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Ten athletes from Watertown and Aberdeen Central have been named to the 2026 All-Japanese South Dakota Convention Aggressive Cheer and Dance Groups launched on Wednesday, Oct. 21.

Seniors Ashlynn Andrews, Kendra Buchholz, Lyric Diedrich and Madison Giang every earned All-ESD cheer honors and juniors Avery Meyer and Emory Whetsel and sophomore Ariya Norton All-ESD dance honors for Watertown. Andrews, Buchholz, Meyer and Whetsel every repeated from 2025.

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Aberdeen Central honorees embrace seniors Payten Goldade (cheer) and Alexis Johnson and Courtney Haverkamp (dance). Johnson additionally made the crew final fall.

Harrisburg cheer and Brandon Valley dance gained ESD titles.

The twentieth SDHSAA Aggressive Cheer & Dance Championships are set for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23-24 at Speedy Metropolis. Class A colleges compete on Friday and Class AA colleges on Saturday.

• Different All-ESD Cheer — Seniors: Logan Grygiel, Kendis Sackreiter and Mija Koolmo of Brookings; Piper Fridrich and Brooklyn Gale of Harrisburg; Allyra Kerlin and Eh Dah Paw of Huron; Cetia Wright of Mitchell; Graceanna O’Neill of Pierre; Tessa Brech, Hailee Slattery and Emersyn Cauwels of Tea Space; and Quinn Brinkman, Ava Dryden and Mariam Touray of Yankton. Juniors: Tyanna McClemans and Avah Osterkamp of Brookings, Lexi Huggins of Harrisburg, Sarah Wilson of Tea Space and Tayla Klapperich of Yankton. Sophomores: Noraa Wipf of Brandon Valley, Madeline Hoff and Kenley Namanny of Harrisburg and Jozel Kok of Mitchell. Eighth-graders: Presley Baloun of Harrisburg, Hannah Werkmeister of Mitchell and Tayah Stanford of Tea Space. Fridrich, Gale, Hoff, Dah Paw, Brech, Cauwels, Brinkman and Touray additionally repeated from 2025.

• Different All-ESD Dance — Seniors: Hayden Poppe and Matalie Waters of Brandon Valley, Brooklyn Schlimgen of Mitchell, Ella Rood of Tea Space and Bethany Huff, Mayla Linke and Brecken Poppe of Yankton. Juniors: Addison Borchardt and Brianna Garry of Brandon Valley; Rylee Alves of Huron; Theo Briggs, Kenzleigh Griffin and Madi Moon of Mitchell; Jaylen Canine Eagle, Bristol Humphrey, Erin Maher and Brystol Miller of Pierre; and Avery Portillo and Marla Sayler of Yankton. Sophomores: Lauren Peterson and Ainsley Weatherill of Brandon Valley and Eden Crissinger and Gabriella Sturges of Harrisburg. Freshmen: Kiley Rutten and Cambree Stein of Harrisburg. Eighth-Graders: Angelle Plueger of Brookings and Elyse Lorenzen of Harrisburg. Poppe and Waters are repeat choices. Canine Eagle made the All-ESD dance crew in 2025.

Tutorial All-State Cross Nation

Forty-six space athletes have been named to the South Dakota Cross Nation and Monitor & Area Coaches Affiliation (SDCCTFCA) 2026 Cross Nation Tutorial All-State crew.

To qualify, a student-athlete should be a senior, have participated in cross nation as an athlete or handle for no less than three years and maintained a cumulative grade-point common of three.5 or greater.

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Space honorees embrace:

• Aberdeen Central — Carson Urlacher, Max Nelson, Allison Brenner, Khloe Cochran, Elsa Schiferl, Aspen Kline and Lilly Flood.

• Arlington — Madalyn Madsen and Addison Marone.

• Castlewood — Nolan Eidson.

• Clark-Willow Lake — Hadley Gjerde.

• De Smet — Jordan Botkin.

• Deuel — Caden Hourigan, Tyson Hagberg, Sutton Benck, Amelia Giese, Alexis Sodren and Shyla Tvedt.

• Faulkton Space — Korbin Stark and Cole Midday.

• Frederick Space — Titus Kippley.

• Nice Plains Lutheran — Chloe Berg, Sam Manian, Titus Hofinga, William LaBerge, Milo Schumacher and Marcus Kratz.

• Milbank — Beckham Berry, Liam Heller, Jeter Scoular, Zayda Townsend and Macy Mueller.

