The Mystician

Rick Ripplinger - Women's Wrestling Head Coach Bismarck State College has welcomed a new head coach to their women’s wrestling team, Capital Trophy owner and former Legacy High School girls’ wrestling coach Rick Ripplinger. Ripplinger joined the college in May and has already begun working to recruit women for the team, which will be entering its second season in the fall. Ripplinger himself wrestled from 6th grade through his fifth year at Valley City State University, whe

Giddy Up! - Tyler Hansen competes in tie down roping in Mandan for the BSC College Rodeo This summer, Bismarck State College Senior Tyler Hansen won the college’s first-ever national rodeo championship. On June 20, during the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming, Hansen achieved a first-place finish in the men’s tie-down roping category as well as in the men’s all-around with a 10th-place finish in team roping. His scores at the competition included an 8.4 in rou

Boat Day! - Mygel's cabin out for their tubing ride. Summer camp has a special place in my heart. Unfortunately I never got the opportunity to go to camp as a camper. The closest I got to that feeling was going on a couple “father-son” retreats where the whole weekend is just tailored to us, but I never went to a weeklong summer camp growing up. It is something that looking back I wish I got to do, but I digress. This summer I got the opportunity to lead again at Castaway

Kayden Schmitcke (left), Liberty Friez (middle), and Sophia Fafard (right) stop for a photo before entering Canada. Over a weekend in July, Sophia took Kayden and me to her home back in Rocanville, Saskatchewan. We left on a Friday, and some road construction and a mishap with Google maps turned a four-hour trip into an eight-hour excursion. Oh well! Frustrating at the time, but now we look back on it fondly. We arrived around 10 that night, exiting the car and being bom