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The men’s cross country team traveled Saturday to Minnesota for the Roy Griak Invitational, a top high school and college cross country invitational hosted by the University of Minnesota each year. The Blue Devils had their best showing in the history of the meet, as Bo Waggoner took third place overall in a field of [...]
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Add one more title to Curtis Beach’s long list of high school accolades. The freshman decathlete was recently named the 2008-09 Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
The Gatorade Player of the Year Program recognizes one male and female athlete in each state that sanctions the 12 sports recognized by the program. [...]
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Duke track and field recruit Curtis Beach continued his dominance in the decathlon Friday, posting his third national record in three months.
He took first place at the U.S. Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, setting a meet record with his 7,599 points in the two-day, 10-event competition. Beach’s time of 4 minutes, [...]
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Monday morning marked the 113th running of the Boston Marathon, the oldest continually run marathon in the world. The second largest single-day sporting event on Earth in terms of media coverage – the marathon trails only the Super Bowl – draws half a million spectators annually to line the streets from the race’s start in [...]
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Saturday’s events at the Duke Track and Field Invitational included one event that is quite unique from all others: the steeplechase. The 3,000-meter race features four hurdles barriers, of 30 and 36 inches for men and women, women and men, respectively, plus a fifth barrier with a landing in water that starts at just over [...]
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SATURDAY 7:30 p.m.: This final post isn’t quite live, since my computer ran out of battery in the stands just after my last update. But the meet ended the way it began, with the Blue Devils coming out on top. In the last race of the day, Duke’s two teams in the 4×800-meter relay took [...]
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Florida State football player Myron Rolle is undoubtedly the most famous of this year’s crop of Rhodes Scholars—or, as former Towerview editor Sarah Ball wrote in 2006, the “twister-theory-studying, falconry-learning, cancer-curing, Darfur-saving overachievers.”
Looks like we might want to add an athletic superlative to that list sometime soon.
On Monday, senior pole vaulter Sally Liu became one [...]
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In Friday’s NCAA men’s javelin championships, redshirt freshman John Austin placed eighth out of the 12 finalists, garnering automatic All-American status. His throw of 216′-10″ was good enough to make him only the second freshman in the top eight and the first male Blue Devil to earn All-American honors since Brett Warner did so in [...]
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