Christian Duke (born June 5, 1991) is an American former professional soccer player.
40-481: Duke spent his entire college career at the University of San Diego . After making only two appearances in 2009, Duke made 17 appearances in his sophomore year in 2010 and tallied two assists on his way to being named All-WCC honorable mention. In 2011, he made 18 appearances and tallied four assists. In his senior year in 2012, Duke made 23 appearances and was named All-West Coast Conference Second Team despite finishing
80-532: A co-educational high school. The class of 1971 was the first co-educational graduating class in UHS history. In 1986 the name of the school was changed to University of San Diego High School (USDHS). As of 2005 over 10,000 students had graduated from the school. Students at Uni were also afforded opportunities to participate in a wide variety of extracurricular activities including fine arts, athletics, clubs, service organizations and leadership roles. The athletic teams were
120-518: A stretch of land known as "Alcalá Park," named for Didacus of Alcalá . In 1954, the College for Men and the School of Law opened. These two schools originally occupied Bogue Hall on the same site of University High School, which would later become the home of the University of San Diego High School . Starting in 1954, Alcalá Park also served as the diocesan chancery office and housed the episcopal offices, until
160-587: Is a private coeducational Catholic college preparatory day school in San Diego, California , serving grades 9–12. It is operated by the Diocese of San Diego . In 1970, Cathedral Girls High School, a girls’ school dating back to 1939 and located in downtown San Diego, merged with the all-boys University High School ( UHS or Uni ) founded in 1957. In 1971, the newly constituted and expanded University of San Diego High School graduated its first coeducational class. Uni or
200-484: Is now home to administrative offices, meeting and event spaces, and a restaurant and wine bar, La Gran Terazza. In 2022, students began taking classes at the new Knauss Center for Business Education, a 120,000-square-foot complex that serves as an innovation and collaboration ecosystem for business students. In the spring of 2022, USD's total enrollment was 9,041 undergraduate, graduate, paralegal and law students from 85 countries and 50 US states. Alcalá Park sits atop
240-1175: Is the largest high school in the Diocese of San Diego. The 54-acre campus includes ten major buildings including a chapel, theater, and gymnasium. CCHS offers Advanced Placement classes in art history , biology , calculus AB & BC , chemistry , English language , English literature , environmental science , Macroeconomics , Physics C , Spanish language , studio art , US history , US government and World history . Dual-enrollment classes with MiraCosta College and Mesa College are also offered, as well as honors courses. Visual and performing arts classes at CCHS include drama and advanced drama 1–2, multimedia authoring 1–2, CCTV broadcast and video journalism, journalism, photography, digital imaging, art 1–2, art 3–4, ceramics, 3D design, introduction to guitar, choral music, concert and pep band, AP art history and AP studio art. After-school courses in band, journalism and Yearbook are also available. CCHS offers more than 80 extracurricular activities including music, drama, publications, and robotics. Schoolwide masses are held on various feasts and solemnities of
280-542: The Coronado Islands and La Jolla are visible from the campus. In February 2022, Travel+Leisure named USD campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States, and Best Choice Schools ranked it the most beautiful urban campus in the United States. Though a Catholic university, the school is no longer governed directly by the Diocese of San Diego . Today, a lay board of trustees governs
320-664: The Kansas City Comets of the Major Arena Soccer League . Duke continues to coach in the greater Kansas City area with the private coaching service, CoachUp . This biographical article related to an American soccer midfielder is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University of San Diego The University of San Diego ( USD ) is a private Catholic research university in San Diego, California , United States. Chartered in July 1949 as
360-565: The Universidad de Alcalá in Spain. The campus is located approximately two miles north of downtown San Diego, on the north crest of Mission Valley in the community of Linda Vista . From the westernmost edges of Alcalá Park the communities of Mission Hills , Old Town , Point Loma , Ocean Beach , Bay Park, Mission Beach and Pacific Beach can be seen. Also, the Pacific Ocean, San Diego Bay ,
400-521: The University of San Diego High School ( USDHS ), was located in the Linda Vista neighborhood of San Diego. Construction began on CCHS at its current location on Del Mar Heights Road in Carmel Valley in 1999. In 2005, the school including all faculty, administration, and students, moved to that campus and changed its name to Cathedral Catholic High School. Cathedral Catholic High School is accredited by
440-725: The West Coast Conference for most sports. Athletic facilities for the school include: USD has hosted NCAA Tournament events in men's and women's soccer, as well as men's and women's tennis. Additionally, between 2001 and 2003, the Jenny Craig Pavilion played host to the West Coast Conference Basketball Championships, as well as in 2008. Torero stadium has also played host to the 2012 Women's Soccer College Cup. University of San Diego High School Cathedral Catholic High School ( CCHS )
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#1732851279791480-645: The Church throughout the school year. In addition to the schoolwide liturgies , daily mass and lauds (morning prayer) are held each morning before school in the St. Therese Chapel on campus. Cathedral Catholic has the following sports: Cathedral Catholic's mascot is the Don . The Dons maintain a longstanding rivalry with the Catholic all-male high school St. Augustine , known as the Saints;
