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I will never forget the first basketball game I covered at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a 60-point Duke victory against Barton College in an exhibition game in November 2007.

But as much as I’ll always remember that night, I also know that my fondest Duke memories weren’t made in the press room; they come from standing in Cameron, or at Gabe Wallace Wade Stadium, cheering as one with students you’ve never met. The best part is the kids you’re rooting for are really just students, too.

Because truthfully, on a crisp Saturday afternoon in the fall, I won’t think of myself as sports editor of The Chronicle. I’ll just be a kid from South Florida who’s hoping Thaddeus Lewis completes his next pass. And the following Monday, there’s a good chance Lewis will be sitting in the classroom with me.

Here at The Chronicle, we try not to take ourselves too seriously; sometimes we succeed in that venture, and sometimes we don’t. But when it comes to Duke sports, we know how you’re feeling better than anyone, because after we leave 301 Flowers in the wee hours of the morning, we all return to our roles as students and sports fans as well.

In this first issue of Sportswrap, we’ve tried to combine success stories of Blue Devils already plying their trade professionally with those striving to join them at the next level. Those we’ve featured—including Lewis, the men’s basketball seniors and Olympic medalist fencer Becca Ward—are all great at their sports, but they also are humble, driven and proud to go to school here, just like the rest of us.

With that, I am proud to welcome you to Volume 105 of The Chronicle and kick off the 27th installment of Sportswrap, and I look forward to sharing a wonderful year in Duke sports with you.

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3 Chronicle columnists Scott Rich and Ryan Claxton debate whether Duke Basketball can succeed with the type of roster it builds year after year 4

Lean more about decathlete Curtis Beach, a New Mexico native who might be Duke’s best incoming recruit—in any sport.

5 Mike Krzyzewski and Jay Bilas

Join the sports staff! comment on the pro prospects for Gerald Henderson, who was No experience necessary drafted 12th by the Bobcats in the June 25th NBA Draft Please email Gabe at 8 Former Sports Editor Ben gs31@duke.edu for more information Cohen tells you where he wants to be when he grows up: at Cameron Indoor Stadium

9-11 Get to know some of the

Blue Devils’ biggest stars now performing in the pros

12 Jon Scheyer is the unquestioned leader of the men’s basketball team, while junior Jasmine Thomas has assumed the same role for the women.

13 Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis and fencer Becca Ward don’t talk about themselves much, but they are two of the biggest stars on campus 22 Veteran Chronicle columnist Alex Fanaroff, now a thirdyear medical student, reflects on his time as a Blue Devil fan and hands out some advice

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Size or Experience?

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Ryan Chronicle columnists Scott Rich and Ryan Claxton debate Rich Claxton whether Duke can succeed with its current roster Experience the key for title teams “Power” forwards not the answer

Since Mike Krzyzewski became Duke’s head coach almost three decades ago, the attitude of Blue Devil fans have sometimes mirrored that of other juggernaut teams like the New York Yankees–in short, spoiled.

Such an attitude is the only explanation for the uproar that ensued after Krzyzewski failed to land highly touted recruit John Wall this summer, or for disappointment in a 2009 season that produced only 30 wins, an ACC Tournament title and a birth in the Sweet 16.

For fans, much of that disappointment seems to stem from apprehension that maybe, just maybe, the Coach K style of basketball— focusing on fundamentals, experience, and team play rather than relying on a few NBAbound players—is going out of style.

Recent history begs to differ. Yes, one-anddones like Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley have dominated the headlines, but neither of these players won the national title Duke fans desire. In fact, the first, and only, legitimate one-and-done player to win the title was Carmelo Anthony with Syracuse in 2003.

Most national champions in the last decade actually epitomize the qualities Krzyzeweski has preached at Duke. For instance, North Carolina won the title last season with a core of juniors and seniors rather than one-and-done freshman, as they also did in 2005. The Florida Gators won the title in 2006 with a group of sophomores who spurned the NBA en route to another championship the following season.

Even given Elliot Williams’ sudden trans-

fer, Duke still returns three starters from last year’s ACC champion squad that can provide the leadership to make Coach K’s philosophy translate into major success this year.

Even if the fad of one-and-dones aren’tt d-dones aren producing the success Cameron ron Crazies crave, many anxious fans point nt out that Krzyzeweski’s recruiting classes es pale in comparison to those in the late 1990s. And while recent Duke teams haven’t ’t lived up to the lofty legacy of their predeedecessors, the solution is not to scrap rap Krzyzeweski’s style.

Indeed, the Blue Devils have not suddenly dropped off the face of the national recruiting scene, as Duke has continued to rack up p commits from five-star prospectss at a similar pace to many rivals.

Unfortunately, many of these players left school early, didn’t make it to Duke at all or just didn’t pan out as expected. The he same can be said for other top p programs like Michigan State that haven’t aven’t quite reached the top of the mountain untain in recent years despite talented teams. eams.

So no, the Blue Devils haven’t n’t fallen off the map: they are just struggling, ggling, very relatively speaking, much like ike the Yankees. And even when “struggling” ggling” Duke remains a legitimate threat at to win a championship nearly every season, ason, this one being no exception.

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Shelden Williams. Carlos Boozer. Elton Brand. Three players who put the “power” in power forward during their time at Duke. But where has the power gone? departure in 2006, there Since Williams’ Willia has been a ssignificant lack of brawn for the Blue Devils.

Devils In response to the lack of athleticism and strength down low, the roster has been cr crafted to a more international style of play. Today’s Blue Devil big men are face-up players with peme rimeter games. Williams, Boozer rim and Brand, meet Kyle Singler, an Ryan Kelly and the Plumlees.

Ry But what’s wrong with this new n style? Duke still won 30 games this year, right? And an g ACC Championship too! In A fact, f this team was just one stellar l point guard and one returning i top away from a National Championship, right? Wrong.

