Kansas Sweeps Double-Dual With South Dakota, Lindenwood

Kansas vs Lindenwood vs South Dakota

• October 20-21, 2023
• Lawrence, Kansas
• SCY (25 yards)
• Day 1 Results
• Day 2 Results

Courtesy: Kansas Athletics

Courtesy: South Dakota Athletics

LAWRENCE, Kansas – South Dakota swimming and diving came away with eight victories and 32 top three finishes during a two-day double dual against Kansas and Summit League member Lindenwood inside the Robinson Natatorium on the Kansas campus.

The Coyote women won four events, two individual and two relays while the men’s team produced three individual wins and one relay victory.

Joaquin Contreras-Fallico, a freshman, produced a season-best time of 1:50.81 in winning the 200 back while moving up one spot to fourth on the school’s all-time chart in the process.

Matthew Sorbe, a sophomore, won the 500 free while Jack Berdahl, a junior, claimed the 200 breast and the South Dakota men claimed the 400 free relay to close the meet behind the foursome of Aidan Gantenbein, Contreras-Fallico, Mack Sathre and Zachary Kopp.

Sorbe, the school record holder in the 500 free, touched the wall in 5:09.05 while Berdahl, the school record holder in the 200 breast, was clocked in 2:06.98.

Contreras-Fallico (100 back), Sorbe (1000 free) and Berdahl (100 breast) all posted runner-up performances as well along with Gantenbein (200 back), Sathre (400 IM) and Kopp twice (100 free, 50 free).

South Dakota men posted runner-up finishes in the 800 free relay, 200 free relay and 200 medley relay.

Contreras-Fallico, Berdahl, Sathre and Kopp swam in the 200 medley relay in 1:31.79 while Gantenbein, Jacob Carlson, Sathre and Kopp competed in the 200 free relay. The quartet of Sorbe, Parker Sonnabend, Tanner Reed and Carlson made up the 800 free relay unit.

Emily Kahn and Taylor Buhr came away with individual victories to pace the Coyote women’s team, who also claimed the 800 free relay and 400 free relay.

Kahn touched the wall first in the 50 free in 24.07 while Buhr won the 200 breast in 2:21.61.

The foursome of Gabbie Ahrendt, Skyler Leverenz, Tatum O’Shea and Kahn won the 400 free relay in 3:29.66 while the quartet of Ahrendt, O’Shea, Leverenz and Taylor Horan claimed the 800 free relay in 7:40.40.

Kahn was the runner-up in the 100 free, Ahrendt finished second in the 200 free and Camilla Brogger-Andersen placed second in the 1000 free. Kahn, Leverenz, Sara Mayer and Ahrendt finished second in the 200 free relay.

Third-place finishes came from O’Shea (200 free), Buhr (100 breast), Brogger-Andersen (500 free) and Mayer twice (200 fly, 100 fly) on the women’s side. Sonnabend (200 free, 200 breast) and Carlson (100 fly, 100 free) recorded third place efforts for the South Dakota men.

The Coyote women’s team will host Iowa State in its lone home dual of the fall semester on Friday at 5 p.m. inside the DakotaDome Pool.

Courtesy: Lindenwood Athletics

It was a phenomenal effort by the Lindenwood University swimming and diving teams on day two of the University of Kansas meet.

Assistant Coach Canaan Campbell stated, “I liked the energy the team came out with on day two. We were down a few guys and had to shuffle some event around and was proud of how the team handled that. The women’s team raced well against two strong opponents and are on a good trajectory for where we want to be for the championship season.”

The Lindenwood women’s team of Stephanie Marks, Kornelia Buszka, Joselle Mensah and Maja Piotrowicz grabbed third in the 200-yard freestyle relay. On the men’s side, Lindenwood’s Lance Godard, Ondrej Dusa, Trevor Danner and Piotr Kowalczyk finished in first with a time of 1:23.72. Jose Ochoa, Nick Williams and Adam Szczerba finished in first, second and third respectively with times of 4:10.23, 4:12.52, and 4:14.19 in the 400-yard IM.

Dusa took first place in the men’s 100-yard freestyle with a time of 45.96. In the women’s 200-yard backstroke, Stephanie Marks finished in third with a time of 2:06.25. On the men’s side, Jacob Noble also recorded a third-place finish with a time of 1:58.10.

The 100-yard butterfly event showed Kowalczyk (50.49) and Godard (50.95) finished in first and second. Jaxson Bradburn and Adam Szczerba completed the men’s 500-yard freestyle with times of 5:11.10 and 5:13.38 for second and third place.

“We had a lot of progress this week from the divers. LU men placed 1,2,3 both days and we saw a solid performance on Friday from freshmen, Bennet Loving, who won one meter diving and then placed second on three meter on Saturday. We are looking forward to seeing more progress with our divers moving into our Tri meet with Mizzou and SIU on November 3,” said Cortney Teague, Assistant Coach.

Noah Boyd, Bennet Loving and David Molina-Fregenal swept first, second third in the men’s 3-mtr diving with 261.90, 259.45 and 249.85 respectively. Mattia Giurgevich finished in second place in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:07.37. For the 400-yard freestyle relay two Lindenwood teams finished in the top three. In second with a time of 3:07.47 were Kowalczyk, Dusa, Godard and Giurgevich; while Szczerba, Max Wetteland, Ryan Boeding and Trevor Danner recorded a time of 3:12.02 for third.

Lindenwood will be back in action on October 27^th, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Meet time is slated for 3:00 pm.