South Dakota vs Omaha
- January 24, 2025
- Vermillion, S.D.
- SCM (25 meters)
- Results
Courtesy: South Dakota Athletics
VERMILLION, S.D. — South Dakota men’s swimming and diving team set five new school records for a meters pool during Friday’s Summit League dual with Omaha.
The Coyote men’s and women’s teams swept the duals with the men’s team earning a 155-145 victory and the women’s team a 168.5-131.5 triumph.
The women’s team, led by three-time individual event winner Emily DiProspero and two individual event winner Gabbie Ahrendt, won seven of the 14 individual events contested.
The men’s squad won six races as Jack Berdahl and Alex Parkinson won two apiece and Ethan LaBounty and Joaquin Contreras-Fallico also touched the wall first in an individual event for the Coyotes.
The men’s 400 medley relay quartet of Contreras-Fallico, Berdahl, Jacob Carlson and Nick Rounds, opened the meet with a school and DakotaDome Pool record time of 3:46.03, shaving eight seconds off one of the oldest school records that stood since 2005.
Parkinson, a freshman, eclipsed the school record in the 800 free in the very next event, clocking 8:39.91. Parkinson would add the 400 free race victory to his name later in the meet.
Berdahl, a senior, took three tenths of a second off a 10-year old school record in the 100 breaststroke, touching the wall in 1:04.11. Berdahl also won the 200 breast in 2:27.56.
Contreras-Fallico, a sophomore, erased the 200 backstroke record from 2018 with his 2:07.45 effort. Rounds, meanwhile, knocked Zachary Kopp’s name from the 50 free record books with a 22.98 effort to led off the 200 free relay.
LaBounty, a freshman, won the 200 IM in 2:13.07.
DiProspero, a freshman, claimed the 800 free, 200 fly and 400 free while Ahrendt, who won three times in last week’s dual against South Dakota State, added two more on Friday with wins in the 200 free and 200 IM.
Sara Mayer, a senior, won the 100 fly and Mairead Powers, a senior, won the 200 back for South Dakota.
Ahrendt led off the winning 400 medley relay that included Taylor Buhr, Mayer and Emily Kahn and finished in 4:24.67.
South Dakota closes out the dual season with Saturday’s meet against St. Thomas which begins at 1 p.m. inside the DakotaDome.
Courtesy: Omaha Athletics
VERMILLION, S.D. – Omaha swimming and diving came close but ultimately fell in both men’s and women’s meets against Summit League foe South Dakota at the DakotaDome Pool on Friday.
The men’s team produced nine first-place finishes in the events, with eight of the wins coming in individual events. Despite a strong showing, the men fell 145-155 at the DakotaDome Pool.
The Omaha women’s squad produced eight top finishes, seven of which were individual events.
Junior Jace Walker finished the day with two wins in the men’s 100 butterfly (57.23) and the 100 freestyle (52.53).
Freshman Owen Kipp also finished first in the men’s one-meter (300.08) and three-meter (284.55) dives.
Senior Payton Easley was crowned with two individual victories in the women’s 50-meter freestyle (26.66) and the 100-meter freestyle (57.85).
Junior Bella Price also succeeded off the diving board, winning the women’s one-meter dive (246.08) and the three-meter dive (249.00).
In the men’s one-meter dive, the Mavericks rounded out the top three, including Kipp. Senior Ian Blackstock finished second (289), and sophomore Will Mueller finished third (274.88).
The Mavericks’ men’s and women’s swimming teams will compete next at the DakotaDome Pool between Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1, in the Coyote Invite. The diving teams will return to the H&K Pool to compete in and host the Omaha Dive Invite over the same two days.
