Blue Devils Prepped for ACC Championship Friday

Friday, October 30

Blacksburg, Va.

M: 10:10 a.m. | W: 11:00 a.m.

Duke University

ACC Championships

Victoria Garces and Finlay Ross-Davie posed images

Photo by: Duke Athletics

10/29/2026 11:04:00 AM | Cross Country

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DURHAM, N.C. – Duke opens postseason racing Friday morning at the 2026 ACC Cross Country Championships hosted by Virginia Tech. The men's 8k race starts at 10:10 a.m., while the gun goes off for the women's 6k at 11 a.m.

ACC Championship Details

The 2026 ACC Championship will be run on the Buford Meredith Cross Country Course in Blacksburg, Va. Directions to the course can be found here with a parking map for Friday located here.
Both races will air on ACC Network with live results throughout the race located here.

Previewing the Men's 8k

Racing for the Blue Devils will be Finlay Ross-Davie, Alden Keller, Will Purnell, Aden Bandukwala, Rendon Kuykendall, Braden Lofquest, Zachary Parker, Hunter Robbie, Arthur Graham and Griffin Kushen. Graham is the lone returner from Duke's ACC Championship lineup last year.
Ross-Davie has paced the Blue Devils in the top races this season and is coming off a 12th-place showing the prestigious NCAA Pre-Nationals Invitational with a personal best time of 23:26.1. He also was Duke's top finisher at the Meadows Challenge to start the season. This will be his third race as a Blue Devil.
Keller and Purnell have run strong this season, sitting in the top four Blue Devils in their previous two races. This will be their first ACC Championship race.
Graham was Duke's third runner across the line in last year's ACC Championship as the Blue Devils took ninth overall. He most recently ran a personal best 8k time of 23:57 at the Upstate Invitational.

Previewing the Women's 8k

Lining up for the 24th-ranked Blue Devils will be Victoria Garces, Sundara Weber, Cassidy Armstrong, Hattie Reynolds, Nimrit Ahuja, Anna Callahan, Sophia Szolosi, Molly FitzPatrick, Ella Johns and Thais Rolly. Garces is the lone returner from last year's squad that took sixth overall.
Garces headlines the Duke lineup, runner sub-20 minute times in both of her 6k races this season. She most recently took 10th at the NCAA Pre-Nationals Invitational with a personal best time of 19:34.9.
The freshman tandem of Armstrong and Weber has had a strong first season with both posting 6k times in the low 20s. Graduate students Ahuja and FitzPatrick add experience to the Duke lineup, while Reynolds, Callahan, Johns, Rolly and Szolosi look forward to her first ACC Championship race. Callahan, Johns and Rolly all had strong races at the Upstate Invitational a couple of weeks ago, taking the top three places, respectively.