If you have watched Steve Rounsaville conduct a Kodiak Kid Wrestling Club practice and seen how he handles kids who barely reach his knees, you would understand why he was recently inducted into the Alaska Wrestling Hall of Fame. 

It’s 4 p.m. — 30 minutes after school ended — and instead of heading home to play video games, a dozen students nestled into room 210 at Kodiak Middle School to get their game on.  

Northern Lights Conference play begins in earnest this week, so it is time to unveil the Daily Mirror’s weekly power rankings for the conference. 

If it feels like Kodiak has not played in a while, that’s because it hasn’t. 

March 1, 2014 was the last time Hannah Wandersee played in a basketball game in the gymnasium at Kodiak High School.  

Kodiak Island was blessed to have a bevy of athletes that shined over the last decade. It’s time to look back at the athletes that made headlines from 2010 to 2019. 

It’s that time of the year where we take a look back at what transpired over the past 12 months. 

With only three point-scoring wrestlers, Kodiak powered their way to a fifth-place finish at the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Girls State Championships. 

Dimond swatted away Kodiak’s chance at ending a long title drought in the 53rd Joe Floyd Winter Classic Basketball Tournament.

Kodiak players busted out of the locker room and broke out in melody as they ran down the hallway. 

Olivia Troxell tried dancing. It wasn’t for her. 

David Anderson didn’t want to call a timeout. The veteran Kodiak boys basketball coach wanted to see how his players responded to having a 14-point, second-half lead dwindled to a one-possession game. 

Leslie Spear saves her best for the Joe Floyd Winter Classic Basketball Tournament. 

Veteran Kodiak boys basketball coach David Anderson is lucky to be returning for his 11th season. 

With only five home games during the 2018-2019 season, the Kodiak girls basketball team spent three months living out of duffel bags and sleeping in churches.  

Kordell Pillans’ first season with the University of Montana football team ended on Friday. 

Midway through the third period of Saturday night’s exhibition hockey game against Juneau-Douglas High School, coaches from Kodiak’s bench tossed hats on the ice.

Wrestler Dylan Zurflueh missed last year’s Northern Lights Conference Championships because of a welding certification class.

Competing against the top swimmers in the nation, Talon Lindquist held his own at the Toyota U.S. Open last week in Atlanta, Georgia. 

The one-two punch of Olivia Troxell and Emily Lorring were at it again at the Grace Grizzly Shakedown. 

In March 2012, the Kodiak Daily Mirror published a photo of Kip Thomet — layered in warm-weather clothes, rubber gloves and Xtratufs — using a demolition hammer to break up a sea of ice covering the track at Baranof Park.

Nearly two dozen Kodiak youths sacrificed their Thanksgiving weekend to play hockey in Anchorage. 

Talon Lindquist — the island’s most decorated male swimmer — will rub shoulders with Olympic-level swimmers over the next four days. 

The long-awaited 40th Robin Hervey Tournament turned out to be all about Kodiak’s girls and South Anchorage’s boys.

Truxton Troxell is having a blast, hanging out with his wrestling buddies every day — something that had been missing from his life the past two years. 

A trip that was nearly derailed from the start ended in jubilation for the Kodiak Middle School girls basketball team. 

Fifth-ranked Montana picked up a huge college football win on Saturday, knocking off No. 3 Weber State 35-16 at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana.