South Dakota Women, SDSU Men Take Team Leads Through Day 1 of Augustana Invite

2022 Augustana Invitational

• November 17-19, 2022
• Midco Aquatic Center, Sioux Falls, S.D.
• SCY (25 yards)
• Day 1 Results

Team Scores – Thru Day 1

Women

1. South Dakota, 571
2. Augustana, 379
3. South Dakota State, 373
4. Minnesota State, 275
5. Sioux Falls, 195
6. Northern State, 63
7. University of Mary, 47
8. Iowa Central, 33
9. Southwest Minnesota State, 31
10. Concordia, St.Paul, 24
11. Unkearney, 19
12. College of Saint Mary, 4

Men

1. South Dakota State, 573
2. South Dakota, 489
3. Augustana, 348
4. Iowa Central, 267
5. Iowa Lakes, 118

Courtesy: South Dakota Athletics

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota swimming and diving established eighth school records and 17 new marks inside the school’s all-time top 10 lists on Friday during day one of the Augustana Invitational held at Midco Aquatic Center.

The Coyotes produced four new individual school records and two new relay school records while two previous record holders lowered their times during Friday’s competition that saw four individual finals swam, one diving final plus two relays contested for each gender.

South Dakota women seven individual events on day one and all four relays, sweeping both the men’s and women’s 200 medley and 800 free relay events.

The women’s 50 freestyle school record was broken twice, first in the prelims by sophomore Christina Spomer and then in the finals by sophomore Emily Kahn. Kahn touched in 22.68 in the finals, finishing second in the race, while becoming the first female in school history to break 23 seconds in the short sprint race.

Spomer, meanwhile, touched in 23.10 in the finals, finishing fourth after posting a new personal best of 23.07 in the morning prelims that held the school record for roughly seven hours.

Zachary Kopp, a senior, lowered his school record in the men’s 50 free by becoming the first man in South Dakota school history to go sub 20 seconds, with his time of 19.70 in the morning prelims. He would add a second race under 20 seconds by winning the evening final in 19.81.

Cassie Ketterling, a fifth-year senior, grabbed her fifth individual school record in her career with a 54.50 effort in the prelims of the 100 fly and then lowered that time by winning the finals in 54.32.

Adam Fisher, a sophomore, set a school record in the 100 fly finals, winning the event in 48.27 seconds.

Mack Sathre, a senior, meanwhile, lowered his school record in the 200 IM to 1:48.59 in the morning prelims. He would go on to win the event in the finals in 1:48.84.

Stella Fairbanks, a junior, won the three-meter diving event with a score 269.45 while freshmen Camilla Brogger-Andersen and Conner Mes also earned individual wins on day one. Brogger-Andersen touched the wall in 4:55.29 in the 500 free, just off her personal best of 4:55.02 from the prelims. Mes made it a Coyote sweep of the 500 free with his 4:34.93 effort in the finals.

South Dakota began evening finals by winning the 200 medley relay as Tatum O’Shea, Taylor Buhr, Ketterling and Spomer clocked 1:42.02 and the men’s team of Fisher, Jack Berdahl, Sathre and Kopp finished in 1:26.72. Both relays set school records.

The Coyotes then closed the evening’s events with victories in the 800 free, both just missing school records. O’Shea, Brogger-Andersen, Skyler Leverenz and Kahn touched in 7:29.75 while the men’s foursome of Mes, Alec Thomas, Sathre and Aidan Gantenbein finished in 6:43.74.

Friday’s second day begins with prelims at 9:30 a.m. and finals at 5 p.m. with diving in between at 2 p.m.

Courtesy: SDSU Athletics

SIOUX FALLS — South Dakota State’s 50-yard freestyle marks both fell Thursday as the Jackrabbits’ Eric Anderson and Elisabeth Timmer etched their names into the record books on the opening day of the Augustana Invitational at Midco Aquatic Center.

