Football | 8/29/2021 4:33:00 PM

SIOUX FALLS – The University of Sioux Falls Football Team Head Football Coach Jon Anderson has announced the team captains for the 2021 season. The captains, selected by vote of the team, include seniors Ty Smith, Harvey Enalls, Joey Wehrkamp and junior Thuro Reisdorfer, all of Sioux Falls.
 
"Being elected a captain by your peers is the highest honor you can receive from the team," said Anderson, whose team opens the 2021 season against Bemidji State on Thursday, Sept. 2 at Bob Young Field at 6:05 pm. "These four student-athletes have been leading our team for a while now and doing it well.They will be supported by others on this team who have already assumed leadership roles," he said. 

The four seniors helped lead USF to the program's fourth NCAA DII playoff appearance in five seasons in 2019 when the Cougars recorded an 8-4 overall mark. USF registered its 26^th straight winning season, which is the fourth-longest across all divisions in the NCAA.

 

Smith, who is enrolled in the Master of Business Administration program at USF, is a senior wide receiver. He has accumulated 65 catches for 927 yards and four TDs. Smith, who has 23 games played with 21 starts, has had at least two catches in a game 15 times and recorded 80 yards or more in receiving yards four times. He has a pair of 100-yard receiving games with a high of 110 yards on five receptions and a TD against Minnesota State in 2018. He had his career-high with eight catches (94 yards) against Upper Iowa in 2018. Smith is a three-time Academic All-NSIC  honoree and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from USF in May 2020.

 

Enalls, a two-time All-NSIC honoree, has accumulated 134 career tackles, including 77 solo stops, at USF. Named second-team All-NSIC in 2019, he has 12.5 career tackles for loss and 8.5 career sacks with five fumble recoveries. During his career, Enalls, who was honorable mention All-NSIC in 2018, has had at least two tackles in a game 25 times with four or more tackles in a game 17 times. A force in the middle of USF's defense, he and Wehrkamp have been part of a defense ranked among the five nationally in total defense twice (2017, 2019). He has had double-digit tackles with a career-high 13, including four solo stops, against Colorado School of Mines in the 2019 DII playoffs. A psychology and criminal justice major, Enalls has played in 33 games with 31 starts during his career.

Wehrkamp, a two-time Academic All-NSIC honoree, has been a staple in the USF defensive front for three seasons. He has registered 35 starts with 95 career tackles of which 55 are solo stops. The senior defensive end has recorded 19.0 tackles for loss with eight sacks. He has registered three career pass breakups, three passes defended and forced

two fumbles. Nine times, he has had four or more tackles in a game from his defensive end position. He is enrolled in the Master of Business Administration program.  

In 2019, Reisdorfer earned All-NSIC honors (second team) after accumulating 1,150 rushing yards in 169 carries with 13 rushing TDs. He had 19 total TDs in making 11 starts in 12 games during USF's playoff season in 2019. He is one of the few players in school history to score three different ways on offense (rush/receiving/kickoff return). Reisdorfer, who is an exercise major, has totaled 1,252 rushing yards on 191 carries for 6.55 yards per carry in his career. He has 114 career points and was ranked in six rushing and scoring categories in NCAA DII in 2019.

Reisdorfer ranked third in the NSIC in total rushing yards with 1,150, which was 17th in DII. He was second in the NSIC and 13th in DII in yards per carry at 6.8 while ranking third in the league and 31st in DII in rushing yards per game at 95.8 per game. His 19 TDs ranked second in the league and seventh in NCAA DII. In addition, he ranked fourth in the NSIC in all purpose yards with 1,474 or 122.8 per game (42nd nationally). Reisdorfer had nine games of 100 yards or more all purpose yards and five games of 100 yards rushing or more. He set a career-high 171 yards rushing on 13 carries with two TDs against Minnesota Duluth on Oct. 19, 2019 and had a career-high 220 all-purpose yards. He also had 19 carries for 166 yards and two TDs in the NCAA DII playoffs against Colorado Mines on Nov. 23, 2019.