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Sports Rewind: USD volleyball opens the Sanford Coyote Sports Center with a win
EDITORS NOTE: This is the third and final edition of Coyote Rewind for the spring semester. This week we flash back to August 2016, when the Coyote volleyball team played the first game in the brand new Sanford Coyote Sports Center. The original article was written by former Volante reporter Max Tushla. Lights out. With […]
Coyote mens basketball seniors say farewell
The Coyote mens basketball team’s 2019-20 season ended not how they had hoped — losing in the first round of the Summit League Tournament and missing out on an opportunity to play in a postseason tournament. Senior Triston Simpson finished up his four-year career with the Coyotes this season. Simpson said the team had goals […]
Hagedorn signs with agency, speaking with NBA teams
Tyler Hagedorn’s college playing days are over and now his eyes are on the future. Hagedorn said he is signing with One Legacy Sports Management and his primary agent will be Nate Daniels. Hagedorn said he expects the news will be announced next week. “Next year, I’m not sure what level I will be playing […]
Director of Honors Program promoted to full professor
Some know him as a history instructor, some know him as the director of the Honors Program. In his sixteenth year at USD, Scott Breuninger has been promoted to full professor while balancing his administrative duties of running the honors program and academic duties in the history department. Breuninger was hired in 2004 as a […]
Athlete of the Year: Chris Nilsen
Chris Nilsen set NCAA records and held world rankings during his time at USD, and for that, he has earned USD student media’s Men’s Athlete of the Year. Nilsen’s most notable accomplishment this season is breaking the NCAA indoor pole vault record by vaulting 19-5 and a half at the Nebraska Tune-Up. The record was […]
Athlete of the Year: Ciara Duffy
For Ciara Duffy, the end to her junior and senior seasons were less than ideal. An ankle injury in the Summit League Championship left Duffy less than 100% for the NCAA Tournament game against Clemson in 2019 and COVID-19 ended a chance at another run in the NCAA Tournament this season. Duffy’s senior season will […]
Marketing and Sports Information staying connected from home
With no games to market and few developing stories in Coyote athletics, USD’s marketing and sport information departments are finding new ways to promote to fans. Both marketing and sports information have been working from home and in order to keep up communication with their coworkers, have held many zoom meetings and phones calls, Jarren […]
Sports Rewind: Coyotes take down Florida Gulf Coast, claim WNIT title
EDITORS NOTE: This article is from the 2015-2016 women’s basketball season as the Coyotes claimed the WNIT title in front of their home crowd. This was the last basketball game played in the DakotaDome, as the Sanford Coyote Sports Center opened the following fall. After the Coyotes’ goal of making the NCAA Tournament fell short, […]
Duffy receives fifth postseason honor
The Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year award presented by Her Hoop Stats is named after a Rapid City, South Dakota native and current assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs. In the awards inaugural season, it goes to another Rapid City native, Ciara Duffy. Duffy is one of four seniors on the No. […]
USD’s athletic department still evaluating effects of COVID-19
Putting the entire sports world on hold is affecting more than just the athletes on the court. Athletic Department’s around the country are adjusting to their lives at home and are trying to evaluate and plan for the future. USD Athletic Director David Herbster and the rest of USD’s athletic department staff are transitioning to […]