College Sports
VERMILLION, S.D.—David Williams has been named senior associate athletics director for external relations at University of South Dakota. Williams brings more than 20 years of intercollegiate athletic experience to South Dakota including 12 as an athletics director. He has served as AD at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro the past two years. Williams has also been the AD at Mis...
AUSTIN, Texas – Eleven South Dakota track and field athletes will compete at the NCAA West Preliminary Round at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas, starting on Thursday. The meet will run through Saturday with the top-12 finishers in each event qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 5 in Eugene, Ore. Of the 11 athletes, three will...
YANKTON, SD – May 22, 2013 – Mount Marty College is pleased to announce the athletic signing of Yankton High School student athlete, Jessica Wirth, to the Lancer softball program for fall 2013. Wirth is a 5’5” infielder who has played both 2nd and 3rd base positions with Yankton High School and Yankton Spitfire Club pr...
YANKTON, SD – May 22, 2013 – Mount Marty College is pleased to announce the athletic signing of Sturgis High School athlete, Breanne Kuehler, to play soccer for the Lancers this coming season. Kuehler played soccer for Sturgis Brown High School as well as the Rushmore Soccer Club. She was named Second Team All-State in 2010 ...
SPEARFISH, S.D. – This is a new series of articles that is aimed at truly getting to know our Black Hills State University student-athletes on a more personal, light-hearted level outside of what we see on game day. This is the first look at one of many interviews coming this summer and into next year with our student-athletes across all 12 sports within the Yellow Jacket athletic program...
MARION, Ind. – Six Dakota State University men's runners are preparing for the 62nd Annual Men's NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship this week. The national meet starts on Thursday, May 23 and runs through Saturday, May 25 at the IWU Track, hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Dakota State kicks off the national meet on Thursday with two events schedule...
SPEARFISH, S.D. – The Yellow Jacket softball program has received their newest addition after Alexis Shaffer signed to play for head coach, Amy Gurney, after having played the last two seasons at Lamar Community College in Lamar, Colo.
VERMILLION, S.D.—CorTrust Bank president and CEO Jack Hopkins has made a $1.5 million investment in University of South Dakota and the Coyotes’ athletic facility master plan which includes a 6,000-seat arena for basketball and volleyball, and an outdoor track and soccer complex. The announcement comes on the heels of strong fundraising for the project which is now in the final stages of des...
SPEARFISH, S.D – Black Hills State University head volleyball coach, Sally Nichols, hasannounced the newest member of the her Yellow Jacket squad for the 2013-14 season after signing Emily Pengilly out of Watertown, S.D. Pengilly, a 5-foot-6 setter, will be coming to Spearf...
VERMILLION, S.D. – South Dakota track and field assistant coach and former Olympic pole vaulter Derek Miles was named to the U.S. Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association’s NCAA Division II Athlete Hall of Fame on Friday. He will be inducted during a ceremony before the D-II National Championships in Pueblo, Colo., on May 22. Miles, a native of Four O...