The Alaska Athlete of the Week is selected by our panel each Monday. Have a candidate in mind? Email us at info@alaskasportshall.org.
Anchorage's Clair DeGeorge was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after delivering a five-point weekend for the Ohio State hockey team. The fifth-year senior furnished an assist in Friday’s 5-2 win over St. Lawrence in the D1 DC Tournament in Arlington, Va., then...
University of Anchorage Alaska basketball player Jahnna Hajdukovich was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after a career game at the Seawolf Hoops Classic. Hadjukovich exploded for a career-high 28 points in leading the Seawolf squad to a 73-53 win over Texas Permian...
Anchorage's Jack Green's torrid stretch for the American University men’s soccer team earned him Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. The junior midfielder from West Anchorage High School has racked up nine points over the last seven games to fuel an unbeaten streak...
Anchorage’s Hannah Hogenson was named our Alaska Sports Report Athlete of the Week after shutting out the top-ranked and undefeated Wisconsin women’s hockey team. The Bemidji State sophomore goaltender was sensational in net, stopping a career-high 56 saves on the...
Fairbanks football player Josh Cummings was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after becoming just the third Alaskan to run for a 1,000 yards in college football after carving up Colorado Mesa for 128 yards a touchdown to help power Western Colorado to a 23-9 victory in...
Ruthy Hebard of Fairbanks was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after helping the Chicago Sky beat the Phoenix Mercury 3-games-to-1 in the best-of-5 series to win the WNBA title. It was the first championship in the 16 years of the franchise and the former West Valley...
Anchorage runner Jerry Ross was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after placing in the top 100 and winning his age group at the Boston Marathon. Ross's time of 2:31:53 was tops in the 45-49-year-old age group. The 46-year-old Dimond High grad who now teaches and...
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after setting back-back-back national junior records at the FINA World Cup swim meet in Berlin. The 17-year-old Olympic champion placed second in Sunday’s 50-meter breaststroke with a personal-best time of...
Anchorage quarterback Qyntyn Pilcher was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after a historic day passing and running the the football. The sophomore signal caller lead Sierra College to a 63-37 victory over San Joaquin Delta with 203 passing yards and a career-high 105...
Anchorage runner Anna Dalton was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after setting a new Equinox Marathon women’s record. Dalton’s time of 3:07:22 knocked nearly eight minutes off Christy Marvin’s mark of 3:15:06, set in 2018. She was one of four women to run faster than...
Redington High School quarterback Wayde Bowman was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after a career day in a 68-14 victory over Kenai Central. The 6-foot-4 senior completed 26 of 34 passes, racked up 511 passing yards and threw for eight touchdowns in the win. He is...
Juneau’s Sadie Tuckwood was named the Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning in her first collegiate race for the Gonzaga University cross country team in impressive fashion. The Juneau-Douglas High School grad won outright the Clash of the Inland Northwest in...
Palmer’s Eve Stephens was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after leading the University of Alaska Anchorage volleyball team back from the dead in a wild five-set victory over Biola. Down two sets to none, the Seawolves rallied behind the 6-foot-1 All-American from the...
Anchorage basketball star Mareng Gatkuoth was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after being selected to the 12-man squad to represent South Sudan at the FIBA Africa Championships. The 21-year-old sophomore at Montana State University is one of only four college...
Monroe Catholic High School quarterback Robert McGee was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after accounting for seven touchdowns and 441 yards of total offense in a 52-14 win over Nikiski. The Fairbanks senior completed 10-of-14 passes for 316 yards and five touchdowns...
Aaron Fletcher of Anchorage was named the Alaska Athlete of the Week after sweeping all three race titles of the Alaska Distance Classic in dominating fashion. Fletcher won the 5-kilometer race and the 10-kilometer race, which made him the men’s Double Up champion....
American Legion Baseball players Luke Barch and Orazio Ramos of Eagle River were named Alaska Athlete of the Week co-winners after leading the Wolves to their first ever Legion State Championship title. Barch pitched a 2-hit shutout and Ramos crushed a home run in...
Lydia Jacoby of Seward came from behind to win the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke at the Summer Olympics in Japan. The 17-year old was third at the turn and closed strong to pop a blistering time of 1:04.95, a quarter second ahead of South Africa’s...
Anchorage's Jack Bartlett was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after rewriting the history book at the U.S. Powerlifting Association National Championship. The 270-pound 17-year-old set six world records for the 15-to-19 age group and 125-kilogram weight class....
Hannah Lafleur of Seward and David Norris of Fairbanks were named Alaska Athlete of the Week co-winners after impressive victories at the 93rd Mount Marathon race. Defending champion Lafleur (she won in 2019, there was no race last year) pulled away from a strong...