C Sure, Duke has always sucS ceeded with a balanced, experienced roster. roster But as long as the Blue Devils play without a physical, NBA-level w player playe in the low post, there will be no national titles in Durham. na Take a look at the championship Ta teams team since 2003, the year that the idea of a one-and-done was born.

That Tha year, Carmelo Anthony set an NCAA record for double-doubles NC en route to a championship for

Syracuse, but he also had All-American Hakim Warrick playing with him on the block.

In 2004, UConn sent out a front line including Emeka Okafor, Charlie Villanueva and Josh Boone. Sean May and Marvin Williams brought power down low for North Carolina in 2005. The next two years belonged to the Florida Gators’ Al Horford and Joakim Noah.

And in 2008, big man Darrell Arthur helped Kansas’s guard-centric team go from the Elite Eight to national champions, toppling Memphis and bruising forward Joey Dorsey.

And of course, Duke needs no reminder that 2009 belonged to Tyler Hansbrough, Deon Thompson and the Tar Heels.

The point is, one-and-dones bring some success, but strong post players turn good teams into championship teams. While the emphasis on team play and fundamentals is successful, Duke has an incomplete team.

Recent Duke targets Greg Monroe and Patrick Patterson could have been the difference-makers. While Duke did pull in two big men in this year’s recruiting class, Plumlee and Kelly are very different from Monroe and Patterson. Plumlee and Kelly both have tendencies to play on the perimeter (think Kyle Singler). Monroe and Patterson are low-post players who go to the hoop and draw fouls (think Shelden Williams).

Duke needs a physical style in the paint to return to elite status, and that presence would propel the Blue Devils from a Sweet 16 afterthought to a Final Four contender.

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TRACK & FIELD

Record setter Beach hopes to raise Duke’s profile

by Alex Keller THE CHRONICLE

The best athlete in Duke’s incoming freshman class doesn’t stand out in a crowd. At 6 feet and 165 pounds he doesn’t have the size of a football or basketball player. But when he steps onto a track, Curtis Beach is instantly recognizable, because he’s winning everything in sight.

The freshman from New Mexico holds the national high school record in the decathlon, a combination of ten track and field events. When Beach scored 7,909 points in the decathlon in April at the Arcadia Invitational, he broke the old high school record by almost 500 points.

“We have a couple other great recruits, but Curtis Beach is by far the marquee recruit in the class,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “He is certainly the best all-around ath-

lete in the country this year, and probably one of the top recruits ever coming out of high school.”

To put it in terms the basketball-crazed Duke community can relate to, Ogilvie says recruiting Beach is like getting Grant Hill.

Beach’s athletic potential comes from his incredible versatility. His high school state championships range from the long jump, high jump, pole vault and hurdles to the 100-, 200- and 800-meter running events. He also helped his high school win a team state title in cross country during track’s off-season.

“I started out as a cross-country runner...but in middle school, my coach James Ciccarello challenged me to do every event from the 100 meters to the 3000 meters,” Beach said. “He wanted me to do hurdles, the throws, high jump,

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everything. And I did, and I was pretty good at all of them, and I enjoyed them all…. [The decathlon] ended up being a perfect fit, because I still can’t choose just one event, and I just love them all.”

As Beach progressed through high school, his performances earned him the attention of the top collegiate track and field programs in the country, including Texas A&M and Oregon, the 2009 national champions in the indoor and outdoor seasons, respectively.

Yet Beach turned down offers from both schools to come to Duke, a program whose name is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the others in track and field circles.

Beach chose Duke in part because of its recent addition of multi-events coach Shawn Wilbourn, a former NFL player and 8,200-point scoring decathlete who Beach said shares his passion for track and field in all its events.

“He has that drive to be the very best,” Beach said. “Not just the best in the ACC or the very best in the country, but the best, period, and I love that.”

Wilbourn is just one of the factors that attracted Beach to Duke. According to Ogilvie, since Kevin White became the new athletic director in 2008, the track program has had more freedom with scholarships and recruitment, going beyond the distance events to put together a stronger, more diverse team than in previous years. This change has markedly increased the versatility of the program as a whole.

Tyler Clarke, a fifth-year senior who this year placed 18th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the decathlon, could easily relate to the recruit, because he had had been faced with a comparable decision when choosing between schools.

“Tyler had to make a very similar choice five years ago, being an Oregon native, and his final choice was between Oregon and Duke,” Ogilvie said. “So he was able to tell Curtis, ‘You know, when I had to make this decision, I chose Duke for the academics and what I would be able to do beyond Duke. But with you, you don’t even have to do that.’”

The addition of Wilbourn to the Blue Devil coaching staff bridged the gap between the school’s athletic and academic components—and Beach felt that he didn’t have to sacrifice athletics for the sake of academics by choosing Duke.

Beach recognized the importance of getting an education in addition to pursuing his track career, and is excited about the educational opportunities available to him in Durham.

“What I’d like to do in particular is go into the Markets and Management program,” Beach said, “Learn about business and sports marketing, and maybe do some law stuff, getting all the little parts of the Duke education that SEE BEACH ON PAGE 17

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Beach set the high school scoring record in the decathlon last year.

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DUKIES GONE PRO: MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Henderson goes 12th to Bobcats Williams to transfer from Duke

by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE

Gerald Henderson won’t have to move very far to play basketball next year.

The Duke co-captain, who chose to forego his final year of eligibility to go pro, was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats with the 12th pick of the NBA Draft June 25.

He even one-upped perennial rival Tyler Hansbrough, whom Henderson called his fiercest competitor in pre-draft workouts, going one spot higher than the UNC forward.

