The University of Alaska Anchorage should perhaps be renamed the “Skiwolves” for its series of remarkable performances at the U.S. Cross Country Nordic Ski Championships in Utah this week. The Seawolves kicked off the week with JC Schoonmaker’s win in the freestyle...
Alaskans dominated the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships Tuesday in Utah, producing celebrations, dramatic finishes and disappointment. For Rosie Brennan, the runaway champion of the women’s 20-kilometer mass start freestyle race, the event served as a good effort...
As Palmer senior Katey Houser assessed her high school nordic skiing accomplishments thus far, she couldn’t help but consider a major injury and the absence of an entire season. “As a sophomore, I tore the ACL (in my right knee) playing flag football for fun,” Houser...
From Norway to Minnesota to Anchorage, the Rosies, the Nanooks and the Cougars glided to big weekends on Nordic skis. On the World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway, Rosie Brennan of Alaska Pacific University by earned her first podium of the season, a third place in the...
Alaska skiing fans were surprised to recognize a familiar voice announcing the World Cup cross country pursuit race last Sunday in Ruka, Finland. The voice belonged to Anchorage’s Lex Treinen, who was filling in for a European announcer on skiandsnowboard.live, a new...
Hardly fazed by frigid conditions, Alaska skiers collected a half-dozen Top 20 finishes over three days of racing this weekend at the World Cup opener in Ruka, Finland. They simply bundled up, wore protective face tape, and threw down against the world’s best — thirty...
With the Winter Olympics less than three months away, a host of Alaskan Nordic skiers are in contention to represent the United States in Beijing. And if things go well, Alaskans could fill at least half of the 14 spots the United States is expected to receive. “I...
Kikkan Randall’s ski career has come full circle. The flame that ignited her Olympic dreams started in the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage as a girl and five Olympics and a gold medal later she is coming back to the NSAA. The 38-year-old cross-country skiing...
When Anchorage’s Rosie Brennan won back-to-back World Cup ski races last December it marked a significant day in U.S. Ski Team history as only one other American had ever accomplished the feat. The one and only Kikkan Randall. Any time you can follow in the footsteps...
World Cup ski race champion Rosie Brennan of Anchorage, Olympic Trials wrestling qualifier Sydnee Kimber of Sitka and UFC fighter Lauren Murphy of Eagle River were named by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors as finalists for the 2021 women’s Pride of...
Kendall Kramer of Fairbanks ended the NCAA Championships in style after earning All-American honors and being the third-highest American female finisher in the 15-K freestyle nordic race in Jackson, New Hampshire. The UAF freshman and U.S. Ski Team’s Development squad...