If you’ve ever looked down at Sioux Falls Jefferson’s uniforms and thought they resembled the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, you wouldn’t be wrong.
And that was by design.
Activities Director Chad Stadem was the second person hired at Jefferson in May of 2020. At that time, a committee of students in the Sioux Falls School District had already chosen ‘Cavaliers’ as the team mascot, as well as the colors of dark green and gold.
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With those colors in place, Stadem licked his chops. A longtime Notre Dame football fan, Stadem said getting gold helmets, just like the ones the Irish wear each Saturday, was a no-brainer. Stadem was also the head football coach at Flandreau from 2008-2011 where the Fliers wore gold helmets, so he said it wasn’t a stretch.
“That gold helmet just popped off of the green jerseys,” Stadem said of Jefferson’s original uniforms in 2021.
