2009 NCAA Semifinalists Duke Lacrosse Over the Years

• Three Duke student-athletes were finalists for the Lowe’s Senior
Class Award -- Nate Frieman (Baseball), Christie McDonald (soccer)
and Abby Waner (Basketball). Matt Williams of the baseball team
was also one of 30 semifinalists. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty
and Achievement for Staying in School, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS
Award has grown into the nation’s premier tribute to college seniors.
The award identifies personal qualities that define a complete
student-athlete, with criteria including excellence in the “4 C’s” of
classroom, community, character and competition.
• Men’s Basketball Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski was named the
USA Basketball Coach of the Year and Capital Broadcasting Sports
Person of the Year.
• Four Blue Devils received ACC Postgraduate Scholarships --
Amanda Blumenherst (golf), Kim Imbesi (lacrosse), Melissa Mang
(tennis) and Peter Truszkowski (fencing).
• Two Duke squads were ranked No. 1 during the 2008-09
campaign -- men’s basketball and women’s tennis. A total of six
Blue Devil squads were ranked in the top 10 nationally during the
season.
• The field hockey team was recognized as a 2008 National
Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division I National
Academic Team. The wrestling team had the fourth-highest gradepoint
average in NCAA Division I.
• Duke finished 17th in the final 2008-09 Learfield Sports
Directors’ Cup Standings, which was released by the National
Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. This marks the
sixth consecutive season that Duke has placed in the top 20 of the
annual all-sports rankings. Overall, Duke ended with 891.80 points,
its third-highest point total in the rankings since its inception in
1994. Among private schools, Duke ranked third nationally behind
only Stanford (first) and Southern California (fourth). Duke ranked
fourth among Atlantic Coast Conference schools behind North
Carolina (second), Virginia (eighth) and Florida State (15th).
• Duke University and Nike Inc. reached a 10-year sponsorship
agreement that will supply all 26 of the Blue Devils’ athletics teams
with uniforms, footwear, apparel and equipment. The financial
terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the terms of
the contract, Nike will phase in its exclusive agreement with all
Duke Athletics teams over a three-year period beginning in 2008-
09. This will allow specific Duke programs and head coaches who
have existing contracts with other equipment/apparel providers to
honor those agreements. Several Duke teams, including men’s
basketball, women’s basketball and football, already use Nike
apparel and equipment.
• An ACC-leading 12 of Duke’s intercollegiate athletic programs
were honored with NCAA Public Recognition Awards. The
awards are presented each year to teams finishing among the top
10 percent of their respective sport based on the most recent multiyear
Academic Performance Rate (APR). Duke’s 12 programs
that received the honor include baseball, men’s basketball, men’s
cross country, women’s fencing, football, men’s golf, men’s soccer,
women’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, men’s indoor track
and field, men’s outdoor track and field and volleyball. In addition,
Duke was one of 12 Division I institutions to have 12 or more sports
honored, joining Colgate, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy
Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Princeton, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania and
Yale.