Sports
By Megan Gannon
From Thursday to Saturday last week, the den of the Nanooks was packed with spectators cheering on the boys and girls high school basketball teams in the annual Subway Showdown....
The Nome Nanook wrestlers competed at the Lancer Smith Memorial tournament in Wasilla this past weekend. The team was led by second place girls varsity finisher Natallie Tobuk, fourth place varsity...
By Peter Loewi
The Nome-Beltz gym was packed Friday night and Saturday morning as community members from across the region came to watch their teams compete in the Nome Wrestling Invite. Student...
By Diana Haecker
Nome Nanooks Orson Hoogendorn and Awaluk Nichols won their respective heats in last Saturday’s Big West X/C Championships, on their home trails in Nome.
The Nome Nanooks competed...
By Peter Loewi
Racers flocked to the Nome Invite last weekend, with student athletes from Utqiagvik, Tikigaq, Kotzebue, Wales, Teller, Brevig Mission, White Mountain, Golovin, Koyuk, Shaktoolik,...
Several Nomeites attended last week’s World Eskimo-Indian Olympics in Fairbanks and Parker Kenick, an athlete who recently graduated Nome-Beltz High School, came home with a gold medal.
The games...
By Rebekah Albertson
On Thursday, May 5, the Lady Nanook basketball and cheer team reprised the switch-up game first introduced in 2016.
The varsity basketball players suited up in cheer uniforms...
By Peter Loewi
The community came out on Saturday, April 30 to celebrate the Nome-Beltz High School Boys Basketball’s state championship win at the Rec Center, but in the process, ended up...
By Peter Loewi
Eight Nome-Beltz students competed in the Senior Native Youth Olympics in Anchorage last week, but as any NYO community member can tell you, they aren’t competing against each other...
Nome and regional athletes traveled to Juneau to participate in the Traditional Games Native Youth Olympics, on April 2-3.
Competing against six local teams were visiting teams from Hoonah, Haines...