DURHAM, N.C. - No Duke athlete experienced a more convoluted wait for a sports payoff in 2016-17 than freshman Katelyn Gochenour of the track & field team.
This time a year ago, Duke wasn't even a blip on her radar. Crowned the national high school and U20 champion in the javelin, her 2016 summer itinerary featured a trip to Poland to represent the U.S. at the IAAF World Junior Championships before she was to head for Oklahoma to begin her college career.
Gochenour competed in Poland in July, but the move to Oklahoma never happened.