A new generation of Native sports athletes put on a show Sunday at the Dena'ina Center, where the son and daughter of two of the games' great performers were among the stars.
Brian Randazzo Jr., whose dad was a legendary leaper who held numerous records at NYO, the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics and the Arctic Winter Games, won two events.
And Alice Strick, whose mom, the former Noel Gould, was a highly decorated competitor, tied an NYO record for the second straight day.
Strick tied the NYO one-foot high kick girls record by reaching 91 inches. On Saturday, she set an NYO record and tied the world record by going 78 inches in the two-foot high kick.
Randazzo on Sunday won the one-foot high kick with a 111-inch effort and grabbed victory in the Indian stick pull. The day before, he hit 101 hits in the two-foot high kick to set an NYO record.
Dajan Treeder also earned a spot in the NYO record book by traveling 151 feet, 1.5 inches in the girls seal hop Sunday, the final day of the three-day event sponsored by the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Native Youth Olympics
Sunday's results
Girls Indian stick pull -- 1) Paulina Valencia, Mat-Su; 2) Olivia Shields, Anchorage; 3) Victoria Treder, Anchorage; 4) Denise Fernandez, Bering Strait; 5) Kara Ingram, Dillingham. Boys Indian stick pull -- 1) Brian Randazzo, Jr., Anchorage; 2) Jo Bukowski, Chevak; 3) James Mitchell, Northwest Arctic, 4) Randy Standifer, Tebughna Chiefs; 5) Vincent Tomalonis, Bering Sea.
Girls one-foot high kick -- 1) Alice Strick, Mat-Su, 91 inches (ties NYO record); 2) Marian Wamsley, Gilson, 90; 3) Jorden Lisec, Dillingham, 82 (no misses); 4) tie, Tahnee Esparza, Bering Strait, and Autumn Ridley, Anchorage, 82 (2 misses). Boys one-foot high kick -- 1) Brian Randazzo, Jr., Anchorage, 111; 2) Stuart Towaruk, Bering Strait, 108; 3) name not available, 100 (no misses); 4) Wayne Beans, Andreaski, 100 (1 miss; won in kickoff; 5) Kendall Alveredo, Dillingham, 100 (1 miss).
Girls seal hop -- 1) Dajan Treder, Anchorage, 151-1.5 (new NYO record); 2) Mary Dyment, Bethel, 130-0.75; 3) Kristin Smeaton, Dillingham, 120-10.25; 4) Jackie Joekay, Lower Kusko, 113-3.25; 5) Jacklyn Hunter, Lower Yukon, 107-5.75. Boys seal hop -- 1) Michael Kanuk, Lower Kusko, 151-6; 2) tie, Wigberto Gonzalez, Mat-Su, Justin Ulak, Lower Yukon, Christian Paul, Mt. Edgecumbe, Robert Iyatunguk, Anchorage, 94.
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