520-507: The College for Men and School of Law. The College for Women opened its doors to its first class of students in 1952. The Most Reverend Charles F. Buddy, D.D. , then bishop of the Diocese of San Diego and Reverend Mother Rosalie Hill, RSCJ , a Superior Vicaress of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus , chartered the institution from resources drawn from their respective organizations on
560-611: The Dons, and all students and alumni were referred to as Dons, with the motto "once a Don, always a Don". In 1998 USDHS was honored by the United States Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School . The Linda Vista campus held 1,450 students. In 1999, the Diocese of San Diego proposed a plan to relocate the school to a larger campus. Construction was begun on a brand new campus in a location in Carmel Valley. The new school
600-725: The Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Degheri Alumni Center. As a result, USD has been able to host the West Coast Conference (WCC) basketball tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2008, and hosted international functions such as the Kyoto Laureate Symposium at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice and at USD's Shiley Theatre. Shiley's gift has provided the university with some additional, and more advanced, teaching laboratories than it had previously. In 2005,
640-597: The Linda Vista campus was sold to the Irvine Company for development. The site is now the home of a 500+ unit apartment complex called Carmel Pacific Ridge. The CCHS campus in Carmel Valley opened in 2005. It is designed to resemble a Tuscan village. The founding principal was Mike Deely, himself a graduate of USDHS; he served as principal until 2015. In 2021 the diocese appointed the school's first female principal, Marlena Conroy. At approximately 1600 students, CCHS
680-543: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research & Development Survey (HERD)).” The School of business was recently renamed to Knauss School of Business after Don Knauss announced to increase the philanthropic giving to the university to $ 50 million as an investment in educating ethical and compassionate business leaders USD was ranked 47th in the WSJ/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in
720-521: The School of Law are the oldest academic divisions at USD; the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies is the university's newest school. USD offers an honors program at the undergraduate level, with approximately 300 students enrolled annually. USD has a Carnegie Classification of R2- Doctoral University: High Research Activity. Carnegie gives this ranking to “institutions that awarded at least 20 research/scholarship doctoral degrees and had at least $ 5 million in total research expenditures (as reported through
760-650: The Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. USD has 89 undergraduate and graduate programs, and enrolls approximately 9,073 undergraduate, paralegal, graduate and law students. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The San Diego Toreros compete in NCAA Division I ( FCS ) as a member of the West Coast Conference . Charters were granted in 1949 for the San Diego College for Women and San Diego University, which included
800-519: The U.S. for engineering schools where doctorates are not offered, and the #1 Catholic Graduate Nursing School in the nation. The Knauss School of Business was ranked the second-highest undergraduate business school in California, according to the 2022 ranking from Poets & Quants for undergraduate business schools. The School of Business has ranked No. 1 in the nation for two years in a row on College Factual’s ranking of Best Real Estate Colleges in
840-484: The U.S., an annual ranking that rates the top 500 universities in the country. USD is the youngest independent institution on the U.S. News & World Report list of top 100 universities in the United States. In 2021, University of San Diego was ranked tied for 88th in the "National Universities". U.S. News & World Report also ranked the University of San Diego's undergraduate Engineering program tied for 13th in
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#1732851279791880-691: The United States and No. 13 of Best Communications Schools in the United States. In February 2022, Travel+Leisure named USD campus as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States. In 2021, The Princeton Review ranked the University of San Diego 6th in Most Beautiful Campus, 8th in Best Quality of life, 14th in Most Popular Study Abroad Program, and 18th in Green Colleges. In 2014, University of San Diego
920-660: The Western Catholic Education Association (WCEA), the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and holds membership with the College Board. University High School (known as UHS or Uni) was founded in 1957 as a Catholic college preparatory high school for boys. It was located in the San Diego neighborhood of Linda Vista , on a site overlooking Mission Bay to the west and Mission Valley to
960-533: The college came in the form of multimillion-dollar gifts from weight-loss tycoon Jenny Craig , inventor Donald Shiley , investment banker and alumnus Bert Degheri, and an additional gift of $ 50 million Mrs. Kroc left the School of Peace Studies upon her death. These gifts helped make possible, respectively, the Jenny Craig Pavilion (an athletic arena), the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology,
1000-444: The diocese moved to a vacated Benedictine convent that was converted to a pastoral center. In 1957, Immaculate Heart Major Seminary and St. Francis Minor Seminary were moved into their newly completed facility, now known as Maher Hall. The Immaculata Chapel, now no longer affiliated with USD, also opened that year as part of the seminary facilities. For nearly two decades, these schools co-existed on Alcalá Park. Immaculate Heart closed at
1040-520: The edge of a mesa overlooking Mission Bay and provides stunning panoramic views of San Diego. The philosophy of USD's founder and her fellow religious relied on the belief that studying in beautiful surroundings could improve the educational experience of students. Thus, the university's buildings are designed in a 16th-century Plateresque architecture, a style of the Spanish Renaissance , paying homage to both San Diego's Catholic heritage and