“This is the best day of my life,” Henderson said. “I’ll get to be close to Duke, so I’ll have a lot of fans supporting me, and it’s going to be great.”

Henderson was taken slightly earlier than expected, as ESPN analyst Jay Bilas had him tapped as the 15th-best prospect in the draft. Bilas expressed admiration for Henderson’s athleticism and high ceiling.

“He is super athletic,” Bilas said. “He really improved this last year in his feel and understanding of the game.... I think he’s improved every year he’s been in school.”

The 6-foot-4 wingman was widely praised by draft gurus for his NBA-ready skills, including his game-changing ability to create his own shot. His lack of size for his position, coupled with an average outside shooting game, were seen as potential weaknesses.

As a freshman, Henderson showed flashes of brilliance off the bench, averaging 6.2 points per game. He is perhaps best remembered for his controversial flagrant foul on Hansbrough in Duke’s 86-72 loss on March 4, 2007, a foul that resulted in Henderson’s ejection and a one-game suspension.

Henderson’s sophomore year saw a

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His junior year would prove to be his breakout season. Averaging 16.5 points and 4.9 rebounds per game, Henderson emerged as the Blue Devils’ go-to scorer and as a highlight-reel talent. His uncharacteristic performance in the Sweet Sixteen loss against Villanova put a damper on his All-American season. The junior was a miserable 1-for-14 from the field, and his shooting woes were a major cause of the Wildcats’ blowout win.

His already high draft stock, though,

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wasn’t affected.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski correctly surmised days before the draft that Henderson would be a lottery pick, and speculated on Henderson’s future.

“I think he’ll be a very good pro, and a pro for a long time—potential starter early,” Krzyzewski said. “He works [at the game], he is no problem, he will be a good team member and he’s got talent.

“He did a good job [at Duke] and is a really good guy. And for us, we want these guys to do well, make a lot of money and have good lives, so we are going to continue to help him.”

Sophomore Elliot Williams, who started 11 of Duke’s final 12 games last season, will leave Duke to be closer to his Memphis, Tenn. home for family medical reasons, the program announced June 24.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Elliot and his family,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We fully support him in his efforts to be closer to them during this trying time. He is a good young man with an opportunity to become an outstanding player.... He will always be a part of our program and we will always be in his corner.”

Williams is seeking a waiver from the NCAA that would allow him to play at a Division-I school right away, instead of having to sit out a season as most transfers do.

Transfers for medical reasons have in the past been granted eligibility immediately.

Williams averaged 4.2 points and 2.3 rebounds a game last season, but those numbers are skewed because of his very limited role most of the season compared to his integral play late on. After playing sparingly for the first half of the ACC season, Williams took over the starting shooting guard position against St. John’s Feb. 19 and was a major factor in Duke’s success the rest of the campaign.

Without Williams, the Blue Devils have just two scholarship guards left on the roster, Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith.

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It’s where I want to be when I grow up When I was in seventh grade, I wrote a poem.

This act of composition was somewhat noteworthy in itself. Although I’m an English major, I’m no J.J. Redick, so I usually find myself flailing for meaning in even the simplest haiku. But on this particular occasion, something—the muse!—drove me to pen a poem. It was a rhyming lyric called “I Want to Be a Cameron Crazie When I Grow Ben Up.” Somehow, I equated college with adulthood (terrifying) and being a Cameron Crazie with a life’s worth of success (even more so).

As you might imagine, the poem’s general conceit was that I aspired to attend Duke and be one of those facepaint-clad students jumping up and down, cameras

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(To be fair, in my fifth grade yearbook, I also prophesied that I would graduate from Duke. I’m not sure which is scarier: that prediction, or the fact that it might be true come May.) So freshmen, fear not: Basketball games are all they’re cracked up to be. They really, really are. For a few memorable days every year in Cameron Indoor Stadium, 1,200 students combine not only to create a palpable energy, but also sustain it. You leave after three hours, and you’re sweaty, your back hurts and your calves ache.

You’ve become entirely too familiar with the person next to you, you’ve shouted insults you never knew you could conjure and sometimes, depending on the opponent, you’ve made Mike Krzyzewski’s language seem ap-

propriate for the Chapel on Sunday morning.

In short, you can think of no other place you would rather be.

Yes, there’s something frustrating in shivering on a sidewalk to stand for two hours and then jump for two more.

Yes, the line monitors... well, they’re not my favorite people at Duke. And yes, some of the Crazies’ shtick is phony, as temporary as the ink on their stomachs.

One night each year, though, none of that holds true.

Freezing is fun. The line monitors are tolerable. And when North Carolina comes to Cameron, nothing is inorganic.

It creates an impossible standard no other game can possibly match. None. Not in Cameron, not in the Dean Dome, not anywhere else in the country.

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DUKIES GONE PRO: FOOTBALL

Trio of Blue Devils eager for shot at NFL

by Laura Keeley THE CHRONICLE

At this year’s NFL Draft, 256 college players were taken, and not one of them came from Duke. That does not mean, though, that there won’t be any new Blue Devils in the NFL. Three graduated seniors–wide receiver Eron Riley, offensive tackle Cameron Goldberg and linebacker Mike Tauiliili– have signed free agent contracts in hopes of making a team’s 53-man roster. Riley is with the Baltimore Ravens, Goldberg the Kansas City Chiefs and Tauiliili the Indianapolis Colts.

All three are aware of the tough road they face, and they will need to survive several rounds of training camp cuts. But Duke head coach David Cutcliffe thinks they have a shot at beating the odds.

“All three are great workers on the field,” Cutcliffe said. “They are competitors. The key with any of these guys is you just pray that they stay healthy. With some luck and if they stay healthy, they have a chance.”

Riley is a two-time second-team All-ACC selection and caught 61 passes for 693 yards and eight touchdowns last year to earn the team’s Most Outstanding Receiver award.

