Eastern South Dakota Conference

Eastern South Dakota Conference
	ESD
Established	1927
Association	SDHSAA
Members	8

The Eastern South Dakota Conference is a high school athletic conference made up of eight teams of Class AA in the East River Region of South Dakota. All schools are members of the SDHSAA. Sports offered are boys & girls basketball, football, boys & girls track & field, boys and girls cross country, volleyball, wrestling, competitive dance & cheer, and, starting in 2012, boys & girls soccer.

Current members

Team & mascot	School	Enrollment	Year joined
Aberdeen Central Golden Eagles	Central HS	1,176	1927
Brandon Valley Lynx	Brandon Valley HS	955	1989
Brookings Bobcats	Brookings HS	767	1927
Harrisburg Tigers	Harrisburg HS	812	2012
Huron Tigers	Huron HS	691	1927
Mitchell Kernels	Mitchell HS	764	1927
Pierre T.F. Riggs Governors & Lady Govs	T.F.Riggs HS	765	1966
Watertown Arrows	Watertown HS	1,145	1927
Yankton Bucks & Gazelles	Yankton HS	910	1927

Former members

Team & mascot	School	Year joined	Year left
Madison Bulldogs	Madison HS	1927,1939	1935, 1982
Vermillion Tanagers	Vermillion HS	1930	1932
Redfield Pheasants	Redfield HS	1927	1931
Sioux Falls Washington Warriors	Sioux Falls Washington HS	1927	1966

Conference history

The Eastern South Dakota Conference consists of eight of the Class AA teams in the East River Region of South Dakota. The conference was established in 1927 and went through many changes as schools only wanted to participate in certain sports. In 1994 Sioux Falls Lincoln, Roosevelt, Washington and O'Gorman were forced to leave the Sioux Interstate Conference with Sioux City, Iowa schools due to the non traditional girls sports seasons. The four schools applied for ESD membership but were denied due to the conference not wanting to expand beyond eight teams, in 1996 The Sioux Falls Schools approached Independent West River Schools Rapid City Central, Rapid City Stevens, Spearfish and Sturgis Brown to form a conference. After several attempts, the Greater Dakota Conference was formed. In the late 2000s West River schools have pushed to join the ESD Conference only to be denied membership, the 2012-2013 school year the Greater Dakota Conference will cease as a new Conference named the Metro Conference will be formed consisting of Sioux Falls Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, O'Gorman and Brandon Valley, thereby leaving Rapid City Stevens, Rapid City Central and Sturgis out of a conference. (Spearfish left the GDC for the Black Hills Conference in 2011 due to dropping to Class A.) The Metro Conference was formed due to travel concerns as the distance between Sioux Falls and Rapid City is 396 miles. Brandon Valley will be in a dual membership with the Metro and ESD Conferences. Rapid City Central, Stevens and Sturgis continue to attempt to get into the ESD.

Conference champions

Fall Sports

Football

1932 Huron
1934 Huron
1945 Huron
1960 Huron
1969 Huron
1978 Huron
1989 Huron
1991 Huron
2016 Harrisburg
2017 Pierre

Girls Volleyball

1999 Huron
2010 Huron
2016 Harrisburg

Girls Tennis

1982 Huron
1984 Huron
1985 Huron
1986 Huron
1987 Huron
2002 Huron
2011 Aberdeen Central
2012 Watertown
2013 Aberdeen Central

Boys Golf

1962 Huron
1963 Huron
1968 Huron
1973 Huron
1976 Huron
1977 Huron

Boys Cross Country

1965 Watertown
1966 Yankton
1967 Yankton
1968 Yankton
1969 Yankton
1970 Yankton
1971 Yankton
1972 Brookings
1973 Madison
1974 Yankton
1975 Watertown
1976 Watertown
1977 Watertown
1978 Brookings
1979 Watertown
1980 Watertown
1981 Watertown
1982 Watertown
1983 Mitchell
1984 Watertown
1985 Aberdeen Central
1986 Watertown
1987 Watertown
1988 Huron
1989 Pierre
1990 Mitchell
1991 Yankton
1992 Yankton
1993 Aberdeen Central
1994 Brookings
1995 Brookings
1996 Aberdeen Central
1997 Pierre
1998 Yankton
1999 Yankton
2000 Yankton
2001 Yankton
2002 Yankton
2003 Aberdeen Central
2004 Yankton
2005 Yankton
2006 Yankton
2007 Yankton
2008 Yankton
2009 Brandon Valley
2010 Brookings
2011 Brandon Valley
2012 Brookings
2013 Brookings
2014 Brandon Valley
2015 Pierre
2016 Aberdeen Central
2017 Aberdeen Central
2018 Aberdeen Central
2019 Aberdeen Central

Girls Cross Country

1976 Watertown
1977 Pierre
1978 Yankton
1979 Yankton
1980 Brookings
1981 Huron
1982 Brookings
1983 Brookings
1984 Huron
1985 Huron
1986 Brookings
1987 Huron
1988 Huron
1989 Huron
1990 Mitchell
1991 Watertown
1992 Watertown
1993 Watertown
1994 Watertown
1995 Yankton
1996 Aberdeen Central
1997 Yankton
1998 Watertown
1999 Watertown
2000 Watertown
2001 Watertown
2002 Yankton
2003 Yankton
2004 Yankton
2005 Yankton
2006 Yankton
2007 Yankton
2008 Yankton
2009 Yankton
2010 Aberdeen Central
2011 Aberdeen Central
2012 Brandon Valley
2013 Harrisburg
2014 Brandon Valley
2015 Aberdeen Central
2016 Aberdeen Central
2017 Aberdeen Central
2018 Aberdeen Central
2019 Brandon Valley

Winter Sports

Boys Basketball

2004 Huron
2009 Huron
2010 Huron

Girls Basketball

1990 Huron
1999 Huron

Wrestling

2009 Huron
2011 Huron

Spring Sports

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References

http://local.brookings.k12.sd.us/activities/esdhistory.pdf

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