Montana State Northern Lights & Skylights Athletics

The number 22 has been a favorite of Charna Ophus-Seibert since her sophomore year in high school. It was her uniform number as the starting point guard for the Big Sandy Pioneers undefeated (27-0) girls basketball state championship team. Ophus-Seibert also wore 22 throughout her career at Northern as she led the Skylights as point guard to their first, and thus far, their only national women’s basketball championship in 1993. Ophus-Seibert got married on the 22nd of April 2012 to Jordan Seibert, a US Air Force captain based at Malmstrom Air Force Base. Now, 22 years after the Skylights won the 1993 national women’s basketball championship, Ophus-Seibert is being inducted in to the MSU-Northern Hall of Fame.
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Ophus-Seibert’s time at MSU-Northern included 4 seasons on the basketball team while getting her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, plus one season on the volleyball team while getting her Master’s of Education in Guidance and Counseling. In that time the Skylight basketball team won four conference championships, four district championships and earned four trips to the national tournament including winning the 1993 national championship while setting the school record for a 35 game winning season. She was named MVP of the Northern Invitational tournament, was a four-time Academic All-Conference basketball player, was an Academic All-American selection for both basketball and volleyball, and a Student Excellence Award winner. She holds the career record at MSU-Northern for most assists (641), the season record for most steals (99), and recorded MSU-Northern’s first women’s basketball triple-double.

Since graduating from MSU-Northern, Ophus-Seibert has lived in Arizona, Washington and Oregon and enjoyed a variety of career fields from health club management to school counseling to various sales and marketing positions. Ophus-Seibert moved back to Montana in 2007 and resides in Great Falls where she has worked as a banker for Wells Fargo. Currently, Ophus-Seibert is on a personal leave of absence to be home with her baby boy, 6-month-old Marcellus. Ophus-Seibert enjoys outdoor activities to stay fit including running, biking, hiking, snowshoeing and competing in sprint-triathlons and 5k runs.