Jordan Rodenberger

For the seventh year, and third straight at Kincaid Park in Alaska, the top winter triathletes in the country gathered Saturday to compete in a 6-kilometer run, 8-mile fat bike ride and 6K ski race with tickets to the World Championships on the line.

In this edition of 907 Sports, we break down the Alaska Airlines Classic, highlight a standout basketball player who once dominated that tournament, revisit a hockey rivalry and check-in on Alaska’s very-own Jeremy Swayman in the NHL.

A pair of mid-distance sled dog races kicks off the 2023 season, a Peninsula race to the finish in ski plus some top plays from the world of high school hoops occupy this edition of 907 Sports.

UAA standout Da'Zhon Wyche's senior season was cut short following an NCAA ruling.

Nic Petit fended off Brent Sass to win his fifth Copper Basin 300 title in six years.

Eddie Burke Jr. made the final push for the win after trading spots with Brent Sass in the final stretch of the 2023 Knik 200.

70 of America's top youth and junior biathletes competed at the Kincaid Range for the Team USA Biathlon Trials last week.

16-year old Elias made the Team USA roster and will be competing at the Youth and Junior World Championships while Reine, 13, competed against those up to 18-years old and more than held her own.

Deshawn won the DI 160 lb. title, Mya took the Girls 130 lb. crown, while Myles is the DII 130 lb. champion as the Campbells sweep the State Wrestling Tournament.

Nikiski, Seward, Valdez, Monroe Catholic and Eielson are the five former Division III programs who will now go independent and distance themselves from the playing the traditional 11 players per side for the time being.

While the first Alaska high school cross-country ski action took place in Fairbanks in November, student-athletes in Southcentral Alaska had their first taste of snow, speed and competition at the Snowball Skate at Service High School on Saturday.

Veteran musher Hugh Neff was denied entry for the 2023 Iditarod by the Iditarod Trail Committee, he said in a Facebook post Friday afternoon.

The 2022 GNAC Men's Cross-Country Athlete of the Year is ready to make some noise at the NCAA Division II National meet on Friday.

The Turkey Trot saw a record number of participants, a Thanksgiving table squabble between the Anchorage Wolverines and the Fairbanks Ice Dogs, and girls wrestling galore highlight this week’s edition of 907 Sports.

Chris Green announced his resignation as UAA volleyball coach Monday evening, citing a disagreement with the administration.

University of Alaska Anchorage head volleyball coach Chris Green announced his resignation Monday after 15 seasons at the helm. Assistant coach Stacie Meisner has been named interim head coach.

It took a couple heartbreaks, but the Kenai Kardinals finally won their first state volleyball championship this past weekend led by spikers Cali Holmes and Emma Beck.

A scheduling conflict with the Women's Great Alaska Shootout is preventing the UAA volleyball program from hosting the NCAA DII West Region Championships.

The seasons are changing, and that goes for high school sports as well as three more sports wrapped up their seasons this past week.

The Kenai Kardinals won it's first-ever state volleyball championship after sweeping Valdez Saturday.

The Anchorage/Fairbanks sports rivalry saw another storied chapter this weekend at the Ben Boeke between the two junior hockey programs. A new state record, a dynasty continuing its legacy, and surprise placement highlighted the 2022 ASAA State Swim and Dive Championships over the weekend as Alaska’s swiftest swimmers competed for three days at the Bartlett Pool, while the new NCAA Division II regular-season attendance record belongs to the UAA Seawolves and the Alaska sports community.

The new NCAA Division II regular-season attendance record belongs to the UAA Seawolves and the Alaska Sports Community.

A new state record, a dynasty continues and surprise placement highlighted the 2022 ASAA State Swim and Dive Championships over the weekend as Alaska’s swiftest swimmers competed for three days at the Bartlett Pool.

The COVID-19 pandemic set a lot of athletes back, whether due to lack of facilities, practices or time training, but these two standout swimmers used it to propel them to the next level.

