Chadron State College Athletics

Christiansen was from Red Lodge., Mont., where his high school coach was Bill Bruer, also a charter inductee into the CSC Athletic Hall of Fame. Christiansen poured in 1,372 points during his four years on the CSC basketball team. That was the most in Eagles’ history when Christiansen graduated and is still 12th on the career scoring list. He averaged 12 points as a freshman in 1948-49, 15.4 as a sophomore, 16.3 as a junior and 16.8 as a senior. The team his senior year in 1951-52 went 18-7 and represented Nebraska at the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City, where the Eagles lost to the eventual champion, Southwest Missouri State.  
After teaching and coaching in high schools for a few years, Christiansen was on the physical education faculty at Montana State-Billings for 38 years, including eight years as head track coach and 17 years as assistant basketball coach. He also officiated high school and college football games spanning from 1948 while he was a student at CSC until 1991. During his career, he worked 10 Montana high school championship games. In addition, he was a starter at the state track meets from 1968 through 1982 and was a starter at the NAIA National Track Meets in 1968 and 1972.
The CSC Athletic Hall of Fame is one of five into which Christiansen was inducted. The others are the Montana Officials’ Association, the Montana State Golf Association, the National Football Foundation for his football officiating and the one at Montana State-Billings for his long service to the school. His bronze bust is one of four in the lobby of the MSU-Billings gymnasium. He died July 31, 2008 at age 78.