Husband-and-wife Buddy and Lina Streeper are competing in this week’s Fur Rondy race, where six-time champion Buddy is the leader heading into Sunday’s final 25-mile heat.
The West girls and West Valley boys punctuated their state championships by winning Saturday’s relay races in Fairbanks.
They’re the first back-to-back champs since 2013.
Becca Rorabaugh and Thomas O’Harra both posted top-5 finishes in North America’s biggest cross-country ski race.
Anchorage’s Meg Pritchard and Portland’s Sarkis Peha finished first in the 5-kilometer Frostbite Footrace on Saturday.
The Seawolves posted their third-best team score of the season Saturday in Utah.
Defending champion Blayne “Buddy” Streeper trails by one minute.
UAA boasted top-10 finishers in each of four races Friday.
The Seawolves were outshot 42-14 in a 3-2 loss to Michigan Tech.
Kendall Kramer and Zanden McMullen swept the individual races Thursday and Friday at the cross-country ski state championships in Fairbanks.
The Seawolves got a big game from Tyler Brimhall but couldn’t hold off Western Washington.
The Seawolves held Seattle Pacific to four points in the first quarter en route to a 68-53 victory.
Both winners skied for Canada at the recent World Championships.
A field of 23, including eight rookies, is entered in the three-day sprint mushing race that begins Friday in downtown Anchorage.
Kramer’s West Valley girls team and McMullen’s South High boys team are in second place after the first of three days of racing in Fairbanks.
Sigurd Roenning’s third-place finish in the men’s race and Casey Wright’s seventh-place finish in the women’s race helped UAA into third place after the first day of the NCAA Western regional championships.
The planning before you go to work. The gear you lug to work. The extra set of clean clothes you pack so you can return to work. Getting ready for a midday workout is a workout itself.
More than 100 teams are expected to play in the March 8-10 event at Big Lake.
The win knocked the T-birds into second place.
