Hoffman, Women’s 4x400m Relay Shatter Meet Records

Saturday, April 9

Durham, N.C.

All Day

Duke University

Day Three at Duke Invitational

Photo by: Matthew Fecteau

Hoffman, Women’s 4x400m Relay Shatter Meet Records

4/9/2022 8:34:00 PM | Track & Field

Final Results (PDF)

DURHAM – Meet records were shattered Saturday afternoon at Morris Williams Stadium, as graduate student Lauren Hoffman and the Duke women's 4x400m relay team turned in a pair of historic performances on the final day of the Duke Invitational.

Hoffman continued her stellar outdoor season with a record-breaking performance in the women's 400m hurdles. Commanding the field from the jump, the Haymarket, Va., native clocked 57.24 seconds to win the event. Hoffman's time was over two seconds faster than the event runner-up and smashed her own three-year-old meet record by more than a second.

Juniors Jenna Crean and Carly King, Hoffman and freshman Megan McGinnis joined in on the action, delivering a standout performance of their own. The Blue Devil relay unit led the field from start to finish and turned in a blazing run of 3:38.05. Duke's time broke its own four-year-old record set in 2018 and was seven seconds faster than the second-place team.

Saturday's track events opened with the men's 4x100m relay team knocking down the school record. The Blue Devil quartet of graduate students Miles Mingo and Donovan Spearman and juniors Joseph Laster and Ezra Mellinger placed third overall following a blistering run of 40.41 seconds to move into the No. 1 spot on the Duke list. Laster, Mellinger and Mingo were members of the relay unit that registered the previous best mark during the 2021 outdoor campain.

On the women's side, Duke's quartet picked up the first event win of the day for the home team following a season-best performance. Behind a 44.62 second finish, juniors Halle Bieber and Maya Provencal, senior Kelcie Simmons and freshman Abby Geiser ran their way into the No. 4 all-time spot in the program record books.

The 12th-ranked women's team weren't the only ones to register historic performances for the Blue Devils on Saturday. On the men's side, graduate students Nick Dahl, Michael Fairbanks and Mingo and freshman Mike Herzog added entries of their own to the Duke record book.

Mingo took part in the men's 400m dash and administered an outstanding performance in his second event of the day, finishing second overall with a personal best of 46.56 seconds. Mingo shaved nearly a second off his previous best while jumping up three spots to No. 2 all-time in the process.

Fairbanks had a good showing in his section of the men's pole vault and finished third among the field. The Fairfax Station, Va., native posted the highest clearance in his collegiate career of 5.25m (17-2.75 feet) which moved him into a tie for the third-highest mark on the program list.

Herzog inserted himself into the program's No. 4 all-time spot in the triple jump as he leapt out to a PR of 14.74m (48-4.50 feet).

After registering the second-fastest 1500m time in program lore Friday night, Dahl etched his name onto another Duke list – this one the 800m. The Philadelphia, Pa., native finished as runner-up in the event via a personal-best run of 1:48.31 to slot himself fifth all-time.

Rounding out Duke's day three highlights were Spearman and junior Beau Allen. In his 200m opener, Spearman dashed a slightly wind assisted 20.88 seconds for the fastest all-conditions event time in school history, while Allen claimed his second high jump win in a row following a leap of 2.12m (6-11.50 feet).

For the full meet results, click HERE.

Up Next:
The Blue Devils will head back to High Point for the Meet of Champions on Saturday, April 16.

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