Eagle River High School swimmer Reese Woodward was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after continuing her torrid start to the season at Saturday's quad meet. Competing against South, Chugiak and Bartlett, the senior logged convincing victories in the 200...
After swimming in the Pac-12 Championships last year and then competing in the Big 12 Championships this year, Anchorage's Tavner Wisdom probably prefers the latter. That's because the University of Arizona junior went faster at the Big 12s and medaled as an...
Juneau swimmer PJ Foy set the University of North Carolina record in the 50-yard freestyle on Wednesday morning. By that evening, his Olympian teammate broke it. The school record was set twice by two different Tar Heels at the ACC Championships in Greensboro, N.C. -...
Eagle River High School swimmer Wes Mank is our Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning four events at the Alaska high school state championship swim meet. The senior swimmer broke his own state record in the 100-yard backstroke in 48.65 seconds. He added an...
Juneau swimmer PJ Foy's big year just keeps getting better. He competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June. He enrolled at the University of North Carolina earlier this month. And he named the U.S. Junior National Team last week. Foy was among 71 swimmers named to the...
Anchorage swimmer Jordan Iverson was selected as our Alaska Athlete of the Week after crossing the English Channel last week to become the first known Alaskan to complete the Triple Crown of open-water marathon swimming. Iverson has now swam the 20.5-mile English...
For marathon swimmer Jordan Iverson of Anchorage, there’s no single way to mentally endure a 10-hour open-water swim. Sometimes she lets her mind wander. Sometimes she focuses on her form. And sometimes she plays with numbers. “I enjoy doing long division math in my...
Lydia Jacoby, Alaska's gold-medal swimmer, is withdrawing from the U.S. Olympic Trials and will follow the Paris Games from afar, she announced Tuesday on Instagram. Jacoby, 20, missed her chance to defend her Olympic title in the 100-meter breaststroke by placing...
Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby placed third Monday in the women's 100-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials, a result that means she probably won't get to extend her reign as an Olympic champion in her signature event. But Jacoby could still make it to Paris. She...
Juneau swimmer PJ Foy is headed to the U.S. Olympic Trials, becoming the 13th Alaskan in history to qualify for the elite, high-stakes meet. Foy, a senior at Thunder Mountain High School, met the qualifying time in the 100-meter butterfly on March 16 at the Northwest...
For Arizona State University’s John Heaphy of Eagle River and University of Arizona’s Tavner Wisdom of Anchorage, the 100-yard breaststroke B final at the Pac-12 Championships was personal. The rivalry between Alaska swimmers in the event dates back several years,...