He ranks in the top 10 for receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns in Blue Devils history. He also ran a 4.36 in the 40-yard dash at Duke’s Pro Day March 17, a time that would have put him in the top five of all 40-yard dashes run at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis Feb. 18-24.

None of the three players were invited to pre-draft workouts at the combine.

“I thought I would be [invited] and as-

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Linebacker Mike Tauiliili was not drafted by any NFL team, but recently signed with the Indianapolis Colts. sumed based on the kinds of numbers I put up, but I guess not,” Riley said. “No need to cry over spilled milk though. I went back and kept working hard.”

Tauiliili has also been working with a

chip on his shoulder. Despite leading the ACC in tackles and earning first-team AllACC honors last year, Tauiliili was not offered a contract until a week after the draft.

His teammates were offered contracts im-

mediately after the draft, and Tauiliili even went to the Colts’ mini-camp without a contract.

It did not take Indianapolis long to sign him to a two-year deal once he was there. Tauiliili is undersized for a middle linebacker in the NFL, but he fits in well with the type of linebackers the Colts have historically had in their system. Tauiliili is being shown the ropes by veteran players, including Pro Bowl defensive end Robert Mathis, who was in the same fraternity as Tauiliili at Alabama A&M. Tauiliili and Riley have the advantage of being able to contribute on special teams, whereas Goldberg, an offensive lineman, does not. Cutcliffe, though, said Goldberg’s athletic ability is an advantage for him because he could play any position on the offensive line. Goldberg also shined at Duke’s Pro Day, putting up 37 reps of 225 lbs. on the bench press, which, like Riley, would have put him in the top five performers at the combine.

Cutcliffe agreed that all three are long shots to find themselves on Opening Day rosters, but there is precedent for what the trio is trying to accomplish. Patrick Bailey was an undrafted free agent from Duke who graduated in 2008, and he went on to be the rookie of the year for the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Riley, Tauiliili, and Goldberg all called him an inspiration, and Goldberg has talked to Bailey this offseason for advice.

“I definitely hope I can be as fortunate as Pat that I can get a ring my first year,” Tauiliili said. “But first, I just want to make the team and go to training camp.”

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MEN’S LACROSSE

DUKIES GONE PRO: MEN’S SOCCER

McFadyen Barnes, Grella excel from start and Ross MLL-bound

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Although they might not have accomplished all they desired in their five years at Duke, midfielder Brad Ross and defenseman Ryan McFadyen were two integral forces in making the program a lacrosse powerhouse.

Now, after completing their Duke careers as fifth-year seniors, they have a chance to continue their quest for a championship in Major League Lacrosse. Ross was drafted 15th by the Toronto Nationals, and McFadyen 33rd to the Washington Bayhawks.

“Brad is a terrific two-way middie who had a great career at Duke,” Nationals head coach Dave Huntley said. “The up-tempo style he played at Duke should allow him to fit smoothly into our style at the Nationals.”

McFadyen and Ross entered Duke in 2004 following a season in which the Blue Devils finished 5-8 and failed to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. The next year, though, Duke finished with a 13-1 record in the regular season and lost a heartbreaker to Johns Hopkins in the national championship game.

That first season at Duke is still a memorable one for Ross.

“We had no expectations before the season of getting [to the Final Four],” Ross said. “But we came together as a team and played well.”

Following this dramatic reversal, the SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 20

In January’s Major League Soccer SuperDraft, seniors Mike Grella and Darrius Barnes were selected just six picks apart. Both signed professional contracts in the following months.

But now, the home stadiums of the former Duke stars are separated by 3,200 miles and the Atlantic Ocean.

While Barnes signed with the team that drafted him in the third round— the New England Revolution—Grella opted to spurn the MLS in favor of a career in England. The forward went on trial for Leeds United in January, scoring a hat trick for the club’s reserve team January 20.

Less than two weeks later, he signed an 18-month contract with Leeds. After joining the team at midseason, Grella made 12 appearances off the bench as his club fought for promotion from League One, the third tier of English soccer.

Leeds United fell to Milwall in the playoff semifinal, which means the team will remain in League One next season.

Although the loss is a blow to the team’s quest to return to the English Premier League, it may present Grella with a chance for increased playing time in his first full season. And if Leeds successfully sells top striker Jermaine Beckford, Grella may be poised to significantly increase his role on the team.

“He’s probably never ever come off the bench in his career, and it is an adjustment,” said Duke head coach

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John Kerr, who talked to Grella regularly throughout the season. “But the level’s higher, so you have to deal with the reality of the situation. I know that he gave everything that he had, and I think next year he’s going to have a better opportunity to show himself.”

Even with a strong preseason, though,

Grella may not be able to achieve the playing time of his former Blue Devil teammate.

Barnes has started every minute of every game for the Revolution, anchoring the back line along with former Duke star Jay Heaps, who won college soccer’s equivalent SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 17

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• Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis •

by David Ungvary The chronicle

If you ask Thaddeus Lewis to talk about himself for just a couple of minutes, be prepared to hear a lot about his coaches and teammates, and hardly anything about Thaddeus Lewis.

Ask the senior about his aspirations to become an NFL quarterback and he’ll acknowledge them, but only after assuring you that building a winning football program at Duke is his first priority this season.

But while Lewis’s quiet demeanor and noticeable air of humility might make it hard to get him to sing his own praises, they’ve never detracted from his desire or his ability to lead the Blue Devil squad.

“Thad is more one of those guys that leads by ex-

ample,” said tight end Brett Huffman, a redshirt junior. “He’ll talk and rally when the time is right, but I’d say he’d much rather go out there and do it on the field than scream and all that hoopla.

“He’s more of a doer than a talker. In the four years I’ve been here with Thad, I’d say he’s always been like that.”

