JACKRABBITS COMPLETE HOME SLATE WITH IOWA STATE

The South Dakota State ladies’s swimming and diving workforce closes out the house portion of its schedule Thursday by internet hosting Iowa State in twin motion.

Start time is slated for five p.m. on the Marshall Center Pool. Video protection might be obtainable via the Summit League Network powered by Midco Sports.

The Jackrabbit ladies enter the matchup with a 2-2 twin document after defeating a pair of in-state opponents the previous two weeks at residence. SDSU defeated Augustana, 203-96, on Oct. 10, adopted by a 135-53 victory over Northern State on Oct. 17.

Iowa State stays looking for its first twin victory of the season. The Cyclones dropped a pair of residence duals final weekend to Illinois by respective scores of 121-65 and 123-82.

 

PERFECT 10: South Dakota State gained all 10 swimming occasions contested in its Oct. 17 residence twin in opposition to Northern State.

 

Jenna Currier paced the Jackrabbits by sweeping the dash freestyle occasions. She led a Jackrabbit sweep of the highest three spots within the 50-yard freestyle with a profitable time of 24.42 seconds, adopted by teammates and fellow seniors Mia Pendleton (:24.51) and Aubrey Douds (:25.77).

Currier later claimed the 100 freestyle in 54.24 seconds.

 

Other occasion winners for SDSU included:

HIOKI HONORED: Gigi Hioki grew to become the primary Jackrabbit ladies’s swimmer to be honored as a Summit League Kwik Star Swimming Peak Performer of the Week as she obtained the consideration earlier this month

Hioki, a junior from Honolulu, Hawaii, was a four-time winner for the Jackrabbits of their Oct. 10 home-opening twin in opposition to Augustana. She claimed particular person titles in each the 100-yard (53.96 seconds) and 200 freestyle (1:55.20), whereas additionally anchoring SDSU victories in each the 400 medley relay (3:58.41) and the 200 freestyle relay (1:37.07). 

The award was Hioki’s first of the season and third of her profession.

PRESEASON POLL: South Dakota State has been tabbed for a fifth-place end, in keeping with a preseason performed among the many Summit League’s ladies’s swimming and diving coaches. The rating matches the Jackrabbits’ inserting on the 2025 Summit League Championships.

Denver obtained prime billing within the ladies’s preseason ballot with six first-place votes and 36 factors. South Dakota was second with 31 factors and the ultimate first-place vote, with Omaha within the third spot with 24 factors. St. Thomas edged the Jackrabbits by one level, 19-18, for fourth place within the ballot, with Southern Indiana (12) and Eastern Illinois (7) claiming the ultimate two spots.

The 2026 Summit League Swimming and Diving Championships are scheduled for Feb. 18-21 in Iowa City, Iowa.

ATHLETES TO WATCH: Two Jackrabbit swimmers are listed among the many Summit League Athletes to Watch along side the discharge of the preseason polls. Senior Jenna Currier and junior Gigi Hioki have been the Jackrabbit representatives within the ladies’s division.

Currier entered her senior season ranked second in program historical past within the 100-yard butterfly at 55.41 seconds, a mark the native of Denison, Iowa, established final November on the Tommie Invitational. She additionally posted team-best marks within the 50 freestyle (:23.62) and 100 backstroke (:57.43) final season.

Hioki paced the Jackrabbits within the freestyle occasions, profitable 15 occasion titles throughout her sophomore season. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Hioki positioned fourth within the 200 freestyle (1:49.77), seventh within the 100 free (:51.19) and ninth within the 500 free (4:57.02) eventually yr’s Summit League Championships.

RECORD HOLDER RETURNS:  Sophomore Emma Ingalls was the lone Jackrabbit lady to set a college document eventually season’s league championships, clocking a brand new customary of two:03.82 within the 200 particular person medley. Ingalls additionally notched sixth-place finishes in each the 200 butterfly and 400 IM.

 

COACH HUMPHREY: Doug Humphrey is in his ninth season as head coach of the South Dakota State males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups. 

Through his first eight seasons, Humphrey has guided the Jackrabbits to top-three workforce finishes on the Summit League Championships six occasions within the males’s division and 3 times on the ladies’s facet. Both squads recorded runner-up finishes on the league meet in the course of the pandemic-altered 2020-21 season.

Prior to SDSU, Humphrey served as the pinnacle ladies’s swimming and diving coach at Northern Iowa for 5 seasons. His Panther squads confirmed regular development within the Missouri Valley Conference, together with posting back-to-back third-place finishes on the convention championship his closing two seasons in Cedar Falls.

Humphrey served because the assistant swimming coach on the University of Nebraska from 2000-12 below Olympic gold medalist Pablo Morales. He swam for the Huskers from 1991-96 and later served as a graduate assistant coach at his alma mater.

 

A LOOK AHEAD: Both the Jackrabbit men and women’s squads proceed motion Oct. 31-Nov. 1 on the Coyote Extravaganza in Vermillion.

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