Connecting You with Alaska Athletes WEEK IN REVIEW Share This Email Share This Email Cam Hausinger is riding an every-other-game hockey heater by Doyle Woody | Jan 2, 2022 | Hockey Rookie forward Cam Hausinger of Anchorage is enjoying an unusual points streak in the ECHL. Rather that the usual points-in-consecutive-games streak, Hausinger is riding a multiple-points-in-every-other-game streak. Not sure that’s actually a thing, but our blog, our...Read More BECOME A BOOSTER! For $250 you can become an Alaska Sports Report​ Booster and support our mission of connecting you to Alaska's athletes! Being a Booster means: Pick an Alaska high school (your alma mater, your kid's school, etc) and your name will appear at the bottom of every article on any Alaska athlete from or currently at your school of choice! The Alaska Sports Report is a non-profit model, owned by the 501(c)3 Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. We are saying "no" to paywalls and annoying ads. We are saying "yes" to partners - from Denali sponsors to Boosters! Contact us with inquiries. Daishen Nix scores career-high 13 points, caps big week for Alaskans in NBA by Van Williams | Jan 2, 2022 | Basketball It may have been clean-up duty, but Anchorage’s Daishen Nix mopped up nicely. The Houston Rockets turned to the 19-year-old in the second half of a 124-111 loss to the Denver Nuggets and he responded with a career-high 13 points in just over 11 minutes. The Rockets...Read More Connecting you with Alaska Athletes The Alaska Sports Report tells stories about Alaska athletes achieving great things around the world. Alaska’s sports culture is woven through the fabric of life in The Last Frontier. We provide a unifying voice for our state’s vast and diverse sports community.  Visit our Website Southside strong on Team Alaska’s men’s Division III hockey squad by Doyle Woody | Dec 30, 2021 | Hockey Turns out that to make the cut for our starting lineup of Alaskans in NCAA Division III men’s hockey required playing your high school hockey south of Tudor Road. Who knew? Anyhow, four of our starting six prepped at South High, one played at Service High and one... Read More ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Eagle River High hooper Spencer Love named Alaska Athlete of the Week by Alaska Sports Report | Jan 3, 2022 | Athlete of the Week, Basketball Eagle River sharpshooter Spencer Love was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after logging brilliant performances in back-to-back holiday tournaments for the Eagle River High School basketball team. The junior playmaker garnered MVP honors in both the Grace Grizzly... Read More Traivar Jackson flies high on .737 field-goal percentage for Pima at Aztec Classic by Van Williams | Dec 30, 2021 | Basketball Anchorage’s Traivar Jackson drained 28-of-38 shots over three games at the Aztec Classic, catapulting him to No. 2 in the ACCAC in shooting percentage. The Pima Community College freshman averaged 22.7 points to lead the Aztecs to a 2-1 showing at their own... Read More Prep Spotlight: Injury, adversity didn’t stop Palmer’s Katey Houser from getting creative by Matt Nevala | Dec 28, 2021 | Nordic Skiing, Prep Spotlight As Palmer senior Katey Houser assessed her high school nordic skiing accomplishments thus far, she couldn’t help but consider a major injury and the absence of an entire season. “As a sophomore, I tore the ACL (in my right knee) playing flag football for fun,” Houser... Read More Tobin Karlberg scores 20 of UAA’s final 49 points in 88-83 win over Seattle Pacific by Van Williams | Dec 30, 2021 | Basketball Arguably the greatest rivalry for the UAA men’s basketball team brought out the best in Tobin Karlberg. The hometown product pumped in all 20 of his points in the second half and converted the go-ahead layup with 59 seconds left to key an 88-83 win over Seattle... Read More Our Alaska Division I men’s hockey starting lineup will hold its own by Doyle Woody | Dec 28, 2021 | Hockey We can roll out a pretty useful first line, top pairing and starting goaltender from the baker’s dozen of Alaska men’s hockey players in NCAA Division I this season. Like most solid clubs, Team Alaska is built from the goal line out. Anchorage’s Isaiah Saville,...  