Seven Blue Devils Earn USTFCCCA All-America Honors, Women’s 4x400m Relay Advances to Saturday Final

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Day Two at NCAA Outdoor Championships

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Seven Blue Devils Earn USTFCCCA All-America Honors, Women’s 4x400m Relay Advances to Saturday Final

6/9/2023 2:28:00 AM | Track & Field

Day Two Results (PDF)

AUSTIN, Texas – The Duke women's track and field team turned in a solid day of competition on Thursday as the second day of the NCAA Outdoor Championships saw seven Blue Devil women garner United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-America honors while the women's 4x400m relay booked its spot in Saturday's event final.

Dana Baker, Megan McGinnis and Isabel Wakefield were each named second-team All-Americans in their respective events while Emily Cole, Amina Maatoug, Ilhame Tamrouti and Lauren Tolbert each claimed honorable mention accolades.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Duke women's 4x400m relay capped the evening with a strong performance and rewrote the program record books en route to punching its ticket to Saturday's event finals.
The quartet of senior Carly King, freshmen Lauren Tolbert and Julia Jackson and sophomore Megan McGinnis posted the fastest time in Heat 1 and the fifth fastest of the semifinal race, clocking 3:28.84 – including blistering splits of 51.88 seconds (Jackson) and 51.80 seconds (McGinnis) in the third and fourth legs, respectively – to earn the automatic qualifier while moving up to No. 3 all-time at Duke.
McGinnis also locked down a spot on the USTFCCCA All-America Second Team via a personal-best in the women's 400m. The sophomore dashed 51.30 seconds to place 11th overall, with the time breaking her own Duke program record in the process.
McGinnis becomes just the second Duke woman all-time to be named an All-American in the outdoor 400m event. She joins Brittany Aveni, who also earned a nod to the second team in 2021.
Graduate student Isabel Wakefield secured her second-career, and first outdoor, USTFCCCA All-America honor after placing 13th in the women's long jump. Wakefield came through with her best jump on her third attempt, flying out to 6.07m (19-11 feet) to become the first Blue Devil woman in program history to be named an All-American in the outdoor event.
The women's javelin competition saw two Blue Devils earn USTFCCCA All-America honors as senior Dana Baker earned a nod to the second team for the second straight year with graduate student Ilhame Tamrouti garnering her second consecutive honorable mention accolade.
Baker's farthest throw came via her second attempt as she launched the javelin 51.29m (168-3 feet) to place 15th among the field, while Tamrouti delivered her best toss of the evening on her opening attempt that checked in with a measurement of 48.61m (159-5 feet).
Tamrouti is the fourth Duke woman to achieve All-America honors in the javelin, joining the company of Baker (2022, 2023), Katelyn Gochenour (2017) and Christine Streisel (2017).
Sophomore Amina Maatoug was named an All-American for the first time in her career, earning honorable mention status via a time of 4:19.59 in the women's 1500m race.
The Leiden, Netherlands product established herself as just the fifth Blue Devil woman in program lore, and the first since 2016 to earn All-America honors in the 1500m. The four other Duke runners to achieve this feat were Madison Granger (2016), Kate Van Buskirk (2011), Molly Lehman (2009) and Shannon Rowbury (2005).
Tolbert also picked up USTFCCCA All-America Honorable Mention honors in the women's 800m behind a time of 2:07.01.
With her performance, Tolbert joined the ranks of Madeline Kopp (2017), Amina Banks (2016) and Cydney Ross (2011, 2013) as one of four Blue Devil women to be named a USTFCCCA All-American in the 800m.
Senior Emily Cole achieved All-American status for the second time in as many seasons, earning honorable mention status after finishing the women's 3,000m steeplechase in 10:25.42.

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