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Success in intercollegiate athletics at South Dakota State the past decade has been about as much on the competition field as it has been in the classroom. ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ student-athletes are among the most successful in NCAA Division I sports when considering:

• Jackrabbits teams have claimed 43 regular season or postseason conference titles in eight different sports in the past 10 years.
• ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ has won five Summit League Commissioner’s Cups for overall athletic excellence, six William Steinbrecher Men’s All-Sports Awards and two Helen Smiley Women’s All-Sports Awards.
• Jackrabbits teams have qualified for NCAA Tournament events 28 times with several other teams earning berths in other Division I postseason events.
• Since 2019, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ is the only Division I program to have its football and men’s and women’s basketball programs all reach the postseason eight straight years.

Individually, student-athletes at ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ have combined for nearly 950 all-conference honors the past 10 years, including 54 All-Americans. ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ student-athletes accumulated nearly 2,500 academic all-conference awards in that time, with 38 earning the distinction of Academic All-Americans.

2022 Highlights

• Led by individual champion Gabe Peters, the Jackrabbits men’s cross country team claimed its Summit League-record seventh consecutive championship and the program’s ninth conference title in the last 10 years in October.
• The Jackrabbits women’s basketball team earned its first Women’s National Invitation Tournament championship in March, defeating Seton Hall 82-50 in front of a capacity crowd at Frost Arena. The team ended the year 29-9, winning 26 of its last 28 games.
• Jackrabbits softball earned its second consecutive Summit League Conference Championship and trip to the NCAA Division I Softball Championship Tournament in 2022. The squad finished the year with a 41-13 record and during the two-year span had an overall mark of 84 wins and 21 losses. A total of 15 student-athletes were named Easton/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athletes after earning a 3.5 GPA or better. As a team, ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ ranked 12th in the NCAA with a 3.65 cumulative GPA.
• The Jackrabbits football team won its first national championship in 2022, defeating North Dakota State 45-21 in Frisco, Texas. The team won a school-record 14 consecutive games following a loss to Iowa to begin the year. The Jacks' 8-0 Missouri Valley Football Conference record earned the program its first outright conference title in the FCS era.