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Swimming and Diving Jason Cowley, USD Sports Information

Fifteen wins highlight weekend in pool

S&D: Coyote Invite

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 (3rd, 1:00.19), Isabelle Davenport (7th, 1:00.55) and Isabel Fairbanks (9th, 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.
 
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Players Mentioned

Elbert Chuang

Elbert Chuang

Breast
Sophomore
Katie Coleman

Katie Coleman

Free/Back
Junior
Abby Hollub

Abby Hollub

Back/Breast/IM
Senior
Kaitlyn Housenga

Kaitlyn Housenga

Fly/IM
Sophomore
Duncan Johnson

Duncan Johnson

IM
Sophomore
Nick Kopp

Nick Kopp

IM/Breast
Junior
Charlie Mechling

Charlie Mechling

Free/IM
Junior
Sabrina Sabadeanu

Sabrina Sabadeanu

Back/IM
Junior
Sarah Schank

Sarah Schank

Diving
Senior
Nathan Spencer

Nathan Spencer

Middle Distance
Junior
Myles Taylor

Myles Taylor

Back/Fly
Senior
Wyatt Thompson

Wyatt Thompson

Free
Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Elbert Chuang

Elbert Chuang

Sophomore
Breast
Katie Coleman

Katie Coleman

Junior
Free/Back
Abby Hollub

Abby Hollub

Senior
Back/Breast/IM
Kaitlyn Housenga

Kaitlyn Housenga

Sophomore
Fly/IM
Duncan Johnson

Duncan Johnson

Sophomore
IM
Nick Kopp

Nick Kopp

Junior
IM/Breast
Charlie Mechling

Charlie Mechling

Junior
Free/IM
Sabrina Sabadeanu

Sabrina Sabadeanu

Junior
Back/IM
Sarah Schank

Sarah Schank

Senior
Diving
Nathan Spencer

Nathan Spencer

Junior
Middle Distance
Myles Taylor

Myles Taylor

Senior
Back/Fly
Wyatt Thompson

Wyatt Thompson

Sophomore
Free