The Alaska Athlete of the Week is selected by our panel each Monday. Have a candidate in mind? Email us at [email protected].
Allie Ostrander was voted our Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning the Austin Cap10K — Texas’ Largest 10K — in a scorching 32 minutes, 45 seconds. Competing against the deepest field in the race’s 49-year history, the runner from Soldotna slashed 58 seconds off...
University of Washington pitcher Liam Lierman was voted our Alaska Athlete of the Week after shutting down ninth-ranked Oregon State in his first start of the season. The freshman left-hander from Eagle River allowed just one run in 5.1 innings to earn the win as the...
Dickinson State University baseball player Sawyer Bryner from Petersburg earned Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after setting a school record with seven stolen bases in a 9-6 win over Mayville State in North Dakota. In the first, fifth and sixth innings he stole...
Barrow boys basketball player Alex Fruean was voted our Alaska Athlete of the Week after averaging 33 points in three games at the Class 3A state tournament, highlighted by a career-high 46 points in a 98-97 triple-OT loss to Mt. Edgecumbe in the title game. The...
Jacob Strausbaugh and Elijah Larsen share our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after the Alaska wrestlers each won national collegiate championships. Strausbaugh of Soldotna won the NCAA Division II title at 133. Larsen, a Colony High graduate from Wasilla, won a...
Palmer sit-skier can boast a full set of Paralympic medals after capturing the bronze medal in the super-G in Cortina, Italy. His achievement followed by his announcement of retirement from the sport garnered him flag-bearing honors at the closing ceremony. It also...
Kendall Kramer was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after enjoying a huge breakthrough Sunday in Falun, Sweden, where she more than held her own against some of the best in the world. The cross-country skier from Fairbanks grabbed ninth place in the 20-kilometer...
Gus Schumacher earned our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after his historic performance at the Milan Olympics in Italy. The Anchorage skier teamed up with Vermont's Ben Ogden to claim the silver medal in the team sprint. It was the third medal in Olympic history...
Northway boys basketball player Terrence Titus surpassed the 3,000-point career benchmark after netting 42 points in a 99-95 win over Skagway, earning him our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. The 6-foot-1 senior guard is only the second Alaska prep player to reach...
The North Pole High hockey team won its first state championship of any kind last week and Kieran Olson's performance proved a big reason. The junior goaltender totaled 72 saves and two shutouts in three games played at the First National Cup Division II state...
A freshman homeschool student playing for Bartlett, Sanders endured and electrified Saturday night in a 4-1 Cook Inlet Conference hockey loss to undefeated South. The calm and cool goaltender stopped an astounding 70 shots, including 27 in the second period. He was...
Pete Kaiser is the undisputed King of the Kuskokwim. He's also our Alaska Athlete of the Week Kaiser, a regional hero from Bethel, became the winningest musher in Kuskokwim 300 history with his 10th victory in one of the sport's biggest mid-distance events. He seized...
Andrew Kurka was voted our Alaska Athlete of the Week after collecting two medals — silver and bronze — at two World Cup downhill para alpine races in Saalbach, Austria. The sit-skier from Palmer hopes to carry the momentum into his 4th Paralympics in March. Kurka...
APU skier Zanden McMullen was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after a stellar showing at the U.S. National cross-country ski championships in Lake Placid. The South High graduate won gold in the 20K mass-start freestyle and was the top qualifier in the freestyle...
During a busy week of racing in the Tour de Ski in Italy, Anchorage skier Gus Schumacher picked up the second victory of his World Cup career in a 5K race. The next day, he placed sixth in the pursuit race and then he wrapped things up by surviving the demanding Alpe...
Reine Soule is our Alaska Athlete of the Week after dominating the first two days of racing at the U.S. Biathlon Junior Championships at Lake Placid, NY. The 16-year-old Service High won Monday’s 9-kilometer mass-start race by nearly a minute, missing four of her 20...
Soldotna High wrestler Michael Dickinson was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning the state championship at 152 pounds with a 13-5 major decision. The senior standout steamrolled through his competition at State, earning bonus points in for all four...
At a cold and windy Kincaid Park, APU Nordic Elite ski team members Ari Endestad, Hailey Swirbul and Hunter Wonders won races at the SuperTour, the country’s top domestic Nordic ski series, to share our weekly Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. Endestad of Fairbanks...
Unalaska volleyball player Vaiula Leaoa was selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week after hammering 19 kills to lead the Raiders to a three-set sweep of Susitna Valley in the Class 2A title match of the state volleyball tournament. Leaoa - a UAA commit - led the...
Anchorage triathlete Sam Skold was selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week after claiming 7th place in her debut as a professional triathlete at Ironman Arizona. After the 2.4-mile swim, she passed more than 200 people in the 111-mile bike and the 26.2-mile run to...