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by Alaska Sports Report | Oct 15, 2025 | Athlete of the Week, Flag Football
South High senior Jillian Preston earned Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after leading the Wolverines to the flag football state championship. The prodigious signal caller threw for nine touchdowns and nearly 500 yards in three games during the state tournament,...
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by Van Williams | Oct 19, 2025 | Cover Story, Football, Prep Spotlight
Steven Burns threw a pair of touchdown passes and the Mariners picked off a pair of passes as the Homer football team won its second consecutive state title and third in the last four seasons. Burns shined on both sides of the ball in Saturday’s 20-0 victory over...Read More
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Oct 20, 2025 | Cover Story, Running
Taylor Deal ran her way into Alaska history at the Chicago Marathon. The 31-year-old Anchorage resident covered the 26.2-mile course in a scorching time of 2 hours, 48 minutes and 42 seconds. Deal finished 95th out of 24,548 women. She also became the eighth-fastest...Read More
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by Van Williams | Oct 18, 2025 | Cover Story, Football
Challenged early in the second half on Friday night, the Soldotna football team responded with three touchdowns on three offensive snaps to pull away for its third straight state title and 15th in school history. Chase Hall furnished two of his three touchdowns in the...
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by Beth Bragg | Oct 16, 2025 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
With the Winter Olympics less than four months away, Anchorage’s Carter Brubaker continued his ground-breaking career by becoming the first Alaskan to win a national championship in nordic combined. Brubaker emerged as one of the country’s leading nordic combined...
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by Matt Nevala | Oct 19, 2025 | Cover Story, Hockey
Gage Leonard is originally from Anchorage. For obvious reasons, the Fairbanks Ice Dogs forward isn’t all that miserable about the Anchorage Wolverines’ wobbly start to the North American Hockey League season. “While it’s always a rivalry weekend, to take a team that’s....Read More
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by Chanda File | Oct 16, 2025 | Cover Story, Volleyball
The Service Cougars clawed their way to a four-set victory over the East Thunderbirds in Cook Inlet Conference volleyball on Wednesday night. After sweeping the T-birds in the teams’ previous matchup last month, Wednesday night's 25-15, 16-25, 25-22, 25-16 win proved...
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by Alaska Sports Report | Oct 19, 2025 | Cover Story, Football
Anchored by its historically stout defense, second-seeded Bartlett used a fourth-quarter touchdown pass and a last-second goal-line stand Saturday to earn a 9-2 victory over fourth-seeded Service in the ASAA large-schools state semifinals at Bartlett High School. The...
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Oct 15, 2025 | Cover Story, Cross Country Running
After a pair of ninth-place finishes against a strong field at the Lewis Crossover in Romeoville, Ill., the UAA men’s and women’s cross country teams appear in the national rankings for the first time since 2019. Sophomore Alex Otto led the Seawolves, covering the... Read More
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by Van Williams | Oct 18, 2025 | Basketball, Cover Story
Alaska's Kamaka Hepa and Jeremiah Bailey met for a hoops summit Thursday in Croatia in a rare head-to-head matchup between pros from The Last Frontier. This was the latest battle between two titans who grew up 500 miles apart but forged a friendship through a rivalry...Read More
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by Van Williams | Oct 19, 2025 | Cover Story, Football
Termination dust covering the mountain tops is a sign that the season is changing and the same could be said about the Anchorage high school football rivalry between South and West. After losing 11 of the previous 12 meetings coming into Saturday, the Wolverines... Read More
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Oct 20, 2025 | Cover Story, Cross Country Running
More than 80 Alaskans traveled to compete at the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational in Arlington, Wash. Leading the charge was two-time reigning state champion Katahdin Staples of East High, who turned in a 5-kilometer personal best of 15 minutes, 36 seconds to finish...Read More
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by Van Williams | Oct 14, 2025 | Basketball, Cover Story
The UAA women’s basketball team has qualified for the GNAC Championships every year since the tournament was created in 2011, and although the Seawolves have virtually an entirely new roster this season, they are favored to run it back. Credit new bench boss Matt...
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by Van Williams | Oct 17, 2025 | Basketball, Cover Story
One thing is clear with the GNAC men’s basketball preseason poll: coaches aren’t sold on the Alaska teams. They see the Seawolves squeaking into the playoffs and the Nanooks falling short. They also see Central Washington repeating as league champs. The Wildcats...
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