Nanooks Welcome Alaska Anchorage for 2025 Blue/Gold Race and Community Fun Run

FAIRBANKS – The Nanooks cross nation crew welcomes Alaska Anchorage to campus on Saturday for the 2025 Blue/Gold Race. 

Saturday, Sept. 13

vs. Alaska Anchorage | W: 10:40 a.m. | M: 11:20 a.m.

Fairbanks | UAF Competition Ski Trails

No Live Timing

Last Time Out

The Nanooks traveled to Anchorage every week in the past for the Seawolf Throwdown. A dozen Nanooks raced within the males’s occasion, led by Dexter Delaney’s sturdy debut with a third-place 8k end in 23:45. Ian Baker (tenth, 24:57) and Nicholas Iverson (eleventh, 24:58) adopted, whereas Blake Hanley (thirteenth, 25:00) and Finn Morley (fifteenth, 25:24) rounded out Alaska’s scorers in a 39-18 loss to UAA. Other finishers included Ned Peters (nineteenth, 26:10), Sage Janes (twentieth, 26:24), Brady Benedict (twenty third, 26:42), Clem Taylor-Roth (twenty seventh, 27:20), Max Erickson (twenty ninth, 27:47), Jaxon Freeman (thirty first, 28:44), and Paxson Ott (thirty second, 30:10).

The Nanooks fell to UAA 15-50, led by Riga Grubis in eleventh with a 24:18 end. She was one in all 10 Alaska runners within the girls’s race, which was gained unattached by former Nanook Rosie Fordham (20:47). Rory Claussen (twelfth, 24:31), Madison Schuh (thirteenth, 25:37), Anya Simard (14th, 25:51), and Victoria Myers (fifteenth, 26:02) rounded out the scoring. Jasmin Holst, Devyn Townsend, Ava Newell, Camelia Bell, and Lydia Andriessen accomplished the lineup.

Food Truck Rally/Community Fun Run

Following the Blue/Gold Race you are invited to the third annual Alaska Nanooks Food Truck Rally! Kick off the athletics season with some scrumptious, native meals and the Denali State Bank Ice Block Classic volleyball event!

Game admission is FREE with a meals buy, and 10% of gross sales might be donated to supporting your Nanooks volleyball crew! There are loads of different occasions deliberate for Saturday, Sept. 13, together with the Forest Frenzy Community Fun Run [SIGN UP HERE] at 10 a.m., and a males’s basketball youth basketball abilities clinic with completely different age teams [REGISTER HERE]

Alongside these, there might be a Coca-Cola Bottling of Alaska sampling happening from 4-6 p.m.! View all of this information and extra HERE.

#NookayNotes

• This is the ultimate head-to-head showdown for the Nanooks and Seawolves.
• The males’s crew fell within the Blue/Gold Meet a yr in the past, 38-20, whereas the ladies’s facet grabbed a 19-37 victory. 
• The Nanooks have a repeat schedule this season as a yr in the past. Following the Blue/Gold Meet, Alaska will head to Bellingham, Wash. for the Bill Roe Classic, hosted by Western Washington.
• Following WWU, they head to Romeoville, Ill. for the Lewis Crossover. Alaska had a powerful displaying on the Lewis Crossover a yr in the past. 
• Championship season begins Oct. 25 with the GNAC Cross Country Championships in Billings, Mont. On Nov. 8, the Nanooks will race on the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships in Monmouth, Ore. 
• Those who qualify will race yet another time on Nov. 22 on the NCAA DII Cross Country Championships in Kenosha, Wis.

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