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Swimming and Diving
Jack Berdahl
Gen Hirata

Five school records highlight Coyotes dual sweep over Omaha

01.24.2025

VERMILLION, S.D. -- South Dakota men's swimming and diving team set five new school records for a meters pool during Friday's Summit League dual with Omaha.

The Coyote men's and women's teams swept the duals with the men's team earning a 155-145 victory and the women's team a 168.5-131.5 triumph.

The women's team, led by three-time individual event winner Emily DiProspero and two individual event winner Gabbie Ahrendt, won seven of the 14 individual events contested.

The men's squad won six races as Jack Berdahl and Alex Parkinson won two apiece and Ethan LaBounty and Joaquin Contreras-Fallico also touched the wall first in an individual event for the Coyotes.

The men's 400 medley relay quartet of Contreras-Fallico, Berdahl, Jacob Carlson and Nick Rounds, opened the meet with a school and DakotaDome Pool record time of 3:46.03, shaving eight seconds off one of the oldest school records that stood since 2005. 

Parkinson, a freshman, eclipsed the school record in the 800 free in the very next event, clocking 8:39.91. Parkinson would add the 400 free race victory to his name later in the meet.

Berdahl, a senior, took three tenths of a second off a 10-year old school record in the 100 breaststroke, touching the wall in 1:04.11. Berdahl also won the 200 breast in 2:27.56.

Contreras-Fallico, a sophomore, erased the 200 backstroke record from 2018 with his 2:07.45 effort. Rounds, meanwhile, knocked Zachary Kopp's name from the 50 free record books with a 22.98 effort to led off the 200 free relay. 

LaBounty, a freshman, won the 200 IM in 2:13.07.

DiProspero, a freshman, claimed the 800 free, 200 fly and 400 free while Ahrendt, who won three times in last week's dual against South Dakota State, added two more on Friday with wins in the 200 free and 200 IM. 

Sara Mayer, a senior, won the 100 fly and Mairead Powers, a senior, won the 200 back for South Dakota.

Ahrendt led off the winning 400 medley relay that included Taylor Buhr, Mayer and Emily Kahn and finished in 4:24.67.

South Dakota closes out the dual season with Saturday's meet against St. Thomas which begins at 1 p.m. inside the DakotaDome. 
 
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