Allie Ostrander of Kenai will gladly pull double duty at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The Boise State University redshirt junior will compete in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase and 5,000-meter run when the national meet takes place June 5-8 in Austin, Texas. Ostrander will be gunning for her third NCAA championship in the… Read more »
Kenai’s Jonah Theisen kicked it into overdrive in the second half of the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase to earn a second-place finish among the dozen finalists at the NCAA D2 Track and Field Championships in Kingsville, Texas. The Black Hills State University senior was in ninth place at the 1,800 mark. Theisen, of Kenai Central High… Read more »
Tanner Ealum of Anchorage helped Liberty University win the women’s team title at the Atlantic Sun Conference Track and Field Championships in Jacksonville, Florida. In the final event of the night, she ran leadoff in the 4×400-meter relay that set a school record of 3:35.77. Ealum had a 54.5 split. She just missed a gold… Read more »
Palmer’s Everett Evanoff wanted one last crack at earning a qualifying time for the 400-meter run. The Southwestern Oregon Community College sophomore got his opportunity and made the most of it by clocking a time of 51.65 seconds at the SWOCC Last Chance meet in Coos Bay, Oregon. Evanoff, of Colony High fame, finished second… Read more »
Soldotna’s Brenner Furlong helped Dakota State University capture the men’s 4×100-meter relay title at the 94th annual Dakota Relays at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The relay team hit a national qualifying time of 41.54 seconds in the race, which is currently the 13th fastest in NAIA this year as well as… Read more »
Kenai’s Allie Ostrander is rarely tested in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, but she faced a stiff challenge from the University of New Mexico’s Adva Cohen at the Payton Jordan Invitational in Stanford, California. The Boise State University All-American runner from Alaska eked out a victory over the Israeli international by just five-hundredths of a second… Read more »
The 4×4 relay is like a 4×4 truck because it’s rugged and requires a strong motor. Good thing Liberty University features two rough-and-tough runners from Alaska. Anchorage’s Tanner Ealum and Michael Todd have etched their names in the record book among the fastest men’s and women’s 4×400-meter relay teams for the NCAA D1 school in… Read more »
Boise State University track and field star Allie Ostrander of Kenai was one of several runners to secure personal records at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California. She placed ninth out of 143 finishers in the women’s 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:14.76. She put herself in contention to receive a bid to… Read more »
Kenai’s Allie Ostrander etched her name once again in the Boise State University record book, this time clocking a school record in the women’s 10,000-meter run at the Stanford Invitational in California. Ostrander owns at least seven school records for the Broncos and is No. 2 in three other events, in addition to her 10… Read more »
Kenai’s Allie Ostrander walked away with her 10th career All-American finish after running to a fourth-place finish in the women’s 3,000 meters at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Alabama. With the pack constricted into a tight group, Ostrander found herself trapped in the inside lane towards the back of the field…. Read more »
