Lone Hill, Hobart

HOBART LONE HILL (Born 1936. Died 2018.) 1956 Rapid City Central graduate who attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Born in Pine Ridge. Hobart started boxing his brothers at a young age when one of their dad’s friends, a former boxer, gave his friend’s children his boxing gloves. Hobart was hooked from the […]

James, Jerry

The 1980 South Dakota State grad was the No. 1 rated amateur boxer in the United States at 165 pounds in 1988. That year the Brooklyn native competed internationally against Cuba and Europe and in the U.S. Olympic Trials, where a controversial ruling kept him out of the Olympics. Amazingly, his boxing career spanned less […]

Jefferson, Pat

One of South Dakota’s greatest boxers, Jefferson had a 249-24 record as an amateur from 1965-80. He had a streak of 42 consecutive wins from 1970-73. The 1975 Rapid City Central High grad was the first South Dakotan to win a national boxing title, at the 1973 Junior Olympics. Jefferson participated in the national Golden […]