Upcoming Event: Men's Golf versus The Invitational at The Honors Course on September 15, 2025
Men's Golf
vs The Invitational at The Honors Course
Staff Directory
Duffy, Erick
Erick Duffy
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- Assistant Coach
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Erick Duffy was hired in August 2025 as an assistant coach (pole vault) for the Duke track & field program.Â
Duffy makes his return to Durham after spending two seasons on the coaching staff at Boston College (2023-25) where he worked with the jumpers, throwers and combined events. Prior to his time with the Eagles, he served as an assistant coach with the Harvard track & field program (2022-23). While with the Crimson vertical jumps, javelin, and combined events group, he helped guide athletes to school records in the women's pole vault, as well as the men's heptathlon and decathlon. Harvard captured both the men's and women's Ivy League Championships in 2023. Duffy also served as an assistant track & field coach at North Andover H.S., one of the top prep pole vaulting programs in the region. He is also the co-owner of Lux Viridi Athletic Club, committed to developing the next generation of pole vaulters and track & field athletes. As an athlete, he placed fifth in the heptathlon at the 2023 USATF Indoor Championship.Â
Duffy competed as a member of the Blue Devils' pole vault brigade in 2021-22, a season that saw him assert himself as a premier performer for the Blue Devils while vaulting his way into the program record books. His lone year in Durham was highlighted by a gold medal at the 2022 ACC Outdoor Championships via a then-school-record vault of 5.43m (17-9.75 feet), making Duffy Duke's first men's outdoor pole vault ACC Champion since Clint Brown 1967 title.
Additionally, during his time at Duke, Duffy garnered the silver medal in the pole vault (5.26m) at the ACC Indoor Championships and picked up United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-America Honorable Mention honors following a vault of 5.30 meters. The North Andover, Massachusetts product also excelled in the classroom, earning USTFCCCA All-Academic status and All-ACC Academic Team honors during the indoor and outdoor campaigns.
A 2021 graduate of Harvard, Duffy was a two-year captain with the Crimson where he ranked No. 2 all-time in program lore with a pole vault mark of 5.41 meters. He earned his masters of management studies degree from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 2022.
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Duffy makes his return to Durham after spending two seasons on the coaching staff at Boston College (2023-25) where he worked with the jumpers, throwers and combined events. Prior to his time with the Eagles, he served as an assistant coach with the Harvard track & field program (2022-23). While with the Crimson vertical jumps, javelin, and combined events group, he helped guide athletes to school records in the women's pole vault, as well as the men's heptathlon and decathlon. Harvard captured both the men's and women's Ivy League Championships in 2023. Duffy also served as an assistant track & field coach at North Andover H.S., one of the top prep pole vaulting programs in the region. He is also the co-owner of Lux Viridi Athletic Club, committed to developing the next generation of pole vaulters and track & field athletes. As an athlete, he placed fifth in the heptathlon at the 2023 USATF Indoor Championship.Â
Duffy competed as a member of the Blue Devils' pole vault brigade in 2021-22, a season that saw him assert himself as a premier performer for the Blue Devils while vaulting his way into the program record books. His lone year in Durham was highlighted by a gold medal at the 2022 ACC Outdoor Championships via a then-school-record vault of 5.43m (17-9.75 feet), making Duffy Duke's first men's outdoor pole vault ACC Champion since Clint Brown 1967 title.
Additionally, during his time at Duke, Duffy garnered the silver medal in the pole vault (5.26m) at the ACC Indoor Championships and picked up United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-America Honorable Mention honors following a vault of 5.30 meters. The North Andover, Massachusetts product also excelled in the classroom, earning USTFCCCA All-Academic status and All-ACC Academic Team honors during the indoor and outdoor campaigns.
A 2021 graduate of Harvard, Duffy was a two-year captain with the Crimson where he ranked No. 2 all-time in program lore with a pole vault mark of 5.41 meters. He earned his masters of management studies degree from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 2022.
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