The final edition of 2024-25 features a conversation with Nina King that highlights some of the memorable moments of Duke Athletics for the past year and looks ahead at the changing landscape of college sports. Plus, we have introductory comments from new Duke baseball head coach Corey Muscara, a renowned pitching coach who takes over a program that finished the 2025 campaign one win away from the College World Series. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...
Jun 26, 2025•39 min
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 continue their exceptional freshman seasons. Taylor recently was one of th...
May 23, 2025•35 min
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 Sciences major, enjoyed an undefeated ACC singles season this spring and helped ...
May 01, 2025•36 min
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 achievement of reaching the Final Four in perspective; and radio broadcas...
Apr 03, 2025•59 min
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 collegiate career at Princeton before moving to Duke for grad school and w...
Mar 26, 2025•21 min
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 ambitions for his new position. And speaking of highlights, our calls of th...
Mar 05, 2025•44 min
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: Inside The Duke Basketball Dynasty” which was published in October by Duke U...
Feb 03, 2025•39 min
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 his broadcast partner David Shumate sits down with two of Duke’s very disrup...
Dec 26, 2024•40 min
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 rate some of the top moments of the season. See Privacy Policy at https://...
Nov 29, 2024•49 min
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 shares her sisterhood story as her top-10 Blue Devils wrap up the regular se...
Oct 29, 2024•41 min
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 weather delay at Middle Tennessee; and former two-sport standout Quinton McCr...
Sep 25, 2024•57 min
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, pickleball, with expert/ambassador and co-owner of the Las Vegas pro franchis...
Jun 20, 2024•56 min
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 bonus segment with one of the Blue Devils’ top hitters, AJ Gracia, who brok...
May 21, 2024•44 min
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 postseason competition on the immediate horizon, it’s the perfect time to ge...
Apr 25, 2024•56 min
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 the 30th anniversary of his senior season at Duke and a special Final Four ...
Apr 03, 2024•29 min
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 Oschell. Women’s tennis coach Jamie Ashworth shares memories of his 28 seasons a...
Feb 23, 2024•42 min
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 connections. Plus, heavyweight wrestler Connor Barket and our calls of the month fro...
Jan 08, 2024•46 min
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 Devil team that spent much of the season ranked in the national top 10. Plus,...
Nov 20, 2023•35 min
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 last summer. Plus, calls of the month! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr
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 Hornibrook from Stanford who is holding down the right tackle position for the equ...
Sep 28, 2023•47 min
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 .
Jun 27, 2023•47 min
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 upon his recent death at age 92. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...
May 18, 2023•48 min
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, Chri...
Apr 27, 2023•54 min
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 jo...
Mar 22, 2023•48 min
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 Maat...
Feb 23, 2023•45 min
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 ...
Jan 24, 2023•50 min
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,...
Dec 19, 2022•50 min
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 hea...
Nov 24, 2022•40 min
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 ...
Oct 25, 2022•57 min
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...
Sep 22, 2022•53 min
