Blue Devils Gear Up for ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Thursday, May 11

Raleigh, N.C.

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ACC Outdoor Championships

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Blue Devils Gear Up for ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships

5/10/2023 4:00:00 PM | Track & Field

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DURHAM – With the regular season in the rearview mirror, the Duke track and field program shifts its focus to the postseason, beginning with the 2023 ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships slated for May 11-13 at the Paul Derr Track & Field Facility in Raleigh, N.C.

The three-day conference meet commences at 11 a.m., with the men's javelin throw, followed by finals in the women's pole vault, men's and women's long jump, and men's and women's hammer throw. Opening men's decathlon and women's heptathlon events are also scheduled for Thursday afternoon starting at noon. On the track, prelims are set for early Thursday evening in three men's and women's running events, followed by the women's 10,000-meter final at 8:10 p.m. and the men's 10,000m at 8:50.

An action-packed Friday slate opens with the final events of the men's decathlon (11 a.m.) while the women's heptathlon closes out the remainder of their respective multievent beginning at 12:30 p.m. Field events get going at 11 a.m., in the men's javelin while the women's 100m hurdles (6 p.m.) kicks off the evening slate on the track.

The finals in 20 running events and four field events, scheduled from 2 until 9 p.m., wrap up the Championships on Saturday.

HOW TO FOLLOW

Day 1 (Thurs.) – Live Results | Watch (ACCNX)
Day 2 (Fri.) – Live Results | Watch (ACCNX)
Day 3 (Sat.) – Live Results | Watch (ACCNX)

MEET INFO

The ACC Outdoor Championships feature four ranked teams competing this weekend – one on the women's side and three on the men's.
No. 7 Clemson leads three ACC men's teams ranked this week among the USTFCCCA's Top 25, followed by Florida State at the No. 11 spot and Louisville at No. 18.
On the women's side, No. 19 NC State represents the ACC in this week's USTFCCCA women's rankings.
Expanded coverage of the ACC Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be provided live each day via ACC Network Extra from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., on Thursday and Friday and Saturday from 2 p.m. until the championship's conclusion, approximately 9 p.m.
Steve Schlanger (pxp) and former Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie (analyst) will be on the call, with Hailey Hunter as sideline reporter.

WHAT TO KNOW

The Blue Devils' women's 4x400m relay was named the ACC Women's Track Performers of the Week on May 2 following their historic performance at the Penn Relays.
Duke's relay of freshmen Julia Jackson and Lauren Tolbert, graduate student Madison Mulder and sophomore Megan McGinnis raised the bar once again, turning in a historic performance.
The Blue Devil quartet shaved 12 seconds off Friday's preliminary time and turned in a blistering ACC and school-record finish of 3:27.14 – currently No. 6 nationally – featuring individual splits of 53.07 (Jackson), 52.05 (Tolbert), 51.85 (Mulder) and 50.19 (McGinnis) seconds.
Duke's time upended the former 17-year-old conference record that was set by Miami (3:27.85) in 2006, while edging out the program's previous fastest time of 3:28.27 that was registered at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
In the #EventSquad rankings, the Blue Devils have six event groups ranked in the top 10 on the women's side.
Javelin leads the way at No. 4, followed by the 100m hurdles, 400m, hammer throw and high jump – each checking in at No. 7. The 400m hurdles round out the group at No. 10.
Through 10 outdoor meets, the Blue Devils have made serious revisions to the record book as the squad has set or reset four school records and 33 top-five program marks.
The Blue Devils will be represented by 56 athletes at the conference meet, including 10 ACC medalists from a year ago in Beau Allen, Halle Bieber, Emily Cole, Jenna Crean, Nick Dahl, Abby Geiser, Carly King, Megan McGinnis, Chyler Turner and Isabel Wakefield. Of the 10 medalists, Crean, McGinnis and King won gold medals as a part of the 4x400m relay.

A LOOK BACK AT THE 2022 ACC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Duke women's track & field team finished runner-up at the ACC Outdoor Championships with 100.5 team points while the men's team tallied 59 points to take sixth and match its highest finish at the outdoor conference meet since 2015.
Graduate student Michaela Reinhart's silver-medal performance in the women's 10,000m and senior Isabel Wakefield's bronze medal in the women's long jump headlined the first day of the conference meet.
Reinhart earned the highest placement of her career at the outdoor championships, clocking 33:22.99 to finish as runner-up and garner All-ACC First Team honors.
In the final field event of the day for Duke, Wakefield finished in third place and earned first team all-conference status behind a leap of 6.20m (20-4.25 feet).
On Friday, graduate students Erick Duffy and Erin Marsh headlined a strong day of competition for Duke track and field as the pair was crowned ACC Champions following wins in the men's pole vault and women's heptathlon, respectively.
Marsh totaled a personal-best 5,946 points to win the event, garner All-ACC First Team honors and became the first Duke woman in program history to win an ACC heptathlon title. Her point total smashed her own Morris Williams Stadium and school record by 22 points and ranked second in the NCAA at the time of the meet.
Duffy claimed the pole vault crown with a record-setting performance of his own. Less than a month after setting the school record in the event, the North Andover, Mass., native upended his previous-best mark by seven centimeters as he cleared a height of 5.43m (17-9.75 feet) to become the first Duke men's outdoor pole vault champion since Clint Brown in 1967.
Emily Cole took silver in the women's 3,000m steeplechase after she clocked a career-best 9:48.20 to finish as the runner-up, shattering Liz Wort's 15-year-old school record, while shaving 27 seconds off her previous best.
The men's javelin saw Liam Kahn take the bronze medal and earn the nod to the All-ACC First Team, after notching the farthest throw of his collegiate career – 71.33m (234 feet). His mark surpassed his previous best by a whopping 27 feet and moved him into No. 2 all-time in program lore.
The Blue Devils closed the three-day meet with wins in the women's 4x400m relay and women's 400m hurdles. The unit 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 smash the Morris Williams Stadium record – set by Duke in 2019.
Hoffman added another All-ACC First Team honor to her collection as she captured her first outdoor conference title, doing so in historic fashion. The Haymarket, Va., native clocked 56 flat to claim the gold medal, upending the seven-year-old facility record set by Jernail Hayes back in 2015.
Full recaps – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

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