Blue Devil 360

During the overlap of so many seasons, we feature outgoing fifth-year senior DeWayne Carter from the football team, sophomore captain Tyrese Proctor of the basketball team, and two all-star goalkeepers. Senior Piper Hampsch was the ACC goalkeeper of the year in helping Duke field hockey reach the NCAA semifinals, while freshman Julian Eyestone of Duke men’s soccer was an All-ACC second team select...

University vice president and director of athletics Nina King dives into football, field hockey, ACC expansion, contract extensions and more in her fall appearance on 360. Also senior captain Nick Pariano of the Duke men’s soccer team sets the stage for his team’s start to postseason play and former Blue Devil Kayla (McCoy) McKenna of Duke women’s soccer details her experiences with Jamaica at the...

The first Blue Devil 360 of the new season features senior Alayna Burns, a student-athlete with such a passion for activism and environmental sustainability that she’s been named a finalist for a worldwide Green Sport Award. Hear about what she’s doing on campus as well as in field hockey for a Top 10 team off to a red-hot start. This edition also includes conversations with two football Jakes — g...

Director of athletics Nina King and host John Roth recount some of the top Duke sports stories of 2022-23, with input from head coaches Jon Scheyer, Mike Elko and Chris Pollard. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

With NCAA postseason play for spring sports in high gear, we get behind-the-scenes insights from Duke women’s golf standout Phoebe Brinker, men’s lacrosse defensive ace Tyler Carpenter and ACC men’s tennis coach of the year Ramsey Smith. Plus, we unearth a bonus archived interview with one of Duke’s all-time greats, charter Hall of Fame member Dick Groat, to pay tribute to his legendary career upo...

For a unique perspective on college women’s tennis, Blue Devil 360 visits with one of Duke’s top players this season, graduate student Cameron Morra. She followed a road rarely traveled, spending her first four college seasons as a standout for Duke’s top rival, UNC, before making the move to Durham and the Fuqua School of Business for her final year. With over 100 career wins in singles and doubl...

With Duke hosting the 2023 NCAA Fencing Championships March 23-26 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, we take an inside look at what nationals are like for the student-athletes through the eyes of two-time All-America Blue Devil fencer Christina Ferrari, one of the contenders in the women’s foil competition. As the NCAA basketball tournament progresses toward its culmination, we visit with Duke Hall of Fam...

CB Claiborne, Duke’s first black basketball player from the 1960s, reflects on his experiences as a university pioneer. Men’s basketball coach Jon Scheyer interviews women’s basketball coach Kara Lawson on her team’s remarkable 2023 season. Heavyweight wrestler Jonah Niesenbaum, a relative newcomer to the sport, chronicles the development he’s made to become a nationally-ranked performer who won a...

Director of athletics Nina King makes her quarterly appearance on Blue Devil 360 with a wide-ranging discussion on NCAA modernization and Duke Athletics. The nationally-ranked women’s basketball team is featured with a conversation between team play-by-play voice Chris Edwards and guard Jordyn Oliver. This year’s Duke Hall of Fame series continues with visits from former basketball stars Alana Bea...

Celebrate the holiday season with Duke student-athletes, present and past, who are passionate about music as well as sports. Women’s soccer standout Delaney Graham’s musical journey through Duke is featured, along with the origin story of her talent for singing the national anthem. Basketball walkon Stanley Borden shares the details of playing the saxophone at Countdown To Craziness and football l...

With the NCAA Tournament and the FIFA World Cup in full swing, Duke men’s soccer coach John Kerr is featured as he tries to guide the Blue Devils to the pinnacle of college soccer — a peak he enjoyed in 1986 as a key figure for the university’s first national championship team. Our series of interviews with incoming Duke Athletics Hall of Fame members focuses on Gail Goestenkors, the former women’...

Last spring as she was on her way to All-America honors in the steeplechase, Duke track standout and social media star Emily Cole was also finishing up work on a sports nutrition book. The Players’ Plate was released this month and Emily shares all the details on the October edition of Blue Devil 360. Issy Carey, the top goal scorer for the field hockey team, is featured for her side hustle as a d...