1080-405: The end of 1968, when its building was renamed De Sales Hall; St. Francis remained open until 1970, when it was transferred to another location on campus, leaving all of the newly named Bishop Leo T. Maher Hall to the newly merged co-educational University of San Diego in 1972. Since then, the university has grown quickly and has been able to increase its assets and academic programs. The student body,
1120-440: The final class of USDHS students, who had been freshmen at the time of the transition, graduated from CCHS. Cathedral Catholic continued all of the traditions from USDHS, including the Dons mascot for the athletic teams. The names of the yearbook (Presidio), newspaper (El Cid), and art/literary magazine (El Sol) were also preserved. The Dons Athletic Hall of Fame was moved to the gymnasium at CCHS. The statues and relics from
1160-453: The independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University (comprising the College for Men and School of Law ), the two institutions merged in 1972. The university includes the College of Arts and Sciences, Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, Division of Professional and Continuing Education, Knauss School of Business, School of Law, School of Leadership and Education Services (SOLES), and
1200-509: The local community, patrons, alumni, and many organizations have been integral to the university's development. Significant periods of expansion of the university, since the 1972 merger, occurred in the mid-1980s, as well as in 1998, when Joan B. Kroc , philanthropist and wife of McDonald's financier Ray Kroc , endowed USD with a gift of $ 25 million for the construction of the Institute for Peace & Justice. Other significant donations to
1240-487: The longest-serving principal of that school. He did not transition to CCHS but facilitated the move. The new campus was completed in summer of 2005, and USDHS officially shut down after the 2004–2005 school year. The new school opened as Cathedral Catholic High School in August 2005, with all the same faculty, administration, and the remaining three classes of students from USDHS (Classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008). On May 31, 2008,
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1280-530: The old campus, such as the Mary statue from the quad, were all moved to locations around the Cathedral Catholic campus. The dedicated walk of fame from the quad at Uni was originally proposed to be moved and installed on the quad of CCHS around a new memorial fountain. But due to deterioration and costly efforts, the stones were not brought to CCHS. Those who had names there were honored with a memorial display, which
1320-429: The south, across the street from the University of San Diego which had been founded in 1949. The first principal was Reverend Father James Cadden, a scholar of church history. For the first few years of the school's existence the faculty consisted entirely of ordained priests. Its sister-school Cathedral Girls High School had been founded in 1943 and was located on a downtown campus. In 1970 it merged with UHS to become
1360-679: The university expanded the Colachis Plaza from the Immaculata along Marian Way to the east end of Hall, which effectively closed the east end of the campus to vehicular traffic. That same year, the student body approved plans for a renovation and expansion of the Hahn University Center which began at the end of 2007. The new Student Life Pavilion (SLP) opened in 2009 and hosts the university's new student dining area(s), offices for student organizations and event spaces. The Hahn University Center
1400-497: The university's operations. However, the Bishop of San Diego, Robert W. McElroy , retains a seat as a permanent member and retains control of the school's designation of "Catholic." USD offers more than 80 degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. Students choose from undergraduate and graduate degree programs from the seven schools and college that comprise the University of San Diego: The College of Arts and Sciences and
1440-443: The year without a goal or an assist. On January 22, 2013, Duke was drafted 14th overall in the 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft by Sporting Kansas City . A month later, Duke signed his first professional contract with the club. Shortly after signing with Kansas City, Duke was loaned out to USL Pro affiliate club Orlando City for the 2013 season along with teammates Dom Dwyer , Jon Kempin and Yann Songo'o . On March 17, 2014, he
1480-465: Was assigned on loan to Oklahoma City Energy FC , before being recalled to the Sporting roster on June 4, 2014. After two seasons with Orange County SC , Duke returned to Kansas City on January 6, 2020, when he joined the now renamed Sporting Kansas City II . Following the 2021 season, Kansas City opted to decline their contract option on Duke. On February 23, 2022, Duke signed a one-year contract with
1520-467: Was hung in the USDHS Library at CCHS during the 50th Anniversary Celebration. Notable dedications for major Uni/CCHS contributors have been engraved into the stone benches and lamp posts around CCHS' quad as well. The Linda Vista campus was temporarily occupied by Notre Dame Academy from June 2005 to January 2006, while that school's new campus, also in the Carmel Valley area, was being completed. In 2008
1560-561: Was ranked the 482nd top college in the United States by Payscale and CollegeNet's Social Mobility Index college rankings. 18% of students are pell-grant eligible. In 2013, QS Global 200 Business Schools Report ranked USD's MBA program 59th in North America. The Toreros compete in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and are members of
1600-425: Was to have larger facilities to accommodate up to 2000 students, and host many extracurricular activities and sports such as football, swim/dive, water polo, basketball, sailing, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, softball and baseball. The majority of these activities had been holding practices and events outside of the Linda Vista campus due to the lack of facilities. Dr. Richard Kelly was the principal from 1991 to 2004,
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