Freund, Kay (Stormo)
A two-time South Dakota High School Girls Athlete of the Year, Stormo still holds the state record for the 800-meter run, a 2:07.9 she set in 1978. The time was the third fastest in the nation that year. Shortly after graduating as salutatorian, she won the 800 at the International Prep meet in Naperville, Ill., […]
Goehner (Sieler), Heather
In 1998, Heather Sieler won the Howard Wood Dakota Relays girls special 800-meter run in 2:18.40 as an eighth grader. Later in the month she helped the Huron Tigers to runner-up honors at the state track & field meet with three gold medal performances. Her career track achievements include a dozen Eastern South Dakota Conference […]
Guebert (Olson), Melissa
Melissa Olson Guebert graduated from Sioux Falls Lincoln High School in 1983. She was named South Dakota Miss Basketball, Class A Player of the Year, and an All-State player, averaging 19.2 points and 8.0 rebounds in her senior year. She was the state champion in the 100m hurdles in 1983 and the 300m hurdles in […]
Grubb (Coyle), Cathy
1979 Belle Fourche/1983 Northern State graduate. Cathy (Coyle) Grubb was a two-time All-American basketball player at Northern State who led Wolves to a four-year record of 98-15. She scored 1,342 career points and was one of the school’s best-ever free throw shooters (82 percent career average). She led the Wolves to third in the nation […]
Gremmels, Jim
The Sioux Falls native and 1952 Augustana graduate has the distinction of being the first basketball player to win back-to-back Most Valuable Player awards in the North Central Conference, doing so in 1951 and ’52. The awards are especially impressive considering he earned them while playing on teams that finished last and next to last […]
Green, Dick
Born April 21, 1941, in Sioux City, Iowa. 1959 Mitchell HS grad. Green was a slick-fielding second baseman for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics for 12 years (1963-74), almost all of them as a starter. The 5-foot-10, 180-pounder hit .240 for his career. His best season was 1969, when he hit .275 with 12 […]
Gibbs, Donovan
(Born 1931. Died 2010.) 1949 Claremont High School/USD. Star running back who led Claremont to three straight unbeaten seasons to begin its national-record 61-game win streak for six-man football. In 1948 Claremont set another national record by scoring 608 points in a 10-game season and Gibbs likely set a national individual scoring record but game […]
Fletcher, Randy
Among South Dakota’s best long-range shooters, Randy Fletcher averaged 27.0 points per game as a high school junior and 33.9 ppg his senior season to earn All-State recognition. A four-year starter for Reliance High School, he scored more than 1,900 career points. Reliance was undefeated for the regular season but lost to Alexandria in the […]
Gassman, Dave
Every summer for almost 50 years Gassman played baseball, nearly all of it in his hometown of Canova. For most of those years he did not just play, but dominated in spectacular fashion. In a 40-year amateur baseball career, the 6-2 1/2, 190-pound right-hander won more games (376) and struck out more batters (5,591) than […]
Engelmann, Weert
Miller High School. 1930 SDSU grad. Was all-conference in football and basketball at SDSU, but he may have been even better in track. As a sophomore, he placed in six events at the North Central Conference meet, winning two. As a junior, he entered seven events and won six (low and high hurdles, discus, shot […]