ST. PAUL, Minn. – South Dakota men's and women's swimming and diving teams each came away victorious in Summit League duals on Friday against St. Thomas inside the AARC Pool and Aquatic Center.
 
The Coyote men won all 13 events contested and posted a 149-67 win while the Coyote women team had seven first place efforts and narrowly edged the Tommies 121-115.
 
On a big team night to open the 2022 portion of the schedule it was sophomore Stella Fairbanks who made the biggest, or shall we saw smallest, splash of the night.
 
Fairbanks won the one-meter diving competition with a score of 273.05, a new personal best, that is a NCAA Zone Qualifying Mark and moves her up to fifth on the school's all-time charts.
 
Charlie Bean, William Johnston and Mairead Powers each posted a pair of individual victories during the meet while Kayla Middaugh, Zachary Kopp, Jake Leichner, Sara Mayer, Emily Kahn, Jacob Won, Keegan Henning, Adam Fisher and Jack Berdahl also earned individual wins.
 
Bean, a senior, won the 200 free (1:43.98) and the 100 free (46.53) while Johnston, a senior, swept the two diving events, winning the one-meter with a new personal best of 254.00 and taking the three-meter event with a score of 272.20.
 
Powers, a freshman, won the 200 IM (2:12.03) and the 100 back (59.82) while fellow freshmen Mayer and Kahn won the 50 free (24.63) and 100 fly (57.86), respectively. Middaugh, a sophomore, won the three-meter diving event with a score of 252.75.
 
The Coyote women won the 400 medley relay as the team of Isabel Fairbanks, Shannon Banark, Mayer and Kahn swam 3:58.58.
 
Leichner, a senior and school record holder in the 200 IM, won his specialty in 1:57.81 while classmate Won led a 1-2-3 sweep in the 100 butterfly, touching first in 50.96.
 
Won also anchored the winning 400 free relay, joining Nathan Noll, Griffin Wolner and Mack Sathre in posting a 3:10.92.
 
Kopp, a junior, won the 50 free in 21.64, an event the Coyotes posted the top four times in. Kopp also swam on the other two winning relays, leading off the 200 free relay and anchoring the 400 medley relay. He joined Brady Torborg, Sather and Grant Wolner in the 200 free relay (1:26.16) and Fisher, Berdahl and Aidan Gantenbein in the 400 medley relay (3:27.78).
 
Fisher and Berdahl, a pair of freshmen, claimed victories in the 100 back (51.56) and 100 breast (57.73), respectively, while Henning, a sophomore, won the 500 free in 4:49.21.
 
Runner-up performances for the women came from Mayer (200 free), Fairbanks (200 IM), Middaugh (1 Meter Diving), Christina Spomer (50 free), Cassie Ketterling (two, 100 fly, 100 breast), Emily Johnson (100 free) and Leah Drengenberg (500 free).
 
The men's team received second-place efforts from Won (200 free), Henry Simpson (50 free), Sathre (100 fly) and Griffin Wolner (500 free).
 
The same two teams are back in the pool on Saturday for duals that start at 10 a.m.