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Alaska Sports Hall of Fame: Class of 2023 ceremony honors Reggie Tongue, Jessica Moore, Joe Floyd, Kikkan Randall and others
Hall of Famer Kikkan Randall surrounded by Trajan Langdon Award winners Geremu Daggett (left) and Colton Merriner. Photo by Jim Kohl Alaska celebrated some of its finest and most inspiring athletes Thursday night at the annual Alaska Sports Hall of Fame induction...
2023 Directors’ Awards winners named
A downhill skier on a breathtaking upward trajectory. A backup goaltender in a front-and-center role for the best team in the National Hockey League. A pair of players who have scored more points than any other girls in the history of Alaska high school basketball –...
Inspirational athletes, teams and tandems named finalists for Trajan Langdon Award recognizing character
A mother who resumed her track career while still breastfeeding, a musher who rescued a rival in the middle of nowhere and a runner who halted his race to help a teammate are among the finalists for the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame's Trajan Langdon Award. The award...
Pride of Alaska adult finalists named, AK’s top male and female athlete to be named April 5
Men and women succeeding on the national level and beyond are the finalists for the 2023 Pride of Alaska awards. NCAA champion swimmer Lydia Jacoby of Seward, NCAA Division II volleyball player of the year Eve Stephens of Palmer and All-America basketball player...
Pride of Alaska youth finalists named for to prep athletes, winners announced April 5
A teenager who ruled the ski slopes and five who reigned as state champions are in the running for the 2023 Pride of Alaska youth awards. The six were chosen from a field of 24 athletes and one team nominated for the annual awards presented by the Alaska Sports Hall...
Jessica Moore, Reggie Tongue, Joe Floyd highlight Class of 2023
Two contemporary athletes who shined on every stage and a man who transformed a community through sports highlight the incoming class of Alaska Sports Hall of Fame inductees. Reggie Tongue of Fairbanks, Jessica Moore (now Waldrop) of Palmer, and Joe Floyd of Kodiak...
Matt Carle, Marcie Trent inductions highlight 2022 Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony
Given college hockey’s freshly-minted national champion, Matt Carle couldn’t help but feel like a bit of a warm-up act Thursday on a night belonging to him and a galaxy of Alaska sports greats. Carle’s younger brother David coached the University of Denver to its...
2022 Directors’ Awards Winners to be honored at ceremony on April 21st
The 2022 Directors' Awards winners will be presented with their plaques recognizing them as Alaska's most outstanding athletes of this past year at the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony and banquet, April 21st, 7-9pm at the Anchorage Museum atrium. The event is free...
Hebard, Schumacher headline 2020 Directors’ Award winners
NCAA All-American basketball star Ruthy Hebard of Fairbanks and junior World Champion cross-country skier Gus Schumacher of Anchorage have been selected as 2020 Pride of Alaska Award winners by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors. Hebard recently wrapped...
Cheseto, Fletcher, Schumacher lead charge for Pride of Alaska
Two runners and a cross-country skier from Anchorage are up for the men’s Pride of Alaska Award after Marko Cheseto, Aaron Fletcher and Gus Schumacher were named finalists by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors. The Pride of Alaska Award since 2012 has...