Austin Sjong
Anchorage,Ak
Austin Sjong was a sports reporter at Alaska's News Source until May 2023.
Hundreds of young baseball and softball players flooded into the Dome for a Play Ball event, put on by Gamers Baseball Alaska with the help of the Seattle Mariners.
Colton Paul, from Kipnuk, but competing for Mt.Edgecumbe participated in seven different events at the 2023 Native Youth Olympics, winning five of them and setting a new world record in the Scissor Brad Jump.
907 Sports: NYO athletes talk about the games and hear from two new AK Sports Hall of Fame Inductees
Throughout last weekend, Alaskans were treated to a show of winning kicks, jumps and pulls, but the 2023 Native Youth Olympic games are about much more than just competition.
Day two started with a new boys state NYO world record in the Scissor Broad Jump, then it was the Eskimo Stick pull, followed by One Hand Reach and then Two Foot High Kick headlined the day with state record tying jump.
The third and final day of the Native Youth Olympic games started with the fastest event of the week the Indian Stick Pull, then it was the One Foot High Kick that got everyone in the stadium involved for the high flying event and to wrap up the day and the 2023 edition of the games was the Seal Hop.
The Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches has been putting the senior all-star games on annually since 2011 to bring the best high school senior basketball players together from every division — 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A.
Anchorage’s own Finnigan Donley was crowned the U18 Junior National Champion last month and is looking to finish the season strong in California.
Jessie Holmes led the pack nearly the whole way and won the Kobuk 440 with a final time of 2 days 20 hours and 7 minutes.
Alaska is a state that is full of different sports and this week that was on full display.
Sophie Lentfer, Sloan Lentfer and Luke Lentfer all play for the Grace Christian basketball program and are now all state champions.
In this edition of 907 Sports it is nothing but 3A/4A state basketball action, go back through the highlights, interviews and top plays with Austin Sjong.
After losing numerous all-state seniors last season, the team reloaded with a perfect mix of seniors and underclassmen to propel East to the Class 4A boys state championship victory Saturday at the Alaska Airlines Center.
If the COVID-19 season that didn’t technically have a state championship tournament is counted, the ACS girls have won seven straight state titles, dating back to 2017.
In this same game last year, the Nome Nanooks shocked the Grace Christian Grizzlies to win the state crown, but it was a different story in 2023.
What the Grace Christian girls basketball team lacks in experience they make up for with talent. Without a single senior on the team the Grizzlies break out of their championship hibernation to win the programs first ever girls 3A girls basketball state championship.
In the 4A girls bracket we have a rematch of last year's championship game, Wasilla taking on the juggernaut of Anchorage Christian School. In the boys 4A bracket, East Anchorage gets back to the championship game for the third straight year and takes on the number one seeded West Valley Wolf pack.
From the most storied sporting event in Alaska, the Iditarod, to one of the biggest sporting events in the state, this edition of 907 Sports has you covered.
Lydia Jacoby, the former Seward Seahawk and now University of Texas Longhorn, won the NCAA title in the 100-yard breaststroke.
The full list of award winners for the 51st running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was finalized at the awards banquet in Nome on Sunday.
The Ninilchik Wolverines won their second straight Class 2A boys basketball state title in convincing fashion, beating Tikigaq 66-53.
The Kake Thunderbirds cap off an undefeated season by winning their first state basketball championship in 36 years.
The Lumen Christi Archangels withstood a late run from the Shaktoolik Wolverines to win the first ASAA 1A girls state basketball championship in the schools history.
The Tikigaq girls basketball team left no doubt that they are the best 2A girls team in the state, beating Metlakatla 55-33 to win back-to-back state championships.
Go inside the chute to relive all of the action as it happened, when Ryan Redington became the first in his famous family to win the Iditarod.
The “Last Great Race” — Iditarod 51 — is in the last stretch of the trail. Hear from mushers as they either rest or blow through the Unalakleet checkpoint.
Rookie father and son team of Gregg and Bailey Vitello hope to accomplish a dream in running the 51st Iditarod.
Nic Petit is no stranger to the Iditarod trail, he has seen it many times, but this time we are seeing him try a much different strategy.
Max Helgeson, the hometown kid, is currently leading the UAA Seawolf hockey team in total points in just his first full year of NCAA D1 hockey.
The rookie musher training out of Wildstyle Racing Kennel in Nenana is looking to add to his already impressive young mushing resume.
Many teams are cruising through the McGrath checkpoint in Iditarod 51.
It was just one of those weekends were every sporting event had some sort of stakes attached to it weather it be state skiing, the Iron Dog or the Fur Rondy Open World Sled Dog races everyone was going for number one.
Ashley Wood and Hillarie Gossett are the only all-female team in the 2023 race, and they hope to become the first team of women to finish the Iron Dog since 2001.
Each team gets 15 minutes to inspect their respective machines and make note of what they will have to fix once the wrenching begins.
Team 7 of Tyler Aklestad and Nick Olstad arrived in Nome in first place, followed shortly after by team 14 of Casey Boylan and Bryan Leslie.
The Iron Dog trail is rougher than normal this year, according to the racers. Plus, the University of Alaska Anchorage women’s and men’s basketball teams played their last home games and said so long to their seniors.
Of the initial 25 teams that started, 18 are left standing in Iron Dog 2023.
The Iron Dog is billed as “The world’s longest toughest snowmobile race” and the weather conditions lived up to the billing at the start of the 2023 race.
After taking two years off due to the pandemic and poor weather conditions, the 2023 Last Frontier Pond Hockey Classic is a go.
A popular lodge on the Iditarod Trail was heavily damaged by a fire on Monday.
It is one of the biggest sports weekends of the year Super Bowl Sunday! However in the local sports world we had a super week. Rachel Decious of UAA Gymnastics had an Athlete of the Week worthy performance and we crowned two new state champions.
In true Chugiak Mustang fashion the kept on chugging completing an undefeated season going 23-0-1 beating the West Eagles 5-2 in the championship game in front of nearly 2,000 fans at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center in Wasilla.
There were more teams in the tournament this year but it was the same team at the top with Dimond/West beating Fairbanks 3-0 to win their second Alaska Girls State High School Hockey Championship.
Defending Iditarod champion Brent Sass came out on top in the first running of the Yukon Quest Alaska 550.
University of Alaska Anchorage Gymnastics senior Rachel Decious ended her home career in style over the weekend winning two individual events to help UAA to their first team win of the season.
It is SoHi’s first hockey title since the creation of the small-schools tournament — otherwise known as the Div. II tournament — in 2018.
The Mustangs will try to win their first state championship since 2017 on Feb. 9 when they start their state tournament run against the only team to tie them all season, the Dimond Lynx.
Get a recap of the ASAA Division II State Hockey Championship and full highlights from the Cook Inlet Conference game as well.Plus, a local Alaskan basketball legend in Fairbanks gets his jersey number retired and a good crop of top plays with Austin Sjong.
Aiden Westin was born in Anchorage and has played the past two years for the Anchorage Wolverines and now he has committed to play at the University of Alaska Anchorage next season.
Junior Jack Nash excelled on both sides of the ball with over 2,600 total yards and a state leading 12 interceptions to help him with the 2022-23 Gatorade Player of the Year honor.
Alissa Pili transferred from the University of Southern California to the University of Utah and has helped the Utes women’s basketball team to their first ever top 10 ranking.