When considering the arc of Lewis’s career as a Blue Devil, the “leading by example” theme is certainly recurring. At Duke, there was no choice for Lewis but to prove himself through his play rather than through his words. After the first game of his freshman year, Lewis was handed the reins to his football team and he has remained the starter ever since.

“Being the senior quarterback or just the quarterback in general, a lot comes along with that title,” Lewis said. “What my job is is to bring these guys along and let them know what the program is all about and be the example.

“That way, when you leave, you leave an example to the younger guys that come in. And that way more people can know what this program is about—which is a pursuit of excellence.”

Maybe Lewis is so set on being an example for his younger teammates because he was thrown into the fire so early without a lead to follow. The Blue Devils won just once in Lewis’s first 23 games. But instead of playing with a chip on his shoulder or getting down on his own abilities, Lewis has fully accepted his role as Duke’s unquestioned leader.

Three years and over 30 starts later, Lewis enters a senior season in which it seems all the stars have aligned for a successful run.

“He’s been our starting quarterback for four years, which in D-I football is a rarity so just the experience factor is phenomenal,” Huffman said. “It has really been paying off. I can only imagine he’ll just keep rising this year. He’s been playing college football for four years so he knows what it’s like—the speed of the game and all that. It’s going to be his second season with the same head coach, offensive coordinator. He knows the offense inside-and-out… He’s the quarterback; he’s the commander, the leader.”

However, Lewis noted that the biggest improvement to his game and his ability to lead came once he was able to follow someone

• Point Guard Jon Sche

by Taylor Doherty The chronicle

With the ball in his hands, Jon Scheyer is both a fearless scorer—he once scored 21 points in 75 seconds in high school—and a careful ball handler. Scheyer shies away from classifying his role next year as Duke’s point guard, but he certainly will run Duke’s offense, no matter what people call his position.

Regardless of his position on the floor—Scheyer might be at the top of the key bringing the ball up, on the wing or along the baseline—he’ll be the one anchoring the Blue Devil attack.

“We won’t have a traditional point,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There will be more movement, motion offense, where it’s not one guy setting up a play, and you can hit, cut through, and no one’s the point.

It doesn’t mean we won’t ever call a play, but that’s sort of what Jon did the last 12 games. He averaged like one turnover a game, his scoring average went up, and we played better.

“Jon is the natural leader of this team. Jon’s terrific, one of the best kids in the world.”

In preparation for assuming a leadership role in 2009, Scheyer didn’t give himself much of a break—the senior was back on campus just two weeks after final exams last semester.

Back on campus, the senior guard works out in the morning, takes a class, lifts, plays pickup games and runs drills with those teammates at Duke for the summer session. The senior has laid out two important goals: focus on shooting fundamentals—despite already possessing a picturesque shot—and assuming leadership on a team stocked with tested veterans.

“We’re ready to do some great things,” Scheyer said.

“We have to make sure the younger guys know what it takes, [but] I think we are going to have a great year.”

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Ryan Kelly

Incoming freshmen recruits Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee are practically identical in terms of height, weight and their position on the court, but by no means should Cameron Indoor Stadium’s newest arrivals be considered the same player.

The five-star prospects from North Carolina each bring a unique style of play to the Blue Devils, and head coach Mike Krzyzewski believes they will both make an impact right away.

“One or both of them could start games,” he said. “They will obviously be in a rotation, but

we are going to depend on those two guys.”

Kelly and Plumlee, rated the fourth-best and sixth-best power forwards in their class by scout.com, respectively, do possess many of the same skills.

“I think both of them are really good players,” Krzyzewski said. “They can both shoot, play inside and outside, they are great workers and they are ahead of their age.”

At the same time, Dave Telep, National Recruiting Director for scout.com, thinks it would be a mistake to say that the two play an identical brand of basketball.

The 6-foot-11 Plumlee—who will join his brother Miles, a sophomore, on the hardwood in Durham—gives Duke a big man with athleticism as well as size.

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“He runs the floor, dunks and can dribble and bring the ball up the court,” Telep said.

While Kelly may not possess Plumlee’s speed, rebounding and leaping ability, he has no problem finding ways to put the ball in the basket.

He averaged 25.2 points per game as a senior and was named Gatorade Player of the Year for North Carolina.

Krzyzewski likens the 6-foot-10 Kelly to a European-style big man because of his excellent perimeter shooting, high basketball IQ and ability to put the ball on the floor and get to the rim.

Telep agreed, comparing him to perennial NBA All-Star Dirk Nowitzki, the Dallas Mavericks’ German power forward.

“Ryan brings a scorer’s touch to the power forward position,” he said.

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• Point Guard Jasmine Thomas •

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As Duke walked off the court last March after losing in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the program left behind the last remnants of its most successful era and began treading into an uncertain future. Gone are all those who played in the 2006 National Championship game. Gone is the coach who led them there. Gone are departed seniors Abby Waner and Chante Black and their six combined AllACC selections. The Blue Devils need to look to new leaders and new stars.

Enter 5-foot-9 junior Jasmine Thomas. For the past two years, the Fairfax, Va. product has served as the Blue Devils’ starting point guard, charged with the task of distributing the ball to Duke’s prolific scorers. As the program moves forward, however, Duke’s success will depend heavily on Thomas’ maturation from a young player deferring to talented veterans into the Blue Devils’ primary offensive threat.

“She’s getting into a commanding role,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said of Thomas. “She has done that in various ways. She is the consummate team leader, the consummate playmaker.

I think so many things are coming together for [Jasmine] right now.”

Thomas’ past provides overwhelming evidence that she has all the tools necessary to become a great scorer. She registered a total of 2,598 points for Oakton High School, averaging over 23 per game as a four-year starter. As a high school senior in 2007, she was named to four different All-America teams, and earned MVP honors at the McDonald’s All-America game.

