Matthew Chagluak says it’s been a couple of years since he’s joined his high school’s wrestling team, opting instead these days for a sport that manages to be more individualistic and communal at the ...

On a scale from zero to 100, Quentin O’Domin was feeling a 98 — as in he managed to jump high enough for both of his feet to touch a ball hanging that many inches high above the gym floor and land ...

In a circle, student athletes squat down and place their hands between their legs near their feet. Locking their elbows, they slowly tip forward to shift their weight from their toes to over their ...

The first Native Youth Olympic Games took place in 1971 and featured just a dozen teams. At the 2025 games this week at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage, 53 teams from across the state were ...

WASILLA – Amid chants for their home regions and under purple, blue and emerald streamers, more than 1,800 youth athletes from Alaska and seven areas of the circumpolar north filed into the Curtis D.