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Awards and recognition:

• 2004 all-around ACC Excellence in Athletics Cup
• Six ACC Players of the Year: Ryan Blaum, men's golf; Katie Chrest, women's lacrosse; Monique Currie, women's basketball; Matt Danowski, men's lacrosse; Brittany Lang, women's golf; J.J. Redick, men's basketball
• ACC Offensive Player of the Year: Casey McCluskey, women's soccer
• ACC Defensive Player of the Year: Shelden Williams, men's basketball
• Three National Coaches of the Year: Dan Brooks, women's golf; Rod Myers, men's golf; Mike Pressler, men's lacrosse
• Four ACC Coaches of the Year: Kevin Jermyn, cross country; Kerstin Kimel, women's lacrosse; Rod Myers, men's golf; Mike Pressler, men's lacrosse
• NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship: Michael Hatch, men's track; Stephanie Istvan, volleyball
• All-America selections: 30, 13 of whom had GPAs above 3.2
• All-ACC selections: 45

Highlights:

• The women's golf team won its third NCAA championship in Sunriver, Ore. Sophomore Anna Grzebien became the third Blue Devil to win the NCAA Individual Crown.
• Six Duke athletes won individual Atlantic Coast Conference championships: Ryan Blaum, men's golf; Frank Cornely, wrestling; Brittany Lang, women's golf; Sally Meyerhoff, cross country; Shannon Rowbury, track & field; and Liz Wort, track & field.
• Three teams earned No. 1 national rankings during their seasons - women's basketball, women's golf and men's soccer. Six others achieved No. 5 or better: men's basketball (2), field hockey (2), women's lacrosse (2), men's lacrosse (2), men's tennis (4), cross country (5).
• For the 16th consecutive year, Duke led the ACC with 369 Academic Honor Roll honorees, who earned a grade point average of 3.0 or better, and with 12 Academic All-Americans, six in field hockey alone. Duke had the highest academic progress rate in the ACC and third-highest in Division I, with 92 percent of student-athletes graduating—100 percent of football players.
• With six top-five and 11 top-10 finishes, the Blue Devils finished fifth in the 2005 United States Sports Academy Division I Directors' Cup, Duke's best ever.
• The Blue Devils won five ACC tournaments and three ACC regular season titles in men's basketball, women's golf, women's cross country, women's lacrosse and men's golf.
• Fifteen teams competed in NCAA Tournament action with men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, men's soccer and field hockey teams advancing to Final Fours. Women's cross country, field hockey and men's lacrosse were runners-up.

Appointment:

• Dan Colella, head swimming & diving coach