by Harlow Robinson | Jun 27, 2024
Just 27 years old upon her induction, Soldotna’s Allie Ostrander has spent more than half her life rooted in Alaska’s sports consciousness. She was only 12 when she burst onto the scene in 2009 by dominating the girls’ junior race at Seward’s Mount Marathon. Her...
by Harlow Robinson | Jun 27, 2024
If ever there was an Iditarod musher who was born to run, it’s Dallas Seavey. He’s the son of three-time champion Mitch Seavey and the grandson of race pioneer Dan Seavey, who competed in the inaugural Iditarod in 1973. Seavey has more than lived up to his bloodline...
by Harlow Robinson | Jun 27, 2024
On the night before he was due to compete in powerlifting at the 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games inGermany, Bobby Hill was marching up and down the bleachers at the Messe Berlin convention center while rallying spectators to cheer for his teammates. So what...
by Natalie Osborne | Nov 21, 2023
Throughout a prolific football career that catapulted defensive back Reggie Tongue from Fairbanks’ Lathrop High to the NFL, he carved a reputation as an easy-smiling, good guy – until he arrived at the football field. Then, kindness gave way to chaos. Tongue was an...
by Natalie Osborne | Nov 21, 2023
No man is an island — unless the island is Kodiak and the man is Joe Floyd. Known to many simply as Coach, Floyd is the architect and patriarch of youth and high school sports in Kodiak. He arrived in 1955 for a teaching job, fresh out of the University of...
