​Jul. 17—MITCHELL — Longtime Mitchell High School coach Deb Thill will be honored Sunday with induction into the South Dakota High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame as part of a six-member class for 2026.Thill and the other SDHSCA honorees will be recognized during their annual award ceremony at 1 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, at the Mitchell High School Performing Arts Center. The event is free to attend.Thill retired earlier this year after 35 years of teaching and as the only high school volleyball coach in Kernel history, creating the program in 1991. She also was the Kernels’ head track and field coach and previously was head coach of the MHS girls basketball program.Thill is also part of the first father-daughter duo inducted into the SDHSCA Hall of Fame, joining her father, Richard Donovan, who was inducted in 2001. Donovan coached sports for 31 years at Delmont, Highmore, Groton and Mitchell.When Thill launched the MHS volleyball program, it was one of the last schools in Class AA to add the sport. But the Kernels quickly were built into a powerhouse, with state championships in 1995 and 2003. The Kernels qualified for the Class AA state tournament 15 times under Thill’s leadership, including in 2025, and she amassed 517 volleyball coaching wins.After 11 years as girls basketball assistant coach, Thill coached the Kernel girls as head coach in 2003 and 2004, claiming the 2003 state title. In track and field, she began coaching in 2013 and became the head coach in 2022, specializing in coaching the high jump.Thill was the state’s volleyball coach of the year in 2003, a South Dakota Volleyball Coaches Association hall of famer in 2011, and is a past president of the South Dakota High School Coaches Association. She served on the National High School Athletic Coaches Association board for nine years.A 1981 graduate of Groton High School, Thill earned her degree in health, physical education, and recreation from South Dakota State University in 1985 and later completed her master’s degree from Emporia State (Kan.) in 2010.Other coaches being inducted on Sunday include:Terry Dosch, Aberdeen: A 1976 Ipswich graduate and 1980 Northern State University graduate, Dosch began his coaching career in Faulkton, where he served as head football and assistant wrestling coach. In 1985, he began a 40-year career at Aberdeen Roncalli, where he coached football, track, and wrestling while teaching generations of student-athletes. As head football coach for 32 years and head boys track coach for 20 years, Roncalli reached the state football championship game three times, including back-to-back state titles in 2005 and 2006. His track and field program also captured a Class A championship in 2006. Dosch was a two-time SDHSCA football coach of the year.Paul Hendry, Rapid City: Hendry has spent the last 28 years coaching at Rapid City Stevens, including 25 years as the head coach of Raider track and field. In that time, Stevens has 16 team championships, 75