Blue Devils Earn All-ACC Honors in Women’s High Jump, Long Jump

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Blue Devils Earn All-ACC Honors in Women’s High Jump, Long Jump

2/25/2023 1:04:00 AM | Track & Field

Results - Day 2 (PDF)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Duke track and field registered another solid day of competition at the ACC Indoor Championships as day two of the conference meet saw the Blue Devils collect four more All-ACC honors and qualify 10 more athletes to the Saturday finals.

Graduate student Isabel Wakefield garnered All-ACC First Team accolades while classmate Chinenye Agina, freshman Gianna Locci and junior Brianna Smith earned nods to the second team. Halle Bieber, Emily Cole, Karly Forker, Julia Jackson, Amina Maatoug, Megan McGinnis, Lauren Tolbert, Chyler Turner, Wakefield and Beck Wittstadt all punched tickets to their respective event finals – several coming via personal best and record-breaking performances.

TOP PERFORMANCES

Locci and Wakefield competed in the women's long jump where each tallied top-five placements to come away with all-conference recognition.
Wakefield collected the bronze medal, flying out to 6.19m (20-3.75 feet) to earn All-ACC First Team honors and a spot on the podium with a third-place finish.
In her first ACC Championship appearance, Locci's earned all-conference second team status via a jump that measured 6.02m (19-9 feet).
Agina and Smith earned All-ACC Second Team honors in the women's high jump, finishing in fifth and a tie for sixth, respectively, behind jumps of 1.74m (5-8.50 feet).
After helping the Duke women's DMR team shatter the ACC, Duke, facility and meet record in the event yesterday, Maatoug and Tolbert continued their stellar weekend in the women's 800m prelims behind personal-best performances.
Maatoug produced the fastest time of the field as she clocked 2:03.45 to break the facility record, improving her No. 2 Duke time in the process. Tolbert's time of 2:04.44 ranked No. 2 among the preliminary round and moved her two spots up to No. 3 all-time in program lore.
Wakefield notched the second facility record of the day for the Blue Devils, sprinting to an 8.18 second finish – the fastest among the field. Turner ran in 8.41 seconds to punch her ticket to Saturday's final.
In the women's 60m, Bieber advanced to the final after dashing her fastest career time of 7.41 seconds, which lowered her own school record time. Abby Geiser took over sole control of the No. 2 spot on the Duke charts via a run of 7.41 seconds.
Wittstadt took part in the men's 800m and ran a personal best of 1:49.22, moving himself up one spot to No. 2 all-time at Duke.
McGinnis and Jackson clocked 53.19 seconds and 54.21 seconds, respectively, to qualify for the final in the women's 400m while Forker and Cole earned their spots in the next round after racing in 4:41.80 and 4:42.81, respectively.
To see the full results from Day Two, click here.

UP NEXT
Duke heads into the final day of the ACC Indoor Championships with the 22nd-ranked Blue Devil women currently slotted second after seven events with 43 points while the men are tied for 11th with 13 points through six events. The men's pole vault (12 p.m.) kicks off the Duke field events while track events get rolling with the women's mile slated for a noon start.

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