Connecting You with Alaska Athletes WEEK IN REVIEW Share This Email Share This Email Halfway home, lead pack locked in tight race as finish nears in frigid Copper Basin 300 by Matias Saari | Jan 9, 2022 | Sled Dog Racing More than halfway through a frigid Copper Basin 300, Brent Sass, Joar Ulsom and Paige Drobny were locked in a tight race Sunday evening in the first major mushing race of the season. Temperatures at Saturday morning’s start in Glennallen were about minus 35 Fahrenheit... 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. Galena’s Pearle Green pumps in 26 points, comes up big in fourth quarter for UAF by Van Williams | Jan 10, 2022 | Basketball Galena’s Pearle Green’s do-it-all playmaking prowess nearly brought the UAF Nanooks back from a double-digit deficit in a tough 81-75 road loss to Northwest Nazarene. Down by as many as 17 points in the fourth quarter, UAF fought its way back to take a 72-71 lead with... 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 Around the rinks: Krajnik blows up, DeGeorge extends streak, Shortridge shines and more by Doyle Woody | Jan 9, 2022 | Hockey Eagle River’s Zach Krajnik, a freshman on Minnesota State-Mankato, entered the weekend with two assists in 11 career games with the No. 1-ranked Mavericks. He pumped up that scoring line considerably in a Central Collegiate Hockey Association sweep of Ferris State....Read More ATHLETE OF THE WEEK National champ Keegan Messing named Alaska Athlete of the Week by Alaska Sports Report | Jan 10, 2022 Keegan Messing of Girdwood earned our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after winning the national title at the Canadian figure skating championships on Saturday. In doing so the dual-citizen was named to the Canadian figure skating team and will return to compete in... Read More PREP GAME OF THE WEEK: Lynx escape with tournament victory, weeks after travel woes by Matt Nevala | Jan 8, 2022 | Basketball When the Dimond High boys basketball squad flew out of Anchorage on Christmas night, the itinerary called for a trip to Chicagoland and an early-season challenge via a holiday tournament. The Lynx never made it to the Midwest, which isn’t to say they weren’t tested in... Read More Nordic notebook: UAA ‘Skiwolves’ turn heads at US Nationals by Matias Saari | Jan 8, 2022 | Nordic Skiing The University of Alaska Anchorage should perhaps be renamed the “Skiwolves” for its series of remarkable performances at the U.S. Cross Country Nordic Ski Championships in Utah this week. The Seawolves kicked off the week with JC Schoonmaker’s win in the freestyle... Read More Women’s college hoops notebook: Pinckney and Voliva spark UAA, Roberts stays hot, and more by Van Williams | Jan 9, 2022 | Basketball Hometown products Nicole Pinckney and Tennae Voliva combined to score 12 of UAA’s final 18 points to help the nationally ranked Seawolves hold off Northwest Nazarene 76-72 in a GNAC thriller in Nampa, Idaho. UAA rallied from a 62-58 deficit over the final five... Read More What next for Jeremy Swayman? Alas, likely the AHL by Doyle Woody | Jan 7, 2022 | Hockey At first glance, you might understandably find it puzzling Boston Bruins rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman is likely to soon be demoted. After all, the 23-year-old from Anchorage has delivered a solid performance this season. He’s 8-6-2 with a 2.26 goals-against... Read More FRIDAY FLASHBACK:1991 Classic title game against Oak Hill put Trajan Langdon on national map by Van Williams | Jan 7, 2022 | Basketball, Friday Flashback Three decades have passed since he played in the game, but for former East High great Trajan Langdon it sometimes seems like yesterday when he faced nationally ranked Oak Hill Academy of Virginia. The 1991 Alaska Airlines Classic championship game was the most... Read More Football notebook: Snell plays in FCS title game, Lujan promoted to OC, Langdon heads to NFL by Van Williams | Jan 8, 2022 | Football Eagle River’s Derryk Snell took the field for today’s FCS national championship game and brought the state of Alaska with him. The Montana State University sophomore tight end grabbed two receptions, converted two first downs and set up a field goal in a 38-10 loss to... Read More Hunter Fejes of Anchorage is back, and in a big way by Doyle Woody | Jan 5, 2022 | Hockey Anchorage’s Hunter Fejes is back from across the pond, and he’s making a splash. The sixth-year pro winger has returned to the ECHL’s Orlando Solar Bears from Europe and landed with a bang. He was named the ECHL’s Player of the Week after racking five goals, including... Read More Brotherly love: Top college scoring tandems from Hajdukovich, Bailey & Butler to Laws, Sherman-Newsome & Karlberg by Van Williams | Jan 5, 2022 | Basketball Jim Hajdukovich has known Kyle Bailey since they were both little dribblers in Fairbanks. Hajdukovich is five years older and played in the Interior youth league with Bailey’s brother, Bill. Even at 5 years old, Bailey already showed flashes of excellences... Read More Around the rinks: Saville, Haider, Walker, Plucinski and Solberg getting it done by Doyle Woody | Jan 4, 2022 | Hockey Anchorage’s Isaiah Saville continues cruising toward a career season for Omaha’s men’s hockey team. The junior from West High on Saturday delivered his career-high fourth shutout of the season when he stopped 21 shots in 5-0 win at St. Lawrence. That was a strong... Read More Rosie Brennan, Scott Patterson highlight awesome Alaska contingent at U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships by Matias Saari | Jan 4, 2022 | Nordic Skiing Alaskans dominated the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships Tuesday in Utah, producing celebrations, dramatic finishes and disappointment. For Rosie Brennan, the runaway champion of the women’s 20-kilometer mass start freestyle race, the event served as a good effort... Read More UP NEXT Prep Basketball: Joe T. Classic Tournament January 13 @ 3:00 pm - 9:40 pm Hosted by the Monroe Catholic Rams, the Mt. 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