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5/13/2015 2:56:00 PM | Track & Field
DURHAM, N.C. – With the regular season wrapped up, the Duke track and field teams will head to Tallahassee, Fla., this weekend for the 2015 ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The three-day event will take place May 14-16 at Mike Long Track on the campus of Florida State. At the 2014 edition of the conference outdoor meet, both the men's and women's teams produced fourth-place finishes for Duke, totaling 81 and 70 points, respectively.
ESPN3 coverage will be streamed live on theACC.com from 7-9:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14 and Friday, May 15, and from 6-9 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, with Tom Block handling play-by-play and former Olympic gold medalist and decathlon world record holder Dan O'Brien serving as analyst.
Defending Titles
Of the four Blue Devils that won gold at last year's ACC Outdoor Championships, all but recent graduate Juliet Bottorff, who finished first in the women's 10,000m final, return in 2015 in hopes of adding another ACC title to their résumé. For the men, Robert Rohner won the decathlon last spring with 7,233 points, while Thomas Lang took first in the javelin with a throw of 227-1 (69.83m). Haley Meier serves as the women's lone returning champion after capturing gold as a rookie with a 4:30.33 performance in the 1,500m final.
Dominating Decathletes
The Duke men swept the decathlon last season, led by returners Robert Rohner and Ian Rock taking gold and silver, respectively, with 7,233 and 7,122 points. Recent graduate Curtis Beach, who now competes for Nike, took third with a score of 6,997.
Joining Rohner and Rock this season is freshman Tanner Johnson, who enters the weekend atop the ACC leaderboard and 24th across NCAA Division I with his 7,173 point total earlier this season at the Mt. Sac Relays.
Maslowski a Master of Versatility
Teddi Maslowski has exploded onto the scene during her redshirt junior season, ranking second in the ACC and 14th across NCAA Division I in the women's heptathlon. In what was a career day at the Mt. Sac Relays, Maslowski rewrote the Duke record books by setting new school marks in the long jump [20-8.50 (6.31m)], 100m hurdles (13.38) and the heptathlon (5,706). The Burgettstown, Pa., native currently ranks fourth in the ACC in the long jump and tied for fourth in the 100m hurdles.
At the 2015 ACC Indoor Championships, Maslowski took third in both the heptathlon and 100m hurdles, while placing fourth in the long jump. The redshirt junior then went on to compete in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships, placing 10th to earn second team All-America honors.
Duke's Devilish Duo in the Vaults
Duke boasts the top women's pole vault duo in the conference, led by junior Megan Clark. After placing second at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a clearance of 14-9.00 (4.50m) to tie the ACC record and garner first team All-America honors, winning the event at the ACC Indoor Championships and eventually being named the 2015 ACC Women's Indoor Field Performer of the Year, Clark enters the weekend ranked first in the conference and third nationally. Competing at the Duke Invitational earlier this spring, the Fort Benning, Ga., native set the outdoor school record and the Duke facility record with a 14-9.00 (4.50m) performance.
Joining Clark is freshman Madison Heath, holding the No. 3 spot on the conference leaderboard. Heath, a native of Mandeville, La., produced the best vault of her career at the Mt. Sac Relays, winning the competition with a height of 13-9.25 (4.20m), a mark that currently ranks tied for 22nd among NCAA Division I schools. Duke joins Arkansas and Washington as the only schools that have two women's pole vaulters that rank among NCAA Division I's top 25.
Depth Among Throwers
A number of Blue Devil throwers rank among the ACC's best, led by redshirt junior Thomas Lang in the men's javelin and graduate student Erica Brand in the women's discus. Last year's ACC Champion in the javelin, Lang's throw of 229-6 (69.96m) ranks second in the conference and 24th across NCAA Division I, while Brand also sits second in the ACC and 33rd nationally with her mark of 175-7 (53.51m). Between Lang in the javelin, Brand in the discus and redshirt junior Stephen Boals in the men's shot put, the trio has combined to pick up 10 individual victories during the outdoor season for the Blue Devils.
Jumping to New Heights
Heptathlete Karli Johonnot, a high jump specialist, will enter the weekend as a contender for the conference crown in the women's high jump. Her jump of 5-10.75 (1.80m), No. 2 in the Duke outdoor record books, gives her the second-best height in the conference this season and ranks tied for 29th across NCAA Division I. Teammate Maddie Morrow will join the Las Vegas native in competition, sitting 10th in the conference with her jump of 5-8.50 (1.74m).
Out of the Blocks and Into the Record Books
For the Duke women, the squad of seniors Elizabeth Kerpon and Lauren Hansson, sophomore Madeline Kopp and freshman Maddy Price has been a steady force for the Blue Devils this season, with the group holding spots in the Duke record books in a number of sprint categories. Led by Kopp with her school-record 400m time of 53.04, ranking fifth in the ACC and 26th among NCAA Division I schools, the Blue Devils head into the weekend with the third-best 4x400 time in the conference and 23rd nationally, clocking a 3:35.22. The unit also holds the fifth-fastest 4x100 time in the ACC, setting a school record at the Duke Invitational with a 44.92.
On the men's side, the 4x400 team of junior Matthew Rodio, sophomores Michael Wilson and Chaz Hawkins and freshman Brett Bofinger head into the conference championships with momentum after setting a Duke record last week. The group combined for a winning time of 3:10.76 at the Duke Twilight, the eight-best time in the conference.
Going the Distance
Anima Banks has produced a solid junior campaign in the women's 800m, punctuated by a season-best 2:06.30, the seventh-fastest time in the conference this spring, to win the Duke Twilight last week. That time also puts the Mamaroneck, N.Y., native among the nation's best, ranking 39th across NCAA Division I.
The Blue Devil women will be led in the 1,500m by last year's champion Haley Meier and junior Madison Granger, heading into the weekend with season-best times of 4:23.83 and 4:24.10, respectively. For the men, Duke's first-ever indoor miler to break the four-minute barrier, senior Nate McClafferty, will toe the line in the 1,500m. McClafferty currently holds the ninth-best time in the conference, placing second at the GT Invite with a time of 3:43.78.
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