DURHAM – Duke track and field graduate students
Nick Dahl and
Erin Marsh and senior
Isabel Wakefield gear up to culminate a successful indoor season this weekend, as the trio heads to Birmingham, Ala., to compete in the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships March 11-12 at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
The 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships will be streamed on ESPN3 for the entire weekend. All times noted are Central Time, with scheduled event times subject to change.
Marsh and Wakefield will represent the Blue Devils in the women's pentathlon Friday morning beginning with the 60m hurdles at 10:20 a.m. Following that, pentathlon events continue with the high jump (11:30 a.m.), shot put (1:30 p.m.), long jump (2:30 p.m.) and 800m run (3:40 p.m.).
Dahl takes the track Friday at 4 p.m., for the semifinal of the men's mile run. The finals of the event will take place on Saturday at 4 p.m., as well.
Meet Coverage
Fri., March 11 –
Live Results |
Live Stream (ESPN3)
Sat., March 12 –
Live Results |
Live Stream (ESPN3)
What to Watch/Last Time Out
- The Blue Devil women are sending multiple women to the NCAA Indoor Championships for the second consecutive season.
- Duke's women's team is pursuing its first indoor individual event national champion since Shannon Rowbury won the mile in 2007, while the men seek their first since Curtis Beach, who won the men's heptathlon in 2012 and 2014. The team is also seeking multiple All-Americans for the first time since 2017.
- Marsh looks to build off last season's historic performance and bronze-medal finish in the pentathlon. She smashed the program record with a point total of 4,344 to become the first Blue Devil woman to medal since Megan Clark placed second in the pole vault in 2016.
- Marsh garnered her fourth-career qualification in the pentathlon, while Dahl and Wakefield both make their NCAA Indoors debut.
- The trio enter the championship meet following spectacular performances at ACC Indoors that featured six combined All-ACC First Team selections.
- Marsh collected a pair of gold medals in the 60m hurdles and 4x400m relay, as well as a silver medal in the women's long jump. She became the first Duke women's track and field athlete to claim the 60 hurdles crown.
- Behind his run of 4:04.72, Dahl became the first Duke men's indoor champion in the mile since Bob Wheeler in 1973. The Philadelphia, Pa., native's historic performance at the conference meet culminated a strong indoor regular season.
- Wakefield totaled 4,147 points to finish as the pentathlon runner-up. Her performance included a pair of first-place finishes in the 60-meter hurdles (8.20 seconds) and long jump (6.11m (20-0.50 feet)) – the latter improving her No. 4 all-time program mark. She also took second in the pentathlon 800m run with a 2:14.16 finish.
How They Qualified:
- Marsh collected her second consecutive first-place finish in the Hokie Invitational (Jan. 21) pentathlon earlier this season with 4,172 points – a mark that ranks sixth in the country and second in the ACC.
- Dahl makes his NCAA Indoors debut this weekend. At the Camel City Invite, the graduate student broke the school-record mile time with a 3:57.08c finish, then broke his own record one week later at the Indoor Music City Challenge (Feb. 11), as he shaved two seconds and clocked an official time 3:55.89, which ranks 16th nationally and second in the ACC.
- Wakefield also qualified for the championship meet for the first time. She produced the seventh-highest national and third-highest league indoor pentathlon point total of 4,159 points at the Hokie Invitational (Jan. 21), which ranks third all-time in program lore.
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