SDPB & SDHSAA State Football Championship Coverage

The South Dakota Football Coaches Association has chosen their All-State high school football teams for the seven classes of the South Dakota High School Activities Association and All Nations Football Conference.

It was a rematch for the championship in Class 11AAA this season. However, this time it was a different team hoisting the top hardware. Brandon Valley defeated Sioux Falls Lincoln 34-27 on Saturday night in Vermillion at the Dakota Dome to win the title.

It was a rematch from a year ago, but with a different result. Sioux Falls Christian held on late to defeat Lennox 28-24 in the 2025 11A game.

For the eighth time in the past nine years, Pierre TF Riggs has won the state 11AA football championship. The Governors defeated Yankton 56-35 on Friday night at the Dakota Dome in Vermillion to win the crown.

After finishing runner-up six times as a football program at state, the St. Thomas More football program can finally celebrate a state championship. The Cavaliers defeated Elk Point-Jefferson 48-38 in a fun back and forth battle on Friday afternoon at the Dakota Dome in Vermillion.

Because girls basketball and volleyball weren’t sanctioned in South Dakota during her high school years, Craig Mattick’s In Play guest missed those opportunities but later started the De Smet volleyball program, leading it to the state tournament in each of its first five seasons. She went on to become one of South Dakota’s most respected volleyball officials, working 34 state tournaments — Huron Tiger Kim Weed.

This week, Nate Wek and Jason Andera outline several basketball classics over the next couple of weeks, including the epic Lakota Nation Invitational and the newly formed Midwest Miracles Classic.