Blue Devil 360

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 doubles, Cam is a major asset for Duke as NCAA Tournament time approaches. Also featured this month, Chris Edwards talks with freshman baseball slugger Andrew Fischer, Johnny Moore catches up with Hall of Fame women’s golf coach Dan Brooks on the eve of his program’s 30th consecutive trip to NCAA Regionals, and athletics director Nina King joins us for a wide-ranging conversation in her quarterly appearance on the program.

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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 Famer Jim Spanarkel, who is in his 25th season as a television analyst for March Madness. And we are joined by a recent All-ACC Duke football player who helped the Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl last month, tight end Noah Gray.

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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 all of his ACC matches this winter. And we go behind the scenes with indoor track standout Amina Maatoug, a first-year Blue Devil from The Netherlands who’s been breaking hallowed records and owns the second-fastest mile time in the country.

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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 Beard and Carlos Boozer. And we salute the memory of legendary track coach Al Buehler, who passed away recently, with an interview pulled from the archives during his Duke Hall of Fame induction weekend back in 2001.

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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 lineman Chance Lytle goes in-depth on learning how to sing opera. And former Blue Devil Bryan Morgan, who played clarinet in the Duke Wind Symphony while captaining the football team over a decade ago, gives us a glimpse of his life today as a high school music educator.

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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’s basketball head coach who led the Blue Devils to four Final Fours. And as new men’s basketball head coach Jon Scheyer gets his first season underway, his wife Marcelle shares insights on his drive and passion for the job. Plus, a few words from women’s soccer star Michelle Cooper as her team moves on to the NCAA quarterfinals for the ninth time in the last 11 years.

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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 dynamic content creator in the world of painting, while former Blue Devil quarterback Anthony Dilweg discusses his career in a continuing series of interviews with members of the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

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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 leader in men’s soccer, Ali Curtis, who is now a senior vice president with Major League Soccer, in the first of a series of interviews with members of the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

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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’ll then get King’s take on some of the biggest changes in college sports regarding the implementation of NIL, the potential for new scheduling models in football, and takeaways from her first year leading Duke Athletics. Also featured in this episode are conversations with Terence Lee, who claimed the silver medal for Duke in men’s saber at the NCAA Fencing Championships, and Peyton St. George – an All-American pitcher for the Blue Devil softball program. To wrap-up, we will continue our celebration of 50 years of women’s varsity athletics in Durham as John Roth catches up with Candy Hannemann who helped the Blue Devil’s win their first of seven national championships in women’s golf in 1999.

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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 starting quarterback Gunnar Holmberg as the Blue Devils prepare to face Georgia Tech this weekend at Wallace Wade Stadium. You’ll also hear from Allison Miazga-Bedrick, the first field hockey All-American for the Blue Devils and a three-time All-ACC Player, as we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of varsity women’s athletics at Duke.

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