Swim and Dive Split Duels on Senior Day

The South Dakota swim and dive team hosted St. Thomas in a duel on Friday on senior day.

The Coyotes women won 11 of the 13 events defeating the Tommies by an overall score of 159-84.

The Tommies answered back in the men’s division, winning 7 of the 13 events to win the duel 138.5-90.5. 

The Coyote women and men won the 200 meter medley relay with a time of 2:00.73 and 1:45.1, respectively. The women’s relay team consisted of freshman Grace Schultz and Taylor Buhr as they teamed up with fifth year Cassie Ketterling and sophomore Christina Spomer. For the men’s side, their team consisted of senior Aidan Gantenbein, junior Caden Feit, senior Zachary Kopp, and fifth year Alec Thomas. 

Sophomore Skyler Leverenz took home the gold in the women’s 200 meter freestyle with a finishing time of 2:09.09. She also won the 50 meter freestyle with a 26.97.

Graduate student  Griffin Wolner won the men’s 200 meter freestyle with his time of 1:58.12.

Ketterling won the women’s 200 meter IM with a time of 2:26.46. She also captured the top podium spot in the 100 meter butterfly with a 1:05.48.

Spomer also took home an individual win in the women’s 100 meter freestyle with her time of 59.89. Freshman teammate Carson White followed her up with a time of 1:01.02.

The Coyotes swept the podium in the women’s 100 meter backstroke. Junior Lauren Van Fleet took first with a 1:06.45. Schultz touched the wall in second at the 1:07.26 mark. Senior Skylar Welle finished with a time of 1:08.15.

Junior Maddie Grant won the women’s 400 meter freestyle with a time of 4:44.1.

For the diving team, junior Stella Fairbanks won the 1-meter women’s dive with a score of 259.28. She then went on to win the 3-meter dive with a score of 249.75.

Kopp broke a DakotaDome Pool Record in the men’s 50 meter freestyle with a time of 23.13, breaking his own record previously of 23.23.

Gantenbein won the men’s 100 meter butterfly with a time of 57.21.

Thomas won the men’s 100 meter freestyle with a time of 53.42.

The men’s and women’s 200 meter freestyle relay saw both teams take home the gold as the women’s team finished with a time of 1:51.09 and the men finished with a 1:36.55.

The Swim and Dive teams then traveled to Brookings on Saturday, where the men’s team fell 110-177, and the women’s team won 180.5-117.5.

The Coyotes will hit the road as they will compete in their third and final Summit League duel of the season against the Omaha Mavericks.