Tays to be inducted into South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame

  • Hot Springs’ Jim Tays, center, stands on the Hot Springs High School football field while surrounded by members of the 1974 state championship football team. On this night in 2016, Tays was not only inducted into the HSHS Athletics Hall of Fame but the school’s middle school gymnasium was also named in his honor as the school’s Tays Center. Photo by Brett Nachtigall
    Hot Springs’ Jim Tays, center, stands on the Hot Springs High School football field while surrounded by members of the 1974 state championship football team. On this night in 2016, Tays was not only inducted into the HSHS Athletics Hall of Fame but the school’s middle school gymnasium was also named in his honor as the school’s Tays Center. Photo by Brett Nachtigall

    SIOUX FALLS – The South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame will be inducting 23 sports legends later this year on Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Sioux Falls Convention Center, and included in the ceremony will be former Hot Springs teacher, coach and athletics director Jim Tays.

    Tays, 92, still resides in Hot Springs and is already a member of several other Halls of Fame, including those of the University of Sou…