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Blue Devil 360
by The Varsity Podcast Network
A complete view of campus from the Official Podcast of Duke Athletics!
Episodes
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Blue Devil 360 - June 2026
Three years ago she arrived at Duke as an unrecruited walk-on in track & field. Today she is the school record-holder in the 100 and 200 meters and claimed five medals at the ACC indoor and outdoor championships this season. Meet junior sprinter Mia Edim, one of the 13 Blue Devils to qualify for...
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Blue Devil 360 - May 2026
With Duke set to participate in its sixth straight NCAA Softball Championship and host the Durham Regional (May 15-17), we visit with one of the most potent bats in the Blue Devils’ explosive offensive attack - shortstop Jessica Oakland. The former Big Ten Player of the Year at Minnesota made a...
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Blue Devil 360 - April 2026
Senior swimmer Kaelyn Gridley just completed a collegiate career full of records, milestones and honors, including first-team All-America results at the NCAA meet in each of her four years, a program first. With graduation on the horizon, she reflects on her Duke days in and out of the pool. We...
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Blue Devil 360 - March On
Duke University vice president and director of athletics Nina King makes another of her quarterly appearances on the podcast, along with two of her head coaches — Omar Elgeziry, who recently guided men’s fencing to the ACC championship, and Kerstin Kimel, now in her 31st season of leading the...
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Blue Devil 360 - Winter Games
With Duke women’s basketball on a 15-game winning streak heading into their Feb. 15 matchup versus rival North Carolina, Blue Devil 360 visits with senior point guard Taina Mair, one of the many key factors in the team’s success following a 3-6 start. We also sit down with new head baseball coach...
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Blue Devil 360 - December 2025
With Duke football headed to a fourth straight bowl game and Duke basketball taking aim at the ACC opener, both on New Year’s Eve, our holiday episode features director of athletics Nina King’s quarterly appearance as well as an in-depth conversation with linebacker Luke Mergott, the former…
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Blue Devil 360 - November 2025
Coinciding with Duke’s announcement of the Robert “Hap” Zarzour Athletic Training Endowment, the long-time Blue Devil trainer stops by to talk about the honor and his 33-year tenure of caring for the Blue Devils. We also visit with former first-round NFL draft pick quarterback Daniel Jones of the...
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Blue Devil 360 - October 2025
A new season of Blue Devil 360 begins with the leader of Duke Athletics, Nina King, and her frank opinions on many of the business issues that are front and center in college sports as she enters her 18th year at Duke. Sophomore field hockey standout Madison Beach also joins the program to talk...
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Blue Devil 360 - Summer 2025
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...
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Blue Devil 360 – Making Tracks
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…
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Blue Devil 360 – Pomp & Circumstance
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - Final Four Special Edition
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - NCAA Champion
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - Director’s Chair
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...
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Blue Devil 360 – Hit The Books
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…
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Blue Devil 360 – The Warmup Show
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...
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Blue Devil 360 – Happy Thanksgiving
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…
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Blue Devil 360 - October 2024
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - September 2024
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…
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Blue Devil 360 - Summer 2024
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…
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Blue Devil 360 - Championship Saturday
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…
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Blue Devil 360 — Blue Devils of the Year
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - A Sacred Time
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - February 2024
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - January 2024
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - Keepers
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...
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Blue Devil 360 – Kicking It Around
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...
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Bleed Blue, Live Green, Play Red Hot - September 2023
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…
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Blue Devil 360 – Summer 2023
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - May 2023
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - April 2023
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...
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Blue Devils 360 - March 2023
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - February 2023
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…
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Blue Devil 360 - January 2023
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - December 2022
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - November 2022
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...
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Blue Devil 360 - October 2022
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...
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Blue Devil 360 – September 2022
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…
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2021-22 Season in Review - Featuring Nina King, Terence Lee, and Peyton St. George
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...
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Robbie Church, Gunnar Holmberg, and Allison Miazga-Bedrick
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…
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MLK Jr. Unity Rally Speeches
Duke Athletics hosted a virtual unity rally on Monday, January 18 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hosted by Troy Austin, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Internal Affairs, guest speakers for the event included President Vincent E. Price, Chandra Guinn from the Mary Lou Williams Center for...
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Cameron Without Crazies
The Crazies are to Cameron as peanut butter is to jelly. They just go together. But this year as we know, has been unlike any other and due to the covid-19 pandemic, winter sports at Duke will begin with no fans in attendance. So as Coach K and his staff are preparing for this upcoming season and...
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Matt Skura
It’s almost impossible to have a championship-caliber football team without an excellent offensive line, and Duke’s run of bowl seasons under Coach Cut proves that point. For instance, three of the starting lineman in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl game are now starting on Sundays in the NFL. We’re...
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Changing the Narrative & Women’s Lacrosse
In a year of turbulent political and social events, having genuine and open conversations has become more important now than ever. A junior defender from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lexi Joseph is passionate about changing the narrative of black student-athletes and particularly in the sport of...
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SAAC: NIL, Voting, Diversity & Inclusion
Student-athletes use their voice in the NCAA through student-athlete advisory committees or SAAC, on the campus, conference and national level. At Duke, SAAC is made up of representatives from each sport to provide insight on their experience and offer input on rules, regulations and policies…
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The Return of Fall Sports - From the Student-Athlete Perspective
Each sport and each individual has had a unique perspective on the return to fall sports. We decided to get one person from each fall sport in the same space (and when we say space we mean zoom) to have an open conversation and share experiences on what the past few months has been like from them...
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Brian McAfee & Baseball Analytics
A two-time All-Ivy League selection at Cornell, Brian McAfee had already completed a stellar college baseball career but wanted more out of his college baseball experience. He enrolled at Duke in the fall of 2016 hoping for one more great season in a college baseball uniform. He quickly emerged…
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Elizabeth Williams - Life in the WNBA Bubble, Social Justice & Her Brother Mark
Elizabeth Williams is one of the most accomplished players in Duke women’s basketball history. The 2015 National Defensive Player of the year, Duke’s first four time All-American and a four time All-ACC member plus not to mention her jersey is hung in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium for...
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Ashley Twichell
Following an impressive collegiate career at Duke and graduating in 2011, Ashley Twichell has excelled in professional open water swimming, garnering five World Championship medals and nine National Titles. After attempting to qualify for the Olympics in 2008, 2012 and 2016, Ashley became one of...
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Kara Lawson
A new era of Duke women’s basketball is underway. You might have seen it on social media. It’s called #KaraEra. This week on the show we are honored to have new head coach Kara Lawson. The former Boston Celtics assistant coach chats with Chris Edwards about why Duke was the perfect fit for her…
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