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by Beth Bragg | Apr 16, 2025 | Alaska Sports Hall of Fame
A Summer Olympics champion and a Winter X Games champion are among the seven winners of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame’s 2025 Directors’ Awards. Kristen Faulkner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, received the... Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 15, 2025 | Basketball, Cover Story
The hits keep coming for Seawolf hoops. Just four days after UAA men's associate coach Ryan Orton took the head job at GNAC rival Western Oregon, the Anchorage college announced the loss of longtime UAA women's head coach Ryan McCarthy, who took the head job with... Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 10, 2025 | Cover Story, Rugby
Anchorage's Luke Lentfer is on the hunt for a national title in the top division of the College Rugby Association of America. The former Grace Christian multi-sport standout is a starter for the nationally ranked U.S. Army 15s squad, which will take the field Saturday... Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Apr 15, 2025 | Cover Story, Hockey
After spending two seasons improving his craft in the Detroit area, Toby Carlson returned home for his first taste of the North American Hockey League with the Anchorage Wolverines. In a twist of 49th State fate, the 18-year-old son of former UAA Seawolf Jeff Carlson... Read More
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by Matias Saari | Apr 14, 2025 | Cover Story, Mountain Running, Running
Tracen Knopp of Anchorage is headed back to the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships. This time, he won’t only be supporting his partner Klaire Rhodes. He’ll be racing alongside her. In 2023, Rhodes placed 21st at the trail running championships in... Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 13, 2025 | Cover Story, Softball
Anchorage's Sabrina Jolin didn't start Sunday's game, but she finished strong for the Lamar University softball team as the senior right-hander pitched 5.2 innings of relief to match her longest outing of the season in a 5-3 victory over Northwestern State in... Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 14, 2025 | Baseball, Cover Story
Justin Nevells of Chugiak made Alaska baseball history in style on Sunday. The Doane University senior infielder collected his 200th career base hit on a two-out, two-run double in the top of the seventh inning in a 16-6 victory over Waldorf in Forest City, Iowa. The... Read More
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Apr 8, 2025 | Cover Story, Track and Field
Not only is A’Lante Owens-Player Alaska’s top active triple jumper, he’s one of the best in state history. The Bartlett High grad and 2024 Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year has continued to make a splash against collegiate competition, routinely finishing at the top... Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Apr 11, 2025 | Cover Story, Hockey
When posing for pictures last month at UAA’s season-ending banquet, Max Helgeson threw up three fingers. The digits displayed the number of times he’d been voted winner of the program’s “fan favorite” award. Since such is the world of NCAA Division I college hockey...Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 11, 2025 | Cover Story, Friday Flashback, Softball
Eagle River’s Nicci Ward had it all working for the Villanova University softball team on April 20, 2008. The senior right-handed pitcher threw a no-hitter in a 1-0 win over Providence College in the Big East Conference. Ward, of Chugiak High fame, is the only Alaska... Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 12, 2025 | Baseball, Cover Story
Anchorage baseball player Balas Buckmaster is on a serious heater. The former East High slugger has recorded four consecutive two-hit games and six multi-hit games in the last week alone for Bellevue University to raise his batting average 116 points in the span of... Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 12, 2025 | Basketball, Cover Story
After going at it as high school players in Alaska, Jamari Lawrence and Colton Spencer will look to get after it as college teammates. Both players entered the transfer portal after this past college basketball season and this month both players committed to Wayland...Read More
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by Van Williams | Apr 12, 2025 | Baseball, Cover Story
Anchorage's Curtis Hebert dug deep for five innings Friday and held on for a hard-earned winning decision for Portland in a 9-4 victory over Pepperdine in Oregon. The right-handed starting pitcher worked around six hits and two walks, exiting with the Pilots nursing a... Read More
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