A sophomore from Fargo, North Dakota, Anderson posted a time of 19.83 seconds in Thursday night’s men’s final to eclipse the previous record of 19.99 seconds set by Ben Bolinske in 2016. Anderson tied his previous career best of 20.10 seconds in Thursday afternoon’s preliminaries.

Despite his record performance, Anderson was touched out at the wall by South Dakota’s Zach Kopp, who posted a winning time of 19.81 seconds. Rafael Negri placed third in the 50 freestyle at 20.22 seconds, with Liam Murray also competing in the championship final and placing sixth in 20.57 seconds.

Negri’s time puts him as the third-fastest Jackrabbit in the event in program history, with Murray moving into sixth.

Anderson also swam in the finals of the 100 butterfly Thursday night, placing eighth as SDSU placed four in the 10-swimmer A final. Freshmen Braxton McGrath and Aiden Carstensen were the Jackrabbits’ top two finishers in the event, placing fifth and seventh with respective times of 49.46 and 49.79 seconds. Anderson turned in a time of 49.99 seconds for his eighth-place showing and senior Damon Venner took 10^th in 50.92 seconds.

McGrath, Carstensen and Anderson all moved into the Jackrabbits’ all-time top five with their 100 butterfly times.

Venner opened the night with a fourth-place finish in the 500 freestyle final as SDSU claimed three of the top five spots. Alex Kraft was just off a personal-best time with a third-place clocking of 4 minutes, 36.38 seconds and was followed by Venner in 4:37.12. Freshman Jack Ellison moved into the SDSU top 10 in the event with a time of 4:36.53 in the prelims, then posted a fifth-place time of 4:38.18 during the evening session.

Kraft later teamed with Jon Galles, Austin Smith and Sam Johnson for a runner-up finish in the 800 freestyle relay, 6:45.01.

Other finalists for the Jackrabbits Thursday night were Vaughn Raimo and Gavin Wheeler in the 200 individual medley. Raimo turned in a seventh-place time of 1:55.55 in the evening session, with Wheeler taking 10^th in 1:57.62.

SDSU leads the five-team men’s field with 573 points, followed by South Dakota with 489 and Augustana with 348. Iowa Central (267) and Iowa Lakes (118) round out the men’s field.

WOMEN’S RECAP
Timmer broke her own record in the women’s 50 freestyle by clocking in at 22.77 seconds in the preliminaries Thursday afternoon. That bettered her mark of 23.08 seconds set in the same pool at the 2021 Augustana Invitational.

A senior from Savaneta, Aruba, Timmer went on to place third in the 50 freestyle during the evening session with a nearly identical time of 22.79 seconds. She also turned in a seventh-place finish in the 100 butterfly, 56.45 seconds, and was joined in the ‘A’ final by freshman teammates Jenna Currier (eighth, 56.46 seconds) and Sara Juez (ninth, 57.23 seconds).

Another freshman, Emily Shuttleworth, paced the Jackrabbit women in the 500 freestyle by finishing in third place with a time of 5 minutes, 1.84 second.

Shuttleworth and Timmer made up the back half of SDSU’s 800 freestyle relay, teaming with Emma Bachelder and Emma Walz for a runner-up time of 7:34.26.

Bachelder also swam in the finals of the 50 freestyle, placing sixth in 23.48 seconds, while Katie Pattee added a 10^th-place effort, 23.92 seconds, for the Jackrabbits.

Also competing in an individual event final were freshman Marissa Branham and junior Kelsey Kocon in the 200 IM. Branham touched the wall in 2:07.56 for fifth place, while Kocon placed seventh in 2:08.34.

SDSU ranks third out of 12 teams in the women’s division. South Dakota leads the way with 571 points, followed by Augustana with 379 and the Jackrabbits with 373.

UP NEXT
Competition at the Augustana Invitational resumes at 9:30 a.m. Friday with swimming preliminaries. Diving action begins at 2 p.m., with swimming event finals slated for 5 p.m.