Men and women succeeding on the national level and beyond are the finalists for the 2023 Pride of Alaska awards. NCAA champion swimmer Lydia Jacoby of Seward, NCAA Division II volleyball player of the year Eve Stephens of Palmer and All-America basketball player...
To use a market analogy, Kenai River Brown Bears stock rocketed over the weekend, Anchorage Wolverines stock tanked and Fairbanks Ice Dogs stock just sort of held even. Kenai River marched into Fairbanks and seized four points from a two-game, North American Hockey...
As an independent team outside the six conferences in NCAA Division I men’s hockey, it makes sense UAF would appreciate underdogs. But as the Nanooks teeter on the edge of snagging an at-large berth in the 16-team NCAA tournament, they’ll be fans of the powers that be...
The late-season resurgences of a couple of Anchorage dudes, goaltender Michael Bullion and forward Alec Butcher, continued over the weekend in the ECHL. Bullion reinforced his resurgence with the Savannah Ghost Pirates by delivering his second career shutout, and...
Tate Senden of Palmer gets props for her jersey number alone – she wears her Alaska pride on her back as No. 49 for the Colby College women’s hockey team. She’ll get to pull on that jersey at least one more time. Senden, a senior right wing, furnished an assist and a...
Despite the age difference, Cam, Carter and Cooper Morris chirp each other like reputable hockey players worth their stick tape should. Being brothers also helps. Cam and Cooper are the 20-year-old twins and foundational pieces in the Anchorage Wolverines’ two-season...
Alec Butcher put up nice numbers in the ECHL last season, delivering 23 goals, 30 assists and 53 points in 69 games for the Rapid City Rush. His start to this season wasn’t so savory – just 2-3—5 totals through 21 games with the league’s Reading Royals. But the former...
UAF is fresh off a rampage of a run to wrap the regular season – six straight wins and a 10-1-0 heater in its last 11 – and now the Nanooks wait – and wait, wait, wait – for word of their NCAA tournament fate. The Nanooks punished Lindenwood 8-0 Saturday night in...
The Long Island University women’s hockey team, which features Alaskans Mikayla Lantto and Journey Miller, and has only been in existence four seasons, savored a milestone moment over the weekend. The Sharks are headed to the NCAA Division I women’s hockey tournament....
The North American Hockey League’s eight-team Midwest Division, which includes Alaska’s three teams, continues to be a delicious cluster. Perfect. Nothing better this time of season – the stretch run to the Robertson Cup playoffs – than chaos in which so many teams...
I’ve never claimed to be as sharp as a skate blade, and Friday night I came across more evidence. Newfoundland Growlers center Nolan Walker of Anchorage was playing in his 50th ECHL game of the season when I checked the ECHL app on my phone and saw he had scored his...