MACOMB, Ill.—South Dakota senior
Kimmy Peterson and junior
Britny Kerr brought home a pair of vertical jump titles on Thursday at the 2019 Summit League Championships held at Hanson Field.
Peterson survived a cold, three-hour long vaulting competition that included a multi-bar jump-off to win it all in 13 feet, 6 ½ inches. She initially tied with UND's Kyley Foster, with both making the bar on the same attempt and having an equal number of misses. The pair went into a sudden-death jump-off with Peterson eventually coming out victorious, extending USD's streak of consecutive Summit outdoor pole vault titles to six. Joining her on the podium for the pole vault was freshman
Deidra Marrison in third place with a height of 13-2 ½. Junior
Helen Falda took fourth as USD tallied 21 points in the event.
Kerr tallied a first-attempt make of 5-5 in the high jump to best the competition. While she's earned all-Summit honors numerous times throughout her Coyote career, this marks her first Summit League title. Kerr also made the finals for tomorrow's 100-meter hurdles. Junior
Samara Spencer tied for fourth in the high jump competition with a height of 5-3.
The Coyote distance crew packed in 25 points in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Senior
Madeline Huglen and sophomore
Jonna Bart earned all-Summit League honors. Huglen finished runner-up for the third straight year after she crossed the finish line in 10:42.55 while Bart clocked 10:51.87 for third. Junior
Kianna Stewart finished fourth in 10:58.96, while sophomore
Morgan Lawler took fifth in 11:03.40. Sophomore
Kelsi Kearney rounded out the group in seventh with a time of 11:24.92. The times were personal bests for Lawler and Kearney.
Senior
Joe Reagan entered the long jump competition without a mark this spring, but came away in second place after leaping 24-0 ¾. He earns all-Summit honors in the event for the fourth-straight year.
A redshirt-freshman out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
Abby Ripperda earned all-Summit League honors in the 10,000-meter run. She crossed the finish line in 36:15.30 for third place. Senior
Megan Billington took fourth in 36:35.73 and sophomore
Laura Nelson was seventh in 37:03.76.
Leading the way in the men's shot put competition, senior
Ben Hammer launched the shot a personal best 61-3 for fourth place. He moves up one spot to second all-time on USD's charts. Junior
Kino Dunkley took eighth in 52-1 ¾. On the women's side, sophomore
Callie Henrich placed sixth in 46-0 ¾.
Senior
Haley Bruggeman tallied 4,807 points over the two-day heptathlon competition to place fifth. Her top event of the weekend was the 100-meter hurdles, with her time of 14.52 seconds racking up 906 points.
Sophomore
Cole Streich clocked a personal best of 9:32.47 in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase to finish seventh.
The Coyotes enter the final day of competition in second place on the women's side with 94.5 points after nine scored events. USD's women trail leader North Dakota State by 50 points, but also have a 50-point advantage on third-place North Dakota. The Coyote men are tied for third with 23 points after seven events.
The following student-athletes qualified for Friday's finals from the today's preliminary races.
Women's 100 meters:
Tasheka Gordon (11.99w),
Karina Dufoe (11.99),
Samara Spencer (12.12)
Men's 100 meters:
Joe Reagan (10.84w),
Conor Penington (10.84w)
Women's 100-meter hurdles:
Britny Kerr (14.29),
Carmen Bermudez (14.44w)
Men's 110-meter hurdles:
Habib Jallow (15.00w),
Dennis Parsley (15.06w)
Women's 200 meters:
Karina Dufoe (24.60),
Tasheka Gordon (25.19w)
Men's 200 meters:
Collin Brison (22.10w)
Women's 400 meters:
Danielle Thompson (57.15)
Men's 400 meters:
Aleksi Rosler (48.61),
Brennan Schmidt (49.07)
Women's 400-meter hurdles:
Holly Gerberding (1:02.66),
Haley Bruggeman (1:03.80)
Men's 400-meter hurdles:
Habib Jallow (55.08),
Zach Renken (55.12)
Women's 800 meters:
Macy Heinz (2:11.21),
Mallory Fine (2:14.58)
Men's 800 meters:
Eldon Warner (1:52.75)
South Dakota wraps up competition at the Summit League Championships on Friday with competition resuming at 11 a.m.
