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by Van Williams | Mar 2, 2024 | Cover Story, Swimming and Diving
Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby outkicked the lead group to earn a come-from-behind victory Friday in the women’s 100-yard breaststroke at the Big 12 Championships in Morgantown, W.V. The University of Texas sophomore defended her title in 57.27 seconds, a time that broke...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 3, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
They are called Seawolves, but this year’s UAA men’s basketball team competes more like spiders because it keeps luring opponents into a false sense of security before striking. Facing an 11-point deficit with seven minutes to play Saturday night, the Seawolves had...Read More
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by Alaska Sports Report | Feb 27, 2024 | Athlete of the Week, Nordic Skiing
Sophomore skiers Olivia Soderstrom and Vebjorn Flagstad were selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week co-winners after earning Alaska Skimeister honors for their standout performances at the 2024 ASAA Nordic Ski State Championships. The coveted Skimeister award...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 4, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
The Anchorage Wolverines are putting on a master class in how to deliver a push to the playoffs. The Wolverines last weekend swept a home-and-home series with the Kenai River Brown Bears to extend their franchise-record winning streak to eight games and move into a...Read More
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by Chanda File | Mar 2, 2024 | Cover Story, Gymnastics
You might say the sun set on Brooklyn Kopsack’s UAA gymnastics career in Bear Valley. Kopsack, who grew up in Palmer, started college in fall 2020 – when the team’s gym at the Alaska Airlines Center was being used for pandemic response efforts and classes were being...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 27, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Travis Church didn’t shy away from reality. No matter how painful, he embraced it. The North Pole boys basketball coach knew the Patriots hadn’t beaten a Class 4A opponent since Dec. 30, 2011, and so he wrote the date on a whiteboard in the team’s locker room before...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 4, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Seven Alaskans – four women and three men – are headed to the NCAA Division III Championships this week. More than half of those players – four – play for the Nazareth University women’s team, which seized the United Collegiate Hockey Conference tournament title, and...Read More
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by Beth Bragg | Mar 4, 2024 | Cover Story, Cycling, Mountain Biking, Nordic Skiing
You didn’t have to be an Olympian to make the top five in the Tour of Anchorage women’s race Sunday, but it helped. Three of the top five finishers in the 50-kilometer freestyle race were Olympic cross-country skiers, including four-time Tour champion Rosie...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 2, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Crunch time was Sully time Friday night as Wasilla’s Sullivan Menard hit the biggest shot of his college basketball career. The junior guard forced overtime after drilling a clutch 3-pointer late in regulation and finished with 16 points as Whitworth University men's...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Feb 28, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Senior sniper Mikalya Lantto of Wasilla has the Long Island University women’s hockey team within two victories of a berth in the NCAA Division I tournament. The Sharks’ victories over St. Michael’s, 3-2 last Friday and 3-0 Saturday ushered them into the semifinals in...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 1, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Alycia Shelley found her stroke at just the right time Friday night for the Colony girls basketball team. The junior guard scored seven points in the final four minutes of the fourth quarter, including a go-ahead 3-pointer at the 1:30 mark, to key the second-ranked...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Feb 27, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Newsflash: Consummate sportsman Nolan Walker of Anchorage actually served time in a penalty box. Spoiler alert: It’s not what you think. Walker, the second-year pro center for the ECHL’s Kansas City Mavericks, has been busted for just one penalty this season, and even...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 28, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
It wasn’t necessarily a Hail Mary, but a football player’s prayer was answered Tuesday night to save the fourth-ranked West boys basketball team. Special teams star Aarion Alexander took a page from the gridiron as he threw up a 3-point heave – akin to a last-second...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 27, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
After riding shotgun for most of Monday’s game, Travante Williams of Anchorage took the wheel late to drive Portugal into the winner’s circle. The 30-year-old former UAF standout and dual citizen scored five points in the final minute and hit the go-ahead basket with...Read More
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by Van Williams | Feb 26, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
All three of the top high school girls basketball teams in Alaska call the Northern Lights Conference home and things are about as close as you’d think they’d be going into the final week of the regular season. Mountain City Christian Academy, Colony and Wasilla are...
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