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South Dakota State University Athletics
Staff Directory
Kacie Jones
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Kacie Jones joined the South Dakota State staff in August of 2024 and enters her first second as an assistant coach with the Jackrabbits in 2025-26.
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With the Jackrabbits, Jones’ primary duties will include perimeter player development and recruiting.Â
In 2024-25, South Dakota State won its fifth straight regular season Summit League title and three-peated as the conference’s postseason champion. The Jackrabbits finished the year 30-4, reaching 30 wins for the second time in the Division I era and third time overall. SDSU knocked off three ranked teams - No. 21 Creighton, No. 21 Oregon and No. 17 Oklahoma State. The Jacks’ win over the seventh-seeded OSU Cowgirls came in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 74-68, to put SDSU in the second round for the second time in three years.
Brooklyn Meyer was deemed honorable mention All-America, was a finalist for the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Award and landed on the All-Summit League first team in 2024-25. Paige Meyer was also conference first-team selection while Haleigh Timmer earned an honorable mention nod. Katie Vasecka was named to the Summit League all-freshman team. Brooklyn Meyer, Paige Meyer and Mesa Byom were three of five players named to the Summit League’s all-defensive team.
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Jones came to South Dakota State from Kansas State, where she spent the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons as the Wildcats’ director of basketball administration. At K-State, Jones was responsible for a number of administrative duties, including team operations and budget management.Â
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The Wildcats went 45-25 in Jones’ two seasons in Manhattan and went to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament in 2024. K-State was ranked as high at No. 2 in the AP Poll during the 2023-24 season and spent 19 consecutive weeks in the AP top-25.Â
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Prior to joining the staff at K-State, Jones was an assistant coach at Wayne State, her alma mater, from 2020 to 2022. Three Wildcats earned All-NSIC honors during that time, including two being named the NSIC South Player of the Year. Jones was also a graduate assistant coach at Northwestern College in Iowa for the 2019-20 season, where she helped the Red Raiders go 17-11 overall. Four Northwestern players earned All-GPAC honors in 2020.Â
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Jones competed in both basketball and track and field for four seasons (2014-18) at Wayne State. She scored 754 career points as a Wildcat and led the team in 3-point shooting as a junior and senior. In track and field, Jones was the 2016 NSIC outdoor discus champion and national qualifier.Â
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Jones is a native of Sundance, Wyoming. She earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Wayne State in 2018 and a master’s degree in education from Northwestern in 2021.Â
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With the Jackrabbits, Jones’ primary duties will include perimeter player development and recruiting.Â
In 2024-25, South Dakota State won its fifth straight regular season Summit League title and three-peated as the conference’s postseason champion. The Jackrabbits finished the year 30-4, reaching 30 wins for the second time in the Division I era and third time overall. SDSU knocked off three ranked teams - No. 21 Creighton, No. 21 Oregon and No. 17 Oklahoma State. The Jacks’ win over the seventh-seeded OSU Cowgirls came in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 74-68, to put SDSU in the second round for the second time in three years.
Brooklyn Meyer was deemed honorable mention All-America, was a finalist for the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Award and landed on the All-Summit League first team in 2024-25. Paige Meyer was also conference first-team selection while Haleigh Timmer earned an honorable mention nod. Katie Vasecka was named to the Summit League all-freshman team. Brooklyn Meyer, Paige Meyer and Mesa Byom were three of five players named to the Summit League’s all-defensive team.
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Jones came to South Dakota State from Kansas State, where she spent the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons as the Wildcats’ director of basketball administration. At K-State, Jones was responsible for a number of administrative duties, including team operations and budget management.Â
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The Wildcats went 45-25 in Jones’ two seasons in Manhattan and went to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament in 2024. K-State was ranked as high at No. 2 in the AP Poll during the 2023-24 season and spent 19 consecutive weeks in the AP top-25.Â
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Prior to joining the staff at K-State, Jones was an assistant coach at Wayne State, her alma mater, from 2020 to 2022. Three Wildcats earned All-NSIC honors during that time, including two being named the NSIC South Player of the Year. Jones was also a graduate assistant coach at Northwestern College in Iowa for the 2019-20 season, where she helped the Red Raiders go 17-11 overall. Four Northwestern players earned All-GPAC honors in 2020.Â
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Jones competed in both basketball and track and field for four seasons (2014-18) at Wayne State. She scored 754 career points as a Wildcat and led the team in 3-point shooting as a junior and senior. In track and field, Jones was the 2016 NSIC outdoor discus champion and national qualifier.Â
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Jones is a native of Sundance, Wyoming. She earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Wayne State in 2018 and a master’s degree in education from Northwestern in 2021.Â
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