Alaskans of all ages are welcome to come out for the Tough Slusher this Saturday at Service High School in Anchorage Alaska and help raise money for ASHOF’s Healthy Futures program! Registration closes at midnight AK time Friday, April 10th. Register HERE! The Tough Slusher is a non-competitive event for the whole family. The course… Read more »
George Attla, the “Huslia Hustler” whose mushing achievements made him an Alaska rock star during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, died Sunday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. He was 81, and beloved across the state. “May my Dad rest in peace,” Amanda Attla wrote on her Facebook page Sunday evening. “He’s at… Read more »
The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony to honor the Class of 2015 inductees and annual Directors’ Awards winners will take place tonight at the Anchorage Museum auditorium at 625 C Street in downtown Anchorage. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be from 7:30-9pm with a receiving-line reception to follow in… Read more »
(From the Play Every Day Blog) It’s been an exciting first half of the 2014/15 school year for Healthy Futures. Our program had a record number of students from 173 Alaska schools participate in the Fall 2014 Healthy Futures Challenge — nearly 18,500 kids, in fact. The Spring Healthy Futures Challenge starts this Sunday, Feb…. Read more »
TruGame teams with former NBA player to fight Sudden Cardiac Arrest The game of basketball is demanding, but sudden cardiac arrest is threatening to take players out of the game of life. SCA claims a life every two minutes – that’s more than breast cancer, lung cancer and AIDS. Yet it doesn’t necessarily get the… Read more »
Two coaches who have built championship programs and two female athletes with tremendous resumes and quality characters make up the 2015 Directors’ Awards class. The 2015 Directors’ Awards recipients will be recognized along with the Class of 2015 inductees during the annual Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony at the Anchorage Museum on Thursday, March… Read more »
Links to some of the news coverage around the Alaska on the Class of 2015 announcement: From the Alaska Dispatch News: Alaska Sports Hall of Fame honors trailblazers, trail runner, trail maker From KTUU: Alaska Sports Hall of Fame to welcome five new members in 2015 From KTVA: 3 Inducted into Alaska Sports Hall of Fame From… Read more »
ANCHORAGE – Three athletes with remarkable resumes within their respective sports were announced at a press conference today as members of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2015. Olympic biathlete and Anchorage Nordic Skiing pioneer Dick Mize, Ketchikan basketball icon John Brown, and Mountain running legend Nancy Pease will be the next… Read more »
Alaska Sports Hall of Fame co-founder and director Chris Myers appeared on KTUU’s “The Press Box” on Sunday to discuss Class of 2015 public voting and reflect on nine years of induction class selections. http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/the-press-box-chris-myers-w-ak-sports-hall-of-fame/29935288
