Sports Recap, November 1
Aaron Walling / Sun Star Click to view slideshow. Volleyball Senior Sam Harthun became the Alaska Nanooks’ all time kill leader Thursday night—collecting 1,370 kills over her four year career. Harthun...
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Here Comes Harthun and the Nanooks!
Aaron Walling / Ad Manager How do Sam Harthun and Miranda Grieser follow up a record-breaking performance? By Harthun going for 40 kills and Grieser for 74 assists, defeating first-place Northwest...
View ArticleReturn of the Joe
Click to view slideshow. Aaron Walling / Sun Star Just like Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars, Episode VI,” senior Joe Slocum returned to the Alaska Nanooks to lead them to the GCI GNAC/PACWest Crossover...
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Aaron Walling / Sun Star Senior Night Leads to the Future The Nanooks volleyball season has come to a close, as the Nanooks said goodbye to three of their seniors after a close loss to Concordia....
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Harthun Bids Farewell
Aaron Walling / Sun Star All good things must come to an end, as senior Sam Harthun knows. This year Harthun says goodbye to the volleyball team she has played for since her freshman year. Harthun...
View ArticleNanooks Open GNAC in Grueling Wins
Click to view slideshow. Aaron Walling / Sun Star The Great Northwest Athletic Conference schedule opened and the Nanooks sprinted out of the gate with two impressive wins over Northwest Nazarene and...
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Nanooks rock the Patty Center
# 32 Kaillee Skjold shooting a 2 point shot aginast Saint Martin’s. Kaillee scored a total of 19 points against Saint Martin’s leading to a Nanook victory 66-60. Max Mckernan/Sun Star Aaron Walling /...
View ArticleOffense comes alive for the Nanooks
Click to view slideshow. Aaron Walling / Sun Star The Nanooks men’s basketball squad brought out the fire power in a back-and-forth matchup with the Saints of Saint Martin’s after laying a dud against...
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Skjold shines in tough matchups
Aaron Walling / Sun Star Kaillee Skjold came to UAF during the fall semester of 2013 to be part of the Alaska Nanooks women’s basketball team. Jump forward three years and you’ll see the star power...
View ArticleDown goes #1!
Click to view slideshow. Aaron Walling / Sun Star The Alaska Nanooks pulled off the upset of the year by beating the number one team in the nation, Western Oregon, for a 87-78 victory in front of 611...
View ArticleHarthun looking forward to coaching career
Click to view slideshow. Erin McGroarty / Sun Star This fall Sam Harthun, a 21-year-old student majoring in art, will be taking the position of volunteer assistant coach for Lewis and Clark College...
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Disappointing season ends for Nanooks
Aaron Walling / Sun Star Coming into the 2015-2016 season, the women’s basketball team had been excited for a possible berth in the GNAC tournament for post-season play. Then adversity hit when senior...
View ArticleNanooks clinch Governor’s Cup
Click to view slideshow. Nolin Ainsworth / The Northern Light Win, and live to play in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs. Lose, and start summer training. Those were the stakes between...
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Fun Star: Athletics department announces new plan to raise hockey attendance
The Nanook expresses his frustration at the new policy, which would introduce live polar bears to UAF Hockey. “They’re putting me out of a job,” Nook, UAF’s current mascot, said. “How can I pawsibly...
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Nanook Olympics
Max Mckernan / Sun Star The UAF Men’s American Hockey team won this year’s “Nanook Olympics,” a competition that took place on April 4. The Nanook Olympics is an annual event where University sports...
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Fairbanks runners race in 22nd annual Beat Beethoven
Erin McGroarty / Sun Star It was a brisk spring morning when Fairbanks runners raced against the clock in an effort to “beat Beethoven.” The goal was to finish the 5 kilometer race course in...
View ArticleGold beats blue in opening cross country meet
The Nanook Cross Country team ran their first Blue and Gold meet Friday night, with Gold taking first. This is the first year the Nanooks didn’t open their season with the Alaska invitational, a meet...
View ArticleNanooks victorious in home opener
With career outings from four different players, the Alaska Women’s Volleyball team started conference play grinding out a five-set victory in a match against Seattle Pacific’s Falcons at the Alaska...
View ArticleNanooks lose to Saints
Aaron Walling / Sun Star The Alaska Nanooks (2-7) battled in a hard five set match against Saint Martin’s (5-1) losing in the final set, 3-2. The Nanooks forced the fifth set after getting a boost on...
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Nanooks swept by Anchorage
The Alaska Nanooks Volleyball team (2-10, 1-4 GNAC) dropped a three-set decision, 25-14, 25-19 and 25-20, to in-state rival No. 10 ranked Alaska Anchorage (15-1, 5-0 GNAC) at the Alaska Airlines court...
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