Paden Duke
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- Birth Date:
- 12/9/1997
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- Height:
- 5'11
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- Weight:
- 165
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- Hometown:
- Memphis, TN
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- Year:
- Sophomore
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- High School:
- MHEA
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- Events:
- Mid-Distance Freestyle
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- Major:
- Undecided
Bio
2017-18: CSCAA Scholar All-America. 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Men's & Women's At-Large Teams, selected by CoSIDA. 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Men's and Women's At-Large teams as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. During the 2017-18 campaign, Duke recorded a season-best time of 9:54.24 in the 1000 yard free at the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships. Other notable swims for the sophomore include a third-place finish in the 200-meter freestyle in the team's quad meet against Mars Hill, Milligan, and Warren Wilson on Nov. 4. His season-best time in 500-yard freestyle 4:50.70 at the NSU Shark Invitational, which held some of the top competition between nationally-ranked schools in all of D2.
Duke, along with Golf's Anthony Marcinelli in 2018, became the first male student-athletes to be selected at-large All-America since 2007 when Preston Sneed of the Tennis team became the first ever male to do so in the history of C-N during the D2 era.
2016-17: Finished in the top 16 in the 1650 free at the BMC Championships...Earned a spot in the top 24 in the 1000 free and 500 free at conference.
High School: Was a sectional qualifier and a Tennessee state qualifier.
Personal: Son of Kenneth and Cherry Duke...Born December 9th, 1997...Undecided on a major.
News mentions
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Day one of the Bluegrass Mountain Championships placed both the Carson-Newman swims in third place in the team rankings at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center.
MILLIGAN, Tenn. - Both Carson-Newman men's and women's swim teams collected first-place finishes on Saturday evening in a Quad meet which featured Mars Hill, Milligan and Warren Wilson.
Fort Lauderdale, FL – The Carson-Newman men’s swim team currently sits in second-place after completing its five events in day one of the 2017 NSU Shark Invitational.
Lawrence, Kan. – Sophomore Caleb Howell led all Carson-Newman swimmers after placing 10th in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) National Collegiate Open Water Championship.