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Dalton sets record at wintry Turnagain Arm Trail Race; Ruby Lindquist completes hat trick
Anna Dalton braved wintry conditions to set a record Thursday at the 24th annual Turnagain Arm Trail Race. Anchorage’s Dalton (58 minutes, 35 seconds) and Lars Arneson (53:27) won the 8-mile race, while Girdwood’s Hannah Ingrim (30:06) and Wasilla’s Josh Taylor...
Alapese Matautia’s go-ahead RBI helps Portland State softball team reach Big Sky title game
What a week it’s been for the Portland State University softball team and Anchorage’s Alapese Matautia. The junior shortstop hit her first home run as a Division I player Thursday, delivered a two-out RBI single that put the Vikings ahead for good in a 9-7 win over...
Tales From The Track: Isaac Updike opens outdoor track season with second-fastest steeplechase debut of his career
By this time most springs, track athlete Isaac Updike of Ketchikan has already raced outdoors at least once or twice, but a lingering groin issue throughout fall and winter training prompted him to seek treatment and delay his outdoor debut until Friday. The result...
Chugiak’s Jihsana Williams, Bartlett’s A’Lante Owens-Player impress at Palmer Invitational
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...
Around The Rinks: 30 years after his dad was voted 1st-Team All-USHL, Anchorage’s Mac Swanson joins the club (Update: add Forward of the Year & POY to his accomplishments)
Thirty years after his dad won a United States Hockey League championship with the Omaha Lancers, Mac Swanson of Anchorage is trying to match that feat with the Fargo Force, who open the Clark Cup Finals against the Dubuque Fighting Saints on Friday night,...
Homer cyclist Kristen Faulkner named Alaska Athlete of the Week after dramatic stage win in women’s Grand Tour
Kristen Faulkner was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after using a daring solo attack to win a stage of the Vuelta Femenina in Spain. The 31-year-old pro cyclist from Homer broke free with six kilometers left, pulling away from the peloton to post a 10-second...
Around The Rinks: Anchorage’s Jeremy Swayman stops playoff career-high 38 shots in Game 1 win
There was a moment in the third period of the Boston Bruins’ 5-1 Game 1 win at Florida on Monday night when Bruins masked man Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage was splayed on his stomach during a cluster in his crease – "It’s a mosh pit!" said ESPN announcer Bob...
Alev Kelter first American women’s rugby player to score 1,000 points, reflects on journey in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month
A late-game conversion against Brazil was enough to put Eagle River’s Alev Kelter over the top and into the 1,000-point club. Kelter added her name to the record book over the weekend at the World Rugby Sevens Series stop in Singapore, where she became the first...
Around The Rinks: Quick-striking Mac Swanson of Anchorage and Fargo Force roar back, clinch spot in USHL Clark Cup Finals
Facing elimination for the second time in three days, Anchorage’s Mac Swanson and the Fargo Force got off to an electric start Sunday, when Swanson knifed the Sioux City Musketeers for a goal just 13 seconds into decisive Game 5 of the USHL’s Western Conference...
Wolverines bid a season’s adieu to Anchorage with 6-3 playoff win and 2-0 series lead in Midwest Finals
Like they had 33 times before during the season, the Anchorage Wolverines congregated around the center ice circle at game’s end and offered their fans the customary stick salute. Only Saturday’s thank-yous felt like something more. A number of the Wolverines also...
Around The Rinks: Jeremy Swayman’s first-round heroics rocket him up list of most significant Stanley Cup performances by Alaskans
Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage delivered another smothering performance Saturday night to backstop a 2-1 Game 7 overtime gutting of the haunted Toronto Maple Leafs and cap a first-round effort for the ages. In making 29 saves, including a...
Late defensive stand helps Wolverines earn 3-2 win over Wisconsin, 1-0 lead in Robertson Cup series
The same six young men announced as the Anchorage Wolverines’ starters Friday night found themselves out on the ice yet again at game’s end. A tension-filled, elongated conclusion at that. “Oh my god, it felt like the whole game,” Wolverines defenseman Camden...
Obed Vargas’ first MLS goal elicits tears of joy from family
Scoring his first MLS goal was something Anchorage teenager Obed Vargas will never forget, but the real highlight was his mom and dad’s reaction. Obed’s little brother Abad recorded their tears of joy after watching their 18-year-old son score his first...
Around The Rinks: Jeremy Swayman has done his part and more, yet Boston Bruins on brink of another playoff meltdown
Should the Boston Bruins blow a 3-1 first-round playoff series lead for the second straight year – Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs is booked for Saturday night – no blame will likely fall on Anchorage’s Jeremy Swayman. The 25-year-old goaltender furnished...
Around The Rinks (Junior/Minor Pro Edition): Colin Kessler and Mac Swanson pivotal in USHL showdown; Cayden Cahill is a SPHL President’s Cup champ again
Anchorage’s Colin Kessler picked a terrific time to post the first back-to-back, multiple-point performances in his United States Hockey League playoff history. The Sioux City Musketeers forward scored a goal and set up two others Thursday night to lift his club to...
