VERMILLION, S.D. — The University of South Dakota athletic department is proud to announce the 2025 Henry Heider Coyote Sports Hall of Fame class. This year's class features eight new inductees into the USD Hall of Fame, including seven athletes and one special contributor.
 
Football, swim and dive, and track and field each saw two nominees chosen to be inducted in this year's Hall of Fame class, as chosen by the USD Hall of Fame committee.
 
The class will be formerly inducted into the South Dakota athletics hall of fame with an on-campus ceremony held on Friday, October 24 – Hall of Fame weekend – ahead of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) clash with Illinois State on October 25.
 
Below is a deeper look at each 2025 inductee:
 
Dirk Craft, men's swim & dive (2001-05)
Craft, a 2006 graduate, is a 12-time All-American in nine relays and three individual events as a Coyote from 2001-05. He had a pair of seventh-place NCAA finishes in the 50 free in back-to-back seasons (2004, 2005) and an eighth-place finish in the 100 free (2004).
 
Furthermore, Craft finished top-16 in the nation nine times in his career, while being a member of two relay teams that finished third at the NCAA Championships and eight of the nine relay teams that earned All-America accolades finished inside the top-six.
 
He was the South Dakota MVP in three of his four seasons (2002, 2003, 2005) and helped lead the Coyotes to second-place finishes at the North Central Conference (NCC) Championships all four seasons. He won a pair of NCC titles in the 50-yard freestyle (2003) and the 200-yard medley relay (2005).
 
Craft earned his degree in political science from USD. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska and is the Executive Director of the Alaska Workforce Investment Board. Residing back in his home state, Craft remains close to all his favorite mountains and fish where he continues to swim with the local club team.
 
Elizabeth (Lizz) Hoffman Nicholas, women's swim & dive (2008-12)
(Hoffman) Nicholas, a 2012 graduate, was a three-time Summit League event champion and four-time All-Summit League swimmer. At the end of the 2024-25 season, she sits top-5 in three events (100 Free, 200 Free, 500 Free) and sits top-10 in a total of five events.
 
She was a two-time Summit League champion in the 200 Free (2010, 2011) and won the 50 Free in 2011. At the time of graduation, she held the program record in four events (100-, 200-, 500-, and 1,000-Freestyle), while also graduating with the DakotaDome pool record in the 200-Free (2:05.74, since broken).
 
Excelling in the pool, but also the classroom, Hoffman was awarded the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 2012.Following her time at South Dakota, she went onto medical school at USD's Sanford School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico.
 
Nicholas and her husband, Robert, who is also an USD graduate, have four children: Jane, Oliver, Nora, and Thomas. They reside in Yankton, and both serve as physicians at the Yankton Medical Clinic.
 
Kendall Kritenbrink King, volleyball (2011-14)
(Kritenbrink) King, a 2015 graduate of South Dakota, the 2013 Summit League Player of the Year and two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Honorable Mention All-American. A four-time Summit League All-Conference performer in each of her seasons, she sits second all-time in USD Volleyball history with her 1,925 kills.
 
All four seasons of hers sit inside the program's top-10 for single-season kills in the 25-point rally era (2008-pres.), with her career-best being 557 in 2013. She was named to the 2011 Summit League All-Freshman team.
 
King helped guide the Coyotes to back-to-back Summit League tournaments in her final two seasons (2013-14), posting 19 wins in each of those seasons. She was also named a Summit League All-Tournament performer in both of those tournaments.
 
She graduated from South Dakota in 2015 with a degree in education (K-6) with a reading minor. Her and her husband, Andrew King, have two daughters, Rori (8) and Renlee (4). They reside in Treynor, Iowa where King teaches fifth grade for the Treynor Community School District.
 
Jasmine Mosley-Koopman, women's basketball (2006-10) & track and field (2006-12)
Mosley-Koopman, a 2010 graduate, was a two-sport athlete at South Dakota, competing in both track & field and women's basketball for the Coyotes.
 
In her track & field career, she graduated with school records in both the shot put (50-3.5), discus (165-9), and hammer (180-6). At the time of the Hall of Fame announcement, both the shot put, and discus still sit top-3 in program history.
 
She won all three events at the 2011 Great West Conference Championships, earning her Most Outstanding Performer of the meet. Mosley-Koopman was a two-time qualifier for the NCAA Championships, qualifying for the shot and hammer in 2011 and the shot and discus in 2012.
 
