Chadron State College Athletics

Thompson is the all-time leading hitter for the Chadron State baseball team and he also was a football standout.
During his baseball career that spanned from 1978-81, he collected 154 hits in 410 at bats for a .376 average. His lowest batting average during his four years at CSC was .349. He holds CSC records for most hits in a game (5), most hits in a season (57), most career hits (154), most career doubles (28) most career runs batted in (83), most stolen bases in a season (35) and most career stolen bases (76). Ed Sparling, his coach during much of his college career, said Thompson was such a complete player he could have played for any college team in the country.
He joined the football team as a sophomore and had 16 interceptions while playing safety the next three years. That tied him for the school record when he graduated and now ties him for fourth on the all-time list.
A native of Lyman, Thompson has been a loan officer for Farm Credit Services in Alliance most of his career. His wife, the former Kathy Richards of Rapid City, S.D., was the CSC homecoming queen in 1981.