Blustery conditions on Sunday at Salonie Creek Rifle Range tested shooters in a benchrest centerfire match.
In her 55 years living on The Rock, Darlene Rounsaville has traveled Anton Larsen Bay Road thousands of times.
On July 29, Dylan Brady and Emily Pittis were thrilled to have front-row couch seats to sumo wrestling.
High School sports are back, but games will have to wait.
Amy Willis has cooked up a plan to crown her Kodiak High School volleyball team as the 2020 Northern Lights Conference champions.
Michael Kerwood continued his torrid shooting on Sunday at the Salonie Creek Rifle Range.
Franke Brown and Gerald LaFollette — both members of the Kodiak Island Golf Association — competed in the Alaska State Amateur championships over the weekend at Moose Run Creek Course in Anchorage.
For the first time since COVID-19 paused the island’s sports scene in mid-March, a team from The Rock competed on the mainland.
Ava Pruitt and Aurora Berg were crushed when the coronavirus pandemic wiped out their senior softball seasons.
Prep sports has returned to The Rock.
As a track and field coach, Ashley Mortenson felt the sadness of the prep sports spring season shutting down in March. As a cross country coach, she is feeling the excitement of prep sports — in some capacity — returning after months of being on hiatus because of COVID-19.
With deer hunting season beginning Saturday, locals sighted in their rifles at a centerfire match Sunday at the Salonie Creek Rifle Range.
Sports and animals bring people together. The two are the kindling that ignites conversations between strangers.
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On a blustery afternoon at Bear Valley Golf Course, Jeffery Garcia watched his tee shot on the par 3, second hole slice through the breeze.
On the verge of creeping into the COVID-19 high-risk level, the Anchorage School District has ceased sports activities and pushed back the season’s start.
How many times can a collective group of people walk around Kodiak Island in a month?
Debbie Rohrer, the activities director for the Kodiak Island Borough School District, is going to bat for her student-athletes during a time when they need it the most.
The first — and most likely not the last — changes to the state’s fall prep sports schedule happened last week.
The foursome of Franke Brown, Susan Schmeisser, Sammy Manivong and Donnie Parker rolled to victory in the Payday Scramble on Friday at the Bear Valley Golf Course.
The field for the inaugural Alaska Alliance Baseball League state tournament is set.
Laura Haight’s chances of riding in the National High School Finals Rodeo dwindled with each ferry cancellation.
Walking 5-kilometers — 3.1 miles — was not a possibility nearly two decades ago for Rhonda Kiefer.
Before becoming a professional runner, before an All-American career at the University of Oregon and before rewriting the Alaska prep history books, Trevor Dunbar’s first taste of national competition was as a rising eighth-grader at Kodiak Middle School.
Bob White and Michael Kerwood outshot the competition during the second centerfire rifle match of the season Sunday at the Salonie Creek Rifle Range.
Football players across the state have started preseason practice, with the season officially beginning on July 29.
With the high school fall sports season starting at the end of the month, the Alaska School Activities Association has released recommended COVID-19 return-to-play protocols.
When reaching a summit, Todd Murdoch doesn’t bask in the achievement but instead limits himself to 3 minutes at the peak before descending back down the mountain. Just enough time to take in the breathtaking scenery, pose for a selfie and call his wife — if there is reception.
Impressed. That’s the word that comes to mind when perusing posts on the Adjust Your Altitude — Kodiak Participants Facebook group.
On Sunday, the wet weather didn’t deter shooters from showing up for a rimfire rifle match at Salonie Creek Rifle Range.
Darin Ruhl and Don Kattenacker supplied the fireworks at the Red, White and Blue Tournament Saturday at Bear Valley Golf Course.
A veteran Kodiak runner and a newbie to the island raced to victories in the inaugural Kodiak Cross Country Fourth of July 5K.
Eddie Arellano Jr. felt fishing euphoria during the first week of June.
There will be a Fourth of July fun run in Kodiak after all.
Dogs and buns will be flying on the Fourth of July.
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Brock Kler thought he had pocketed $10,000 on Saturday.
A holiday tradition on The Rock will not happen this year.
This past week, Sarah Nugent remained in the confines of her kitchen — a place she knows well and won’t get lost walking from the refrigerator to the oven — baking banana bread and scones.
Matt Lorch sat at the Salonie Creek Rifle Range, left elbow resting on a round table, looking through binoculars at a paper target 50-yards away that his 15-year-old son Branden was aiming at.
The Kodiak High School football team has one of the top helmet designs in the nation.
Coaches in the Kodiak Island Borough School District are now permitted to hold outdoor practices, according to activities director Debbie Rohrer.
In December, long before COVID-19 interrupted the sporting world, Kodiak football coach Bryan Ellsworth invited two state championship coaches from Arkansas to The Rock to put on a camp.
While Kodiak will be without baseball this summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that isn’t the case for other parts of the state.
How hungry were residents of The Rock to witness a live sporting event in person?
Today marks an end of an era at the Kodiak Daily Mirror.
Two Arkansas state championship football coaches will be in Kodiak next week to conduct a week-long camp.
Jeremy Stewart can’t go anywhere in town without getting asked when the island’s motorsports season will begin.
It would have made for a heck of a story — Matthew Chavarria finds passion for dentistry after getting drilled in the face with a baseball his junior year of high school.
The sweet sound of ball smacking leather could be heard at East Addition Park Monday evening as 25 young ladies loosened their throwing arms for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out spring sports.
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.
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