ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A bathing suit decency rule that disqualified an Alaska high school swimmer from a race has been eliminated. KTVA reports the board of directors of the Alaska School ...

May 23—Playing multiple sports in high school isn't uncommon, but it's rare to see a student athlete dominate the way senior Mary Jo Landon has at Chugiak in both soccer and tennis. After she and her ...

Two-time Olympic medalist and American swimmer Lydia Jacoby chatted with Digital Journal’s Markos Papadatos about her journey in the sport of swimming. A 17-year-old athlete, Jacoby hails from ...

Heading into the Olympic Trials for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, it was widely assumed that Lydia Jacoby, the Seward swimmer who shocked the world as a teenager at the Tokyo Games in 2021, would ...

Juneau’s Glacier Swim Club wrapped up their final in-state meet with numerous accolades at the Alaska Swimming State Championships last weekend at Anchorage’s Bartlett High School pool. “I attended ...

Just over a year ago, Anchorage’s Jordan Iverson set out to accomplish a feat that only a few hundred people in the world and just one other Alaskan have ever done: complete the open-water swimming ...

Rohde froze in disbelief, she said, and warned the referee, who has not been identified, “This is going to blow up.” Sure enough, the decision reverberated throughout the community, where the young ...

Jun. 24—Alaska's newest Olympian was greeted by a cheering, flag-waving crowd Wednesday night at the Anchorage airport. Lydia Jacoby, a 17-year-old from Seward who last week became Alaska's first ...