When Thomas came to Duke, though, she was forced to adjust her game. In high school, she was more of a scoring guard than a pure point guard, and her offensive game was based on shooting more than looking for her teammates. As a freshman, surrounded by the likes of Waner and Black, Duke could not afford for its point guard to have a gunslinger’s mentality.

Thomas was therefore faced with the challenge of learning the role of floor general at a level of competition unlike anything she had ever faced.

“It’s been difficult,” Thomas said. “The point guard spot is one of the most difficult ones.

You control everything, you’re the coach on the floor, and just adapting to the game has been a challenge.”

Fortunately for Thomas and the Blue Devils, she was teamed with experienced veterans, who helped her adjust to the college game.

“They help you learn,” Thomas said of her upperclassmen teammates. “They show you the ropes and get you comfortable with things. It’s definitely tough being a younger point guard coming in and having older players trust you, and they trusted me.”

See Thomas on page 20

ee Scheyer on page 14

That scorer’s touch was on display when Kelly won the McDonald’s All-American three-point shootout on March 30. Plumlee made his presence felt as well, placing second in the dunk contest.

That wasn’t the first time the two players met as seniors—Plumlee’s Christ School defeated Kelly’s Ravenscroft twice during the season, including in the North Carolina state finals.

In that championship game, Kelly scored 14 points to lead the Ravens, but Plumlee’s 19 led Christ School to its third straight state title.

When the two big men finally play on the same team, though, Krzyzewski hopes they can add another dimension to Duke’s perimeteroriented motion offense.

“A thing we haven’t had in a few years is

inside-outside action,” he said. “It would be neat to have [strong perimeter play] and people who can score inside, and we believe we have people who can score. What that does to a defense is it makes it go in and out, and that’s where the relocation pass, the cuts come.”

Assuming Plumlee and Kelly can be effective down low, Krzyzewski expects junior Kyle Singler—who led the Blue Devils in scoring, along with Gerald Henderson, and rebounding last season—to move back to his natural position and play primarily small forward.

For that to happen, though, both Kelly and Plumlee will need to continue to get stronger in order to bang down low with

Olympic medalist, NCAA champion

Becca Ward isn’t spending this summer where she expected to—studying abroad in Puebla, Mexico in a program that was relocated after the swine flu outbreak in May. She’s also not spending this summer winning two Olympic bronze medals, as she did in Beijing in 2008.

Instead, she’s just enjoying life as a typical Duke student, one who happens to be one of the best saber fencers in the United States and possibly the world.

This summer, Ward is on campus learning Spanish and mingling with Durham’s vibrant Hispanic community—a far cry from her normal fencing preparation, which she said involved no more than a ten-day rest for over two years before her Olympic meet.

Ward placed third in the team and individual competitions at the Beijing Olympics, and followed that up with an individual NCAA crown in March.

Still, Ward is enjoying relative anonymity on campus, at least compared to other Blue Devil athletes. “[People recognized me] a lot during [Fall 2008],” Ward said. “During orientation I got a lot of ‘Where are you from?’ I wouldn’t say anything, and halfway through the conversation it would inevitably come up. ‘Wait, you are the fencing girl!’ Or, ‘You’re the Olympian!’ That happened a lot and died down during second semester.”

Duke Athletics gave her some more unwanted publicity when it printed a massive sign reading “Duke Welcomes Becca Ward, Two-Time Olympic Medalist” and hung it at the entrance to Wilson Gym in the early weeks of Fall ‘08, Ward’s first semester as a Blue Devil. Ward said the sign now hangs in her living room in Portland, Oreg., an effort by her mother to tease her about her newfound fame.

Since then, though, Ward has yet to compete in a single international competition, and hasn’t decided whether or not to pursue a spot on the Olympic team for the 2012 Games in London. Doing so would require her to leave school in the middle of her junior year, something the rising sophomore seems loath to do.

“I’m enjoying myself a lot here,” Ward said. “I absolutely love Duke, and a teammate of mine—she delayed college for a year, she went [to school] for a year, every weekend she would fly out for a competition and Duke is a very hard school to do that at.... If I decide to go back [to international competition], it might be after school and not in the middle of it.”

Even without international tournaments to take part in, Ward is finding no shortage of opponents to defeat. She went 53-2 during the regular season, and won 22 more matches en route to the NCAA individual saber championship. Ward said the level of competition in college isn’t comparable to world championships because fencing is so much less popular in the United States than it is in Europe.

Nonetheless, for the first time, Ward is truly part of a team, an experience she is cherishing.

Duke finished 11th in the country last season, but with Ward as its No. 1, the Blue Devils could be at the top of the fencing world before long—thanks largely to a seemingly nondescript Duke student.

—by Gabe Starosta

the ACC’s bulkier, more physical big men including Clemson’s Trevor Booker, Virginia Tech’s Jeff Allen, Miami’s Dwayne Collins and North Carolina’s Ed Davis.

That combination of size on the perimeter and in the paint would radically alter Duke’s style of play, which in recent years has keyed on perimeter shooting.

Whether or not the freshmen will immediately provide a solution to Duke’s inconsistent low post play remains to be seen, but Telep believes the team will benefit from their presence regardless of the amount of playing time they receive.

“They will push the established players on the roster,” he said. “Everybody will get better as a result.”

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LEWIS from page 12 else’s guidance for a change.

Ever since the arrival of head coach David Cutcliffe last year, Lewis has been forced to take a step back. Instead of being his own teacher, a commander 24/7, Lewis has learned to be study the game of football and pay attention to the deatils, and has a coach who has given him direction and raised the bar.

