February 12th, 202094The South Dakota men's basketball team bested the Western Illinois Leathernecks 85-72 inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. The game was led by senior guard Stanley Umude who scored a season-high 28 points.
The Coyotes rebounded after losing to the Leathernecks on the road earlier this season 82-75 at the beginning of conference play...
February 11th, 2020845 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 roles on...
February 11th, 202096 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 a 9-8...
February 9th, 202060 For the second time in as many weekends, the Coyote swimming and diving team took on SDSU. Following the Coyotes' head-to-head victory in Brookings, USD won 13 individual events at the Jackrabbit Invitational in Sioux Falls over the weekend. The women's team won seven events while the men's team won four. Junior Duncan Johnson and...
February 9th, 202039 The Coyotes walked away with championships in 18 events at
the 2020 Dakota Realty Alumni Meet at the Mildred J. Hillenbrand Memorial Track
in the DakotaDome over the weekend. Junior Abby Ripperda earned gold medals in two events and was the only athlete to do so in a Coyote uniform. She crossed the line in 4:56.94 to take the mile...
February 6th, 20200 The Coyote women's basketball team has their highest ranking ever — 21 AP/17 coaches poll — the second ever at-large bid for the Summit League in 2019 and over 100 wins under head coach Dawn Plitzuweit; how have the Coyote women achieved these? Plitzuweit said the building of the team's success starts with three main elements....
February 4th, 202046 The Coyotes (17-8, 7-3 CONF) defeated the Peru State Bobcats
(12-11, 11-6 CONF) 106-45 Tuesday inside the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. USD, who earned their sixth consecutive victory, took a break from their conference schedule to host the Bobcats, a member of the NAIA. The Coyotes follow this game with six more Summit League...
February 4th, 2020161 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...
February 3rd, 2020105 South Dakota's home indoor track meet will include numerous nationally ranked athletes, in-state rivalries and conference foes. Both the men and women are coming off a tied for a second-place finish in Nebraska’s Adidas Classic, and are looking for a win in the DakotaDome next weekend. The Coyotes are hosting 12 to 15 teams...
January 31st, 2020651Moving into Coyote Village at the beginning of summer, the women's basketball team prepared for a summer filled with basketball. However, for freshman forward Alexi Hempe, she faced a summer full of rehab for her torn ACL.
During a basketball game her senior year, Hempe's season came to a halt due to a torn ACL injury.
“My senior...
