Not many student-athletes have been told to pack fewer textbooks on sports trips. Lars Hanson did. Several times.
The Alaska School Activities Association lifted its restrictions on out-of-season coach and player interactions on June 1. However, the Kodiak school district is taking a slower approach to reopening athletics.
From Sept. 4, 1992, to July 31, 1995, J.R. Rardon was Kodiak sports. As a sportswriter for the Kodiak Daily Mirror, he shared stories of the island’s athletes while penning a humorous and enlightening column.
Despite the popular Bear Crawl event — a 1.5-mile obstacle course — taking a virtual approach this year, race organizer Pam Foreman still guarantees racers will get the full experience.
The oldest mountain race in North America was canceled Sunday due to the coronavirus pandemic.
There is one adjective that best describes Hallee Blair — humble.
Who is the only athlete in the history of the Kodiak High School track and field program to appear four times — not counting the pentathlon record — on the school’s record board?
Without spring sports, the Ellsworth family has gotten creative in finding ways to remain competitive.
The best season in the history of the Kodiak High School baseball program was in 2004. The team went 17-0 and captured the school’s only hardball state title with an extra-inning victory over powerhouse Chugiak.
There will be no boys or girls of summer this year on The Rock.
Golf is returning to The Rock, giving residents a much-needed entertainment option during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pepper Jack has acquired a strange addiction — eating off the kitchen floor.
Who knows if Jerrod Bolton would be graduating from Kodiak High School in a few weeks if his grandparents didn’t open the doors to their home and take him in four years ago.
Randy Diocares did it all during his athletic career at Kodiak High School.
Three Kodiak mothers spent part of Mother’s Day running 30 miles. For fun.
In less than 48 hours, American Legion baseball in Alaska went from moving forward with a season to having those plans halted by the American Legion national office an Indiana.
If in need of a babysitter to watch his two daughters, Kodiak baseball coach Jason Fox wouldn’t hesitate to dial-up AJ Barton, a player he has coached since 2017.
Digging through his storage shed a week ago, John Cannon found a piece of Kodiak High School sports history while sifting through a box — the baton from the school’s record-setting boys’ 1,600 relay team.
Throughout her prep hockey career, Carly Glover most likely spent more time doing schoolwork on an airplane than in a classroom.
There will be no fall football for the youngsters of Kodiak this year.
With the easing of mandates, I spent a portion of last Saturday playing fungo golf at Baranof Field.
When Ashleigh Nicholson was told what the time of her first high school 400-meter race was, she laughed.
Students who entered Kodiak High School in the early 1980s often wondered who Keith Omlid was.
Cody James — yes, we give middle names to our pets — was at it again Thursday.
Gareth Jones vividly remembers the first time he stepped into the batter’s box. He wasn’t a 5-year-old gearing up to take a whack at a stationary ball on top of a tee, but a freshman in high school with a pitcher — standing 60 feet, 6 inches away on a 10-inch mound in the middle of the diamo…
Before facing West Valley in a semifinal game at the 2014 4A state tournament, Kodiak girls basketball coach Amy Fogle felt that her team of star-studded players had lost their “mojo.”
Hoagy is the gold at the end of the rainbow.
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a series that will focus on Kodiak High School seniors who lost out on their spring sports season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
One of the top boys basketball programs in the Northern Lights Conference over the last decade will be led by a new coach next season.
With a mid-80s fastball and a sweeping curveball, Brandon Mahle’s high school career was spent making hitters look silly.
Mt. Marathon — Alaska’s most storied mountain race that takes place on Fourth of July in Seward — is not immune to the corornavirus pandemic.
For those wondering, Lady Human did not boot me out of the Clarkston Zoo.
Dustin Krug, a former Chicago Cubs minor league pitcher, had a brief baseball career at Kodiak High School.
The American Legion announced Tuesday that it is canceling its postseason baseball tournaments for the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Phyllis Amodo is continuously asked what it is like to coach players flung all over the Kodiak archipelago.
Patrick McMahon led Colony to an undefeated Northern Lights Conference record this past season.
On the eve of traveling to Peru, Adriane Horn had second thoughts about visiting the South American country.
While taking the garbage out, I’ve been known to stick my head in the dumpster and look around.
Casey (Taylor) Tolbert has not played softball in two decades. That is surprising considering how dominant she was in high school.
Kodiak High School’s softball team was supposed to open the 2020 season today by hosting the Emerald Isle Invitational at Baranof Field.
Joel Valdez was a lightweight in high school. The Kodiak kid won a state wrestling title at 113 pounds in 2014.
A few weeks ago, on one of my walks home from work, I checked in with Grandma C.
If Debbie Rohrer had never played an inning of high school softball her senior year, she would have been devastated.
In Feb. 1972, Kodiak High School hosted its first Class A State Basketball Tournament.
During his time in Kodiak, Michael Parnell was known as a runner. A good runner.
Standing near mid-court, Sam Galindo, while effortlessly dribbling a basketball with his left hand, fixed his eyes on the defender, hovering feet in front of him.
Adriane Horn — a member of the 2014 Kodiak girls basketball state championship team — went to Peru for a church trip.
High school spring sports in Alaska ended before even starting.
I survived the first week without live sporting events.
Had Levi Fried known he was possibly competing in his final collegiate race, he would have exerted all his energy.
A pair of Kodiak club basketball teams competed at the March Mania Tournament over the weekend at the Grizzly Fitness Center in Wasilla.
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