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Two Duke Relays Earn Top-10 National Rankings
9/17/2015 12:39:00 PM | Track & Field
DURHAM, N.C. – A pair of 2015 Duke relays teams were listed among the best in the nation, earning top-10 rankings in Track & Field News' 59th Annual Relay Rankings, which is comprised of both collegiate and club teams and reflects the successes of the 2015 season. The Blue Devils' women's 4x200 squad ranked sixth overall, while the men's distance medley relay was tabbed eighth in the country.
Making up Duke's women's 4x200 this past season were recent graduates Elizabeth Kerpon and Lauren Hansson, junior Madeline Kopp and sophomore Maddy Price. The group turned in its best performance of the season at the Penn Relays April 25, setting a school record with a blistering time of 1:33:83. Individually, three of the four members rank in the top five in the outdoor 200m in the school records book, with Kerpon holding the record with a 23.69 performance and Hansson (23.98) and Kopp (24.14) ranking fourth and fifth, respectively. Price holds a personal-best time of 24.27.
For the Duke men, recent graduates Henry Farley, Nate McClafferty and Brian Schoepfer were joined by sophomore Brett Bofinger in the men's distance medley relay at the NCAA Indoor Championships March 13, placing seventh overall with a time of 9:39.32 to garner first team All-America honors. The same team ran at the UCS Invitational Feb. 21, finishing second overall with a converted time of 9:29.28 on the flat track. The squad ran an actual time of 9:37.01, good for the third-best time in Duke history. Schoepfer primarily handled the 1,200m leadoff leg, while Bofinger took the 400m duties and Farley covered the 800m leg. McClafferty, who holds the school record for the indoor mile with a 3:59.95, ran the 1,600m anchor leg most of the time. Throughout the season, the team put together outstanding splits, with Schoepfer topping out at 2:57.7 (1,200m), Bofinger clocking a season-best 47.78 (400m), Farley running a 1:50.0 (800m) and McClafferty crossing the line in 4:00.05 (1,600m).
At the Armory Invitational Jan. 31, McClafferty and Schoepfer teamed up with junior Chaz Hawkins and sophomore Jordan Burton to place second with a 9:36.47 clocking, the second-fastest performance all-time by a Blue Devil relay.
The complete top 10 for both the women's 4x200 and the men's DMR can be found below:
Women's 4x200
1. Texas A&M
2. Southern California
3. Texas
4. LSU
5. Star Athletics
6. Duke
7. South Carolina
8. Clemson
9. Notre Dame
10. Hampton
Men's DMR
1. Oregon
2. Villanova
3. NJ/NY TC
4. Penn State
5. Iowa State
6. Georgetown
7. Virginia
8. Duke
9. Arkansas
10. Stanford
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