Closing the gap: USD swim, dive teams fight for Summit League title
USD’s swimming and diving teams brought home second-place finishes in the 2019 Summit League championship, and will try to fight with Denver for a championship this week. The conference team comprises of 26 athletes from the men’s and women’s teams, and this years’ Coyotes will rely on the freshman and sophomore classes to lead the […]
Balancing Act: Nationally ranked basketball, nursing
The Coyote women’s basketball team ranked 16th in the USA Today/Coaches Poll and 21st in the Associated Press Top 25 poll this week, but these student-athletes find time to just be students. Juniors Monica Arens and Claudia Kunzer are nursing majors. Both are hoping to get into the nursing program this month and play vital […]
Coyote softball opens season in Iowa
USD Softball picked up a pair of wins in its five-game tournament at Northern Iowa over the weekend. The Coyotes (2-3) won their opening game in UNI’s Doc Halverson Tournament over Northern Iowa 5-3 Friday afternoon. USD dropped its second game of the day against Drake 4-0. The Coyotes went 1-1 on Saturday, picking up […]
Former Coyote star signs NFL contract
Former USD quarterback Chris Streveler signed a futures contract with the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals Tuesday afternoon. Streveler is signing just months after contributing to the Canadian Football League’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers Grey Cup run in November. Streveler played at USD in the 2016-17 seasons. During his senior campaign, Streveler led the Coyotes to […]
2020: The year of the senior
Both the Coyotes men’s and women’s basketball teams are led by a strong group of seniors as they prepare for the second half of conference play. The USD women (19-2, 8-0) are atop the Summit League standings at the mid-point for the regular season and rank No. 21 in the latest Associated Press Top 25. […]
Coyotes host senior day inter-squad meet
Blizzard-like conditions prevented Iowa Central Community College from traveling to Vermillion for USD’s senior day swim and dive meet on Saturday, but USD’s team decided to perform an inter-squad meet in place of the originally scheduled competition. The meet is the only one held in Vermillion this school year and with Iowa Central CC not […]
Coyotes on the Climb
The USD women’s basketball team made program history by reaching the top 25 in the AP Top 25 poll and USA Today/Coaches Poll on Feb. 11 and 12 of 2019 for the first time in Division I history. Now, nearly one year later, the team is still reaching new heights. Tuesday afternoon the latest Coaches […]
Trio of Coyote seniors reach career milestone
USD men’s head basketball coach Todd Lee sat down for Sunday’s press conference following the Coyotes’ 99-84 win over South Dakota State visibly wet, but it wasn’t from sweat. “Total team win,” Lee said. “Hags (Tyler Hagedorn) gets to 1,000 points and that’s why I’m soaked. Because they (the team) gave Hagedorn a bath or […]
Coyotes fall in four to Nebraska-Omaha
The Coyotes had set points in games two and three, but were unable to seal up either set, resulting in a four set loss to Nebraska-Omaha in the semi-final of the Summit League Championship in Denver Saturday afternoon. “Omaha played a really good game, whether our team wants to fully admit that or not,” USD […]
On both sides of the net: Williamson on coaching, caretaking
Mothering three young children and managing a team of 17 young adults requires the same elements: work, time and dedication. USD head volleyball coach Leanne Williamson wears both hats, and if a 25-1 record and regular-season title mean anything, she’s finding great success. Williamson found herself on the road almost every weekend for the first […]