Some high school recruits enjoy the process of being courted by colleges, savoring the attention and flirting with multiple schools. Not Jesslin Wooliver, though. The 18-year-old from Anchorage settled on Saint Mary’s College of California almost immediately and never swayed, eventually picking the school and signing with NCAA D1 women’s soccer team. It all started… Read more »
He can right, he can go left. And now guard Adam Klie is going to UC San Diego. The 6-foot-3 Alaska player of the year has signed his letter of intent with the NCAA D2 Tritons of the California Collegiate Athletic Association, which rivals the GNAC as the best D2 conference on the West Coast…. Read more »
Eastern Washington sophomore Hans Roelle of Anchorage won his third career college race at the Idaho-Utah Border Clash meet in Boise. He was victorious in the 800 meters in 1:52.43, just off his PR of 1:52.14. Roelle, of West High fame, won an 800 race earlier this year. His other win came in 2011 in… Read more »
Anchorage’s Emma Lewis finished the regular season in style for Bowdoin College, winning singles and doubles matches to key a 6-3 win over Tufts in Maine. The junior teamed with Kate Winingham for an 8-6 win at No. 3 doubles to give Bowdoin a 2-1 lead going into singles play. Lewis, of South High fame,… Read more »
He threw the last time the Long Island Ducks won, so it made sense Matt Way of Sitka would be the pitcher to win the first game of 2013. He probably didn’t think it would his second start, though. The southpaw tossed seven shutout innings in a 6-0 win over Lancaster, snapping the Ducks’ six-game… Read more »
Cordova’s Cody McKenzie outlasted Leonard Garcia for a unanimous decision at UFC 159 in Newark, N.J., earning his first UFC win in 11 months. That wasn’t the biggest story, though. Dude didn’t win by guillotine choke. The submission expert dominated Garcia with takedowns and superior wrestling skills during a 29-28, 30-27, 30-27 victory. The featherweight… Read more »
Just two weeks before the start of the WNBA season, Eagle River’s Kelsey Griffin solidified her spot in Australia by re-signing with the Bendigo Spirit. The 6-foot-2 forward won grand final MVP honors last year after leading Bendigo to the league championship over Townsville. She averaged 16.5 points in 19 games in Australia. “She could… Read more »
Even though she won back-to-back state titles, elite diver Kaitlin Friedli of Eagle River believes her best is yet to come. And she thinks the coaches at Colgate University can get her there. The two-time Alaska high school state champion has accepted a scholarship to the private NCAA D1 school in New York and will… Read more »
Anchorage winger Tanner Sorenson of Anchorage came to Michigan State with great expectations, being just the third player in the last 20 years to play high school hockey in the season prior to enrolling at the school. He put up modest numbers last year, but this was a different story. And Sorenson was a different… Read more »
Juneau’s Dylan Baker turned in his finest pitching performance as a professional, yet it wasn’t enough to garner his first victory. The 21-year-old starter for Class A Lake County Captains of the Cleveland Indians organization went the distance in a 2-0 loss to Great Lakes in Midwest League action. Baker, a fifth-round MLB draft pick… Read more »
