After throwing for a career-high 367 yards and four touchdowns, Qyntyn Pilcher-Colbert of Anchorage wasn’t exactly pounding his chest. His Sierra College football team fell 55-46 to Modesto and losing is the ultimate buzzkill. “There has been a lot of buzz around my personal performance, but we’re still 0-2,” he said. Pilcher-Colbert measures success by… Read more »
Brandon Joyner of Fairbanks made the longest house call of his college football career, hauling in an 80-yard touchdown reception for Elizabeth City State University. The senior wide receiver made the play on 3rd-and-15 in the third quarter when he got behind the defense after his quarterback was from flushed from the pocket. It was… Read more »
Anchorage’s Edefuan Ulofoshio is the most productive University of Washington Huskies defensive player from Alaska in 30 years. The All-Pac-12 linebacker has averaged 10.2 tackles over his last nine games after making 13 stops against Michigan in a 31-10 road loss. Ulofoshio has surpassed the century mark for his career with 114 tackles in 22… Read more »
Josh Cummings of Fairbanks went to the house the first time he touched the ball. And his day just kept getting better from there. By the end, the Western Colorado University running back had racked up a career-high 124 yards – which is believed to be the third-highest rushing total for an Alaskan at the… Read more »
The ultimate pocket passer, Conor Feckley of Anchorage picked apart defenses on the gridiron with surgical precision. The quarterback threw for nearly 12,000 yards in high school and college combined – the most for a player from Alaska at both levels. His 2016 season at the University of Dubuque was one for the ages. His… Read more »
Senior tight end Sione Tuifua of Utqiagvik has never lost a season-opening game in his four years with the Morningside University football team. This time he got into the scoring act in a 63-7 win over Concordia with a touchdown in the third quarter of the NAIA matchup in Sioux City, Iowa. Tuifua caught two… Read more »
Not even a 652-day break could disrupt the rhythm of Sierra College quarterback Qyntyn Pilcher-Colbert of Anchorage. The sophomore signal caller threw a 36-yard touchdown pass on the first drive of the game against San Francisco on opening day in the California Community College Athletic Association. He finished 8-for-15 for 97 yards and two scores,… Read more »
Monroe Catholic High School quarterback Robert McGee was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after accounting for seven touchdowns and 441 yards of total offense in a 52-14 win over Nikiski. The Fairbanks senior completed 10-of-14 passes for 316 yards and five touchdowns for the Rams and rushed the ball nine times for 125 yards… Read more »
The only college quarterback from Alaska to beat a team from a Power Five conference, Anchorage’s Zach Lujan was a game changer at South Dakota State. He played for the NCAA D1 Jackrabbits from 2014 to 2016 and compiled a 10-5 record as a starter, none bigger than his claim to fame in 2015 when… Read more »
Class of 2021 football star Jackson Harmon of Anchorage didn’t leave anything to chance when it came to accomplishing his goal of playing at the NCAA D1 level. That’s why he hit the books as hard as he hit the field. His work in the classroom paid off as Montana State University awarded him with… Read more »
