Sports
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. […]
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 […]
Tennis team gains experience in Florida
The University of South Dakota women’s tennis team spent its spring break in Florida, playing matches against five schools, coming home with three wins. The women beat University of Southern Indiana 6-1, Saint Joseph’s University 4-3 and Robert Morris University 7-0. The Coyotes lost to St. John’s University 0-7 and James Madison University 0-7. “When […]
Track teams compete in first outdoor event
The University of South Dakota’s men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Tempe, Ariz. this past weekend to kick off their outdoor season to begin their first ever run at competing at the NCAA Division I outdoor track and field championships. Women’s During the meet, sophomore pole vaulter Bethany Buell broke the USD […]
Coyotes fall short of repeating as champs
One point — that’s all it took for the University of North Dakota to keep the University of South Dakota men’s basketball team from repeating as Great West Conference Champions after fighting for 135 minutes to defend their title. The team traveled to Orem, Utah last week to compete in the GWC tournament, seeded as […]