Read More UAF coach Jessie Craig represents past, present and future of Fairbanks basketball by Van Williams | Dec 29, 2021 | Basketball At 34, Jessie Craig of Fairbanks is one of the youngest women’s college basketball head coaches in the country. And as much as her focus for the UAF Nanooks is on the future, she can’t help but look back at some of the people who shaped her career. Craig was... . Read More An All-Wasilla line spearheads our Division III women’s hockey lineup by Doyle Woody | Jan 1, 2022 | Hockey If there’s one thing about which we can be reasonably confident when it comes to our starting lineup of NCAA Division III women’s hockey players from the 49th state, it’s that Team Alaska will score goals, lot of goals. Actually, make it two things – opposing... Read More Eagle River’s Josh Rolston helps Central Michigan win first bowl game since 2012 by Van Williams | Dec 31, 2021 | Football Josh Rolston of Eagle River helped kicked to the curb Central Michigan’s bowl drought. The Chippewas of the Mid-American Conference upset Washington State 24-21 at the Sun Bowl for CMU's first bowl victory since 2012 and its first win over a Power 5 opponent since... Read More NBA G League notebook: Rage City trio of Chalmers, Nix, Thor make history by Van Williams | Dec 25, 2021 | Basketball Two young bulls and an old head from Rage City are making Alaska hoops history in the NBA G League. Nineteen-year-olds Daishen Nix and JT Thor along with 35-year-old Mario Chalmers represent the first time the state of Alaska has had three players in the G League at... Read More JT Thor, Daishen Nix face off in NBA, shades of Boozer vs. Chalmers in 2015 by Van Williams | Dec 27, 2021 | Basketball Alaska was in hoops heaven today as Anchorage 19-year-olds JT Thor and Daishen Nix faced off in a NBA game between the Charlotte Hornets and Houston Rockets, the first time two players from the state have battled on basketball's biggest stage since 2015. Charlotte’s... Read More Our Alaska Division I women’s hockey lineup flexes down the middle by Doyle Woody | Dec 29, 2021 | Hockey OK, in assembling Team Alaska’s starting lineup of women’s NCAA Division I hockey players from the 49th state, we are for the moment going to totally disregard the fact we have zero defensemen in our talent pool, and instead let’s focus on some most excellent news... Read More Prep Spotlight: Bethel’s Landon Smith caps career with 112 wins, 4 state titles by Van Williams | Dec 22, 2021 | Prep Spotlight, Wrestling Undefeated and undaunted, Bethel Regional High wrestler Landon Smith wasn’t completely unfazed by the burden of chasing history. Riding a three-year unbeaten streak and attempting to tie a national record will test even elite athletes. “There was a little pit of... .Read More Women’s college hoops notebook: Schmidt, Novelli, May, Roberts, Davies, Voliva, Pili and more by Van Williams | Dec 21, 2021 | Basketball Soldotna’s Danica Schmidt threw a block party in the NWAC. The Lower Columbia College sophomore racked up a career-high seven blocked shots to go with seven points and nine rebounds in a 61-58 loss to Walla Walla. She had never had more than three blocks in a game... Read More Jeremiah Bailey busts out of slump, nets 13 points to push him over 1,000-point benchmark by Van Williams | Dec 20, 2021 | Basketball Jeremiah Bailey of Fairbanks returned to the starting lineup and so did his scoring touch. The University of the Pacific senior guard snapped out of a rare scoring slump with a 13-point effort in 77-67 loss to UC Davis in a nonleague game. Bailey knocked down 4-of-6... Read More Prep Spotlight: Full of confidence, goal scorers fill scoresheets by Matt Nevala | Dec 26, 2021 | Hockey, At the ripe old age of 17, Ian Keim gleefully harkened back to one of his earliest hockey memories. “In third grade, we were on a travel team with (new UAA coach Matt) Shasby at a big tournament down in Blaine, Minn.,” the West High senior recalled. “We ended up... Read More Kamaka Hepa heats up against South Florida, continues souped-up scoring stretch by Van Williams | Dec 24, 2021 | Basketball Kamaka Hepa of Utqiaġvik unleashed another double-digit scoring performance after the University of Hawaii junior dropped in 16 points in a 76-69 loss to South Florida to continue his souped-up scoring stretch. This gives him a 10.8-point average over the last half... .Read More UP NEXT Prep Basketball: Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament Monroe Catholic High School 615 Monroe St, Fairbanks, Alaska Hosted by the Monroe Catholic Rams, the Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament is slated to take place from January 6th-8th, with the Lathrop Malemutes, Colony Knights, and Barrow Whalers contesting for the tournament title. Visit Up Next for a preview of some of the big sport tickets happening around the state over the next week. Contact Up Next manager Arielle Himelbloom with event info. 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