{"id":26427,"date":"2022-04-22T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alaskasportshall.org\/?p=26427"},"modified":"2023-09-10T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T18:44:42","slug":"matt-carle-marcie-trent-inductions-highlight-alaska-sports-hall-of-fame-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaskasportshall.org\/matt-carle-marcie-trent-inductions-highlight-alaska-sports-hall-of-fame-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Carle, Marcie Trent inductions highlight 2022 Alaska Sports Hall of Fame ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Given college hockey\u2019s freshly-minted national champion, Matt Carle couldn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
Carle\u2019s younger brother David coached the University of Denver to its record-tying NCAA Division I title less than two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor sure, it was quite awesome to watch,\u201d Matt Carle said minutes before the 2022 Alaska Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony commenced. \u201cI\u2019ve done some other interviews, and I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s another coach to come out of Alaska to win a national championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s another first for Alaska, and great for our family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recent events notwithstanding, Matt Carle did more than his fair share to deserve inclusion in the Hall\u2019s 14th celebration of all things Alaska sports at the Anchorage Museum. Carle scored an Alaska first when he won the 2006 Hobey Baker Award, the Heisman Trophy of college hockey, and went on to play 857 games in the NHL.<\/p>\n
He and female running pioneer Marcie Waldron Trent took their rightful place among 39 other Alaska luminaries as the Hall\u2019s Class of 2022. They were joined by the Fairbanks Outboard Association\u2019s Yukon 800 Marathon boat race and UAA hockey\u2019s 1991 upset of powerhouse Boston College at the NCAA Championships.<\/p>\n
The event emceed by legendary Alaska broadcaster Kurt Haider also featured the Hall of Fame Directors\u2019 awards. Those went to Olympic swimming sensation Lydia Jacoby, college hockey national champion Clair DeGeorge, professional soccer star Obed Vargas, Nordic skier Scott Patterson, Point Lay youth basketball role model Jeremy Lane, Nordic skier and brutal accident survivor Hannah Halverson and retired sports editor extraordinaire Beth Bragg.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are heading in the right direction (for sports in the state),\u201d Patterson said during his acceptance. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a bright future ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt Carle proved an example of just how superb the state\u2019s past has been as well. He won two NCAA national titles with Denver (2005, 2006), scored 328 points in his 12 NHL seasons as the first Last Frontier defenseman to play in the world\u2019s top league. He was named to the 2007 NHL All-Rookie team and twice played in the Stanley Cup Final as a conference champion.<\/p>\n