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VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Hi-Liners/Farmer’s Union Insurance Girl’s Wrestling Wrestler’s of The Week for the week ending 1-12-2025 are Deegan Kirschenmann and Mylee Christianson.
Deegan is a Junior at Barnes County North High School and wrestles at 130 lbs for the Hi-Liners. Deegan finished with an exceptional 5th place finish at the Bismarck Rotary.  It was a long, hard fought battle, as she logged a total of 8 matches, and finished 6-2 over the 2-day tournament.  In her match for 5th Place, Deegan was trailing Anna Engwicht New Salem 5-0 in the 2nd period. Deegan was able to get her hips free and pressure into Engwicht, which put Engwicht out of position for a split second. That split second is all it took.  Deegan hit a half-nelson and took Engwicht directly to her back for the pin.
Coaches Note: Deegan is one of the most technical wrestlers on the team.  With her 5 years of experience, she has a wide arsenal of moves and can seamlessly transition from one move to the next, which doesn’t leave her opponents with much room for error.  Deegan has a great attitude and effort in both the practice room and on the competition mat. She is also willing to scrap and fight toe-to-toe with the “scrappiest” of opponents.
Deegan answered her Wrestler of the Week Questionnaire as follows:

Parents: Lana and Dustin Kirschenmann Brothers/sisters: Baynx and Rekker Kirschenmann Pets: 2 cats School activities/sports you’re in: Wrestling Hobbies: Sleeping, coloring, drawing Favorite class in school: History Favorite teacher of all time (Kindergarten through now): Mr. Samuelson What do you want to be when you “grow up”?: Tattoo Artist Favorite breakfast food: Captain Crunch Favorite supper food: Potato’s and Dumplingns Favorite school lunch: Pizza poppers Favorite junk food: ice cream Favorite cereal: Captain Crunch How many different flavors of Cap’n Crunch cereal have you tried?: 4 Favorite Cap’n Crunch flavor?: Crunch Berries What time do you go to bed on weekends? 10:30 What time do you usually get up on weekends? (when there are no tournaments): 8 or 9 Favorite “sit down” restaurant? Hu Hot Favorite fast food restaurant? Dairy Queen Counting this year as “1”, how many years have you been in wrestling? 5 Favorite wrestling move: coleman scott Favorite wrestling position? (top, bottom, neutral): bottom Most memorable wrestling moment so far: getting 4th at state last year Most embarrassing moment of your wrestling career: my stance my first 2 years of wrestling Give a shout out to someone: shoutout to all of my coaches throughout my years of wrestling, they have all helped me become the wrestler i am today.

Give a “super random” shout out to someone: shoutout to captain crunch. you make me a wrestle better Hardest part about the sport of wrestling: the mental part What would you say to a girl that is thinking about joining VCHS Girl Wrestling?: try it!! we always have fun and would love more girls to join the team!

On January 3rd, 2025 Mylee Christianson became the first wrestler in VCHS wrestling history to win the Rumble on the Red.  The first year of the Rumble on the Red was in in 2006.
On Saturday January 11th, 2025 Mylee won another elite-level tournament – the Bismarck Rotary in dramatic style.  Mylee went into the 3rd period of her Championship Match, trailing Riley Clampitt from Glasgow, MT by a score of 1-0.  She chose down/bottom position, knowing that an escape would tie the match and give her an opportunity for a win with a takedown, or the match could go to OT.
A minute and a half into the 3rd period, things were not looking good for Mylee.  With 30 seconds to go in the match, Mylee had only built to a quad-pod position only once thus far. Clampitt was keeping heavy pressure on Mylee and not letting her even advance from her stomach.    Her gas tank was surely running low by now, but her grit and heart were still firing on all cylinders. Every wrestler eventually gets tired.  The best though,  find a way to wrestle when they are tired. And Mylee found a way.  With 6 seconds left in the match, Mylee was able to build up to a quad-pod position, and with one final surge of determination, with only 3 ticks of the clock remaining, she was able to get her hips free, maintain her footing and get behind her opponent, for a 2-point reversal and the win. With this win, Mylee again etches another championship in a high-level tournament in her list of accomplishments. You can watch her match here, on Dakota Grappler’s Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1274460703849775
Wrestler Of the Week is sponsored by Farmers Union Insurance – Tyler Van Bruggen.