South High brothers David and Daniel Feigner throw combined no-hitter against Eagle River
The 17th no-hitter in Cook Inlet Conference baseball history was all about brotherly love. South High brothers David and Daniel Feigner threw a combined no-hitter in Wednesday’s 6-1 win over Eagle River in a non-league game at Bartlett High School. David, a...
Around The Rinks: Anchorage Wolverines headed to NAHL Robertson Cup semis for 2nd time in their 3 seasons of existence (plus, Mac Swanson and Nolan Walker notes)
The same formula that elevated the Anchorage Wolverines to the North American Hockey League’s Robertson Cup championship game in their inaugural season in 2022 – sublime goaltending, depth scoring – has delivered the club into the Cup semifinals for the second time...
Dalton sets record at wintry Turnagain Arm Trail Race; Ruby Lindquist completes hat trick
Anna Dalton braved wintry conditions to set a record Thursday at the 24th annual Turnagain Arm Trail Race. Anchorage’s Dalton (58 minutes, 35 seconds) and Lars Arneson (53:27) won the 8-mile race, while Girdwood’s Hannah Ingrim (30:06) and Wasilla’s Josh Taylor...
Alapese Matautia’s go-ahead RBI helps Portland State softball team reach Big Sky title game
What a week it’s been for the Portland State University softball team and Anchorage’s Alapese Matautia. The junior shortstop hit her first home run as a Division I player Thursday, delivered a two-out RBI single that put the Vikings ahead for good in a 9-7 win over...
Tales From The Track: Isaac Updike opens outdoor track season with second-fastest steeplechase debut of his career
By this time most springs, track athlete Isaac Updike of Ketchikan has already raced outdoors at least once or twice, but a lingering groin issue throughout fall and winter training prompted him to seek treatment and delay his outdoor debut until Friday. The result...
Chugiak’s Jihsana Williams, Bartlett’s A’Lante Owens-Player impress at Palmer Invitational
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...
Around The Rinks: 30 years after his dad was voted 1st-Team All-USHL, Anchorage’s Mac Swanson joins the club (Update: add Forward of the Year & POY to his accomplishments)
Thirty years after his dad won a United States Hockey League championship with the Omaha Lancers, Mac Swanson of Anchorage is trying to match that feat with the Fargo Force, who open the Clark Cup Finals against the Dubuque Fighting Saints on Friday night,...
Homer cyclist Kristen Faulkner named Alaska Athlete of the Week after dramatic stage win in women’s Grand Tour
Kristen Faulkner was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after using a daring solo attack to win a stage of the Vuelta Femenina in Spain. The 31-year-old pro cyclist from Homer broke free with six kilometers left, pulling away from the peloton to post a 10-second...
Around The Rinks: Anchorage’s Jeremy Swayman stops playoff career-high 38 shots in Game 1 win
There was a moment in the third period of the Boston Bruins’ 5-1 Game 1 win at Florida on Monday night when Bruins masked man Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage was splayed on his stomach during a cluster in his crease – "It’s a mosh pit!" said ESPN announcer Bob...
Alev Kelter first American women’s rugby player to score 1,000 points, reflects on journey in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month
A late-game conversion against Brazil was enough to put Eagle River’s Alev Kelter over the top and into the 1,000-point club. Kelter added her name to the record book over the weekend at the World Rugby Sevens Series stop in Singapore, where she became the first...
Around The Rinks: Quick-striking Mac Swanson of Anchorage and Fargo Force roar back, clinch spot in USHL Clark Cup Finals
Facing elimination for the second time in three days, Anchorage’s Mac Swanson and the Fargo Force got off to an electric start Sunday, when Swanson knifed the Sioux City Musketeers for a goal just 13 seconds into decisive Game 5 of the USHL’s Western Conference...
Wolverines bid a season’s adieu to Anchorage with 6-3 playoff win and 2-0 series lead in Midwest Finals
Like they had 33 times before during the season, the Anchorage Wolverines congregated around the center ice circle at game’s end and offered their fans the customary stick salute. Only Saturday’s thank-yous felt like something more. A number of the Wolverines also...
Around The Rinks: Jeremy Swayman’s first-round heroics rocket him up list of most significant Stanley Cup performances by Alaskans
Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage delivered another smothering performance Saturday night to backstop a 2-1 Game 7 overtime gutting of the haunted Toronto Maple Leafs and cap a first-round effort for the ages. In making 29 saves, including a...
Late defensive stand helps Wolverines earn 3-2 win over Wisconsin, 1-0 lead in Robertson Cup series
The same six young men announced as the Anchorage Wolverines’ starters Friday night found themselves out on the ice yet again at game’s end. A tension-filled, elongated conclusion at that. “Oh my god, it felt like the whole game,” Wolverines defenseman Camden...
Obed Vargas’ first MLS goal elicits tears of joy from family
Scoring his first MLS goal was something Anchorage teenager Obed Vargas will never forget, but the real highlight was his mom and dad’s reaction. Obed’s little brother Abad recorded their tears of joy after watching their 18-year-old son score his first...
Around The Rinks: Jeremy Swayman has done his part and more, yet Boston Bruins on brink of another playoff meltdown
Should the Boston Bruins blow a 3-1 first-round playoff series lead for the second straight year – Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs is booked for Saturday night – no blame will likely fall on Anchorage’s Jeremy Swayman. The 25-year-old goaltender furnished...
