March 2011
REVIEW: ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ doesn’t live up to the high expectations
If you’ve caught any advertisements for “The Adjustment Bureau,” you’ve got a fair idea of what it’s about: unknown forces secretly cause humans to make tiny mistakes, or adjustments, altering the path of our future and keeping our fate where it’s supposed to be. This could have been a great premise for either a fun […]
USD softball, men’s golf team in action on the road this week
Softball After closing their spring break tournament on a five-game win streak, the University of South Dakota women’s softball team is now on a 10-game losing streak. The Coyotes traveled to Texas last week to compete in the Great West Conference Games. There, the team played North Dakota, Utah Valley and Houston Baptist, all in […]
USD tennis team building on experiences early in season
During the University of South Dakota’s women’s tennis team March 25-26 matches in Las Vegas, Nev., junior Shadi Soleymani was injured early in the first day, which head coach Malcolm Gilreath said affected the rest of the team’s performance for the weekend. The team fell to 4-11 on the season, with losses to Idaho State […]
Coyotes remain unbeaten
The boys of summer were playing in the snow this weekend, as the University of South Dakota club baseball team traveled to Iowa to compete in four conference games. The baseball team is a competitive team that also likes to have fun, senior captain Justin Palmer said. He also said the team is always looking […]
Selected track members participate in Stanford Invite
The University of South Dakota track and field athletes had a much more prestigious meet than what they are accustomed to competing in over the weekend. Traveling to Palo Alto, Calif., only eight USD athletes competed at the elite Stanford Invitational. Running events The top showing by a Coyote came from junior Emma Erickson’s first […]
Q&A: Sprinter makes funny to help him run
Sophomore Matt Kerswill is a sprinter on the USD track team. Kerswill claimed three All-Great West honors last season. He finished third in the 60 meters at the GWC Indoor Championships, finished second in the 100 meters at the GWC Outdoor Championships with a season-best 10.67 and also ran on USD’s winning 4×100-meter relay team. […]
Average Joes get involved in athletics
Some of the students who don’t have the opportunity to play on the University of South Dakota sports teams or club sports are getting ready to compete against other college students on another level. Students are forming volleyball, softball and dodgeball teams to compete in intramurals for the next two months. Graduate Assistant Dirk Waite, […]
COLUMN: Upsets turn dreams into reality
David and Goliath, a Cinderella story, a can-you-believe-it game. Call them whatever you will, but upsets and stories of the smaller team grabbing the seemingly impossible victory is something that fuels the sports world and none are more frequent than during March Madness. Now, while most people hate to see a massive upset during the […]
Coaches reflect on seniors’ contributions
The end of the Coyote basketball season also means the end of three seniors’ college basketball careers. The women’s basketball team will be losing senior Teresa Case, who played for three seasons at the University of South Dakota after spending two years at Wayne State in Nebraska. Coach Ryun Williams said Case’s contributions to the […]
USD falls in GWC, earns berth to post-season
In their first post-season tournament berth since transitioning to Division I, the University of South Dakota women’s basketball team competed in the Women’s Basketball Invitational. After defeating the University of Idaho in the first round, the team fell to Cal State-Bakersfield in the second. Head coach Ryun Williams said the team was selected to play […]