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In Play with Craig Mattick
In Play with Craig Mattick

In Play Conversations with Craig Mattick will have some of the more in-depth discussions in South Dakota – all things sports.

Through these conversations, we’ll learn about the players, programs, and legends who helped shape the current sports landscape of the Mount Rushmore State.

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  • Craig Mattick talks with Tom Casey who is known as the voice of high school sports on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
  • In the latest episode of In Play, Craig Mattick talks with Lyle Dusty LeBeaux one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in South Dakota with 26-years of experience - all on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
  • She's the second-winningest coach in South Dakota high school volleyball history. Anita Boeck, who coached for 29 seasons in the Mt. Rushmore state won 731 games. She helped lead the Arlington Cardinals to 14 state tournament appearances, six runner-up finishes, and a state championship in 2010.
  • He put up record-breaking numbers at Brandon Valley and then went on to have a successful collegiate career at quarterback for South Dakota State University, Austin Sumner talks with Craig Mattick.
  • For the past twenty-two years, Jean O'Hara has been coaching volleyball at Chester Area. Despite only having one state title, the Flyers have been one of the best volleyball programs in the state throughout Jean's tenure. Not only does she have over 450 wins, but she's helped lead her squad to the state tournament a dozen times.
  • The SDHSAA sanctioned high school soccer in South Dakota in 2011. Fast forward a decade and there are two classes of competition and the level of play is as good as ever.
  • A teacher, a coach and an administrator. He's a Nebraska native, he coached and taught in Vermilion for 17 years before he become the Assistant Executive Director at the South Dakota High School Activities Association.
  • He grew up in Mobridge, played college football at USD, and then went on to be a tremendous high school coach in South Dakota. Harvey Naasz led Winner's football team to three state championships and was runner-up once during his time as the head coach of the Warriors.
  • Throughout her high school career, Brittany Garner of Rapid City Stevens won seven gold medal awards In both 2004 and 2006, she won three. Garner's relay team set the state meet record in the 4X400 in 2006 as well, which still stands to this day. She went on to run track at SDSU after high school.
  • From being a stand out runner for Huron high school, to being a decorated runner at SDSU, Rob DeHaven is one of the most well known running athletes in state history. And this doesn't include his olympic appearance in Sydney, Australia, or his sixth place finish in the 2001 Boston Marathon. He's now coaching cross country at SDSU, a place he's called home for the past 17-years.