The Colony Knights defeated the Juneau Huskies 14-7 to claim the Division I State Football Championship for the first time.

The Healthy Futures Game Changer Campaign is tapping on over 30 ambassadors to help raise money for disadvantaged youth in sports across Alaska.

Homer Quarterback Carter Tennison led the Mariners to an improbable upset victory over the previously undefeated Houston Hawks in the DIII State Championship Game.

The Dimond Lynx make it three championships in a row after defeating South Anchorage 27-9.

Chugiak's Campbell Peterson has entered eight races this season, winning all eight with the most important one coming up this weekend with the state championship.

Iron Dog Hall of Famer and four-time champion Mark Carr passed away last week.

A day on the water nearly turned deadly, but disaster was averted, thanks to the quick action by a former Kodiak standout swimmer.

Different performances by different athletes from different schools led to the same result during week two of the high school football season.

West Anchorage junior Blake Hanley finally had the chance to compete in his first high school cross country meet this past weekend, and he excelled.

Alaska is proudly the first state to kick off the high school football season across American in most years and get to do the honors once again.

As her classmates and friends at South Anchorage High School compete in sports against peers their age, Ante is often on the course competing against those more twice her elder in the only state in America that does not sponsor high school golf.

To say that the Kenai River red salmon run has been hot lately would be an understatement. But how about the Kenai’s little brother, the Kasilof? Austing Sjong finds out in this week’s Fishing Report, plus, Alaska became the 50th and final state to host a United State Golf Association Event and it delivered.

Canada's Shelly Stouffer defeated Australia's Sue Wooster in match play 4 and 3 in the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur Championship Thursday.

Pamela Chesla, of Hope, was Alaska's lone representative at the 60th U.S. Senior Women's Amateur Championships this week.

Patience and persistence paid off for the Eagle River Wolves in the Alaska American Legion State Championship game against Service Post 28, just as it had all summer.

Anchorage’s Brody Jessee was selected in the 10th round of the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft by the Cincinnati Reds.

Anchorage’s 14-year old boxing phenom Maliyah Schmid-Carey has been collecting wins in the rings left and right, like her lethal combo, but none bigger than the gold medal she picked up at the Junior Olympic Boxing Championships in Wichita, Kansas earlier this month.

Savoonga’s Isaiah Waghiyi appeared on American Ninja Warrior Season 14 and also competed at the 2022 World Eskimo Indian Olympics in Fairbanks, where Jordan Rodenberger caught up with the latest Alaskan to appear on the popular obstacle course game show. The fish count is high, and so are the waters in Kenai, as Austin Sjong found out in this week’s fishing report, while East Anchorage’s Kyler Johnson and Deuce Zimmerman aren’t done making history together, signing to the same college to continue their football careers.

I was first introduced to traditional games in gym class at school, like many Alaskans, but I have not tried any of them since, and it shows.

Anchorage's Eden Hopson returned from the 61st World Eskimo Indian Olympics with a lot of medals, and then some.

Palmer's Sarah Uschmann not only holds a youth American record, but just returned from the 2022 USA Weightlifting National Championships with hardware.

Anchorage's Rose Conway and Palmer's Coby Marvin won the 2022 Junior Mount Marathon Race in their respective divisions.

Dimond High School alum Chris Kuper was named the Minnesota Vikings Offensive Line Coach this offseason, but before coaching up professionals who get paid millions of dollars, he led his annual three-day Solstice Lineman camp at East Anchorage High School this week

Those that saw Sladen Mohl on the diamond saw a kid who simply loved baseball, and that love developed on the field that is now named in his memory.

These two student-athletes shared the same hallways at Dimond High School, shared the same practice field and now share the same award as Gatorade Alaska Soccer Players of the Year.

A total of 21 mushers have signed up for the 51st running of the historic Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, including defending champion Brent Sass, who did so remotely, as the lone competitor to have previously won the 1,000-mile trek to Nome.