Blue Devils Gear Up for 2022 ACC Indoor Championships

Thursday, February 24

BLACKSBURG, VA.

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Day One at ACC Indoor Championships

Photo by: Walt Beazley

Blue Devils Gear Up for 2022 ACC Indoor Championships

2/23/2022 7:12:00 PM | Track & Field

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DURHAM – Duke track and field turns its attention to the postseason, as the Blue Devils head to Blacksburg, Va., for the 2022 ACC Indoor Championships, hosted by Virginia Tech. The three-day meet will take place Feb. 24-26 at Rector Field House.

The three-day conference meet commences 11 a.m. Thursday with the heptathlon and pentathlon. The men's (6:00 p.m.) and women's (6:30 p.m.) distance medley relays close day one. Multi and field events begin at 10 a.m. to open an action-packed Friday schedule before track events ramp up at 12:45 p.m. Saturday's finals start at noon on the field side, with track action resuming at 1 p.m.

ACC Network Extra will provide coverage for all three days. Shawn Kenney will be on hand to provide play-by-play, with former Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie providing color commentary and Katie George as the sideline reporter.

Live results and team standings will be available on FlashResults.

Numbers of Note/Athletes to Watch

Duke enters the conference meet boasting four top-15 national marks and 53 total marks that rank among the top 20 in the ACC.
Graduate student Erin Marsh and senior Isabel Wakefield hold indoor pentathlon marks that rank in the top-10 in the NCAA this season.
The duo is currently slotted at fifth and sixth in the event with point totals of 4,172 and 4,159, respectively, contributing to the Blue Devils boasting the top-ranked pentathlon event squad in the country. Their marks also rank second and third in the conference.
The women's 4x400m relay unit of junior Jenna Crean, freshmen Abby Geiser and Megan McGinnis and graduate student Lauren Hoffman ran a 3:34.03 at the Tyson Invitational, which ranks first in the ACC and 11th nationally.
The quartet also owns top-10 league marks in the 400m – Hoffman is second (54.14 seconds), McGinnis (54.76 seconds) and Geiser (54.90 seconds) are in sixth and seventh, with Crean in 10th (55.32 seconds).
Duke also amassed over 30 top-five program marks during the indoor regular season which featured a trio of school records broken by graduate students Nick Dahl (two) and Donovan Spearman in their first seasons as Blue Devils.
Dahl owns the school record in the men's mile (3:55.89) and 3,000m run (7:59.84). His time in the 3,000m event was the first sub-eight-minute time in program history, while his program-record mile time stands 13th in the country.
Spearman returns to the track for the first time since Jan. 14 for the men's 60m dash. He shattered the 30-year old record in the 60m dash after clocking 6.71 seconds at the Virginia Tech Invitational.
Graduate students Erick Duffy and Michael Fairbanks and Wakefield also hold the conference's top slot for their respective events.
Duffy and Fairbanks both registered heights of 5.32m (17-5.50 feet) at the Virginia Tech Challenge last weekend, which moved the classmates into a tie for second place on the Duke all-time list.
Wakefield clocked the ACC's fasted 60m hurdle time on the women's side this season as the senior ran an event-best 8.15 seconds at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational to improve her No. 2 all-time spot on the program list.
Marsh will compete in a trio of events, including the 60m hurdles and women's high jump. Her mark of 8.30 seconds ranks second in the conference.
At the 2021 conference meet, Marsh claimed silver in both events, recording PR marks of 1.79m (5-10.5 feet) and 8.06 seconds – the latter improving her school record time.
Sophomore Gage Knight is slated to take part in the men's heptathlon, where he currently holds the conference's No. 3 event mark and fifth all-time program mark of 5,431 points.
Junior Beau Allen gears up for Friday's men's long jump. Allen's mark of 2.16m (7-1 feet) ranks third in both the conference and program lore.

Name	Event
Halle Bieber	200m
Emily Cole	Mile
Jenna Crean	400m, 4x400m relay
Abby Geiser	400m, 4x400m relay
Lauren Hoffman	400m, 4x400m relay
Carly King	400m, 4x400m relay
Lara Kohlenbach	Pentathlon
Erin Marsh	Long Jump, High Jump, 60mH
Megan McGinnis	400m, 4x400m relay
Moorea Mitchell	Weight Throw
Michaela Reinhart	5000m, 3000m
Kelcie Simmons	200m
Brianna Smith	Pentathlon, High Jump
Paige Sommers	Pole Vault
Chyler Turner	60mH, 200m
Isabel Wakefield	Pentathlon, 60mH
Beau Allen	High Jump
CJ Ambrosio	5000m, 3000m
Michael Bennett	Heptathlon
Rory Cavan	DMR, Mile
Nick Dahl	Mile, 3000m
Carter Dillon	Mile, 800m
Erick Duffy	Pole Vault
Michael Fairbanks	Pole Vault
Austin Gabay	DMR, Mile
Mike Herzog	Triple Jump
Davis Howell	High Jump
Zach Kinne	5000m, 3000m
Gage Knight	Pentathlon
Jared Kreis	5000m, 3000m
Joseph Laster	60m dash
Ezra Mellinger	Long Jump, 200m
Miles Mingo	400m, 4x400m relay
Sam Rivera	5000m, 3000m
Alejandro Rodriguez	DMR, 400m, 4x400m relay
Josh Romine	5000m, 3000m
Cole Rowan	Pole Vault
Alex Schwedt	400m, 4x400m relay
Donovan Spearman	60m dash
Chris Theodore	5000m
Job Trahan	400m, 4x400m relay
Jackson Walker	800m, 4x400m relay
Beck Wittstadt	DMR, 800m

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