• North Central — Drew Arbach, Noah Ingerson and Grace Roth.

• Northwestern — Ty Boekelheide and Tara Blachford.

• Sisseton — Ryder Graff.

• Tri-State — Tucker Steffens and Cobin Raguse.

• Watertown — Dane Stark, Kathryn McElroy, Grace Checklist, David Peterson and Addison Reichling.

• Webster Space — Grady Wagner.

Minnesota Cross Nation

MADISON, MN — Karissa Anderson of Border West and Lac qui Parle Valley-Dawson-Boyd gained women division titles within the Camden Convention meet on Tuesday, Oct. 20 on the Madison Nation Membership.

Anderson gained the women’ 5,000-meter race in 18:42.7. Mya Pesek of Canby-Minneota took third, Lilly Lovgren of Ortonville fourth and Laura Schreier of LqPV-DB fifth within the race. LqPV-DB edged Canby-Minnesota for the crew title.

Collin Rosendahl of LqPV-DB took fourth to guide space runners within the boys’ 5,000.

SDSU’s Jake Olson wins one other tourney

DES MOINES, IA — Junior Jake Olson of Watertown helped the South Dakota State males’s golf crew shut out the autumn portion of its season on a excessive notice on the Zach Johnson Invitational on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

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Olson gained medalist honors and the Jackrabbits made up an 11-stroke deficit on the ultimate spherical to tie for first place.

Olson completed the tourney with an 8-under par 205, matching the very best 54-hole scorecard in program historical past. The junior additionally gained Ok-State’s Wildcat Invitational earlier this fall, making him the second Jackrabbit within the Division I period and first since 2013-14 to win a number of occasions in the identical season.

“I am clearly extraordinarily pleased with the entire crew, however what a fall season by Jake,” SDSU head coach Parker Edens stated. “To win a school event very troublesome however to do it twice within the fall season is particular. He is been so affected person together with his course of and his psychological toughness is one thing he needs to be so pleased with.”

Dakota State Corridor of Fame

MADISON — Sioux Valley graduate and Deubrook Space coach Rachelle (Lengkeek) DeBeer and Willow Lake native Lynn Schuett are members of the 2026 Dakota State Athletics Corridor of Fame Class honored that honored on Oct. 9.

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DeBeer competed in volleyball and indoor/outside observe and area at DSU earlier than graduating in 1997, serving to lead the Trojans to a few consecutive South Dakota Intercollegiate Convention (SDIC) outside observe titles from 1995-97. She was named DSU’s 1993 Volleyball Rookie of the Yr, earned outside observe All-SDIC honors and observe MVP recognition in 1994 and established a faculty file of 15.0 seconds within the 100-meter hurdles and was named Dakota State’s Feminine Athlete of the Yr in 1995.

In 1996, she certified for the 1996 NAIA nationwide indoor meet within the 55-meter hurdles and nationwide outodoor meet in each the 100 and 400 hurdles. She additionally helped set up a faculty file within the 400 relay earned All-SDIC honors in volleyball.

Her senior season included one other collection of accomplishments. DeBeer helped DSU win 1997 SDIC indoor crew championship, incomes All-SDIC honors and qualify for indoor nationals within the pentathlon and 55-meter hurdles and outside nationals within the 100 and 400 hurdles. She additionally contributed to highschool information within the medley, 800 and 1,600 relays.

DeBeer carried her ardour for athletics right into a prolonged profession in schooling and training. She compiled a 496-395 profession volleyball teaching file and took three groups to state tournaments. In observe and area, she was named the South Dakota Excessive Faculty Coaches Affiliation Ladies Monitor Coach of the Yr in 2017 and 2019 and led Deubrook Space to three-straight state Class B titles from 2017-19.

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Schuett, a 1978 DSU graduate, earned quite a few honors in soccer and observe at DSU. He was a three-time All-SDIC first-team honoree in soccer from 1976-78 and in addition earned NAIA All-District 12 first crew recognition in 1977 and 1978.

His collegiate success adopted an achieved prep profession that included first-team all-state honors in soccer and back-to-back state Class B shot put titles in observe (1974 and 1975).

After Dakota State, Schuett spent 36 years working in greater schooling and public colleges throughout South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Colorado. His profession included 30 years teaching soccer on the faculty and highschool ranges.

Comply with Watertown Public Opinion sports activities reporter Roger Merriam on X (previously referred to as Twitter) @PO_Sports or electronic mail: rmerriam@thepublicopinion.com

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