the men's heptathlon with a personal best 5,466 points, improving his No. 5 program mark.
- Reinhart delivered a spectacular performance in the women's 5000m race and earned the highest placement of her career at ACC Indoors via a third-place finish. She clocked a personal best 15:55.24 to earn first team All-ACC recognition, while also moving into No. 3 all-time in program lore.
- In a finish eerily similar to the 2022 ACC Outdoor Women's Championship, the Blue Devil women headlined a historic final day of competition 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.
- Trailing by 10 points in the standings with just the 4x400m relay left to go, 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.
- Graduate student Nick Dahl opened the final day of the conference meet in the mile run and left no doubt as to why he entered the event as the number one overall seed, claiming 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.
- Marsh won the women's 60m hurdles, clocking 8.17 seconds to become the first Duke women's track athlete ever to win an ACC Championship in the hurdles. Wakefield earned bronze in the event following her finish of 8:33 seconds and picked up her second first team honor of the weekend.
- Michael Fairbanks catapulted into the Duke record books with a historic performance in the pole vault. After passing on the first two bars, he cleared the next three on his first attempt, claiming the crown with a height of 5.26m (17-3 feet) to become the first Duke men's ACC indoor pole vault champion since Mike Shankle's 1978 title.
- Classmate Erick Duffy took silver in the pole vault and earned a spot on the first team. Duffy registered the same height as Fairbanks but needed two attempts to clear it.
- Crean rounded out the Blue Devil medalists as she led the way with a bronze medal finish of 53.60 (PR) in the 400m to earn All-ACC First Team honors.
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