Bill Marquardt - Inducted 2025
1970 Salem/1976 Northern State graduate.
Successful coach in a variety of sports, significant contributor to growing/improving SD sports. First SD prep coach to win state championships in football and basketball (and only one of four in state history to do so with Marv McCune, Kent Mueller and Paul Raasch). Had a 501-265 record in 36 years as a head boys’ basketball coach. From 1985-1990, his Hanson boys’ basketball teams had a magical five-season run with a 108-14 record that included a 46-game win streak; five conference titles; a State A title in 1986 as the smallest school in Class A; and a State B runner-up finish (Northwestern 82, Hanson 80) in 1989. He was a head football coach for nine seasons that included seven years at Bridgewater where his teams won 45 of 61 games, the first-ever SD state championship football game in 1981 and had a 28-game winning streak. After retiring from teaching, he became a head girls’ basketball coach for the first time at Mt VernonPlankinton. His teams responded with a four-season record of 71-23 with fifth- (2014) and third- (2015) place finishes in the State A tournament. Marquardt was also a head track coach for 20 years, directing the Colman-Egan girls to a state runner-up finish in 2006. Played key role in starting SD football playoffs by devising a points system that was published statewide, which projected who would be in playoffs the season before (1980) football playoffs began. Idea man behind first Class A vs. Class B (only two classes at the time) boys’ basketball all-star classic in 1982. Had an important role in statewide growth of the Hanson Basketball Classic. He taught social studies, language arts, and PE (1976 to 2013 at Warner, Bridgewater, Hanson, Colman-Egan and McCook Central). All-state quarterback at Salem High School who accounted for 27 TDs, leading the Cubs to an 8-0 record in 1969. All-conference basketball player who held six school track and field records when he graduated. Forty-five years later in 2025, Marquardt still holds his high school’s rebounding records for a season (360) and career (788) that he set as a senior in 1970. Inducted into the Hanson High School, SD Basketball Coaches Association, and SD HS Coaches Association halls of fame.
