Aug. 1: SDSU football captains for the 2024 season: Adam Bock (Solon, IA); Mark Gronowski (Naperville, IL); Dalys Beanum (Omaha, NE); Jarod DePriest (Trivoli, IL); Gus Miller (Brookings) and Tucker Large (Sioux Falls Roosevelt). That means with Miller and Large as two of the captains, the Jacks will take to the field this fall for the 11th season in a row led by at least one team captain from South Dakota. Since 2016, 16 of the Jacks’ 44 captains have been from South Dakota: Mason McCormick of Sioux Falls Roosevelt in 2023 and 2022; McCormick, Wes Genant of Parkston and Xavier Ward of Freeman in fall 2021; Genant and Preston Tetzlaff of Brookings in spring 2021; Evan Greeneway of Yankton in 2019; Dalton Cox of Aberdeen Roncalli in 2018; Taryn Christion of Sioux Falls Roosevelt in 2018; Christion and Dallas Goedert of Britton in 2017; Shayne Gottlob of Salem in 2016; and Nick Mears of Milbank in 2016.Aug. 3: USD graduate Chris Nilsen, one of the world’s best pole vaulters, competed 
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