This Week in Duke Athletics History (July 6-12)

July 8

2001 – Women's Basketball -- Former Duke National Player of the Year Alana Beard helped the USA Basketball Women's Junior World Championship team to the 2001 USA Basketball Junior International Invitational Championship at George Washington's Smith Center in Washington, D.C.

July 10

2016 – Women's Golf -- Brittany Lang became the first Blue Devil to win a major championship as she won the 2016 U.S. Women's Open in a playoff at CordeValle in San Martin, Calif.

2016 – Track & Field – Duke alumna Shannon Rowbury qualified for her third consecutive Olympic Games by posting a top-three finish in the women's 1500m on the final day of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Eugene, Ore. Rowbury, the…