Woster: Women’s basketball continues to impress

Jim Woster
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 12, 2019

Jim Woster
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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In 1988 my daughter, Michelle, was a senior at Lincoln High School and looking forward to graduation, when the Lincoln girls basketball team played Yankton for the AA state championship at the Corn Palace in Mitchell. One of Michelle’s closest friends was Nicole Theophilis, the daughter of our next door neighbor and our closest friends. Nicole also started for the Lincoln girls.

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Jim is associate editor of Tri-State Neighbor and also works with the SDSU Alumni Foundation.