Spring Season a Breath of Fresh Air for the Blue Devils

The last time Duke field hockey had a truly normal season was in the fall of 2019. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and like with everything else in the world, and the Duke field hockey program stopped and saw its spring 2020 offseason end before it really had a chance to start. Student-athletes headed home and teams had to shift to Zoom for any kind of team functions.

Months later with uncertainty swirling about whether Duke and the ACC were going to hold sports in the fall of 2020, the field hockey team returned to campus. After countless meetings and hours upon hours of planning on campus and in the ACC, Duke embarked on a season that would start in September and run until late April. The…