AMES, Iowa – South Dakota women's swimming and diving team picked up three race victories during Friday's dual with Iowa State of the Big 12 held at Beyer Pool.
The Coyotes won the opening relay, the 400 medley relay, while also receiving individual wins from Gabbie Ahrendt and Grace Schultz during its 179-119 setback to the Cyclones.
South Dakota came away with a total of eight runner-up finishes and 13 third-place efforts during the dual.
Ahrendt, a sophomore, clocked 1:56.12 to claim the 200 freestyle while she also placed third (58.78) in 100 butterfly in a race where teammate Sara Mayer was second in 58.00.
Schultz, a sophomore, touched the wall first in the 100 backstroke in 58.51.
Emily Kahn and Emily DiProspero each claimed a pair of runner-up finishes while Mayer, Samantha Mersnick and Dylan Hogenson also produced second-place efforts.
Kahn, a senior, was clocked in 24.07 in the 50 free and 53.67 in the 100 free while DiProspero, a freshman, finished in 10:38.77 in the 1000 free and 5:13.91 in the 500 free.
Ahrendt and Kahn both swam on both relays during the dual for South Dakota as the pair teamed with Mayer and Taylor Buhr to win the 400 medley relay while Christina Spomer and Carson White swam on the runner-up 200 free relay quartet with Kahn and Ahrendt.
Mersnick, a senior, led the Coyote divers during the meet with a runner-up on the one-meter board and a third-place finish on the three-meter board.
Hogenson, a freshman, finished second in the 400 IM while teammate Madeline Schrank was third.
Schrank, a freshman, added another third in the 200 fly while Buhr, a junior, also had two third place finishes in the meet coming in the 100 breast and 200 breast.
Third-place efforts also came from Ashley Koenig (1000 free), Skyler Leverenz (200 free), Anna Balfanz (100 back), Spomer (50 free), Madilyn Gehrke (100 free), Camilla Brogger-Andersen (500 free) and Mady Schmidt (1 Meter Dive).
Both the women and men's teams will take to the pool in the two-day Kansas Tri-Duals in Lawrence, Kansas on Oct. 25-26.
