VERMILLION, S.D. – South Dakota men's and women's swimming and diving teams came away with a split of a pair of Summit League duals with St. Thomas on Friday inside the DakotaDome Pool.
 
The Coyote women won 11 of the 13 events contested and came away a 159-84 winner while the Coyote men suffered a 138.5 to 90.5 setback.
 
Cassie Ketterling, Christina Spomer and Stella Fairbanks each claimed a pair of individual races during the meet while Zachary Kopp lowered a school record, twice, during the meet.
 
Ketterling, a fifth-year senior, won the 200 IM in 2:26.46 and the 100 fly in 1:05.48 while Spomer, a sophomore, claimed the 50 free in 26.97 and the 100 free in 59.89.
 
Ketterling and Spomer teamed with Grace Schultz and Taylor Buhr to win the 200 medley relay (2:00.73) to begin the dual. South Dakota's foursome of Skyler Leverenz, Carson White, Shannon Banark and Skylar Welle claimed the 200 free relay (1:51.09) to close out the dual.
 
Individual victories for the women's team came from Leverenz, a sophomore, in the 200 free (2:09.09), Lauren Van Fleet, a junior, in the 100 backstroke (1:06.46) and Maddie Grant, a junior, in the 400 free (4:44.10).
 
Fairbanks, a junior, claimed both diving events during the meet, scoring 249.75 on the three-meter and 259.28 on the one-meter.
 
Kopp, a senior, won the 50 free in 23.13 seconds, breaking his own school and DakotaDome Pool record from last season of 23.23. He would come back to leadoff a winning 200 free relay with a split of 23.12, lowering the record for the second time during the meet.
 
Jacob Ketterling, Cory Jacocks and Griffin Wolner joined Kopp on the 200 free relay that posted a time of 1:36.55 to close out the dual with a win. Earlier the quartet of Aidan Gantenbein, Caden Feit, Kopp and Alec Thomas won the 200 medley relay in 1:45.17.
 
Gantenbein won the 100 fly in 57.71 and Griffin Wolner touched the wall first in the 200 free in 1:58.12.
 
The women's team, now 13-6 in duals this season, posted a 1-2 finish in five events during the meet.
 
Runner-up finishes for the women came from Banark in the 50 free (28.21), White in the 100 free (1:01.02), Schultz in the 100 back (1:07.26), Kayla Middaugh in three-meter diving (232.28), Samantha Mersnick in one-meter diving (236.03) along with Taylor Buhr in the 100 breast (1:15.37).
 
Second-place efforts for the men's team, now 6-5 in duals, came from Feit in the 50 free (24.37) Ketterling in the 200 IM (2:14.81) and Griffin Wolner in the 400 free (4:19.80).