SIOUX FALLS — Tickets for the annual Induction Banquet for the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame are now on sale. The event is set for Sept. 22 at the Convention Center in Sioux Falls (the old Sioux Falls Arena).

Nineteen new members will be inducted, and the event is open to the public. Tickets are $55 for adults and $35 for students 12 and under. To purchase your advance tickets, go to sdshof.com and click on "purchase tickets." All major credit cards are accepted.

If you have problems with ticketing, call/text Jim Dorman at 605-940-1262.

The inductees being honored this year include former Brookings basketball star Amy Mickelson; Wounded Knee jockey Fred Ecoffey, whose horses won almost $12 million; former college football coaches Wayne Haensel (South Dakota State, died in 2012) and Jim Heinitz (Augustana); Dakota Wesleyan legends Scott Morgan and Tim Smith; West River all-time greats Kim Templeton and Kelvin Torve; and one of South Dakota’s best prep/college athletes in history, Armour’s Jeff Tiefenthaler.

A pair of the state’s best college women/prep girls’ basketball coaches will be inducted in former South Dakota coach Chad Lavin and Dawn Seiler of Aberdeen. Also inducted will be the man who helped reshape Sioux Falls athletics into a powerhouse, Mark Meile, and one of the state’s early women’s track and field stars in Tyndall graduate Sally Plihal and one of the state’s best prep/college women’s basketball players in Sioux Falls Lincoln graduate Melissa Olson.