{"id":490616,"date":"2026-02-19T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:46:08","slug":"womens-soccer-recognized-at-duke-mens-basketball-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490616\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Soccer Recognized at Duke Men\u2019s Basketball Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 The Duke women&#8217;s soccer team was recognized this week during a Duke men&#8217;s basketball contest against Syracuse inside Cameron Indoor Stadium.\u00a0 The Blue Devils were honored for a stellar 2025 campaign, in which Duke made its second-straight NCAA College Cup appearance.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn his first season as the head coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/kieran-hall\/5203\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5203\" target=\"_blank\">Kieran Hall<\/a> guided Duke to a 17-5-1 overall ledger and 7-3-0 ACC mark.\u00a0 Hall became just the third head coach in NCAA Division I history to lead his squad to the NCAA College Cup in his first season at the helm.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDuke advanced to the NCAA College Cup for the sixth time in program history, joining the Blue Devil teams from 1992, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2024.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBoth <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/kat-rader\/21884\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21884\" target=\"_blank\">Kat Rader<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/mia-minestrella\/21881\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21881\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Minestrella<\/a> earned United Soccer Coaches All-America honors along with College Sports Communicators Academic All-America accolades.\u00a0 A total of four Blue Devils \u2013 Rader, Minestrella, <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/carina-lageyre\/21878\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21878\" target=\"_blank\">Carina Lageyre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/cameron-roller\/21886\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"21886\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Roller<\/a> \u2013 earned United Soccer Coaches All-Region recognition as well.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Blue Devils closed the season winning 11 out of their final 13 contests.\u00a0 Duke outscored its opponents in the NCAA Tournament by a 9-1 ledger and was the only team in the NCAA Tournament to not allow a goal over the first four contests.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTo stay up to date with Blue Devils women&#8217;s soccer, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching &#8220;DukeWSOC&#8221;.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#GoDuke<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 The Duke women&#8217;s soccer team was recognized this week during a Duke men&#8217;s basketball contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-490616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}