College Sports

Fund to help Cheseto cover debt

The University of Alaska Anchorage athletic department has established a fund to help runner Marko Cheseto with the staggering debt that resulted from his medical emergency and amputation in November.

UAA's Chelimo is national champion

The greatest team performance in UAA track and field history was capped Saturday night by one of the grandest individual performances in the program's history -- junior Micah Chelimo seized the men's 5,000 meters at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Pueblo, Colo.

Standout Kenyan runner rebuilds his life

For the first 28 years of his life, Marko Cheseto's feet carried him, from a small village in the mountains of western Kenya to America, where he won race after race, becoming one of the most accomplished runners in UAA history. Then came the suicide of a cousin -- really more like a brother -- from his village, someone Cheseto himself had recruited to UAA running.

Fund to help Cheseto cover debt

Photos: Marko Cheseto

Photos: The search for Marko Cheseto (11/8/11)

Three Seawolves are All-Americans

UAA athletes went 3 for 3 in All-America finishes Friday, when steeplechasers Micah Chelimo and Susan Tanui racked runner-up finishes and heptathlete Kelsea Johnson rocketed up the standings at the Division II NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Pueblo, Colo.

5 Seawolves reach championship finals

UAA's distance demons got off to a strong start at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday, when juniors Susan Tanui and Micah Chelimo won their 3,000-meter preliminary steeplechase heats to lead five Seawolves who advanced to finals.

UAA volleyball tourney gets sponsor in Marriott

The UAA volleyball team's invitational tournament, which has been played under several titles in school history and was absent from the schedule last season, will return this fall with a new sponsor and name.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

New UAA women's coach has winning ways

UAA on Tuesday announced the hiring of Nathan Altenhofen, 40. He replaces Tim Moser, who resigned earlier this month after taking the Seawolves to six straight NCAA tournaments, and three Elite Eights. Moser earlier this week took an assistant coaching job at Division I Colorado State.

ALASKA SPORTS ROUNDUP (5/21/12)

Moser will be an assistant at Colorado State

Former UAA women's basketball coach Tim Moser, who resigned from his position with the Seawolves earlier this month, has accepted a job as an assistant coach with the Colorado State women's basketball team.

Alaska sports roundup (5/21/12)

Roundup of Alaska sports events

Forward from Eastern Arizona College signs with UAA men

UAA men's basketball announced the addition of a versatile forward Thursday. Mike Mackelvie has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Seawolves next season.

UAA adds three skiers

Service High's John Glenn is among a trio of nordic skiers who have agreed to ski for UAA next season, coach Sparky Anderson announced Thursday. Marine Dusser of France and Patricia Sprecher of Switzerland will join the women's team.

TRACK AND FIELD

UAA will send 10 to nationals

UAA will send a school record-tying 10 athletes to the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships later this month in Colorado, and seven of those competitors enter the big meet with previous experience at nationals.

Alaska sports roundup (5/16/12)

Roundup of Alaska sports events

ESPN: UAA runner whose frozen feet were amputated intended suicide

Marko Cheseto, the star UAA runner from rural Kenya who went missing in Anchorage for more than two days in November and eventually walked to safety on frozen feet, intentionally overdosed on painkillers and prescribed anti-anxiety medication before passing out along a trail, says ESPN. A lengthy ESPN magazine report on Cheseto tells of his journey to Alaska in 2008 on a running scholarship and the pressure he and his Kenyan teammates felt to do well academically and athletically, as well as hold down part-time jobs so they could send cash home to their families.

Alaskans among the best at Pac-12 meet

A pair of Alaskans turned in podium-worthy performances Sunday at the Pac-12 track and field championships in Eugene, Ore. Jordan Clarke of Anchorage earned two medals and Trevor Dunbar of Kodiak collected one while helping Oregon to the team title.

Seawolves shine at GNAC championships

UAA's Micah Chelimo and Grace Morgan each earned two titles Saturday at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Monmouth, Ore.

Clarke wins Pac-12 shot put crown

Anchorage's Jordan Clarke, the NCAA's reigning shot put champion, captured the shot put title at the Pac-12 track and field championships Saturday in Eugene, Ore.

UAA's Tanui destroys record

UAA sophomore Susan Tanui shattered the meet record in the women's steeplechase Friday at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships in Monmouth, Ore., and Ruth Keino added a win for the Seawolves in the women's 10,000-meter race.

UAA hoops assistant heading to Wyoming

Ryan Orton, the top assistant coach for the UAA men's basketball team since 2009, landed a new job Friday when he was named head coach at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs, Wyo.

UAA signs a pair of European gymnasts

Two European gymnasts have signed letters of intent to compete for UAA next season, UAA coach Paul Stoklos announced Thursday.

UAA women's basketball coach says it was time to move on

Tim Moser, one of the most successful coaches in the history of UAA athletics, is leaving his job as the school's women's basketball coach, saying it's time for something new.

Photos: Tim Moser's career at UAA