JC Schoonmaker is changing ski affiliations, but two other things haven’t changed: he’s staying in Anchorage and he remains the top Nordic ski sprinter in the country. Schoonmaker was among nine racers affiliated with Alaska to be nominated to the U.S. Cross Country...
A mother who resumed her track career while still breastfeeding, a musher who rescued a rival in the middle of nowhere and a runner who halted his race to help a teammate are among the finalists for the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame's Trajan Langdon Award. The award...
Jenna DiFolco has had quite a month of racing ski marathons. The former University of Alaska Anchorage skier placed near the front in four consecutive weekends, starting with the Tour of Anchorage 50-kilometer event, continuing with the Kachemak Bay Ski Marathon in...
As a display of his versatility, Lars Arneson has won obstacle races, mountain running races, trail running races and winter triathlons among other events. On March 26, he added a ski win to his resume, prevailing at the Arctic Valley Rally ski mountaineering race....
Maxime Germain can proudly say he’s a World Junior Championship medalist. Germain raced to a career-best third place as a junior in the 10-kilometer sprint on March 11 at the IBU World Junior Biathlon Championships March 11 in Shchuchinsk, Kazakhstan. ...
Wells Wappett and Katey Houser did their part in trying to bring the Alaska Cup back to the host team — but in the New England’s depth reigned supreme. Wappett earned his third medal of the US Cross Country Ski Junior National Championships in Fairbanks on Thursday by...
Team Alaska sprinted back into contention on Tuesday at the U.S. Cross Country Junior National Championships in Fairbanks. With three wins, five podium performances and nine qualifiers to the finals, Alaska finished atop the team sprint standings and launched into...
The Rocky Mountain and New England teams got off to a hot start on a chilly day Monday at the U.S.Cross Country Ski Junior National Championships in Fairbanks. While those teams won a pair of titles in the six 7.5-kilometer interval-start classical technique races,...
Anchorage’s Nina Kemppel was a true trailblazer in every sense of the word, changing the landscape for American cross-country skiing in the 1990s and 2000s. Back in the day the United States racers rarely cracked the top 30 of World Cup races. But Kemppel changed that...
Joe Davies of the Alaska Nanooks left no doubt he's an NCAA Ski Champion. Davies, earned the third NCAA championship in UAF Nordic skiing history, winning the 10-kilometer interval-start race on Thursday morning in Lake Placid, N.Y. Davies’ dominating time of 22...
Kinsey Loan struggled to stay warm as she pushed her fat bike with two flat tires on the Yentna River with the temperature around 25 below zero. Her rookie run in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, a 300-plus mile human-powered event from Knik to McGrath, had barely...