Mitchell's Addie Siemsen garners Class AA all-state honorable mention (2025)

MITCHELL — Addie Siemsen picked up all-state recognition for her efforts leading the Mitchell High School girls basketball team in 2025.

The junior guard netted a Class AA all-state honorable mention, as voted on by the South Dakota Basketball Coaches Association. She averaged 12.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.4 steals and two assists per game.

As the Kernels’ team leader in scoring, rebounding and steals, Siemsen helped guide Mitchell to a 16-8 record and a fifth-place finish at the Class AA state tournament, the team’s highest placement since a fourth-place result in the 2019 tournament. Siemsen averaged 12.3 points in her three tournament games, including 17 points in the consolation round win over Pierre on March 14.

“When you get the effort like one from Addie, you have to step it up because that’s kind of the level they expect,” Kernels head coach Dave Brooks said. “She competed and played like she doesn’t want to lose again and led by example.”

Additionally, Siemsen was tabbed as an all-Eastern South Dakota Conference selection for the second consecutive season and received all-tournament recognition as Mitchell’s representative at state. She is committed to play for NCAA Division II Wayne State College (Neb.) beginning in the fall of 2026.

Siemsen, a Class AA honorable mention pick in 2024, was one of seven players to earn a repeat all-state selection. Class AA girls player of the year Alyvia Padgett earned her second-consecutive all-state first-team nod after leading Brandon Valley to the championship game two years in a row. She averaged 19.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game as a junior for the Lynx.

Rapid City Stevens senior Taaliyah Porter and Sioux Falls Jefferson sophomore Brinley Altenburg are also repeat first-team selections from 2024. Porter, who netted her third all-state honor, averaged 21.7 points and 6.7 rebounds for the Raiders, also breaking the all-time scoring mark in school history on Feb. 7. Altenburg averaged 17.4 points and 4.4 rebounds for the Cavaliers.

Sioux Falls O’Gorman junior Sydney Terveen (15.1 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.7 apg) and sophomore and South Dakota State-commit Ruby Moore (14.3 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 71 steals), along with Pierre senior Lennix DuPris (18 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 4.8 apg, 68 steals) round out the first-team selections. DuPris was a second-team selection in 2024.

Sioux Falls Washington senior Grace Peterson (11.5 ppg, 7.2 rpg), junior Dana Harpe (13.2 ppg, 6 rpg, 2.6 apg), Aberdeen Central sophomore Lauryn Burckhard (15.1 ppg, 7.8 rpg), Spearfish senior Mya Kochuten (15.1 ppg, 2.6 apg), Brandon Valley junior Gracie Salter (11.2 ppg, 9.4 rpg) and Rapid City Central sophomore Leah Landry (16.3 ppg, 10 rpg) were named to the Class AA all-state second team.

Out of that group, Peterson was previously selected to an all-state team the past two seasons and was the Class AA Spirit of Su award recipient.

Blake Durham is a Sports Reporter for the Mitchell Republic, having joined in October of 2023. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in December of 2022 with a bachelor's degree in Communications. Durham can be found covering a variety of prep and collegiate sports in the area.