usdlaw
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Post by usdlaw on Feb 16, 2011 12:56:27 GMT -6
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Feb 16, 2011 13:19:30 GMT -6
Here's the same story about Thad in the P&D. I just feel it let Thad and Jason tells the story better and doesn't feel rushed. Seriously, after reading this story and being the PA guy for the team for about three year, I know the swimming and diving team is close, but this just shows how close they are. Definitely feel for the kid, but man he sounds so mature. www.yankton.net/articles/2011/02/15/sports/doc4d5a0ace59947678427093.txtGood luck to the teams, going for second place in the Summit is a pretty big thing I feel. Good luck Coyotes, the team already competing in the Summit for the last two years!
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Feb 17, 2011 21:21:23 GMT -6
USD women are 3rd after the second day of the Summits and the men are 5th. Hoffman won the 50 freestyle and she was a part of the relay team, I think the 400 relay team?, that broke a school record yesterday. The women are just 11.5 points out of second place as well.
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Post by usdlaw on May 22, 2011 14:51:17 GMT -6
congrats Thad Stoddard, great honor. South Dakota's Stoddard Named Wilma Rudolph Award Winner www.usdcoyotes.com/sports/swimming/release.asp?release_id=6434Vermillion, S.D. –- South Dakota swimmer Thad Stoddard has been named a Wilma Rudolph Award Winner by the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics, it has been announced. Stoddard, who will be a senior next fall, is one of six national award winners to be recognized in 2011. The N4A Wilma Rudolph Student Achievement Award honors student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics. “Thad is an exceptional young man with an extraordinary story,” South Dakota Coordinator of Academic Advising Dave Lorenz said. “I can’t think of anymore more deserving of this award than Thad Stoddard.” Stoddard (Douglas, Wyo.) has overcome adversity to become one of the top swimmers in the South Dakota men’s swimming and diving program. Stoddard, an only child, endured the death of his father in 2004 and his mother in 2009 to have a successful athletic and academic career at South Dakota. He is the school’s record holder in the 100-yard backstroke (50.34) and is also part of the 200-yard medley relay team that holds the school record (1:31.64). Stoddard also holds the USD pool record in the 100 backstroke and in the 200 freestyle relay. “It’s an outstanding award and a great honor for Thad,” South Dakota swimming and diving head coach Jason Mahowald said. “It’s an award that embodies exactly who Thad is -- strong, mentally tough and with perseverance. He is one of the most outstanding and remarkable young men I’ve ever coached.” He has earned two All-Summit League honors in his career – including one this past winter as part of South Dakota’s 200 medley relay team which placed third. He has recorded 26 event wins over the past two seasons. In the classroom, Stoddard has maintained a 3.8 GPA and is majoring in Earth Sciences. In 2009-10, he was named to the Summit League Academic All-League team and also was named to the Summit League’s Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence. Rudolph, for whom the award is named, overcame several serious illnesses as a child – including polio – to become one of the great Olympic athletes of her era. She qualified for her first Olympic games in 1956 and became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the Olympics. The first awards were given in 1991. Stoddard will be honored at a luncheon on June 4 in Dallas, Texas.
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