Athletics Annual Report Released for 2025-26

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University Athletics has released its 2025-26 Annual Report, highlighting the achievements, milestones and memorable moments that defined the past year for the Blue Devils.

Check out some of the highlights below:

A total of 20 Duke teams were represented in NCAA Championship postseason play, including football's appearance at the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, men's lacrosse and women's soccer advancing to the NCAA semifinals and men and women's basketball back to the Elite Eight.
Duke made history in 2025-26 by becoming the first school in ACC history to win ACC Championships in football and men and women's basketball in the same academic year. The Blue Devils defeated Virginia, 27-20, on the gridiron, while the women's basketball team repeated as champions with a dramatic 70-65 overtime win over Louisville. The men completed the trifecta a week later by holding off Virginia, 74-70. It was the second straight ACC Tournament and third overall in Blue Devils head coach Jon Scheyer's four seasons. Duke women's coach Kara Lawson was named the ACC Coach of the Year after guiding Duke to both the ACC regular season and tournament titles and Manny Diaz posted his second consecutive nine-win season. The Duke men's fencing team captured its third ACC Fencing Championshp, defeating Boston College in a winner-take-all fence-off.
Duke Athletics finished the 2025-26 campaign ranked 11th in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings with 1,039.25 points. Highlighted by national semifinal appearances from women's soccer and men's lacrosse, which each earned 83 points, Duke received major contributions from women's basketball (73), men's basketball (73), women's golf (72.75), men's fencing (72), field hockey (65), softball (64), women's tennis (64), men's soccer (64) and men's golf (63). Additional Blue Devil teams scoring points included women's fencing (57), women's swimming & diving (52), women's outdoor track & field (49), football (45), women's indoor track & field (34.5), men's tennis (25) and men's wrestling (20).
Cameron Boozer, the consensus 2026 Men's Basketball National Player of the Year, was selected as the 2025-26 recipient of the Anthony J. McKevlin Award as the ACC Male Athlete of the Year, as voted on by 40 members of the Atlantic Coast Conference media. Boozer is the 18th Duke player to earn the award – the most in league history. He led Duke to the ACC regular-season and tournament championships, an NCAA Elite Eight appearance and a 35-3 overall record. He swept ACC Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors, earned ACC Tournament MVP recognition and was a consensus first-team All-American.
Duke had 11 players across six sports drafted into their respective professional leagues, including a No. 1 pick from men's lacrosse (Aidan Maguire) and the No. 3 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft (Cameron Boozer). Nine other Blue Devils signed free agent contracts.
Duke women's soccer turned in another fantastic season under first-year head coach Kieran Hall. The Blue Devils finished 17-5-1 and advanced to the NCAA College Cup before falling to Stanford, 1-0, in the semifinals. Kat Rader and Mia Ministrella were named United Soccer Coaches All-Americans to headline the postseason awards. The men's lacrosse team also advanced to the final weekend of competition, going from unseeded to finishing fourth in the national rankings. Aidan Maguire captured the USILA's Most Outstanding Player of the Year award, becoming the first short-stick defensive midfielder to garner the honor.
The NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) data showed that 97 percent of Duke freshmen student-athletes receiving scholarship aid, or recruited individuals competing in non-scholarship programs, graduated within six years. Eighteen of 23 Duke programs achieved a perfect 100 percent GSR for the 2015-18 cohort: men's and women's cross country and track & field, men's and women's fencing, men's and women's golf, men's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, rowing, field hockey, softball, volleyball and wrestling.
Fourteen Duke varsity athletics programs registered a perfect 1000 score in the most recent multi-year (2021-25) Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released Tuesday by the NCAA. In all, Duke posted the highest APR among ACC institutions in 16 sports. Duke ranked second among ACC institutions with 14 programs achieving a perfect score, trailing Notre Dame (17) and ahead of Boston College (10), Clemson (10), NC State (10), Georgia Tech (6), Virginia (6), North Carolina (5), Virginia Tech (5), California (4), Florida State (4), Louisville (4), Miami (4), SMU (3), Syracuse (3), Wake Forest (3), Pittsburgh (2) and Stanford (2).
Duke placed 654 student-athletes on the 2025-26 ACC Academic Honor Roll. More than 87 percent of Duke's enrolled student-athletes were named to the Honor Roll as the Blue Devils were second among conference schools with their 654 Honor Roll student-athletes. Ten Blue Devils claimed the distinction for a fifth time.
Duke's Charlie Johnson (men's lacrosse) and Sydney Smith (women's lacrosse) both earned ACC Postgraduate scholarships. They received the Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship Award, earning $6,000 each toward their graduate educations. Aidan Maguire and Andie Smith were two of 33 student-athletes named to the ACC Excellence Award list.

DUKE BY THE NUMBERS IN 2025-26:

20 Teams represented in NCAA Championships
44 All-America award winners
3 ACC Scholar-Athletes of the Year
18 Teams achieved 100% GSR
654 on ACC Honor Roll
98 All-ACC award winners
11 Blue Devils drafted by respective professional teams
14 Teams registering perfect 1000 APR score
3 First round picks in professional sports drafts
4 ACC Championships won by the Blue Devils
97% Graduation Success Rate

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