“Coach Cutcliffe has come in and instilled the idea that we will win and that’s what we will do week-in and weekout,” Lewis said. “He changed the attitude of the program, the outlook of the program.... He made me a student of the game—making me watch film and also teaching me to watch film, making me understand the offense so I can be a coach out on the field.”

The Blue Devils’ success may depend most on how Lewis performs in his fourth and final season. The expectations for the team and its quarterback this year are undeniably higher than they have been in years past. But placing that kind of pressure on Lewis is something both he and his teammates are perfectly comfortable with.

“He’s the one making the calls out there,” Huffman said. “He’s who we look to get us going down the field, to score points. He’s put a lot on his shoulders and I think Thad handles it well.”

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Senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis sees himself as his team’s leader, and said head coach David Cutcliffe has made him a better student of the game.

SCHEYER from page 12

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Junior Jon Scheyer moved to point guard with 12 games left in 2008-09.

portant responsibility as a playmaker, deciding whether to find an open teammate or opt for the shot himself.

“It’s not strictly ‘Give the ball to G and spread out,’” Scheyer said. “[Henderson] wanted to take those shots and he was in a position to do so, just like Kyle [Singler] and myself were at times last year. But Kyle and I, at the end of games, you know, the ball should be in our hands, and that’s what we want…. I can’t remember how many times, as a kid, I’ve dreamed about a hitting a shot like that.”

In those dreams, of course, the ball always went in and Duke always won. After a summer of improving shot mechanics, perfecting ball handling and setting the Blue Devils’ tone, Scheyer will have the chance to lead his teammates— and perhaps make some of those visions become realities.

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Defender Darrius Barnes has played every minute this season for the New England Revolution of the MLS.

of the Heisman Trophy in 1998.

“I had an opportunity to come in and play right away because of certain injuries and the team’s need, so I was able to come in and fill that spot,” Barnes said.

“I guess I’m surprised with how much I’ve played thus far, but I’m not really surprised that I’m playing. That’s always something that I’ve known I’ve had the ability to do.”

Heaps has helped Barnes make the transition to professional life, showing him how to be successful both on and off the field. Having an established veteran to help him—not to mention a familiar face in former Duke teammate Michael Videira—has facilitated Barnes’ acclimation to life in the MLS.

As the season progresses, he is growing more accustomed to the style of play in the professional league, which is not only faster than the ACC, but also more physical.

“I love it,” Barnes said of the physical nature of the MLS. “As a defender, you always like being physical a little bit and kind of getting underneath the forwards’ skins.”

But Barnes is on good terms with at least one opposing striker—although for the time being, they have no chance of playing against each other. He and Grella talk regularly, keeping tabs on each other’s professional careers.

While Barnes may one day join Grella in England, he is perfectly happy playing in Boston.

“I can’t ask for anything more,” Barnes said. “I’m living the dream up here playing, doing what I love to do.”

BEACH from page 4 can help me achieve my ultimate goals outside of athletics and outside of school.... I’m going to explore the liberal arts curriculum and a wide array of things.”

In the long term, Beach’s goal is to become the CEO of USA Track & Field, the sport’s governing body. He hopes to use the position to help track and field gain popularity and influence in a country dominated by football, basketball and baseball.

His dream has already taken a few steps toward becoming a reality, as the current CEO invited Beach to shadow him for a day at USA national trials in Eugene, Oregon, at the end of June.

However, Beach recognizes that interests change, and dreams fade. Part of the value of a Duke education to him is its practicality, especially if he decides to pursue a career outside the athletic world.

“I really feel that [a Duke education] gives any future employer the idea that you can handle a rigorous

“[Shawn Wilbourn] has that drive to be the best. Not just the best in the ACC or the very best in the country, but the best, period.”

— Curtis Beach education,” Beach said, “and that you’re able to push yourself very, very hard, not just athletically but academically, and that you care about your future outside of athletics. Track aside, that is a very big reason in why I picked Duke.”

Beach’s summer is filled with his final meets before putting on a Duke jersey, but in between he plans to train in preparation for making the transition to the college decathlon in the fall.

The differences between the high school and collegiate events include heavier throwing implements and higher hurdles.

“Curtis, fortunately, has had some experience with the heavier weights—not a lot, but a little bit,” Wilbourn said. “The high school shot put weighs 12 pounds, and the college shot put weighs 16 pounds… so we’ll gradually work him up to that 16-pound shot.

He has to get stronger, and there are some technical issues in the throws, but as the throws improve we should see a big jump in the scoring.”

Wilbourn hopes for Beach to be competitive starting this winter in the heptathlon, the indoor relative to the decathlon, and to compete in the ACC and NCAA meets in both the indoor season as well as the outdoor decathlon come spring. Ogilvie, though, says that a primary concern is keeping Beach injury-free throughout the demanding training of a decathlete.

If they can keep him healthy, Beach’s future coaches are confident that he will be successful. While he might be driven to over-train, Beach isn’t known to come up short in effort.

“He’s an extremely focused and motivated guy,” said Ogilvie. “He doesn’t just want to be the best in New Mexico or the best in college—he wants to be the best in the world.

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M. LACROSSE from page 11

THOMAS from page 13

Blue Devils held higher and higher expectations for themselves every year.

But a national championship banner has yet to hang on the fences of Koskinen Stadium, and that mising title still stings McFadyen.

“We went to four Final Fours,” McFadyen said. “But I would’ve liked to put one away and win the last game of the season to get the national championship.”

On an individual level, both McFadyen and Ross accumulated various personal honors to match the success of the squad.

Perhaps the most impressive achievement is Ross’s NCAA record of 72 career wins, supported by three All-America awards.

McFadyen was named to the ACC-All-Academic team in 2007.

Both players were excited about having the unique ability to extend their careers.