In her basketball career, she was a four-year letter winner from 2006-10 and a two-year starter. She played in 126 games with 62 starts, scoring just under 800 career points (794) with 505 rebounds, 281 assists, and 102 steals. She held a career field goal percentage of 49.8 percent and averaged 19 minutes per game for the national runner-up squad in 2008.
 
Dan Radigan, special contributor (five-plus decades of support)
Dan Radigan ('79) has been a major part of South Dakota and the university community for over five decades, spanning back to 1968 when he was a ballboy for the Coyotes under then Athletic Director John Ronning.
 
Most notably, Radigan was a co-founder of the Howling Pack in the early 1990s which at the time served as an independent support group for Coyote Athletics. He served as president of the Howling Pack in its early years. When the Howling Pack was incorporated with the university as the athletic department's official booster club, then Associate AD Dave Williams asked Radigan to return as the Howling Pack's president, in which Radigan has faithfully served this role, working with every AD since Jack Doyle.
 
Beyond his Howling Pack contributions, Radigan has served as a University of South Dakota trustee for many years. His businesses, Radigan Enterprises and Whimp's, have consistently supported USD Athletics in various ways.
 
Radigan has also served in strategic planning committees, helping with the creation of the long-term vision for Coyote Athletics.
 
He earned his degree in Criminal Justice from USD in 1979. His wife, Melissa ('80) also earned her degree from USD. They have three sons: Scott, Nick, and Patrick, plus six grandchildren. They've lived in Sioux Falls since 1979 and spent his career in the restaurant business.
 
Alexa Duling Williams, women's track and field (2008-13)
(Duling) Williams, a B.S. 2012, MBA 2013 graduate, broke five program records and an All-American in her time at South Dakota. When she graduated from USD, she held records in the outdoor 400m (57.40), indoor 60m (8.71), outdoor 100m (13.9), and relay records in the 4x200 and sprint medley.
 
A 2012 Second Team All-American in the 400-meter hurdles with a 12^th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. She was the first Summit League athlete to ever place in the 400-meter at the NCAA Championships. 
 
She won eight conference titles as a Coyote, including seven individual titles and a relay. Her final season in 2013 saw her win the Outstanding Female Scholar Athlete of the Year.
 
In 2013, Williams was presented the Walter Byers Scholarship which is presented to one NCAA female athlete in recognition of academic achievement and potential future success. She is the only Coyote to earn this scholarship in school history.
 
She was also named the 2011 Great West Conference Female Scholar of the Year, earning the conference's highest academic honor. Additionally, she was named a First Team All-Academic honoree in 2013 for her dedication in the classroom.
 
Williams and her husband, Shea Williams, a former Coyote football athlete, reside in St. Louis, Missouri. Williams is now one of the busiest OB/GYN physicians in the area. The couple have six children with the oldest being seven years old.
 
Noah Shepard, football (2005-09)
Shepard, a 2010 graduate, spent five seasons at South Dakota, including four years as the starter, playing in 45 games with nearly 9,000 passing yards in his Coyote career. He had a career-best 422 passing yards with five touchdowns at West Texas A&M in 2007. He's one of five Coyote quarterbacks to throw for 400+ yards in a single game, doing it twice in his career. He's also one of four Coyotes to throw for 5+ passing touchdowns in a single game. Three seasons saw Shepard throw for 20+ touchdowns, totaling 77 in his career. He averaged just under 200 yards per game (198.6). As of the conclusion of the 2024 season, Shepard is the USD record holder for most passing yards in a career (8,936 yards) and passing touchdowns (77).
 
Shepard was a First Team All-Great West performer in his senior season in 2009.
 
He has served as the USD Foundation and Alumni Association President and CEO since May 2024. He earned his degree in education from USD in 2010. He met his wife, Abby ('08), as USD and they have three children: Hazyl (16), Coy (11), and Braylon (8).
 
Tyler Starr, football (2009-13)
Starr, a 2013 graduate, was an All-American and MVFC Defensive Player of the Year (2013), plus a finalist in the 2013 Buck Buchannan Award in his standout South Dakota career.
 
Starr is the Coyotes' all-time leader in sacks (27.0), after a breakout sophomore season where he recorded 14.0 sacks, which was the second-most sacks in a single season in program history. His 41.0 career tackles for loss also sits top-10 in program history.
 
He had a stellar senior season in 2013, where he was named an FCS All-American by multiple outlets. He was voted South Dakota's first-ever MVFC Defensive Player of the Year in just USD's second season in the conference. He was a three-time MVFC All-Conference performer, not playing in his freshman season.
 
He was a seventh round NFL draft pick of the Atlanta Falcons in 2013, appearing in a game for the Falcons in the 2015 season.