Jackrabbit Sports Hall of Fame - South Dakota State University Athletics

The names are legendary and so are their stories! Below is a list of all the men and women who have been inducted into the Jackrabbit Sports Hall of Fame.

Besides outstanding athletic achievements, Jackrabbit Sports Hall of Fame inductees must have received a degree from South Dakota State.

YEAR INDUCTED	NAME	AT SDSU	YEAR INDUCTED	NAME	AT SDSU
1967	Charles Coughlin	1909	1968	Cleve Abbott	1916
1969	Frank Welch	1925	1970	Weert Englemann	1930
1971	Clarence Schutte	1923	1972	Dick Emmerich	1936
1972	Jim Emmerich	1940	1974	Ross Owen	1936
1975	Jim Schmidt	1948	1976	Joe Plihal	1934
1976	Frank Kelley	1927	1977	Pete Retzlaff	1953
1978	Joe Thorne	1962	1979	Herb Bartling	1951
1980	Doug Eggers	1952	1981	Rube Sorbel	1929
1982	Bob Ehrke	1954	1983	Jim Sutton	1957
1984	Elden Kellar	1950	1985	Wayne Rasmussen	1964
1986	Dal Eisenbraun	1957	1987	Warren Williamson	1951
1988	Jim Langer	1970	1989	Don Jacobsen	1961
1990	Dee Brainerd	1963	1991	Len Spanjers	1959
1992	Sid Bostic	1964	1993	Ed Maras	1966
1994	Clyde "Buck" Starbeck	1927	1994	Darwin Gonnerman	1969
1995	Pat Dobratz	1974	1996	Doug Peterson	1964
1997	Guy Mackner	1969	1997	John Thomas	1969
1997	Gene Zulk	1969	1998	Garry Bentley	1975
1999	Lee Colburn	1973	1999	Dave Thomas	1973
2000	Dean Krogman	1972	2001	Larry Frank	1972
2002	Clyde Hagen	1971	2003	Dennis Womeldorf	1971
2004	Nancy Joyce	1980	2004	Greg Schmidt	1970
2005	Dave Manke	1976	2006	Bill Matthews	1979
2007	Lori Bocklund	1983	2008	Rick Jensen	1979
2009	Jeff Hohertz	1981	2009	Elaine Zell	1982
2010	Kristin (Asp) Schoffman	1986	2010	Steve Brown	1978
2010	Jennifer (Johnson) Kornbaum	1988	2010	Mark Tetzlaff	1985
2011	Dave Lane	1986	2011	Stan Opp	1973
2011	Audrey (Stavrum) Riggs	1985	2011	Jeff Tiefenthaler	1986
2012	Joel Brandt	1981	2012	Brad Reynolds	1981
2012	Karla Stevenson	1988	2012	Adam Timmerman	1993
2012	Don Trapp	1970	2013	Kim Fordham Lien	1990
2013	Marty Johnson	1974	2013	Tim Johnson	1987
2013	Dan Sonnek	1988	2014	Craig Cassen	1991
2014	Rod DeHaven	1989	2014	Tara (Tessier) Lansman	1988
2014	Jerry Smith	1969	2015	Perry Fink	1989
2015	Christy (Young) Mettler	1991	2015	Kevin Tetzlaff	1991
2015	Deb (Veldkamp) Van Klei	1989	2016	Beth (Anderson) Kaspar	1980
2016	Laurie (Bruns) Kruse	1992	2016	Doug Miller	1993
2016	Chris White	1993	2017	Pat Dorn	1990
2017	Nancy Gieske	1985	2017	Kiri (Johnson) Solberg	1993
2017	Josh Ranek	2002	2017	Trevor Schulte	1994
2018	Tiffini (Schuebel) Kramer	1997	2018	Chad Lamer	1997
2018	Ann (Westby) Lamer	1997	2018	Jason Sempsrott	1998
2019	Melisaa (Pater) Fossell	2003	2019	Roxie (Rath) Kirchoff	2000
2019	Paul Konechne	2002	2019	Brad Lowery	2005
2019	Les Tuma	1974	2019	Ted Wahl	1989
2020	Steve Heiden	1998	2020	Shauna (Sturm) Brockmann	2001
2020	Lynn Boden	1974	2020	Kris Nelson	1975
2020	Shannon (Schlagel) Huber	2005	2020	Billy McMacken	1990
2020	Rose (Ebnet) Henderson	2001	2020	Zach Zenner	2014
2021	Brenda (Davis) Comstock	2004	2021	Kyle Minett	2010
2021	Ryan Resel	1999	2021	Doug Sehr	1994
2021	Megan Vogel	2007	2021	Jennifer (Warkenthien) Hojer	2009
2022	Jennifer (Briggs) Kessler	2000 - 2002	2022	Donna (Hansen) Mertz	1994 - 1997
2022	Travis King	1995 - 1998	2022	Ryan Krogman	1991 - 1994
2022	Angie (Rime) Wilson	1999 - 2002	2023	Danny Batten	2006 - 2009
2023	Karla (Brotherton) Dralle	1982 - 1985	2023	Nick Burrow	1996 - 2001
2023	Brian Loeffler	1990 - 1993	2023	Kristina (Martin) Hartwick	2004 - 2007
2024	Ryan Berry	2005 - 2008	2024	Charlie Clarksean	1971 - 1973
2024	Sheena Dauer	2000 - 2005	2024	Cole Irish	1993 - 1996
2024	Melissa (Peter) Curry	1994 - 1997	2024	Mary (Wirth) Jorgenson	2011 - 2015

YEAR INDUCTED	NAME	YEAR INDUCTED	NAME
1972	Wayne Haensel	1973	Warren Williamson
1974	Marv Sherrill	1975	David Strain
1976	Dennis Moller	1977	Norma Boetel
1978	Elden Kellar	1979	Larry Korver
1980	Darrell Zimmerman	1981	Dean Koster
1982	Jack Richardson	1983	Ken Linstrom
1984	Pat Dobratz	1985	John Bruce
1990	Lolly Forseth	1992	Scott Underwood
1993	John Sterner & Mike Sterner	1994	Jay Dirksen
1995	Jim Koch	1996	Gary Boner
1998	Don Larson	1999	Stan Opp
2000	Mark Kool	2001	Gary Maffett
2002	Brad Erickson	2003	Bill Scholten
2004	Rick Weber	2005	Frank Cutler
2006	Virg Polak	2007	Sherri Keck
2008	Galen Busch	2009	Dick James
2010	Jerome Garry	2011	Cindy Nelson
2012	Anita Boeck	2013	Brian Hermanson
2014	John Stiegelmeier	2015	Steve Lemke
2016	Pam Weiland	2017	Jessica Jones-Sitzmann
2018	Mike Kesler	2019	John Iverson
2020	Ginger Larsen	2021	Brad Seely
2022	Lori Fish	2023	Georgia Adolph
2024	Tom Osterberg

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