TRAJAN LANGDON ADULT AWARD FINALISTS For Leadership, Sportsmanship and Inspiration – For a person or group of people who have demonstrated leadership, integrity and sportsmanship during the past year and positively influenced and inspired others to be better sportsmen...
One day before a major freeride skiing competition in Girdwood was scheduled to start, Cameron Hoessle sat on the waitlist in racer limbo. Then, after another skier’s cancellation, the call finally came that he’d get to compete. Hoessle took full advantage, placing...
Andrew Kurka’s Paralympics have come to a premature and disappointing end. But he wants everyone to know this is not the end of his exceptional career. Kurka, of Palmer, placed fourth in Friday’s opening race, the men’s sitting downhill in which he was the defending...
When organizers delayed and dramatically shortened the final men’s ski race at the Beijing Olympics due to inclement weather, Scott Patterson of Anchorage took the change in stride. Then Patterson threw down for eighth place in the 30K freestyle to achieve the...
Palmer’s Andrew Kurka was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning bronze at the World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer, Norway. This was Kurka’s first podium appearance at the world championships since 2017. In the sitting downhill even, the...
Palmer’s Andrew Kurka has a reputation for going for broke in the downhill, usually resulting in him crashing or medaling. Go big or go home. He stayed on his skis today and it resulted in him winning bronze in the men’s sitting event at the World Para Snow Sports...
Anchorage’s Zak Hammill has been named U.S. Ski and Snowboard’s Development Coach of the Year for ski jumping and nordic combined. Of all the coaches across the nation, the 30-year-old with the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage was seen as the most effective at...
With 2020 in our rearview, let’s look back on the top 20 Alaska athletes from this year. Here is the list for our 20 for 2020. They represent the best of the best from The Last Frontier. History makers, record setters, world champions and more. From the ski trails to...
The Palmer native Andrew Kurka won three of six races at the Para Alpine Skiing World Cup in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. In the sit ski downhill competition, the two-time Winter Paralympic Games medalist crashed in the first two competition, but completed the course to...
Palmer’s Andrew Kurka was all or nothing at the Para Alpine Skiing World Cup in Russia. He raced six times, winning three times and crashing three times. The sensational sit-skier crashed and did not finish the downhill race in each of the first two days of...
Undaunted by the steep and technical backcountry ski terrain — not to mention wind, cold and high altitude — the Alyeska Ski Club’s Freeride Team excelled at a junior national International Freeskiers and Snowboarders Association competition in Grand Targhee, Wyoming....