Coyote basketball receive multiple Summit League preseason accolades
USD men’s and women’s basketball teams garnered an abundance of preseason awards announce during Summit League media day in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Monday. Both USD teams were picked to finish at or near the top of Summit League standings and Coyotes took home both preseason Player of the Year Awards. Coyote women tagged Summit […]
Renewing a rivalry: should the Summit League pluck Augustana?
In 2008, the Division-II North Central Conference (NCC) dissolved as USD and North Dakota moved to Division-I and five other schools joined the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) at the Division-II level. The NCC started in 1921 with USD, SDSU, NDSU and UND as four of the nine charter members. NDSU and SDSU started the […]
40 years of the DakotaDome
The Coyotes played inside the DakotaDome for the first time in August of 1979. Now, the Dome is undergoing its third major renovation to keep up with the times. The Dome, when it opened, was unique for its time. The Dome’s roof was not solid like it is now; instead, it was inflated like the […]
Grant awarded to USD led research on sexual assault
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded the state of South Dakota the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) grant earlier this month. The researchers, led by Bridget Diamond-Welch, an associate professor of criminal justice at USD, were awarded a three-year, $500,000 grant. The grant was given to fund research on how sexual assault cases travel through […]
Grubhub replaces Tapingo at USD
Grubhub has replaced Tapingo as the food ordering service at USD. Grubhub bought out Tapingo for $150 million last fall, and students have a short time before the app switches to the Grubhub platform. The apps will essentially run the same. Students download the Grubhub app and transfer their information to the app or sign […]
Two fire alarms reported at Burgess-Norton halls
Vermillion fire department responded to two fire alarms at Burgess-Norton residence halls Tuesday night triggered by faulty smoke detectors on the first floor of Burgess hall. Shortly after 9 p.m., steam from a shower set off a smoke detector. Sergeant Juston Sangster emailed the following statement to The Volante: “The alarm was activated due to […]
USD ranks best in the state in two different surveys
U.S. News and World and LendEDU rank USD as the top school in the state in different regards. U.S. News and World ranked USD at 263 in the “Best National Universities” list. USD has been ranked in this list 28 consecutive years and ranked higher than any other university in South Dakota. USD also ranked […]
USD Volleyball goes unbeaten in UMKC Classic
The Coyote volleyball team won all three matches at the UMKC Classic in Kansas City Missouri on Sept. 6 and 7. The Coyotes (6-1) swept Tulsa and Kansas City in straight sets Friday. Freshman Elizabeth Juhnke tallied 13 kills in both matches. Junior Sami Slaughter added 11 and 10 kills in each respective match. Sophomore […]
Honors program sees retention rise
The Honors program has struggled retaining students over the last decade, but after an enrollment plunge in 2015, numbers over the last four years show improvement. This year, the Honors program has seen its highest enrollment number since 2009 with 469 students. As of Sept. 11, all 160 of this year’s entering class are still […]
USD faces the positives and negatives of new online bookstore
USD’s new bookstore vendor, Akademos, is up and running on campus, but the online-only bookstore has presented challenges in its replacement of former vendor Barnes & Noble. The luxury of walking into the store and selecting books is no more, and students unaware of the change, announced last semester, are facing a delayed arrival of […]