Blue Devils Head to Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia this Weekend

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Day One at Darius Dixon Invitational

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Blue Devils Head to Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia this Weekend

2/10/2022 3:08:00 PM | Track & Field

DURHAM – Duke track and field is back in action this weekend as members of the team will be split between three meets slated for Feb. 11-12.

Darius Dixon Invitational | Live Results| Meet Schedule
Sixteen women and 29 men head to Lynchburg, Va., to represent the Blue Devils at the eighth annual Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational. Duke is part of a 24-team field that also includes Campbell, Charleston Southern, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, ETSU, Elon, Furman, High Point, James Madison, Liberty, Navy, NC State, North Carolina, North Florida, Penn, Radford, UNCG, UNCW, USC Upstate, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and William & Mary.

Friday commences with the men's 60m dash preliminaries at 1:30 p.m. Three women's field events – high jump, shot put and triple jump – set for a 10:30 a.m. start kicks off an action-packed Saturday.

Tyson Invitational | Live Results | Meet Schedule | Watch (Fri.) | Watch (Sat.)
Duke sends five student-athletes in junior Jenna Crean, freshmen Abby Geiser and Megan McGinnis, as well as graduate students Lauren Hoffman and Erin Marsh to Fayetteville, Ark. The Blue Devils will compete across five events during the two-day meet, beginning late Friday afternoon with the women's long jump (3:15 p.m. EST).

Along with the Blue Devils, the Tyson Invitational features a loaded field that includes Academy of Art, Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Barton County CC, Drake, Florida, Florida State, Iowa, Kansas State, LSU, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina State, Nebraska, Oklahoma City, Ole Miss, Princeton and Tennessee.

The meet will be broadcast on SEC Network+.

Indoor Music City Challenge | Live Results | Meet Schedule | Watch (SECN+)
Graduate students Nick Dahl and Michaela Reinhart will represent Duke at the Music City Challenge in Nashville on Friday evening. Dahl takes part in the men's Mile run at 5:25 p.m., while Reinhart will run in the 7:20 p.m. women's 5000m. Both events can be streamed live on SEC Network+.

The Duke pair will go up against athletes from Alabama, Arkansas State, Cincinnati, Eastern Kentucky, FIU, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Kennesaw State, Kentucky, Lipscomb, LSU, Memphis, Meridian Community College, Miami [Ohio], Michigan State, Mississippi State, Murray State, Ole Miss, Penn State, Samford, SMU, Southern Illinois, Southern Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, UMass Lowell, Vanderbilt, Villanova and Western Illinois.

Last Time Out – VT Elite Meet/Camel City Invitational

The Blue Devils registered 22 top-five placements as well as seven all-time Duke marks.
In the women's long jump, senior Isabel Wakefield recorded a personal-best 6.08m (19-11 ½ feet) leap that was good for second place and slotted her at No. 4 all-time.
She also placed second in the 60m hurdles with an 8.26 second finish, but it was her preliminary time that secured a spot in the program record books. Wakefield moved into second all-time with an event PR of 8.20 seconds.
Junior Ezra Mellinger clocked 6.81 seconds in the 60m dash – a personal best – to improve his No. 3 program mark.
Classmate Sam Rivera finished runner-up in the men's 3000m and moved into second all-time on the Duke list with a PR mark of 8:02.41.
Freshman Mike Herzog improved upon his triple jump mark in his third consecutive meet and moved into second all-time on the Duke list after turning in a personal-best leap of 15.58m (49-9 ¾ feet).
Dahl and Reinhart represented the Blue Devils at the Camel City Invitational and accounted for the last two all-time marks recorded over the weekend.
Dahl clocked 3:57.08c to set the school record in the men's mile run, while Reinhart improved her No. 2 all-time mark in the women's 3000m with a 9:06.97c finish.
For last weekend's full meet recaps , click on the links – Day 1 | Day 2

Duke Athletes Competing this Weekend

Name	Event
Halle Bieber	60m dash, 200m dash, 4x400m relay
Rylee Bowen	800m, 4x400m relay
Elasia Campbell	High jump
Emily Cole	Mile run
Jenna Crean	400m^, 200m^, 4x400m relay^
Abby Geiser	400m^, 4x400m relay^
Katie Hamilton	800m, Mile run
Lauren Hoffman	400m^, 200m^, 4x400m relay^
Kinsie Huggins	Shot put
Hannah Kelly	High jump
Carly King	400m, 200m dash, 4x400m relay
Lara Kohlenbach	60m hurdles, High jump
Erin Marsh	Long jump^, 60mH^, 4x400m relay^
Megan McGinnis	400m^, 200m^, 4x400m relay^
Nikki Merritt	Long jump, 400m, 4x400m relay
Moorea Mitchell	Weight throw
Maya Provencal	60m dash, 300m dash
Michaela Reinhart	5000m run*
Kelcie Simmons	200m dash, 4x400m relay
Brianna Smith	60m hurdles, High jump
Paige Sommers	Pole vault
Isabel Wakefield	60m hurdles, Shot put, 4x400m relay
Beau Allen	High jump
Mohammad Almarhoun	Long jump
CJ Ambrosio	5000m run
Michael Bennett	60m hurdles, High jump, 4x400m relay
Rory Cavan	Mile run
Nick Dahl	Mile run*
Carter Dillon	Mile run
Erick Duffy	Pole vault
Michael Fairbanks	Pole vault
Max Forte	Long jump, triple jump
Austin Gabay	Mile run
Colin Grip	800m, 300m dash, 4x400m relay
Mike Herzog	Triple jump
Davis Howell	High jump
Joseph Laster	60m dash
Zach Kinne	5000m run
Jack Kovach	5000m run
Jared Kreis	5000m run
Ezra Mellinger	Long jump, 60m dash, 200m dash
Miles Mingo	400m, 200m dash, 4x400m relay
Sam Rivera	5000m run
Alejandro Rodriguez	400m, 300m dash, 4x400m relay
Josh Romine	5000m run
Cole Rowan	Pole vault
Alex Schwedt	400m, 200m dash, 4x400m relay
Luke Spurrier	800m
Chris Theodore	5000m run
Michael Ungvarsky	5000m run
Jackson Walker	800m, 4x400m relay
Beck Wittstadt	800m

^ = Tyson Invitational (Fayetteville, Ark.) | * = Indoor Music City Challenge (Nashville, Tenn.)

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