Sports
Four mushers and their dog teams competed against each other in the Nome Kennel Club’s second race of the season on Saturday, Feb. 4. Handlers, race officials and spectators gathered at Nome’s snow...
By Melissa Ford,
NNST Head Coach
The Nome Northstar Swim Team had a group of swimmers competing at the Hamme Pool in Fairbanks last weekend for the 2023 Sweetheart Invite. NNST placed fourth in...
By Melissa Ford,
NNST Head Coach
The Nome Northstar Swim Team hosted the 2023 Gold Rush Swim Meet last weekend. The Stingray Swim Team came from North Pole to participate and left with qualifying...
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...