Two runners and a cross-country skier from Anchorage are up for the men’s Pride of Alaska Award after Marko Cheseto, Aaron Fletcher and Gus Schumacher were named finalists by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors. The Pride of Alaska Award since 2012 has...
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ANCHORAGE - Two athletes on meteoric career trajectories and two teams on remarkable runs of excellence bookend a 2016 Directors' Awards Class that also includes a hockey star-turned leader of youth and a basketball player who overcame tremendous adversity. The 2016...
- From the Cook Inlet Tribal Council newsletter “Alaska Native games are viewed as a big part of our heritage — not just our sports history, but of our state’s culture.” NYO events, like the Two-Foot High Kick, reflect traditional contests practiced by Alaska Native...
Check out Olympian, Holly Brooks, and Alaska Sports Hall of Fame's Executive Director, Harlow Robinson, on KTUU discussing the upcoming PLAAY Summit for Alaskan Youth on February 19th and 20th!...
Arguably Alaska’s greatest runner and the state’s best track and field athlete both went to the Olympics, and now they are headed to the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. Don Clary and Janay DeLoach will headline the Class of 2016 induction ceremony this summer along with...
Click here to read the fall 2015 edition of AKtive Welcome to our first newsletter! Our story goes back more than a decade. In 2004, the founders of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame (Brad Precosky, Chris Myers and myself ) wanted to do more than put plaques on a...
Dick Mize just wanted a place for kids to ski. John Brown just wanted to play basketball. Michaela Hutchison was just following in her family’s footsteps. What started as small ideas turned into something big. Mize, Brown and Hutchison joined Nancy Pease and the Iron...
George Attla, the "Huslia Hustler" whose mushing achievements made him an Alaska rock star during the 1960s, '70s and '80s, died Sunday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. He was 81, and beloved across the state. “May my Dad rest in peace,” Amanda Attla...
The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame is proud that so many Alaskan athletes agreed to join community members and organizations to stand united against domestic violence and child abuse. Thank you to Hall of Fame inductees Mario Chalmers , Scott Gomez, Trajan Langdon, Kikkan...
The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony to honor the Class of 2015 inductees and annual Directors' Awards winners will take place tonight at the Anchorage Museum auditorium at 625 C Street in downtown Anchorage. The event, which is free and open to the public, will...