Athletes from the University of South Dakota swept the weekly Summit League awards in the swimming pool.
Junior Greysen Hertting and senior Chase Testa were named Divers of the Week and freshmen Quinn Fawcett and Hunter Padgett were named Swimmers of the Week.
This is the first weekly awards this year.
This is Hertting’s 21st career Summit League Diver of the Week honor, a league record. The junior won all four of her diving events this past weekend against Minnesota State and Western Illinois. Friday, Hertting broke both pool records at Minnesota State. She scored 267.60 in the one-meter dive and 311.20 in the three-meter dive and qualified for the NCAA Zone championships on both boards. Saturday against Western Illinois, Hertting won the three-meter with a score of 234.60 and the one-meter with 267.75.
Testa earns his first career Diver of the Week award after helping the Coyotes to a win over conference foe Western Illinois. Testa swept both diving events and scored a 253.95 in the one-meter dive and a 260.18 in the three-meter dive.
Fawcett claimed victories in her first two collegiate events. She went on to win three out of the four individual events she swam this past weekend. At the Minnesota State dual, Fawcett won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:20.33, the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:57.55, and was part of the 400-yard freestyle relay team that came in second with a time of 3:44.03. Against Western Illinois, she won the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 2:13.02.
Padgett won both individual events he competed in against Western Illinois on Saturday. He broke a 19-year-old school record while winning the 400-meter freestyle with a time of 4:11.42. He also won the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:57.68.
The women’s team is back in the pool on Oct. 22 at home against Northern Iowa. The men are back in action on Nov. 6 when they travel to Ames, Iowa, for the ISU & TCU Triangular.
