VERMILLION -The University of South Dakota football team will host the first of four team camps that they will be conducting this summer, beginning Sunday.

The Coyote football camp, which is the largest NCAA Division I team camp in the Midwest, gives high school athletes an opportunity to develop their football skills under the guidance of USD head coach Ed Meierkort and his coaching staff.

The camps begin with an 11-man camp that goes from Sunday through Tuesday and then will be immediately followed by another 11-man camp running Wednesday through July 11. USD will then hold an 8- and 9-man camp July 13 through July 15 before concluding with one more 11-man camp July 16-18.

"This year we have a great number of teams coming in to participate at our camp, we expect over 90 teams to be on the USD campus in the upcoming weeks," said Meierkort. "These programs get the chance to go up against other programs from around the region that they normally wouldn't face during the regular season. Teams like Harlan High School in Iowa and Sioux Falls O'Gorman, who haven't lost often the last three years, will have the chance to compete against each other. We run a highly competitive, but safe camp. We blow a quick whistle but the contact is high spirted."

Aberdeen golfer to enter hall of fame

ABERDEEN - Roger Legge, of Aberdeen, will become the 36th person to be inducted into the South Dakota Golf Association Hall of Fame during a ceremony July 10 at Moccasin Creek Country Club.

Legge won the 1996 SDGA Match Play Championship and finished second in the Men's Stroke Play Championship five times, including 1993 and 1995 when he lost in a playoff each time to Ryan Jansa. Legge also won the Dakota Open in Aberdeen a record seven times.

A member of the USGA Regional Affairs Committee, Legge served on the SDGA Board of Directors from 1997-2006 and was the president in 2000. He has also served on the Moccasin Creek Board of Directors and was the club's Greens Committee chairman.

Legge will be honored during a dinner at Moccasin Creek Country Club following the completion of the match play seeding round. Tickets for the dinner cost $21 per person. To reserve a ticket, call Moccasin Country Club at 605-226-0900. Social hour begins at 6:30 pm with dinner scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Coyotes name Amy Klyse softball head coach

VERMILLION - Joel Nielsen, director of athletics at the University of South Dakota, has announced that Amy Klyse has been named head coach of the Coyote softball team. Klyse served as the interim head coach in 2008 and led the team to a third-place finish in the North Central Conference and was named NCC Co-Coach of the Year.

"I'm very excited to get the opportunity to continue my coaching career at USD and I look forward to representing Coyote softball as we transition to DI," said Klyse.

"The team we have coming back is full of talent and we have some outstanding freshman that will be joining us in the fall. I'm very thankful to everyone who felt I deserve the chance to continue coaching here."

Klyse earned her coach of the year honor after guiding USD to a 6-6 record in conference play and guiding the team to the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament. She joined the Coyote coaching staff in 2006 and has served as the team's pitching coach for all three seasons.

This past season, one of the three players to earn all-conference honors was pitcher Brittany Donohue. The sophomore southpaw had one of the top five ERA's in the league as she finished the season with an 8-11 record and a 2.44 ERA.

Miles Community College to Host Individual Camp

MILES CITY, Mont. - Miles Community College men's basketball head coach Shawn Neary has announced that he will be holding his individual basketball camp this month.

The Offensive Skill Development Camp is a three-day intense teaching camps that will help the individual player to improve their fundamental skills as a basketball player.

The camp will run July 27 through July 29 and is open to any boy or girl entering the eight grade through senior year. The camp costs $160 for those staying on campus or $120 for those commuting. MCC is offering a $20 discount if two or more players from the same high school attend.

The camp will cover the following topics - ball handling, shot preparation, shooting fundamentals, scoring moves, free-throw shooting and creating your own shot.

For more information, contact Shawn Neary at 406-874-6213 or nearys@milescc.edu or visit mccpioneers.com for the registration form.