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by Arielle Himelbloom | Nov 24, 2024 | Cover Story, Cross Country Running
Every time Kendall Kramer competes, history is on the line. This time was no different. The UAF senior capped her illustrious collegiate cross-country running career in monumental fashion: national runner-up. Kramer covered the 6-kilometer course at the NCAA Division...
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by Matt Nevala | Nov 18, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
The Anchorage Wolverines are about to leave home for quite a while. Man, oh man, did they ever make a lasting impression on the way out the proverbial door. Inside an unusually warm Sullivan Arena and with an announced crowd of 1,927 looking on, Anchorage’s own Jason...
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by Van Williams | Nov 24, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
This time, the Seawolves finished the job. One day after seeing Troy roar back in the second half, the UAA women's basketball team put together a complete effort to post a 68-52 wire-to-wire victory over Vermont in the third-place game of the ASRC/ConocoPhillips Great...
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by Alaska Sports Report | Nov 19, 2024 | Athlete of the Week, Volleyball
Wasilla High School's Layla Hays was voted our Alaska Athlete of the Week after logging 23 kills and 9 blocks to lift the Warriors to a Class 4A state title after beating South High in the title game and if-necessary super set. The 6-foot-5 dual-sport star dominated... Read More
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by Matias Saari | Nov 25, 2024 | Cover Story, Running
At the 62nd running of the JFK 50, Tracen Knopp blitzed a time on Saturday that would have won 56 of the previous editions of the iconic Maryland race. In fact, the Anchorage runner’s mark of 5 hours, 31 minutes and 15 seconds — a pace of 6:36 per mile on the 50-mile...
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by Van Williams | Nov 23, 2024 | Cover Story, Volleyball
The Seawolves sent an early Christmas present up north. The UAA volleyball team swept Simon Fraser on Saturday in a victory coupled with UAF's win earlier in the day over Western Washington moved the Nanooks into a second-place tie in the GNAC on the final day of the...
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by Matt Nevala | Nov 23, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Devin Berg made an impact only minutes into his first taste of the Dimond-South hockey rivalry, considered one of the best Anchorage can offer regardless of sport. “I was feeling pretty good,” the Wolverines freshman said. “It was all rather electric and seemed to get...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 25, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Anchorage's Sayvia Sellers went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows on the basketball court Monday against seventh-ranked LSU. Moments after the University of Washington sophomore guard drained a step-back 3-pointer in a you-can't-stop-me highlight that...Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Nov 25, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
More than a third of the way through its NCAA Division I independent schedule, the UAA hockey team manages to check a lot of boxes one wants from a legit competitor. Take this weekend’s home series versus Lake Superior State of the CCHA. On Saturday, Seawolves...
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Nov 19, 2024 | Cover Story, Cross Country Running, Running
Anchorage's Santiago Prosser is headed back to the national championships. The Northern Arizona senior sped to a 12th-place finish at the Mountain Region Cross Country Championships, conquering the snowy 10-kilometer course in 29 minutes, 37 seconds. And while the...Read More
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by Beth Bragg | Nov 18, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
Rosie Brennan swept the women’s races and Gus Schumacher and Zanden McMullen each claimed victories on the men’s side, but the big winner at the season-opening Race to the Outhouse ski series at Hatcher Pass was Alaska and its cross-country ski community. October’s...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 23, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
The UAA men's basketball team snapped a five-game losing streak in style on Saturday, blowing the doors off Portland Bible College 93-30 at the Alaska Airlines Center. Anchorage native Hasaan Herrington led five UAA players in double figures with 13 points as the... Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Nov 19, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Hockey business picks up in the Cook Inlet Conference with two games Tuesday, the first of 12 contests featuring the league’s seven teams during the fourth week of the high school regular season. Of the dozen scheduled games for the week, eight are of the non-league...Read More
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by Alaska Sports Report | Nov 22, 2024 | Volleyball
Junior outside hitter Tia Allen delivered 11 kills and 13 digs to help the UAA volleyball team clinch a winning season with Thursday's 25-22, 25-17, 25-17 sweep of Western Washington at the Alaska Airlines Center. Playing in front of a raucous crowd of 3,000 Anchorage...
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by Matt Nevala | Nov 20, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
While the junior players, from both Alaska and elsewhere, have enjoyed immense success with the Anchorage franchise 20-plus games into the North American Hockey League season, two former, local Wolverines who graduated to the NCAA Division I ranks took small, but...Read More
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by Van Williams | Nov 19, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Anchorage's Mikayla Johnson recorded her first collegiate double-double and drained some key free throws at crunch time to help the University of Pittsburgh women's basketball team hold off Binghamton 61-56 in Vestal, N.Y. Johnson hit a couple free throws and grabbed...
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