See the 82 athletes from northeastern South Dakota competing in winter college sports
Eighty-two former area high school athletic standouts are competing this winter for college teams in nine states.
The list was compiled by visiting college athletic web sites. Our apologies if we've missed somebody, but just let us know and we'll add them to our list (sports@thepublicopinion.com).
Here is the list of area athletes competing on the college teams that have opened their 2023-24 winter seasons:
Fall 2023: The 2023 college rosters include more than 90 former area high school athletes
South Dakota
• South Dakota State — Kalen Garry and Damon Wilkinson of De Smet, men's basketball; Ross Ritter of Watertown, men’s swimming; Pierre Lear of Brandon (Watertown High School grad), Jake Werner of Watertown, Carson Kirwan of Castlewood and Tyler O'Neill of Clark, men’s indoor track; and Hadley Carlson of Arlington, women’s indoor track.
• South Dakota — Alayna Falak of Watertown, women’s indoor track; and Bennett Schwenn of Milbank, men's indoor track.
• Augustana University — Amaya Street and Savanna Osowski of Milbank, women’s swimming; Talon DiCarlo of Watertown, men's swimming; and Nick Batchelor of Milbank, men's indoor track.
• Northern State — Cael Larson of Webster, wrestling; Brynn Alfson of Hayti and Alayna Benike of Castlewood, women’s basketball; Evan Halbe and Jesse Pietz of Watertown, Ricky Berndt of Brandt, Kaden St. Pierre of Hayti and Blake Stoks of Porter, Minn. (Canby), men’s indoor track; and Emily Breske of Webster, Kamryn Schwartz of Volga Vanessa Christenson of Rosholt, Kenzie Hamann of Clear Lake, Avery Miles of Turton and Danielle Hawley of Estelline, women’s indoor track.
• Sioux Falls — Kami Wadsworth of Hayti and Megan Fannin of Watertown, women’s basketball; and Avery Bartunek of Dawson (Minn.), Sierra Stanton of Watertown, Greta Snaza of Milbank and Mackenzie Everson of Castlewood, women’s indoor track; and Collin Dingsor of Watertown, men's indoor track.
• Black Hills State — Sully Mack of Watertown, men’s indoor track.
• Dakota State — Miakken Vincent of Volga, women’s basketball; Nathan Ingalls and Caleb Roberts of Watertown, Xander Sheehan of Hayti, Grayson Madson of Rosholt and Jack Hemmen of White, men’s indoor track.
• Mount Marty — Damon Opdahl of Summit, men's baskeball; and Tague Tvedt of Clear Lake, men's indoor track.
• Dakota Wesleyan — Jaida Young and Abby Bramer of Watertown, women's basketball; Drew Norberg of Watertown, Tristan Nielsen of Castlewood, Oliver Vincent of Brookings (Sioux Valley) and Braydon Simon of Clear Lake, men's basketball; Cole Holden of Watertown, men's indoor track and Tanley Goebel of Arlington, women's indoor track.
North Dakota
• North Dakota State — Barrett Schneck of Milbank, wrestling; Jacob Van Dusseldorp of Watertown, men’s indoor track; and Trinity Hodorff of Watertown, women's indoor track.
• Jamestown — Tyler Dean of Watertown, men’s indoor track; Emma Pickrel of Watertown, women’s swimming; and Reagan Johnson of Volga, women's basketball.
Minnesota
• Southwest Minnesota State —Kennadi Buchholz of De Smet, women’s basketball; Madi Cyrus and Maddy Storm of Watertown, women’s swimming; and Nathan Lear of Brandon (formerly of Watertown), men’s indoor track.
• Concordia (Minn.) — Jaclyn Lloyd of Watertown, women's hockey.
• Minnesota State Moorhead — Ayden Ochs of Rosholt, women's indoor track and Dane Christopherson of Sisseton, wrestling.
• Minnesota West Technical and Community College — Ian Johnson of Watertown, wrestling.
• Northwestern (Minn.) — Kelton Vincent of Volga, men’s basketball.
• Minnesota Morris — Lexus Redthunder of Sisseton, women’s basketball.
• Martin Luther — Martin Raasch of Sioux Falls (Great Plains Lutheran), men’s indoor track; Erika Gosch of Rapid City (Great Plains Lutheran) and Hannah Kratz of Sterrett, Ala. (Great Plains Lutheran) women’s indoor track; and Ethan Kjenstad of Aberdeen (Great Plains Lutheran) annd Samuel Hansen of Roscoe (Great Plains Lutheran, men's basketball.
• Bethany Lutheran — Chloe Kuhlman of Watertown, women’s indoor track.
• Augsburg — Brooklyn Conrad of Ortonville (Minn.), women's wrestling.
Iowa
• Dordt — Trinity Watson of Henry, women's basketball.
Missouri
• Central Missouri— Myah Morris of Watertown, women's indoor track.
Nebraska
Midland Lutheran — Maggie Heesch, women's indoor track..
Nebraska Wesleyan — Burke Lauseng of Watertown, men's swimming.
Oklahoma
• Oklahoma — Danielle Sievers of Gary, gymnastics.
Texas
• Baylor — Cooper Mack of Watertown, men’s indoor track.
Florida
• Florida— Gracelyn Leiseth of Hayti, women's indoor track.
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This article originally appeared on Watertown Public Opinion: Northeastern South Dakota athletes playing winter college sports
