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Anchorage forward Luc Bydal works in front of the Minnesota net during the Wolverines' 9-2 home opener loss to the Wilderness at the Sullivan Arena on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Welcome back to The Rewind, a weekly digest that puts a spotlight on the biggest stories and best performances from Alaska’s world of sports.
Last week featured several notable individual and team performances across the Alaska sports landscape at the high school and professional levels, as well as new developments on the college front. The high school basketball postseason for thehad athletes in different sports receive recognition for their strong seasons. Outside the state, several Alaskans had impressive performances and career achievements worth recognizing and celebrating in their respective arenas.track and field team got off to a strong start in the outdoor portion of its 2025-26 schedule over the weekend at the Johnny Mathis Invitational in San Francisco. Highlighting the six events won by Seawolves was juniorgymnastics team took part in the 2026 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship meet in Cedar City, Utah, last weekend and finished fourth in the meet with a score of 191.600 points. Juniorwas among four Seawolves who were named to the 2026 MPSF All Conference Team, receiving First Team All-Around and Second Team balance beam honors. Seniorwas named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ NCAA Division II All-District Second Team. led the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and ranked third in the nation with a 3.26-to-1 assist-turnover ratio and averaged 11.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1.7 steals per game. He was named First Team All-GNAC and GNAC Defensive Player of the Year after being the only player in the conference to finish in the top 10 in both assists and steals .continued their push for a strong finish to the regular season by picking up another pair of wins over the weekend against the. With his massive eight-point weekend, he became the franchise’s leader in both goals and points in a single season, breaking“We have climbed the standings and now sit just one point behind second place in the division as we continue our push down the stretch for the playoffs.”Gus Schumacher, of the United States, competes in the men's World Cup 20km mass start cross country skiing race Sunday, March 22, 2026, in Lake Placid, N.Y. reached another one of his career milestones Sunday when he led all Americans with a 20th-place finish in the men’s 20K skate mass start World Cup race at Lake Placid, New York. This moved the formerstandout into a career-best seventh overall in the final World Cup standings a month after he joined forces with Vermont’s“I’ve been calling them aspirations for the past few years now, because the pressure of ‘goals’ was kind of weird for me,” Schumacher told reporters. “I sort of left that behind and just let myself just ski.” Washington guard Sayvia Sellers drives the ball during the first half in the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 22, 2026, Fort Worth, Texas. star and two-time Gatorade Player of the Year recipient recorded a season-high 10 assists in the Huskies’ 72-54 win overon Friday and then followed it up with a team-leading 18 points in a 62-59 season-ending loss to No. 3men’s basketball team to the second round of the National Invitational Tournament. He led the Redhawks in scoring in both of their games, with 15 points in a 67-52 win overwomen’s basketball team extend its winning streak to 33 in row and claim a NCAA Division II regional championship last Monday. In a thrilling 65-64 victory overstar and Gatorade Player of the Year tied for the third-most points on the team with eight to go along with three rebounds, two assists and a steal.national champion wrestling team. After entering last year’s NAIA national tournament as a freshman and the eighth seed, the former three-time state champion atentered this year as the No. 2 seed in the 149-pound division — and he went on a tear through his bracket to cap his sophomore season with another championship. In the finals, Larsen prevailed in a 7-4 decision over. “I kind of just let loose and went crazy. I ended up realizing that I’m pretty good at wrestling so I ended up doing pretty well that year. This year was really mentally challenging.”finished the last day of the NCAA Division II National Indoor Track and Field Championships with a runner-up finish in the men’s mile race forstandout had to appeal just to gain entry into the finals, and after it looked like he secured a third-place finish, the initial race winner was disqualified following a post-race review, movinginto the national runner-up position to go along the first All-American honor of his career as a First Team selection.star and two-time Gatorade Player of the Year tied his season-high with 15 putouts behind the plate as a catcher. He also blasted a ball over right center field for his second home run of the season to tie the game in the bottom of the seventh, followed by a lucky bounce in the bottom of the 10 to secure a walk-off win.bounced back from an overtime loss earlier last week by picking up his 27th and 28th wins as the starting goaltender for the, he finished second on the team in scoring with 15 points and was first with 11 rebounds and seven assists. On Saturday in a 123-115 loss to the same team, he led the team with 31 points, 12 rebounds, five steals and four assists.The 2026 season will get underway this week with the defending Division I state champion Eagles taking the pitch against the Lynx, who they swept in their two meetings last season.The reigning Division I state champion Wolverines will face off against the Golden Bears, who they swept last season and outscored by a whopping 25-0 in the two matches combined.Anchorage Wolverines vs. Wisconsin Windigo at Sullivan Arena, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The Wolverines will conclude their three-week homestand to close out the month and seek a seventh straight win in a one-off game against the third-seeded Windigo.Josh Reed is a sports reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. 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