SIOUX FALLS – South Dakota swimming and diving team came away with 15 victories over the course of the two-day Coyote Invite held Friday and Saturday at the Midco Aquatic Center.
The Coyotes won a combined (men and women) 10 individual events and five relays while also having eight new marks on the school's top-10 lists.
Double individual winners over the course of the two-day, 21-event (each) meet were
Sarah Schank,
Caden DeLay and
Jared Thorson.
Schank, a senior, continues to rack up the victories in the one-meter and three-meter diving competitions and the Coyote Invite was no different for the three-time Summit League Female Diver of the Week. She posted scores of 256.15 on the one-meter and 287.40 on the three-meter.
Thorson, a senior, swam to wins in the 100 butterfly in 50.84 and the 50 free in 21.40.
DeLay, a freshman, won the 100 breaststroke in 56.95, good for ninth on the school's top-10 list and came back to add a win in the 200 breaststroke in 2:08.27.
Picking up individual wins for South Dakota were
Jordyn Schnell (50 free),
Duncan Johnson (200 IM),
Kristen Quigley (200 back), and
Elbert Chuang (100 IM).
DeLay would add a pair of relay triumphs to his weekend, two of the four relay wins for the men's team.
Shane Sackett and
Wyatt Thompson would also swim on a pair of relay winning quartets.
DeLay joined Sackett,
Duncan Johnson and
Tate Leverenz in winning the 200 free relay in 1:26.23. DeLay would swim the breaststroke part of the winning 200 medley relay quartet that included
Henry Simpson (back),
Nick Kopp (fly) and Sackett (free). The Coyote men would also swim to relay wins in the 800 free (
Nathan Spencer,
Stephen Johnson, Thompson and
Myles Taylor) along with the 400 free (Thompson,
Griffin Wolner,
Brady Torborg and
Charlie Bean).
The women's foursome of
Hannah Tietjen,
Charlie Mechling,
Abby Hollub and
Kaitlyn Housenga would win the 800 free relay in 7:55.84.
Four Coyotes broke into the school's top-10 charts in the 100 IM,
Elbert Chuang (second, 52.00),
Cassie Ketterling (3
rd, 1:00.19),
Isabelle Davenport (7
th, 1:00.55) and
Isabel Fairbanks (9
th, 1:01.21) while
Sabrina Sabadeanu moved up to sixth at 1:00.41.
Schnell now sits eighth all-time in the 50 free while
Katie Coleman broke into the top-10 at No. 9 in the 100 butterfly. Freshman diver
Naomi Bingham posted a personal-best 243.25 on the one-meter and moved into 10th on the school's all-time chart.
This concludes the regular season for the swimming and diving team. Up next is the Summit League Championships, which run Feb. 20-23, at the Midco Aquatic Center in Sioux Falls.