Casey, Tom

1966 Wasson (Colorado Springs) High School/1970 University of Colorado. Was a high school gymnast (excellent tumbler and on the trampoline) who earned a scholarship to the University of Colorado where he competed in gymnastics. Came to Pine Ridge Reservation in June 1970 while working as a Vista volunteer and on his master’s degree in sociology. […]

Christensen, Pal

A lifelong Yankton resident, Christensen refereed high school and college football and basketball games in a career that spanned more than 50 years. He reffed high school boys and girls basketball for 37 years and prep football for 50 years. He reffed his first football game Oct. 23, 1947, six days after his wedding, filling […]

Clark, Doug

Doug Clark is a 1971 graduate of Sioux Falls Washington High School. He attended USD-Springfield. Clark is one of the most recognized and respected dirt track racing officials in the United States. He was a flagman for approximately 45 years, including 30 years at Huset’s Speedway in Brandon and almost 40 years at the most […]

Clement, Amanda

Born March 20,1888, in Hudson. 1909 University of Nebraska grad. Clement is recognized as the first woman to umpire baseball games. An exhibit at the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., honors her accomplishments. In 1904, at age 16 she umpired a game for the first time. At that time, the baseball game was […]

Comstock, Ev

Born in Kansas in 1909. Known as “Mr. Golf” in South Dakota, he was the first South Dakotan in the PGA Half Century Club, for those who have been pros for 50 years or longer. First encounter with golf came as a 10-year-old caddie in 1922 after his family moved to a farm right beside […]

Conley, Bruce

Bruce Conley covered South Dakota sports for 25 years as a reporter with the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. For the last three years of his 28-year tenure with the newspaper he was a general assignment reporter. Conley resigned in 1990 to accept the position of News Information Director at Augustana College. He retired in 2010 […]

Connors, Howard

Born July 12, 1917 in Jefferson. 1934 Jefferson grad. Went to USD-Springfield and the University of South Dakota, participating in basketball, football and baseball two years each. Connors, a USD math professor for almost 40 years, officiated high school and college football (40 seasons), basketball (36) and track (50). Was the first official elected to […]

Cosgrove, Francis

Operator of a weekly newspaper in Garden City, Cosgrove was one of the founders of the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association (in 1933; he was secretary-treasurer) and the man regarded as most responsible for its glory days in the 1930s and ’40s. Except for service in World War II, Cosgrove worked in an executive capacity […]

Courtney, Kathie

Kathie Courtney, PhD. ATC Retired, is a 1970 graduate of Onida High School and a 1974 graduate of South Dakota State University. She is a member of five athletic halls of fame. Dr. Kathie (Demery) Courtney was a pioneer in athletic training, nationally and in South Dakota. After becoming only the 14th nationally certified female […]

Crevier, Tanya

1973 Jefferson grad. 1977 SDSU grad. Billed as the ‘world’s finest female basketball handler,’ the 5-foot-3 Crevier travels extensively, performing her ballhandling routines at school assemblies, camps, churches and at halftimes of many college and pro games. She’s also appeared on numerous television programs. Was a member of the San Francisco Pioneers one year and […]