“Everyone wishes that somehow this could be a life and a career,” Ross said. “When we were younger we didn’t think there would be any opportunity to play after college, so it’s exciting to be able to play.”

McFadyen echoed Ross’s sentiment about the opportunity to play professionally.

“There are a lot of great players who play in the MLL currently,” McFadyen said. “Just getting drafted for me was a big surprise. So if I can go out, have a good time, and do anything positive to help win a couple games for my team, that would be a great contribution to the Bayhawks.”

As these stalwarts of Duke lacrosse continue with their professional careers, they have left a sturdy program behind.

“We hope that we have put the team on the road to a championship,” Ross said “Hopefully we set the stage for one in a couple of years.”

As Thomas developed in that nurturing environment for her first two years, she often showed flashes of brilliance. Against North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium last season, she dominated the second half and overtime, finishing with 19 points and several clutch plays.

All that remains for the junior is to take that crucial next step, one of the most daunting in sports—from displaying occasional greatness to performing at that high level every night.

“Once you’ve touched upon that ability to take over a game, I think you get hungrier on a consistent basis, and that’s where she is,” McCallie said. “Now it’s a matter of not necessarily taking over every game, but being ready, able, willing and knowing what you have to do at the time.

Because taking over a game can be scoring, passing, defense—it can be a variety of things.”

Such knowledge comes only with maturity and experience. Through the prep ranks and in her first two seasons at Duke, Thomas has acquired plenty of both and knows well that she will have to accept her new responsibilities.

“I’m just going to be more of a leader,” she said. “I’m more experienced, there are no sophomore or freshman excuses anymore. I know how things are supposed to be done here…. More is going to be expected of me now.”

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SAM SCHEFT (TOP), COURTNEY DOUGLAS (BOTTOM)/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTOS

Brad Ross (top) and Ryan McFadyen (bottom) were drafted by the Toronto Nationals and Washington Bayhawks, respectively.

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Attention, Class of 2013: The sky is falling As both a graduate student and an alumnus of this fine university, I like to pretend that I’m above the filthy, teeming masses.

Just so we’re clear: When I say filthy, teeming masses, I mean undergraduates. And before you argue with me, I have one word for you: Tailgate. And before you call me a hypocrite when you see me in the Blue Zone (please, please, the Blue Zone) this fall, you should be aware that, as a medical Alex student, I go to Tailgate strictly to examine the adolescent in his natural environment so that I can better treat him in the future. Or maybe it’s because I’m desperately trying to relive my undergraduate days. It’s hard to remember sometimes.

Anyway, as I address you, the aforementioned masses,

Fanaroff

from up in my Ivory Tower, I have just two comments.

First, I would kick any one of you right off this campus if I could replace you with John Wall or Gerald Henderson. But you knew that already. I might as well tell you I’d replace a warm puddle of vomit with filet mignon, or that I’d replace Ninth Street with Franklin Street. It’s not personal, just a fact.

Second, the sky is falling.

Of course I’m referring to Duke Basketball. What else could possibly be so important?

If any of you, members of the Class of 2013, are like me, you came to Duke almost entirely because you love basketball. You had some vague idea of “getting a worldclass education,” but you had no idea what that entailed, and you generally used it as an answer when people asked you why you chose Duke because you didn’t think they’d believe you when you told them that you, a gan-

gly kid from the suburbs, actually came to Duke for the same reason as Kyle Singler.

But in your head, you didn’t envision sitting in a 300-person lecture hall, or even sitting out on the quad wearing a tweed blazer with suede arm patches and an Oxford shirt looking totally collegiate. Instead, you envisioned Final-Four-watching parties in Cameron, National Championship celebrations on the Quad, and at least one giant bench bonfire every year.

But of course, none of that is going to happen. After all, Henderson left, and Wall never came, and now Mike Krzyzewski is skipping town to coach the Los Angeles Lakers. And no, it’s not a four-year-old rumor—it’s a new rumor, dating from the June 19 issue of the Racine (Wisconsin) Journal Times (which is where I always go for my Duke Basketball news).

Gery Woelfel, the distributor of the rumor, says his source “usually hits home runs” and that Lakers star Kobe Bryant “will definitely go to bat” in order to bring Coach K to Hollywood.

This is troubling on two levels. First, Woelfel is mixing baseball imagery into a basketball story with impunity. Not cool. Second, Coach K is leaving! The sky is falling!

Even if this amounts to nothing—Krzyzewski has made no mention of the Lakers job, including in an interview with The Chronicle June 15—it makes you wonder. What if Coach K does leave, not now but three or 10 years from now? What if the basketball program never wins another National Championship or goes to another Final Four?

When you decided to come to Duke, the nearly $200,000 pricetag paid for more than four years of tuition plus fees. It also bought you a lifetime of Blue Devil Basketball fan-hood. You can’t wriggle out of that one. But what if the team you get doesn’t look like the team you bought? What if it’s less successful? What if it’s not coached by a legend? What if the columnist writing about it asks another rhetorical question?

Well, hold your head high, because the sky isn’t falling. Coach K could leave, the team could miss out on the next 50 Final Fours, UNC could win the next five national championships and Duke Basketball would still be worth rooting for.

It would still be a team of good kids who play hard and generally enjoy being college students. They would still play in a beautiful old barn, where five or six times during your four years as a student it will get so loud that you won’t be able to hear yourself scream and the goosebumps will pop up on your arms and you’ll be convinced the whole place is about to come down on top of you and you won’t even care one bit.

So here’s a third comment tossed down from my Ivory Tower: Get ready. Don’t agonize over recruits and coaches and Signing Day and the future. Enjoy your four years in Cameron.

Alex Fanaroff is a third-year medical student and former sports managing editor.

MAYA ROBINSON/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

Kyle Singler is just one of the reasons Duke Basketball is worth rooting for.

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