Erick Duffy

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Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
North Andover, Mass.
High School:
North Andover
Prev School:
Harvard

Honors: 2019 USTFCCCA Honorable Mention All-America (Pole Vault, Outdoor), 2019 All-Ivy League Second Team (Pole Vault, Outdoor), 2019 IC4A/ECAC Champion (Pole Vault, Indoor), 2018 All-Ivy League Second Team (Pole Vault, Outdoor)

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2021-22 (Graduate Student)
Outdoor

Earned USTFCCCA All-America Honorable Mention honors at the NCAA Championships with a height of 5.30m (17-4.5 feet)
Cleared 5.29m (17-4.25 feet) at the NCAA East Regional
Set the school record, earned All-ACC First Team honors and became the first Duke men's outdoor pole vault ACC Champion since Clint Brown (1967) after clearing a personal best of 5.43m (17-9.75 feet) at the ACC Championships
Won the pole vault events at the Virginia Grand Prix Invite, High Point Meet of Champions and Bob Davidson Memorial Invitational
Cleared 5.11m (16-9.25 feet) to place fifth at the Virginia Challenge
Placed fourth at the Duke Invite via a mark of 5.15m (16-10.75 feet)
Finished as runner-up in the pole vault at the VertKlasse Meeting with a clearance of 5.15m (16-10.75 feet)

Indoor

Earned All-ACC First Team honors with a runner-up finish of 5.26m (17-3 feet) at the ACC Championships
Cleared 5.32m (17-5.5 feet) for seventh place at the Virginia Tech Challenge, tied for No. 2 in Duke history
Registered clearances of 5.16m (16-11 feet) in back-to-back meets, placing fourth at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invite and second at the Virginia Tech Elite Meet

2020-21: Redshirt season.

2019-20 (Harvard): Started the indoor slate with a fourth-place finish and mark of 5.25m (17-2.75 feet) at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge (1/23) … Took home second in the pole vault with a mark of 5.05m (16-6.75 feet) at the Crimson Elite (1/31) … Placed second with a mark of 5.05m (16-6.75 feet) in the pole vault at the H-Y-P (2/8) … Finished third in the pole vault with a mark of 5.10m (16-8.75 feet) at the Tiger Paw Invitational (2/14) … Earned a third place finish and mark of 5.05m (16-6.75 feet) at the Ivy League Indoor Championships (2/29 – 3/1) … Did not compete in any outdoor events due to the season being cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

2018-19 (Harvard): Opened the season with a first-place finish in the pole vault, clearing 4.95m (16-2.75 feet) at the BU Season Opener (12/1) … Finished third in the pole vault (4.85m) and eighth in the 60m hurdles (8.31 seconds) at the 2019 Beantown Challenge (1/12) … Placed third in the pole vault with a mark of 5.10m (16-8.75 feet) at the Clemson Invitational (1/18) … Took third place in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.21 seconds at the H-Y-P (1/26) … Earned a third place finish for the second straight week in the pole vault, clearing 4.85m (15-11 feet) at the Harvard Crimson Elite (2/1) … Smashed his PR in the pole vault with a 5.28m (17-3.75 feet) clearance to take fifth at the Texas Tech Shootout (2/9) … Took home the 2019 IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championship in the pole vault with a mark of 5.20m (17-0.75 feet) (3/1) … Placed third in the pole vault with a mark of 5.16m (16-11 feet) at the 37th Annual Victor Lopez Classic (3/21) … Finished ninth in the pole vault with a clearance of 5.15m (16-10.75m) at the Texas Relays (3/27) … Set a new personal best in the pole vault, clearing 5.41m (17-9 feet) to take first the Harvard-Yale Match (4/13) … Took third in the pole vault with a mark of 5.15m (16-10.75 feet) at the LSU Alumni Gold (4/20) … Finished second for the second consecutive year in the pole vault with a mark of 5.07m (16-7.5 feet) at the Ivy League Outdoor Championships (5/4) … Qualified for his first NCAA Championships with a ninth place finish and mark of 5.31m (17-5 feet) at the NCAA East Regional (5/23) … Took home 19th in the pole vault with a clearance of 5.20m (17-0.75 feet) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (6/5 – 6/8).

2017-18 (Harvard): Began his collegiate career with a fifth-place finish and time of 8.34 seconds in the 60m hurdles at the BU Season Opener (12/2) … Competed in several events finishing fourth in the long jump (6.67m), fifth in the 60m hurdles (8.26 seconds) and 19th in the 200m (22.82 seconds) at the Beantown Challenge (1/13) … Finished sixth in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.51 seconds at the Joe Donahue Games (1/19) … Took second in the 60m hurdles with a PR time of 8.12 seconds at the H-Y-P (1/28) … Placed 13th in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.17 seconds at the Crimson Elite (2/2) … Took home 12th in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.43 seconds at the Texas Tech Shootout (2/9) … Finished sixth in the pole vault with a mark of 4.80m (15-9 feet) and ninth in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.29 seconds at the Ivy League Indoor Championships (2/24) … Improved his Ivy League mark by 0.25m, finishing fifth in the pole vault with mark of 5.05m (16-6.75 feet) at the ECAC-IC4A Indoor Championships (3/2) … Broke his PR in the pole vault again, clearing 5.15m (16-10.75 feet) to place second at the Texas Relays (3/28) … Placed second in the pole vault for the second straight week, clearing 5.15m (16-10.75 feet) at the Texas State Bobcat Invitational (3/29) … Placed third or better in all events he competed in, taking second in the pole vault (5.12m), third in the 110m Hurdles (15.14 seconds) and third in the javelin (27.50m) at the Harvard-Yale Match (4/14) … Won his first collegiate event in the pole vault with a mark of 5.07m (16-7.5 feet) at the Stonehill Skyhawk Invitational (4/28) … Took home a silver medal in the pole vault with a clearance of 5.26m (17-3 feet) at the Ivy League Outdoor Championships (5/5 – 5/6) … Placed 22nd in his first NCAA event, with a pole vault of 5.00m (16-4.75 feet) at the NCAA East Regional (5/24 – 5/26)

High School: Won a New Balance national title in the pole vault as a senior …. A two-time New England champion in the pole vault.