It was another sensational day of competition for Duke track and field as the Blue Devils closed out their annual home meet in style, shattering five records and winning seven events Saturday at Morris Williams Stadium.
The Blue Devils saw their own program records fall in the women’s 4x100m relay and women’s triple jump while also unseating meet records in the women’s 400m and women’s 4x400m – the latter also marking a facility record.
TOP PERFORMANCES
- Duke opened the afternoon in the women’s 4x100m and set the tone for the day with its first win of the Saturday slate.
- The Blue Devil quartet of freshman Mia Edim, junior Abby Geiser and graduate students Halle Bieber and Maddy Doane clocked a blistering time of 43.97 seconds to unseat the previous three-year-old mark.
- Taking part in the women’s triple jump, graduate student Tia Rozario notched her second consecutive event win in as many weeks via a personal-best showing.
- Rozario needed just one jump to cement herself atop the leaderboard, flying out to 13.01m (42-8.25 feet) on her opening attempt to surpass the former record set in 2019.
- Lauren Tolbert had herself a day as the sophomore racked up a pair of event wins behind record-setting performances – the first coming in the women’s 400m.
- Tolbert dashed into No. 3 all-time in the Duke history books via a personal-best run of 52.19 seconds, dismantling the seven-year-old record in the process.
- Duke capped the three-day meet with a bang behind a sensational performance via the quartet of graduate student Skyla Wilson, junior Megan McGinnis, sophomore Julia Jackson and Tolbert turned in the women’s 4x400m.
- The Blue Devil foursome commanded the race from the jump and blazed to a time of 3:31.82 – almost five seconds faster than the event runner-up. Duke’s time dismantled its own meet record by nearly seven seconds while also besting the Morris Williams Stadium record by two seconds.
- Edim and graduate student Ezra Mellinger revised the program records in the 100m on Saturday with both individuals moving into No. 4 all-time in school lore by way of top-five finishes.
- Edim delivered a personal best of 11.56 seconds to place third with Mellinger taking fourth behind a PR of 10.46 seconds.
- Michael Bennett, Zubeir Dagane and Wilson rounded out the list of Duke’s Saturday event winners.
- Bennett completed his two days of dominance in men’s decathlon, finishing the multis event with a personal best of 7,064 points – 340 points more than the runner-up. The junior’s performance on day two included a win in the 110m hurdles and a third-place showing in the discus throw.
- Dagane turned in a time of 1:49.46 to slot himself atop the 39-person field while Wilson earned her second win of the day after clocking 13.36 seconds in the women’s 100m hurdles.
- Results from the Duke Invite are available here.
UP NEXT
Duke enters the final stretch of the outdoor track and field regular season beginning with a trip up the road to Winston-Salem, N.C., for the Wake Forest Invitational April 19.
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