Students selected for Hugh O'Brian program Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman MAT-SU — High school sophomores selected to attend the Alaska Hugh O'Brian Youth Alaska Leadership Seminar May 17-20 at Alaska Pacific University include several local students. They will join more than 1000 young leaders representing high schools ...
Killer Pull-Ups, Brutal Sprints and a Nap for a Ski Champ Wall Street Journal She trains with a private cross-country skiing club at Alaska Pacific University. She meets the team at 8:30 each morning for what is usually a 2½-hour workout on roller skis. Once a week, the team has a session that lasts as long as four hours and can ...
For rural Alaska kids, Olympian teaches thrill of cross-country skiing Alaska Dispatch In addition to elite athletes like Flora and Dylan Watts of the Alaska Pacific University ski team, there were professional coaches like Andrew Kastning of the UAA cross country ski team. Mariah Cooper was one of four coaches who are high school ...
North by Nordic The Arctic Sounder There were athletes, like distance skier Dylan Watts of the Alaska Pacific University ski team. Mariah Cooper was one of four coaches that are actually high school students themselves. Cooper, a Native American of the Ojibwe tribe in Wisconsin, ...