A new season of Blue Devil 360 kicks off with a visit from director of athletics Nina King as she begins her second year leading Duke Athletics. Senior All-America midfielder Sophie Jones of the women’s soccer team is featured, along with two graduate transfers from the football team in linebacker Cam Dillon and tackle Andre Harris. The episode also includes a chat with Duke’s all-time scoring lea...

In the latest edition of Blue Devil 360, Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King joins David Shumate for a look back at a remarkable year on campus – one that featured a trip to the super regionals for softball, an ACC Title and return to the national semifinals for women’s tennis, and Mike Krzyzewski capping a storied career with a record-breaking 13th trip to the final four. We’l...

In the season debut of Blue Devil 360 Duke Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King joins David Shumate for a look at the fall sports season as she begins her 14th year on campus. Featured in this episode are conversations with Head Women’s Soccer Coach Robbie Church, whose team is ranked 4th nationally as they gear up for the stretch run of ACC play, and a sit down with Duke starti...

Duke Athletics hosted a virtual unity rally on Monday, January 18 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hosted by Troy Austin, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Internal Affairs, guest speakers for the event included President Vincent E. Price, Chandra Guinn from the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, C.G. Newsome, a triple Duke University alumnus and a former letterman as a member of...

The Crazies are to Cameron as peanut butter is to jelly. They just go together. But this year as we know, has been unlike any other and due to the covid-19 pandemic, winter sports at Duke will begin with no fans in attendance. So as Coach K and his staff are preparing for this upcoming season and the product on the court, there’s a girl gang behind the scenes also preparing, but for the product of...

It’s almost impossible to have a championship-caliber football team without an excellent offensive line, and Duke’s run of bowl seasons under Coach Cut proves that point. For instance, three of the starting lineman in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl game are now starting on Sundays in the NFL. We’re talking about first round draft pick Laken Tomlinson, now with the 49ers, Lucas Patrick with the Packers...

In a year of turbulent political and social events, having genuine and open conversations has become more important now than ever. A junior defender from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lexi Joseph is passionate about changing the narrative of black student-athletes and particularly in the sport of women’s lacrosse. With lacrosse being a predominantly white sport, Lexi opens up about teams creating sa...

Student-athletes use their voice in the NCAA through student-athlete advisory committees or SAAC, on the campus, conference and national level. At Duke, SAAC is made up of representatives from each sport to provide insight on their experience and offer input on rules, regulations and policies that affect their lives on campus. Recently, a few hot topics consistent of name, image and likeness, voti...

Each sport and each individual has had a unique perspective on the return to fall sports. We decided to get one person from each fall sport in the same space (and when we say space we mean zoom) to have an open conversation and share experiences on what the past few months has been like from them and their respective teams. Jake Marwede from football, Mia Gyau from women’s soccer, Will Pulisic fro...

A two-time All-Ivy League selection at Cornell, Brian McAfee had already completed a stellar college baseball career but wanted more out of his college baseball experience. He enrolled at Duke in the fall of 2016 hoping for one more great season in a college baseball uniform. He quickly emerged as one of the top arms for Chris Pollard’s club, securing 7 victories which tied him for most on the tea...

Elizabeth Williams is one of the most accomplished players in Duke women’s basketball history. The 2015 National Defensive Player of the year, Duke’s first four time All-American and a four time All-ACC member plus not to mention her jersey is hung in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium for future generations to see, including her brother Mark who is a freshmen on the men’s basketball team. Now...

Following an impressive collegiate career at Duke and graduating in 2011, Ashley Twichell has excelled in professional open water swimming, garnering five World Championship medals and nine National Titles. After attempting to qualify for the Olympics in 2008, 2012 and 2016, Ashley became one of the first Americans in any sport to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games as she earned her spot on...

A new era of Duke women’s basketball is underway. You might have seen it on social media. It’s called #KaraEra. This week on the show we are honored to have new head coach Kara Lawson. The former Boston Celtics assistant coach chats with Chris Edwards about why Duke was the perfect fit for her, the whirlwind of a few weeks she’s had from the NBA Bubble to Durham and what it’s like taking over...