In January 2020, Ketchikan senior Chris Lee scored 47 points against Monroe Catholic High School and their then-head coach Frank Ostanik. About four years later, when Ostanik was named the head coach of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he knew exactly who to turn to to help elevate the program.
One element that has been determined; the Fairbanks Ice Dogs and the Anchorage Wolverines will square-off in the first round of the NAHL Robertson Cup Playoffs next weekend. What has not been determined whether home-ice advantage will go to Fairbanks at the Big Dipper, or to Anchorage at the Sullivan Arena.
The window for high school spring sports in Alaska is a short one, and programs must make the most of the weather and facilities provided. Schools in the Southcentral and Interior are navigating through April snowfalls, while areas like Sitka and Kodiak have seen action on the baseball diamond. The Dome has been home to track and field and soccer, while Valley schools like Wasilla and Colony are playing outside on the pitch.
Jett McCullough is continuing his basketball career right where it started as he signed to play college ball at his hometown University of Alaska Fairbanks in front of a library full of friends and family at Monroe Catholic High School.
Dogs and mushers will go for one last ride in the Kobuk 440, the mushing season-finale in Alaska, when 13 teams take off in a mass start in Kotzebue Thursday. While the lack of snow and poor trail conditions have altered, or canceled dog sled races throughout the state this year, there is no shortage of snow on the Northwest Alaska trails.
After suffering heartbreak at the hands of their biggest rivals last year, the Colony Knights girls basketball team avenged the loss and defeated Wasilla 44-41 to win the program its first state championship since 2008, led by seniors Hallie Clark and Tonya Karpow.
The dynamic dozen of 2007 will play one more season as opponents in high school - and teammates on the Cook Inlet Soccer Club - before taking their talents to the collegiate level this fall.
Costa Rican authorities announced Tuesday that they will continue to investigate the cause of death of the teenage son of former Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner as they ruled out asphyxiation as the reason.
Fairbanks native Brayden Deweese's interest in athletics and equipment management as a teen has now led him to the Colorado Eagles, a top-ranked squad in the 32-team professional league currently known as the American Hockey League.
Ketchikan had their struggling community in mind after pulling off a major upset in March Madness Alaska's 4A boys semifinal, while the Valley prepares for a 4A girls title rematch.
After winning his first career Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Jessie Holmes was quick to credit his canine superstars. “I am really proud of these dogs, I love them, they did they, they deserve all the credit,” Holmes said in the chute moments after winning the ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’.
The madness that is March has taken over the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage.
48 boys and girls basketball teams from over 30 villages are in town, vying for bragging rights and a first place trophy.
Gatorade announced its 2024-25 Alaska Girls Basketball Player of the Year Thursday as Colony High’s Hallie Clark, the second Colony High student-athlete to obtain this title.
The games are meant to celebrate Alaska Native culture through activities, some just for fun, others involving skills that help with survival in the Alaskan bush.
When rookie musher Brenda Mackey scratched in Tanana last Wednesday, Iditarod officials released a now-retracted statement saying she arrived with 14 healthy dogs in harness, but that wasn’t true.
Last month, Emily Robinson cemented her legacy in the youth dog mushing world as the only person to win the Jr. Iditarod four straight years. Now, just a few weeks after making history, she is on another unprecedented journey for a junior musher by taking on much of the famed Iditarod Trail.
After missing the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships the past two seasons, the Seawolves dominated the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and earned the No. 4 seed in the regional tournament later this week.
“It’s on my mind every day.” While Parker and the Northern Whites were on a training run near Cantwell in December 2023, a snowmachine struck the team, killing three dogs. Parker is carrying the ashes of Solo, John, and Buttercup with him on his Iditarod run.
The UAF men’s basketball team’s five-game winning streak screeched to a halt Thursday at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference postseason tournament at St. Martin’s University.
Teams navigated through high winds near the mouth of the Tanana River Wednesday morning that sent silt through the air and led dogs searching for the trail.
As Fairbanks standout Kendall Kramer wraps up her collegiate career, it’s becoming clear that her decision to stay in Alaska elevated both the Nanook skiing and running programs.
