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Duke Athletics kicked into high gear this weekend as the spring sports began NCAA tournament play. Nearly every team was in action, so here’s a quick recap of what transpired and which Blue Devil teams are still left standing. You can read the full stories of each Duke squad when The Chronicle’s first summer issue [...]
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Even in a wild season for Duke, some consistency remains. For the 12th consecutive year, the Blue Devils will advance to the NCAA Championship round and vie for a national title.
To advance, Duke needed to finish among the top eight teams in the NCAA East Regional. And by Saturday, the Blue Devils found [...]
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What a difference one year makes.
Duke rising senior Amanda Blumenherst, the three-time defending National Player of the Year, won the U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Ore., Sunday, one year after losing on the event’s final hole last year. This time around, Blumenherst stormed back on the last nine holes of [...]
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Duke’s season may be over, but seniors Amanda Blumenherst and Jennie Lee and incoming freshman Mina Harigae hit the links once more this morning on the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland for the Curtis Cup. The tournament is held every two years and pits female American amateur golfers against their counterparts from Great Britain [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Blue Devils made their run, and though the four-peat eluded them, Duke’s Amanda Blumenherst made history of her own by capturing her third consecutive National Player of the Year award.
“It’s so exciting,” she said. “It was my goal. I did it two years in a row and no one’s done it [...]
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HISTORY DENIED (9:50 p.m. EST) — Duke had to go low on the last day of the NCAA Championship to win. That’s exactly what the Blue Devils did, shooting a round-best 7-under, but it wasn’t enough to capture an unprecedented fourth consecutive title. Amanda Blumenherst finished 4-under, carding three birdies and an eagle in her [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Interesting sidenote to today’s action: Though Duke seems like a longshot to become four-time defending national champions now, junior Amanda Blumenherst’s candidacy as National Player of the Year is still very much on the line.
Blumenherst’s main competition for the honor is Arkansas’ Stacy Lewis. Lewis has won six tournaments this year to [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a day when bad weather caused numerous breaks in play, Duke couldn’t seem to catch any breaks of its own.
Trailing USC by 15 strokes after round two, the Blue Devils put together a round of 11-over before play was finally stopped for good late Thursday night. It is currently the fifth-best [...]
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Two days into the final leg of its quest for an unprecedented fourth national championship, top-seeded Duke finished Wednesday in 12th place, 15 strokes behind co-leaders USC and UCLA at the University of New Mexico Golf Course in Albuquerque, N.M. The Blue Devils were in 18th place after Tuesday, also 15 strokes off the pace.
On [...]
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Before his team embarked on the final leg of its quest for a fourth-straight national championship, Dan Brooks and I spoke on the phone Friday about both Amanda Blumenherst and his entire team. The resulting story will appear in Thursday’s print version of The Chronicle as a pseudo-preview for the last two days of the [...]
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