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Kate Ginsbach, a 2007 graduate of Hot Springs High School, has recently taken her mountain biking to new heights, including competing in endurace races up to 250 miles in length, like the one shown here in Alaska.

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Publisher’s Note: This ongoing new feature is written by recently-retired Rapid City Journal Sports Editor Richard Anderson, who is a 1977 graduate of Hot Springs High School. Upcoming articles will feature alumni athletes from any...

Photo by Kelvin Lorenz

Hot Springs juniors Dawson Kleppe (51) and Caleb Rickenbach (57) lead running back Landon Iverson across the line of scrimmage for a big gain against Aberdeen Roncalli last Thursday night. The Bison offensive line helped pave the way for a combined 448 yards on the ground for Hot Springs’ three-headed rushing attack including Preston Iverson with 197 yards, Landon Iverson with 174 yards and and Camron Maciejewski with 79 yards.

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By Brett...

Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star

Hot Springs junior Modes Kerr gets set to haul in a 33-yard reception from quarterback Preston Iverson which brought the ball to inside the 10-yard line to set up the team’s second touchdown in last Thursday’s first-round playoff game versus Bridgewater-Emery/Ethan.

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By Brett Nachtigall

Publisher

HOT SPRINGS – Hot Springs head coach Ben Kramer called it a “signature win for our program,” after his...

Photos by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star

The latest individual inductees into the Hot Springs Bison Athletics Hall of Fame include, above, the 1963 undefeated Bison football team, and below left, Joe Beehler, Joyce Farrell and Cameron Weiss.  Special guests and honorary members of the Hall of Fame included Hot Springs’ own Miss South Dakotas, below right, from left: Susan Inman Thelen (1971), Penni Larget Hansen (1981), Amy DeHeer Larson (1985), Autumn Simunek Conrad...

By Brett Nachtigall

Publisher

HOT SPRINGS – A little more 25 years ago, Hot Springs Jaycees members Father Mark McCormick, John Blatchford and Mark Rude – along with a few others – watched an IronMan competition on television and thought, “what if we did something like that here in Hot Springs?”

The group then went to work on creating the first-ever Southern Hills Triathlon, which debuted in 1998 and was then-known as the Hot Springs Jaycees / Mammoth Triathlon and took place on Labor Day...