SIOUX FALLS – For the fifth time in her collegiate career and second week in a row, South Dakota State’s Teresa Toscano was named Summit League Women’s Golfer of the Week.
The junior from Huelva, Spain, won her second individual title of the season and third of her career, capturing the GCU Invitational on Feb. 23-24 in Phoenix.
Toscano won a three-woman playoff with a birdie on the first hole’She shot a career-tying 4-under-par 212 (70-71-71) and collected 12 birdies. Her first title this year came Sept. 1, 2018, at the season-opening UNO Invitational.
Toscano leads the Jackrabbits with a 72.9 stroke average and ranks second in the Summit League. Nine of her 21 rounds have been par or lower this season, and she has two top-five and four top-10 finishes.
INDIANAPOLIS – Former South Dakota State cornerback Jordan Brown will take the next step in pursuing a professional playing career by participating in the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine this weekend at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Brown is scheduled to report Friday for registration, orientation and interviews. He will go through a series of examinations and testing, along with additional interviews Saturday and Sunday, before wrapping up with on-field workouts Monday.
Coverage of the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine is available on NFL Network.
A native of Scottsdale, Ariz., Brown was a three-year starter for the Jackrabbits. He was honored as a first-team all-Missouri Valley Football Conference selection in both 2017 and 2018, and was named to multiple Football Championship Subdivision All-America squads following his senior season.
Brown, who earned an invitation to the Reese’s Senior Bowl all-star game, led the Jackrabbits with 12 pass breakups and ranked second with three interceptions during his senior year. He also forced a fumble and registered 29 total tackles, 22 of which were solo stops.
Heading into the Combine, Brown is projected by many ratings services as a mid-round pick in the NFL Draft, which is scheduled for April 25-27. Brown is the third SDSU football player in the last two years to earn an invitation to the Combine, joining Dallas Goedert and Jake Wieneke from the 2017 team. Goedert went on to be a second-round selection by the Philadelphia Eagles, while Wieneke spent training camp with the Minnesota Vikings after signing as a free agent, and is currently a member of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League.
BROOKINGS – The South Dakota State women’s basketball team’s Think Pink game Feb. 20 raised $12,875 for the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Center with the sale of its pink Under Armour jerseys.
The Jackrabbits’ Under Armour pink jerseys were auctioned immediately following their win over Purdue Fort Wayne and sold for between $475 and $2,300.
BROOKINGS – The Jackrabbit Athletic Scholarship Auction is two months away. Presented by Sanford Health and First PREMIER Bank, the annual event will be held Saturday, April 27, at Frost Arena.
The 2019 auction once again has a goal of raising $1 million toward student-athlete scholarships. All proceeds from the evening will be matched 2-to-1 by an anonymous donor, allowing individuals to triple their impact on student-athletes. The auction has hit the million-dollar mark each of the past two years thanks to the generous match, including a record $1,151,559 in 2018.
Event sponsorships are available for $1,250, which includes either tickets for a table of 10 guests or eight guests plus a Jackrabbit coach. Table sponsorships are $750, with individual tickets available for $75 per person. All tickets include a steak dinner.
Sponsorships, tickets and mobile bidding are all available through Jacks2019.givesmart.com. Doors open at 4 p.m. on April 27, starting with a social hour and silent auction. Dinner and a live auction featuring a number of one-of-a-kind Jackrabbit items will follow.
Auction items can be viewed and bid on through mobile bidding. A select number of items will be available for purchase starting April 12, with mobile bidding for silent-auction items beginning on April 19.
For more information or to donate items, which are tax-deductible, please contact the Athletics Development Office at 605-697-7475 or jackrabbitclub@sdstate.edu.
