APU skiers JC Schoonmaker and Novie McCabe sprinted their way to national championships Saturday in Duluth, Minnesota. The pair won the classic sprint finals at Spirit Mountain Recreation Area, where more national titles will be determined Sunday and Tuesday....
Sophomore skiers Olivia Soderstrom and Vebjòrn Flagstad were selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week co-winners after earning Alaska Skimeister honors for their standout performances at the 2024 ASAA Nordic Ski State Championships. The coveted Skimeister award...
A group of West High boys who began their high school careers four years ago wearing facemasks and doing their best to stay a ski-pole’s length away from each other wrapped things up Saturday with smiles covering their faces after an impressive display of social...
Six days ago he took on the world and won. On Saturday, Anchorage skier Gus Schumacher took on a continent and was gold again. Schumacher, who recently became the first American man to win a World Cup race in more than 40 years, won Saturday’s 50-kilometer American...
Gus Schumacher of Anchorage was selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week after making history by winning the 10-kilometer freestyle Nordic World Cup race Sunday in Minneapolis. The Service High School graduate became the first American men’s distance World Cup...
Gus Schumacher finished his 10-kilometer interval-start race ahead of the 34 men who’d started before him. “I thought ‘Sweet, I gotta get in the leader’s chair,” said Schumacher, adding that in his career he’d probably only occupied that seat for a grand total of 30...
Raucous fans in Minneapolis made the first World Cup in the United States in 23 years one for the ages. Organizers estimated 15,000-20,000 fans attended at Wirth Park, and the relentless cheering began while racers warmed up for the freestyle sprint qualifier and...
As longtime professional Nordic skiers, Rosie Brennan and Scott Patterson have a combined 333 World Cup starts. But never before have they experienced the privilege of racing a World Cup in the United States. That will finally change this weekend, as the World Cup —...
It was a big weekend for the West Eagles ski team. For the second year in a row, Anchorage’s oldest high school captured the boys and girls team titles at the Region IV cross-country ski championships. The Eagles ruled the Kincaid Park trails by getting a victory in...
From Kincaid Park to Lake Placid and from Germany to South Korea, Alaskans found mixed success on cross-country ski trails in recent days. In Oberhof, Germany, Anchorage’s Rosie Brennan maintained her No. 3 ranking in the World Cup overall standings by placing 10th in...
It was a day of guts and glory for Alaska skiers on global and national stages Sunday. The guts: Rosie Brennan, Scott Patterson and Zanden McMullen completed the most brutal race in the most brutal of cross-country ski series, surviving the climb up an alpine ski...