Blue Devil 360

While most Duke teams completed the 2024-25 campaign in their respective NCAA tournaments, we’re focusing this month on two programs still alive in postseason play. Sophomore men’s golfer Bryan Kim is in California May 23-26 competing as an individual in NCAA nationals, while track & field freshman sprinters Joseph Taylor and Braelyn Baker are taking aim at the NCAA East Regional May 28-31 in Jacksonville, Florida, to ...

In the runup to Duke University’s 2025 commencement exercises on May 11, we visit with two inspirational soon-to-be Blue Devil graduates. Star defensive end and Durham native VJ Anthony completed his African and African American Studies degree requirements in only three-and-a-half years and is locked in on one final college football campaign in the fall. Senior women’s tennis standout Ellie Coleman, an Environmental Scienc...

As the Duke basketball program makes its 18th NCAA Final Four appearance, director of athletics Nina King underscores the visionary leadership displayed by head coach Jon Scheyer from the interview process through his first three seasons at the helm. One of Scheyer’s former Duke teammates and classmates, Brian Zoubek, reflects on the 15th anniversary of the 2010 national title; associate head coach Chris Carrawell puts the...

It’s time to meet Duke’s newest NCAA champion. Simen Guttormsen, a graduate student from Norway, recently won the national title in the men’s pole vault at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field meet, following up a record-setting performance to claim gold at the ACC Championships a couple weeks prior. A two-time Norwegian national champ who competed at the Paris Olympics last summer alongside his older brother, Simen began is ...

Duke vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes her quarterly appearance with a candid conversation on several of the major issues facing all of intercollegiate athletics during these changing times. Also stopping by is a former member of her executive leadership team at Duke, Art Chase, who recently was named director of athletics at The Citadel. He shares highlights of his 25 years at Duke as well as some a...

If you have time for some midseason reading, this episode features a pair of interesting author interviews. Former director of athletics and university vice president Dr. Kevin White talks about his new book, “The Good Sport: Reflections On A Full Life In College Sports” which was just released in January 2025, while Duke alum John Feinstein (Class of 1977) discusses the latest on his long list of titles, “Five Banners: In...

As Duke Football heads to Jacksonville to take on Ole Miss in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl on Jan. 2, this edition of Blue Devil 360 is primed to set the stage with a conversation between Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer and football coach Manny Diaz. Radio analyst Dave Harding, who served as one of the captains for the only Blue Devil squad (so far) to win 10 games, shares his thoughts on this 9-win (so far) season, while hi...

From the Thanksgiving weekend holiday we feature ACC defensive player of the year Cameron Roller of the Duke women’s soccer team, Cameron Indoor Stadium fan favorite Spencer Hubbard of the Duke men’s basketball team, and Duke women’s golf alum Leona Maguire, who will be inducted in the WGCA Hall of Fame in December. Our plays of the month come with a twist, as play-by-play voice David Shumate and football coach Manny Diaz ...

After an action packed weekend that included prime-time football, a charity exhibition basketball game and induction ceremonies for the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame, we feature an array of interesting guests including long-time Hall of Famer Bobby Hurley and new Hall of Famer Becca Ward. New director of player development John Battle details his role within the Duke football program, field hockey co-captain Paige Bitting sh...

Vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes her first quarterly appearance of 2024-25 to kick off the opening edition of Blue Devil 360 for this academic year. Guests include defensive tackle Kendy Charles, a grad transfer from Liberty who shares his interesting origin story; director of football nutrition Tori Brown, whose team handled a challenging situation in re-fueling the Blue Devils during a lengthy wea...

Our vacation edition begins with a compilation of Duke highlights from 2023-24 and features VP/AD Nina King’s in-depth review of the past year (note: heavy emphasis on spring sports as every Duke team competed in NCAA postseason play), along with her look ahead to next season and an overview of the rapidly changing college sports landscape. Then buckle up for a journey into the world of America’s fastest-growing sport, pic...

On Saturday May 11, the Duke softball team and the Duke women’s track & field team claimed impressive Atlantic Coast Conference championships to culminate three days of intense tournament competition. Take an inside look at the two titles through the eyes of standout senior catcher Kelly Torres and sophomore double gold medalist Lauren Tolbert as their programs move on to NCAA postseason play. Plus we have a baseball b...

This month we focus on two accomplished student-athletes — men’s lacrosse All-America faceoff specialist Jake Naso and women’s track standout heptathlete Brianna Smith. They have been selected as Duke’s male and female senior scholar-athletes of the year for 2023-24, and they are recipients of Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford ACC Postgraduate Scholarships. With the end of the spring semester at hand, graduation on tap and po...

As the sports world focuses on this week’s basketball Final Fours in Arizona and Cleveland, we connect with a Blue Devil for whom this time of year is sacred. Hall of Famer Grant Hill began attending the Final Four with his dad when he was a youngster, played in three Final Fours for Duke and has been on the national television broadcast team for the event since 2015. Blue Devil 360 joins Hill and others in reflecting on t...

In recognition of Black History Month, our leadoff guest is former Duke volleyball star and current associate head coach Kellie Catanach Johnson, who launched a Share The Mic campaign from the program’s Instagram account to help shine a light on HBCU volleyball. Also, we have one former and one current Duke baseball pitcher – 2020 alum Bryce Jarvis of the Arizona Diamondbacks and 2024 preseason All-America pick Fran Oschel...

Duke vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes her quarterly appearance on 360 with an overview of the university’s Centennial Celebration that begins this week, along with several other topics in looking back at 2023 and ahead to 2024. Also featured is Duke’s director of student-athlete development

Dawn Kane to discuss a special trip to New York she arranged for Blue Devils looking to make career connection...

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 selection in goal for a Blue Dev...

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 FIFA Women’s World Cup la...

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 — grad transfer Jake Hornibro...