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Athletics Annual Report Released for 2022-23
8/29/2023 11:00:00 AM | Iron Dukes, Athletics
DURHAM -- The Duke University Department of Athletics has released its 2022-23 Annual Report, which details the storylines, moments and accomplishments of another outstanding year for the Blue Devils.
Check out some of the highlights below:
DUKE BY THE NUMBERS IN 2022-23:
16 Teams represented in NCAA Championships
52 All-America award winners
2 National Players of the Year
16 Teams achieved 100% GSR
641 On ACC Honor Roll (ACC record)
115 All-ACC award winners
37 Individual NCAA qualifiers
15 Blue Devils drafted by pro organizations
4 ACC Coaches of the Year
4 ACC Scholar-Athletes of the Year
7 Academic All-Americans
98% Graduation Success Rate (led all Power 5 institutions)
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Check out some of the highlights below:
- A total of 16 Duke teams were represented in NCAA Championship postseason play, including football's victory in the Military Bowl, men's lacrosse reaching the National Championship game and Super Regional appearances by both softball and baseball.Â
- Duke secured 977.80 total points to finish 16th overall nationally in the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup. Duke was second among private schools nationally and third among ACC schools –- its best overall and ACC finish since 2018-19 when placing ninth and third, respectively. The Blue Devils have finished in the top 30 all but twice in the 29 years since the Directors' Cup standings were originated in 1993-94.
- In his first season as head coach of the Duke men's basketball team, Jon Scheyer led the Blue Devils to their 22nd ACC title and an undefeated home record at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Scheyer became the first coach in ACC men's basketball history to win the ACC Championship as a player and as a coach. The Blue Devils finished the season 27-9, setting a Duke record for most wins by a first-year head coach.
- The Duke men's lacrosse team finished as the national runner-up, advancing to the NCAA title game for the seventh time in program history. Led by the winningest coach in Division I men's lacrosse history, John Danowski, the Blue Devils captured their 10th ACC Championship, going 5-1 in league action, and advanced to their 14th Championship weekend.Â
- Mike Elko led the Duke football team to one of its finest seasons in school history. Elko was voted the ACC Coach of the Year after leading the Blue Devils to eight regular-season wins and a second-place finish in the Coastal Division. Duke finished 9-4 overall and defeated UCF, 30-13, in the Military Bowl to make Elko the program's first head coach to lead the Blue Devils to nine wins and a bowl victory in his first season at the helm.Â
- Men's lacrosse junior attackman Brennan O'Neill and women's soccer sophomore forward Michelle Cooper garnered the highest honors in their respective sports. O'Neill was named the 2023 Tewaaraton Award winner as the country's top men's lacrosse player, while Cooper won the Hermann Award as the nation's best women's soccer player. In addition to winning the Tewaaraton, O'Neill also captured the Lt. Raymond J. Enners Most Outstanding Player award as voted by Division I head coaches.Â
- An ACC-leading and school-record 16 Duke varsity athletics programs registered a perfect 1000 score in the most recent multi-year (2018-22) Academic Progress Report (APR) data released in May. In all, Duke totaled the highest APR score among ACC institutions in 17 of the league's sports – field hockey (1000), men's cross country (1000), men's golf (1000), men's lacrosse (1000), men's soccer (1000), men's tennis (1000), men's track and field (1000), wrestling (996), softball (1000), women's cross country (1000), women's fencing (1000), women's golf (1000), rowing (1000), women's soccer (1000), women's swimming and diving (1000), women's track and field (1000), volleyball (1000). Duke was the lone ACC institution with perfect scores in both men's lacrosse and men's soccer.
- The Duke women's track and field team captured its second ACC title in three seasons in May. The Blue Devils scored an impressive 145.5 points, beating runner-up Virginia Tech by 61 points. The 145.5 points were the most scored by a team since the ACC expanded to 15 teams in 2014. Sophomore Megan McGinnis won her first individual ACC title, winning the 400-meter dash with a school-record time of 51.43.Â
- Statistics released in November indicated that Duke led all Power 5 institutions with its 98 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR). Nationally, Duke's 98 percent GSR was tied for sixth, trailing only Columbia, Bucknell, Harvard, Villanova and Yale. Among Power 5 schools, the top five in GSR included Duke (98), Northwestern (98), Notre Dame (97), Vanderbilt (97), Boston College (96), Wake Forest (96), Michigan (96) and Stanford (96).
- Duke softball had another record-breaking season, compiling a program-best 48 wins and earning the right to host an NCAA Super Regional for the first time. The Blue Devils finished as runner-up in the ACC to NCAA runner-up Florida State and earned the nation's No. 8 seed in the field of 64 teams. Sophomore Ana Gold had a banner season on the diamond, breaking Jameson Kavel's single-season home runs record with 19 shots over the fence. Freshman D'Auna Jennings captured AFCA All-America second-team honors, the first freshman in program history to collect All-America recognition.
- Duke collected a league-record 641 student-athletes on the 67th annual ACC Honor Roll. The Blue Devils have led the conference in ACC Honor Roll selections in 35 of the past 36 years. More than 80 percent of Duke's enrolled student-athletes were named to the Honor Roll as the Blue Devils led all schools with their conference-record 641 Honor Roll student-athletes. Duke had a conference-leading 22 student-athletes garner the recognition for a fifth time.
- Duke's Finn Hossfeld (men's fencing), Michaela Reinhart (women's cross country/track & field) and Ruthie Jones (women's soccer) each earned ACC Postgraduate scholarships. The trio received the Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship Award, earning $6,000 each toward their graduate educations.
- Omar Elgeziry was named head coach of the Duke fencing program in July. A former Olympian, Elgeziry comes to Duke after spending four seasons as the head coach at the Air Force Academy. He also served two seasons as the assistant coach at Cornell. He succeeded Alex Beguinet, who announced his retirement in April after being at the helm of the Blue Devils for nearly four decades.Â
- Brian Barnes was announced as the sixth head coach in program history in May, after spending the previous three years as the associate head coach at NC State. Barnes assumes the role as the Director of Swimming and Diving for the Blue Devils. Barnes succeeds the late Dan Colella, who coached the Blue Devils for two decades before his passing from cancer in December.
DUKE BY THE NUMBERS IN 2022-23:
16 Teams represented in NCAA Championships
52 All-America award winners
2 National Players of the Year
16 Teams achieved 100% GSR
641 On ACC Honor Roll (ACC record)
115 All-ACC award winners
37 Individual NCAA qualifiers
15 Blue Devils drafted by pro organizations
4 ACC Coaches of the Year
4 ACC Scholar-Athletes of the Year
7 Academic All-Americans
98% Graduation Success Rate (led all Power 5 institutions)
#GoDuke
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