Duke Women Win 4x400m Relay

Saturday, January 22

Blacksburg, Va.

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Day Two at Hokie Invitational

Photo by: Tom Connelly

Duke Women Win 4x400m Relay

1/22/2022 7:30:00 PM | Track & Field

Final Results - Hokie Invitational

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Duke track and field closed out the Hokie Invitational Saturday afternoon with its third women's 4x400m relay win of the indoor season.

The 3:41.27 first-place finish by the team of junior Carly King, freshmen Megan McGinnis and Chyler Turner, as well as graduate student Lauren Hoffman highlighted a day of competition that saw the Blue Devils earn 11 top-five placements and secure spots in the program record books in two events.

Sophomore Gage Knight competed in the final three events of the men's heptathlon and finished in fourth place with 5,431 points. Knight's performance across the seven events included a first-place finish in the 60m dash (6.96 seconds) while his overall point total ranks fifth all-time in program history.

Hoffman continued her blazing start to the indoor season with a top-three finish in the women's 400m dash. The Haymarket, Va., native finished second among the field and locked up the No. 5 spot on the Duke list after clocking a personal best 54.14 seconds.

King and graduate student Alex Schwedt also secured top-five placements in the 400m for the Blue Devils. King took fifth with a time of 55.61 seconds while Schwedt ran the men's event in 47.77 seconds, good for fourth.

Duke took two of the top-three spots in the women's 200m dash as junior Halle Bieber and senior Kelcie Simmons finished back-to-back. Simmons finished as runner-up in the event with a time of 24.14 seconds to edge out Bieber's PR and third-place dash of 24.19 seconds.

Duke's quartet of graduate students CJ Ambrosio and Drake Anzano, along with juniors Rory Cavan and Zach Kinne, opened Saturday's track events and placed fifth in the men's DMR following a 9:57.32 finish. The men's 4x400m relay featuring graduate students Miles Mingo and Schwedt, in addition to sophomores Alejandro Rodriguez and Job Trahan, ran 3:13.32 to take third.

Junior field athletes Beau Allen and Ezra Mellinger wrapped up the top performances of the afternoon for Duke. Allen reached a height of 2.06m (6-9 feet) to place second in the men's high jump, with Mellinger taking fourth in the long jump on a 7.28m (23-10 ¾ feet) leap.

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