Duke Observe and Field Gears Up for NCAA Outdoor Championships

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke monitor and discipline will take pleasure in West Coast vibes this weekend because the Blue Devils are in ObserveTown USA to compete on the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships, slated for June 10-13 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
 
Fourteen student-athletes are set to symbolize the Blue Devils throughout 10 totally different monitor and discipline occasions on the four-day nationwide meet, with every vying for All-America honors and an opportunity at an NCAA occasion title.
 
HOW TO FOLLOW:

WHAT TO KNOW:

• Duke’s contingent in Eugene options Taylor Aska, Braelyn Baker, Aden Bandukwala, Michael Bennett, Maya Collins, Mia Edim, Max Forte, Bailey Goggans, Julia Jackson, Andres Langston, Gianna Locci, Lauren Tolbert, Christian Toro and Gemma Tutton. Aska will function an alternate for each the ladies’s 4×100 and 4×400-meter relays.
• The Blue Devils will function entries in 10 occasions: ladies’s 200, ladies’s 400, males’s 400-meter hurdles, males’s and girls’s 800, ladies’s 4×100 and 4×400 relays, males’s decathlon, males’s hammer throw and girls’s pole vault.
• Duke enters the NCAA Outdoor Championships with three qualifiers seeded within the high 10 of their respective occasion fields: Aden Bandukwala (seventh – 800m), Andres Langston (4th – 400mH) and Lauren Tolbert (sixth – 800m). Duke’s ladies’s 4×400 can also be seeded at No. 3 getting into the competitors.
• Men’s occasions shall be contested Wednesday (June 10) and Friday (June 12), whereas ladies’s motion is about for Thursday (June 11) and Saturday (June 13). The decathlon will happen the primary two days, with the heptathlon closing out the ultimate two days of competitors.

 
DUKE COMPETITION SCHEDULE (all occasions listed are Eastern)

• Wednesday, June 10:
  

  • Decathlon – 4 p.m.
  • Hammer Throw (Final) – 5:30 p.m.
  • 800 (Semifinal) – 9:58 p.m.
  • 400 hurdles (Semifinal) – 10:14 p.m.

• Thursday, June 11:

  • Decathlon – 1:45 p.m.
  • 4×100 (Semifinal) – 8:05 p.m.
  • Pole Vault (Final) – 8:35 p.m.
  • 400 (Semifinal) – 9:41 p.m.
  • 800 (Semifinal) – 9:58 p.m.
  • 200 (Semifinal) – 10:29 p.m.
  • 4×400 (Semifinal) – 11:35 p.m.

HOW THEY PUNCHED THEIR TICKET TO EUGENE:

• Graduate college students Michael Bennett and Max Forte secured their respective spots within the decathlon after ending among the many top-24 performers nationally within the multi-event. Bennett tallied a career-best 7616 factors (twenty third) on the Mt. SAC Relays, whereas Forte totaled 7686 factors (twentieth) on the ACC Outdoor Championships.
• Junior Christian Toro punched his ticket within the males’s hammer throw following a toss of 66.44 meters (218 toes) on the NCAA East Regional – good for ninth total.
• Gemma Tutton registered the seventh-best mark among the many total discipline within the ladies’s pole vault, clearing 4.27 meters (14-0 toes) to advance to the nationwide meet.
• The sophomore duo of Aden Bandukwala and Andres Langston delivered heroic performances en path to incomes a berth in Eugene within the 800 and 400 hurdles, respectively. Bandukwala clocked 1:45.40 and have become the primary Duke man to shatter the 1:46 mark within the outside 800, whereas Langston cemented himself as the primary Duke male to interrupt the 49-second barrier within the 400 hurdles with a blazing time of 48.86.
• Sophomore Braelyn Baker, junior Mia Edim, graduate pupil Bailey Goggans and senior Lauren Tolbert locked down particular person bids to the NCAA Outdoor Championships with sturdy showings of their respective occasions. Baker completed her 400 in 50.89, whereas Edim dashed 22.86 within the 200. Over within the 800, Tolbert hit the tape in 2:00.49 to safe a spot, with Goggans operating 2:01.34 to assert one of many final qualifying spots.
• The Duke ladies went two-for-twp on relays as each the 4×100 and 4×400 posted top-three finishes of their warmth to lock down their place at nationals. The 4×100 quartet of senior Gianna Locci, sophomore Maya Collins, Edim and Baker clocked 43.50, whereas the foursome of senior Julia Jackson, Baker, Collins and Tolbert posted a blistering mark of three:26.33.
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