A weekend all about endings — the end of the World Cup season, the end of Jessie Diggins’ tremendous ski racing career — concluded Sunday at Lake Placid in front of thousands of roaring fans. Diggins didn’t get a fairytale ending many hoped for. The Minnesota woman...
JC Schoonmaker supplied the best finish for the American men in Saturday’s World Cup sprint race in Lake Placid, where his ninth-place finish vaulted the Anchorage skier into the top 30 of the season-ending sprint standings. Schoonmaker, 25, ends the season as the...
Back on home soil, Anchorage’s Gus Schumacher inched closer to clinching a top-10 finish in the World Cup overall standings Friday in Lake Placid, New York. A boisterous crowd of American fans disregarded a snowstorm to watch the world’s best cross-country skiers...
Team Alaska ruled in Wisconsin and UAF’s Rosie Fordham reigned in Utah — again — as two major ski championships wrapped up Saturday. Alaska capped a stellar week at the U.S. Junior National cross-country ski championships by winning two of Saturday’s three relay races...
Friday was a big day for a couple of Alaska skiers. In Wisconsin, Anchorage’s Finn Dudley scored a hat trick at the U.S. Junior National Championships. And on the alpine slopes of Utah Olympic Park, Ella Bromee became UAA’s sixth skier in history to become a five-time...
Led by the dueling duo of Finn Dudley and Ethan Elliott, Alaska cross-country skiers boast two gold medals and 11 podium finishes going into the third day of competition at the U.S. Junior National Championships in Cable, Wisconsin. Dudley and Elliott dominated the...
The Fairbanks factory of champions rolled out another winner this week at the NCAA Ski Championships. UAF’s Rosie Fordham, a senior from Australia, annihilated the field to win the women's 7.5-kilometer classic race Thursday at Utah’s Soldier Hollow. She’s the second...
While on his way to victory in Sunday’s 50-kilometer Tour of Anchorage cross-country ski race, Luke Jager got a measure of how much snow fell in Anchorage this weekend by checking his watch. Two weeks earlier Jager won a sprint finish to crush the course record at the...
Jack Leveque is aging quite nicely. Now 16, the Anchorage cross-country skier enjoyed a breakthrough race for the second year in a row at the World Junior Championships. Racing against the world’s best young skiers — most of them 2-4 years older than him — Leveque...
Kendall Kramer was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after enjoying a huge breakthrough Sunday in Falun, Sweden, where she more than held her own against some of the best in the world. The cross-country skier from Fairbanks grabbed ninth place in the 20-kilometer...
Murphy Kimball’s four-word social media post said it all. “6th in the world!!” Kimball, 19, kicked off the World Junior Championships with a world-class performance Monday, placing sixth in the men’s freestyle sprint in Lillehammer, Norway. It was a career highlight...