COLLEGE SKIING

UAA inks three

UAA added three skiers to its 2010-2011 roster, head coach Trond Flagstad announced Thursday.

WOMENS COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UAA women add depth with height

Tim Moser's early recruiting targeted junior-college transfers, and now the UAA women's basketball coach has added four recent high-school graduates to deliver depth next season.

BASKETBALL

Walker wins GNAC award

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference on Tuesday named UAA basketball player Brandon Walker winner of its Sportsmanship Award for the 2009-2010 season.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UAA's Gruwell, Kenai's Coon nominated for NCAA award

UAA basketball standout Tamar Gruwell has been chosen as one of two Great Northwest Athletic Conference candidates for the 20th annual NCAA Woman of the Year award, while Kenai's Audrey Coon of Western Washington earned an at-large nomination for the award.

COLLEGE SKIING

UAA signs 2 skiers

UAA head ski coach Trond Flagstad announced the addition of Lukas Ebner and Martin Kapso to the men's nordic ski team on Friday.

GNAC adds postseason tourneys

The UAA men's and women's basketball teams are likely to add another weekend of conference play next season when the Great Northwest Athletic Conference adds a postseason conference tournament.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

Clarke places fifth at nationals

Anchorage's Jordan Clarke captured Division I All-America honors by placing fifth in the shot put Saturday at the NCAA Division track and field championships in Eugene, Ore.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UAF hires Burgess

Cody Burgess, a former player with experience as an assistant coach at the NAIA, junior college and high school levels, is the new women's basketball coach at UAF.

GYMNASTICS

Face of gymnastics in Anchorage is calling it a career

Babe Cassel is about to leave Alaska in her dust, something that may give you pause when you consider that in the 32 years since she opened the state's first private gymnastics school, an estimated 960 pounds of chalk has been turned to dust by tens of thousands of boys and girls who have tumbled and vaulted their way through the Anchorage Gymnastics Association gym.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

Former Golden Bear Clarke qualifies for shot put nationals

Former Bartlett High thrower Jordan Clarke is among two dozen shot putters who have qualified for the NCAA championships in Eugene, Ore., this weekend.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

Chelimo, Carr honored

UAA All-American steeplechaser Micah Chelimo has racked up his second Great Northwest Athletic Conference accolade.

Post-Olympics turnover hits APU nordic ski team

Alaska Pacific University's stellar Nordic Ski Center is losing three strong skiers and adding four youngsters to a squad that includes Olympians Kikkan Randall -- America's top cross-country skier -- Holly Brooks and James Southam.

UAA shines at nationals

Marko Cheseto, the Kenyan who last year became the only UAA runner in school history to earn double All-America status at the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships, doubled his pleasure again Saturday.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

Storms prompt UAA runners to advance

Four UAA runners looking at the possibility of running 5,000-meter races on back-to-back nights caught a break Friday when many events at the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships were postponed because of thunderstorms and lightning in Charlotte, N.C.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

Seawolf 2nd in long jump at nationals

On his final attempt in his final regular-season meet in 2009, UAA's Demietrius Preston, who until then was best known as a sprinter, uncorked a leap that began his long-jump legacy.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

UAA assistant coach wins regional honor

UAA's TJ Garlatz was named Monday as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) West Region Men's Assistant Coach of the Year on Monday, determined by a vote of Division II head coaches.

ROWING

Bird Creek rower named all-American

Heather Kelly of Bird Creek, who holds down the No. 6 seat on the top ranked varsity eight shell for Division II Western Washington University, on Monday was named to the 2010 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association/NCAA Division II Pocock All-America women's rowing team.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD

9 Seawolves to NCAAs

Five UAA women and four UAA men have qualified for next week's NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Charlotte, N.C.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UAA signs JC guard

Another junior college transfer from California's Antelope Valley College has joined the UAA women's basketball team.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UAA mens basketball signs Plooy

Chris Plooy, who helped Dimond claim the 2009 state basketball championship and had a couple of high-scoring games this season at a community college in Washington, will join the UAA men's basketball team next season.

COLLEGE SKIING

Three honored at UAA

A trio of skiers earned academic honors from ESPN The Magazine, which named cross-country skiers Jaime Bronga and Lex Treinen of Anchorage and alpine skier Alex Parker of Calgary to the District VIII College Division at-large academic teams.