Chugiak’s Jihsana Williams is having a show-stopping season, going 9-for-9 against in-state competition in the sprints. At the Palmer Invitational, Williams clocked 25.40 seconds to secure the win and tie for ninth-quickest known performer in Alaska prep history in...
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Tales From The Track: Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike isn’t a miler, yet Friday he became Alaska’s fastest miler
Issac Updike is a steeplechaser. That’s the 3,000-meter event – just shy of two miles -- in which he finished third at the U.S. nationals last summer to bag his first Team USA honor and compete at the World Championships. He’s also the two-time defending steeple champ...
Track & Field: Logan Mathieu snags win; Jordyn Bruce finishes runner-up; Micah Olsen fares well at pole vault summit
Eagle River’s Logan Mathieu officially opened his indoor season with a win in the 60 hurdles at the Bison Team Cup. Mathieu, a junior at North Dakota State, picked up where he left off with notable marks to commence the season, after competing unattached in...
Anchorage’s Mary Parks balances life as a multi-sport athlete
From the hardwood to the oval to the cross country course, Anchorage’s Mary Parks is one of the few multi-sport athletes on the college scene competing year-round. Parks, a senior at Bethany College, got an early start in sports, picking up basketball in the second...
College Track & Field: Adarra Hagelund, Cort Sandefur snag personal bests; Brady Burrough sets school record in season opener
Soldotna's Adarra Hagelund wasted no time in her indoor track and field season opener. The Dickinson State sophomore picked up a win in the high jump at the Marauders Indoor Opener in Bismark, N.D., clearing a height of 5 feet, 6 inches to establish a personal best...
Tales From The Track: Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike opens his indoor track season with middling 5,000-meter performance; Juneau’s Sadie Tuckwood shines in indoor 5,000 debut
Isaac Updike is a steeplechaser – he finished third at USA nationals last summer and made his Team USA debut at the World Championships -- so racing other distances is a means to an end. Still, the 31-year-old from Ketchikan would have liked a sharper indoor-season...
Road Report: Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike chipped off some rust with 15th place at USA 5K road championship
Isaac Updike did not enter Saturday morning’s Abbott Dash, which doubled as the USA Track & Field Road 5K Championship, with big expectations. Steeplechase is his signature event, so he was racing a longer distance in Manhattan. There were no barriers or water...
Tales From The Track: Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike wraps longest, best season of running career with Diamond League debut in China
The longest and best season of Isaac Updike’s racing career – the 31-year-old from Ketchikan toed the start line at least once in 12 straight months – closed with his Diamond League debut in Xiamen, China, on Saturday. Updike finished 16th among 18 runners in his...
Tales From The Track: World final disappointing for Ketchikan’s Isaac Updike, but earns him experience entering Olympic year
Last place was not what steeplechaser Isaac Updike of Ketchikan had in mind, of course, but getting to a global final in his first appearance on the world stage earned him valuable experience heading into an Olympic year in 2024. Updike, 31, finished 16th at the World...
Track and Field: Isaac Updike’s World Championships debut: First, seeming ruin, then relief
The most important race of Isaac Updike’s running career progressed relatively smoothly in a preliminary steeplechase heat Saturday morning at the World Championships. Then, disaster. With about 100 meters left in the 3,000-meter tour over hurdles and a water jump,...
Track & Field: Jordyn Bruce soars to one of Alaska’s top pole vault marks, finishes 2nd at decathlon national championships
Jordyn Bruce is now two-for-two in podium finishes for the decathlon. The former Eagle River High and Illinois State standout placed runner-up at the USA Women's Decathlon National Championships in Walnut, Calif., with a score of 6,445 points, notching personal bests...