Five years before he became an Olympic downhill champion, Tommy Moe was a 19-year-old shouldering the weight of enormous expectations at the World Junior Alpine Ski Championships. The week-long race series was held at the Alyeska Ski Resort in April 1989, one of a...
Palmer's Andrew Kurka ended the season on a winning note this week when he captured the giant slalom title at the North American para-alpine championships in Winter Park, Colorado. Kurka, still one of the world's top sit-skiers at age 32, won both GS runs Wednesday to...
Kendall Kramer of Fairbanks became a four-time NCAA All-American skier for UAF as Alaska’s college ski teams wrapped up the national championships Saturday with three women in the top 10 of the 20-kilometer classic race. A day earlier, UAA sophomore Ella Bromee...
The UAA ski team added to its impressive list of All-America skiers by producing three top-10 finishes on the first two days of the NCAA Ski Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Sophomore Ainslee Proffit and senior Leon Nikic chalked up top-10 finishes in...
After a tough couple of years, Palmer native Andrew Kurka is back atop the World Cup Para Alpine podium. He is our Alaska Athlete of the Week. Know for his fearlessness and technical savvy, Kurka won gold at both the 2018 Paralympics in South Korea and 2017 World...
After a tough couple of years, Andrew Kurka is back atop the World Cup Para Alpine podium. Kurka, a 15-year member of the U.S. Para Alpine Team from Palmer, won a hotly contested downhill race Tuesday in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, the site of the 2026 Paralympics....
Great expectations seem reasonable for 18-year-old Finnigan Donley of Anchorage. He’s one of America’s most promising young alpine skiers, having crushed the competition regionally and nationally at every age level since he became a teenager. Yet as he begins his...
It was a surprise when Anchorage skier Finnigan Donley learned he’d been selected to the U.S. team for January’s World Junior Alpine Championships days before the competition began in Austria. “I had no clue,” he told the Anchorage Daily News. It was no surprise at...
A downhill skier on a breathtaking upward trajectory. A backup goaltender in a front-and-center role for the best team in the National Hockey League. A pair of players who have scored more points than any other girls in the history of Alaska high school basketball -...
A teenager who ruled the ski slopes and five who reigned as state champions are in the running for the 2023 Pride of Alaska youth awards. The six were chosen from a field of 24 athletes and one team nominated for the annual awards presented by the Alaska Sports Hall...
Anchorage alpine skier Finnigan Donley turned in a sensational performance at the U18 Junior National Championships March 11-14 at Mittersill Cannon Mountain in Franconia, N.H. Donley, who joined the Sun Valley Ski Academy in Idaho last year, earned two gold medals, a...