Scott Patterson of Anchorage shattered his own record at the 8th Kesugi Ridge Traverse to earn Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. The 28-year-old Olympic skier completed the rugged 30-mile course from Little Coal Creek to Byers Lake in Denali State Park in 4 hours, 19 minutes and 39 seconds, knocking more… Read more »
Scott Patterson shattered his record at the 8th Kesugi Ridge Traverse on Saturday while Christy Marvin celebrated her birthday with another victory in one of the first trail races to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patterson, a 28-year-old Olympic skier from Anchorage, completed the rugged 30-mile course from Little Coal Creek to Byers Lake… Read more »
Dartmouth College junior Silas Talbot of Anchorage just missed earning All-American honors at the NCAA Ski Championships in Park City, Utah. He may have won something more important, though; like bragging rights over Anchorage’s Scott Patterson of the University of Vermont. Talbot outsprinted his childhood friend by .06 seconds to finish 11th in the men’s… Read more »
Scott Patterson of Anchorage is making the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association look like child’s play. The University of Vermont senior has won both EISA skate races this season and is one classic victory from a perfect score in NCAA Championship qualification. He returned from Italy, where he competed in the U23 World Championships, just in… Read more »
Nearly half of the US Cross Country Ski Team is from Alaska. Ten of the 23 athletes – five men and five women – were named to the three-tier squad that will open the World Cup season later this month in Finland. Another Alaskan, Chris Grover of Anchorage, serves as program director for the US… Read more »
Kendall Kramer, the top Alaskan junior female Nordic skier in recent memory, has committed to ski and run at her hometown University of Alaska Fairbanks beginning in the fall of 2020. Kramer has won 14 high school state championships in skiing and running at West Valley High School. She is also a member of the… Read more »
Congrats to this week’s winner! Lydia Jacoby November 20th, 2020 Seward’s Lydia Jacoby had an eye-popping performance at the U.S. Open Swimming Championships. She turned in a blistering time of 1:07.57 in the 100-meter breaststroke, which now ranks her No. 2 all-time among American girls 15-16 years old, only .52 seconds behind the national record of… Read more »
– By Matias Saari; Alaska Sports Blog Contributor 1. Allie Ostrander, age 22 (PR 49:19, 2017 champion) If she decides to race, it’s hard to imagine Allie O getting beat. The Soldotna native and current Boise State University standout won the junior girls’ race six times, is the defending women’s champion and boasts the 2nd… Read more »
– By Matias Saari, Alaska Sports Blog Contributor Picking the top-10 for the men’s race at Mount Marathon is a crapshoot as perhaps 20 guys are capable of achieving that result. Standing out from the crowd are the course record holder, a couple of pros sponsored by Salomon, the “Gang of Four” mountain fanatics, a 40-something… Read more »
Zach Miller from Colorado became the first elite runner to sign up for the Crow Pass Crossing shortly after registration opened on May 1. His buddies Tim Tollefson and David Laney — both have finished on the podium at the prestigious Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc 100-miler — then followed suit. No elite trail runner… Read more »
