DES MOINES, Iowa—South Dakota senior sprinter Erin Kinney was victorious in the 100 meters and the Coyotes set three school relay records on Saturday at the 114th Drake Relays in Drake Stadium.
 
After posting the top preliminary time yesterday headed into today's final, Kinney edged out Kentucky's Victoria Perrow by one-thousandth of a second to win the women's 100-meter dash in 11.51 seconds. Kinney was also part of the Coyotes' 4x200-meter relay that captured a championship flag on Friday night.
 
South Dakota broke three school records across three different relays on Saturday. The Coyotes tallied five school records in all during the Drake Relays.
 
The men's 4x100-meter relay finished runner-up in the field with a record-setting time of 39.82 seconds. The quartet consisted of freshman Jaden Guthmiller, junior Thomas Nikkel, senior Ardell Inlay and senior Dylan Kautz. It's the fifth different quartet the Coyotes have put together in the event this spring.
 
The women's 4x400-meter relay of junior Anna Robinson, redshirt-junior Sara Reifenrath, senior Madison Jochum and senior Jacy Pulse broke South Dakota's week-old school record in the event. The quartet clocked 3:33.15 for runner-up in the invitational 4x400 race at the Drake Relays. Pulse split a 52.09-second anchor leg to move pass Utah for second in the race. South Dakota utilized Robinson, Pulse, Kinney and Reifenrath a week ago at the Mt. SAC Relays to clock the previous record of 3:34.44.
 
Earlier in the day, the women's sprint medley relay of Kinney, Reifenrath, Pulse and senior Ella Byers broke a 12-year-old school record with a clocking of 3:51.54. The relay consists of two 200-meter legs, a 400-meter leg and an 800-meter anchor carry. The quartet finished fourth in the Drake Relays field.
 
South Dakota also placed fourth in the men's sprint medley relay with a clocking of 3:25.41. The Coyotes' relay consisted of Nikkel, sophomore Mikael Grace, sophomore Mark Daley, and senior Luke Olson.
 
A severe thunderstorm interrupted the Drake Relays late afternoon and the men's championship pole vault competition was canceled mid-competition. Senior Marshall Faurot was leading the competition as the lone athlete to have cleared 17-3 ½ (5.27m) when action was postponed and then canceled.
 
Junior Danii Anglin tied for fourth in the championship section of the women's high jump. She cleared 5-8 ¾ (1.75m) in the competition.
 
Kautz took fifth in the finals of the open 100 meters with a clocking of 10.62 seconds. He posted a personal best time of 10.36 in the preliminaries yesterday.
 
Junior Averi Schmeichel clocked a personal best of 13.59 seconds to take seventh in the finals of the women's 100-meter hurdles. Her time ranks second in USD program history.
 
Prior to the sprint medley, Grace took seventh in the finals of the men's 110-meter hurdles with a personal best time of 14.10 seconds. He ranks fifth in USD program history.
 
Sophomore Bennett Schwenn took seventh in the championship long jump competition with a mark of 23-4 (7.11m).
 
The men's distance medley relay made up of redshirt-sophomore Mason Sindelar, Olson, freshman Alexander Wear and sophomore Carson Lauterbach took 10th in the field with a time of 10:06.03. The quartet posted the eighth-best mark in program history.
 
South Dakota wraps up the regular season next week with the USD Tune-Up on Friday, May 3, at Lillibridge Track Complex in Vermillion.