Blue Devils Earn Four Medals On Day Two of ACC Championships

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Blue Devils Earn Four Medals On Day Two of ACC Championships

5/12/2023 11:23:00 PM | Track & Field

Day Two Results (PDF)

RALEIGH, N.C. – Duke track and field kept the momentum going on day two of the 2023 ACC Outdoor Championships as the Blue Devils collected four more medals – one silver and three bronze, earned six All-ACC honors and qualified 10 more individuals to their respective event finals.

With nine events scored, both the Duke men's (37 points) and women's (43 points) teams sit in third place heading into the final day of competition.

Due to predicted inclement weather in the area later in the day, the Saturday ACC Championship schedule has been modified. Field events are now slated to get going at noon, with running events set to begin at 3 p.m.

TOP PERFORMANCES

Senior Dana Baker headlined the Friday performances for Duke with a runner-up finish in the first field event of the day – the women's javelin.
Baker notched her best throw on her sixth and final attempt, launching the javelin out to 54.22m (177-11 feet) – just four centimeters off the school record – to set a new personal best while improving her No. 2 all-time program mark in the process. She collected her second overall all-conference honor and first nod to the first team.
Graduate student Ilhame Tamrouti was next in line as she earned a spot on the podium along with All-ACC First Team status on her best toss of the season.
Tamrouti came through with her furthest toss on the fourth attempt and slotted herself fourth all-time at Duke after turning in a throw of 49.82m (163-5 feet).
The Blue Devils posted third-place finishes and earned first-team all-conference honors in the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon, respectively, behind personal-best showings by sophomore Max Forte and junior Brianna Smith.
Forte totaled 7,186 points with his best performances coming in the long jump (first), shot put (third) and 1500m run (third). Smith finished the multis event with 5,596 points, which featured wins in the high jump and long jump.
Duke also picked up a pair of All-ACC Second Team accolades in the women's javelin and 3,000m steeplechase.
Senior Emily Cole ran her race in 9:55.48 to place fourth overall while graduate student Kirstin West lobbed the javelin a personal-best 47.83m (156-11 feet), good for sixth among the field.
Senior Halle Bieber and sophomore Abby Geiser each delivered the best performance of their career in the women's 100m prelims en route to advancing to the event final.
Bieber dashed in 11.40 seconds and Geiser clocked 11.42 seconds, improving their second and third-fastest times, respectively, in program lore.
The women's 400m dash saw Duke put on a strong display of running as the Blue Devils pushed three athletes through after turning in three of the top-five fastest times of the prelims.
Sophomore Megan McGinnis clocked 52.34 seconds to pace the trio while freshmen Julia Jackson and Lauren Tolbert turned in personal-best times of 52.36 seconds and 52.67 seconds, respectively. Jackson's time also improved her No. 5 all-time program time.
The Blue Devils went three for three in the preliminaries of the 100m hurdles as sophomore Chyler Turner and graduate students Emily Sloan and Isabel Wakefield each earned their spots in Saturday's final.
Wakefield led the way with a time of 13.39 seconds followed by Turner, who turned in a personal best of 13.47 seconds while improving her No. 4 Duke time. Sloan finished in 13.49 seconds to round out the group.
Tolbert and junior Charlotte Tomkinson locked down their spots in the next round of the women's 800m after turning in the fourth and fifth-fastest times of the field. Tolbert logged a finish of 2:05.50 while Tomkinson ran a personal best of 2:05.58.
To view the full results from day two, click here.

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