We Won The Alaska Cup!

Seeing as how there are two NCAA ski teams in Alaska, and seeing as how we tend to get snow pretty early around here, it only makes sense that we ought to have an early-season head-to-head matchup between the two Alaska NCAA ski teams. It's a good excuse for some tune-up races in November, and maybe it's also a good excuse for a little early-season trash talk. We call the UAA-UAF matchup The Alaska Cup. We go back and forth between Fairbanks and Anchorage each year. Last year, the Nanooks hosted the Alaska Cup. This year, it was our turn. (For further background research, see this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this.)

Historically, UAF has won the Alaska Cup more than UAA has. I don't have all the statistics on hand, but I know we're behind them in the overall tally.  But this weekend, for the second year in a row, the Seawolves won the Alaska Cup!

Here are a few photos of Alaska Cup weekend, here in Anchorage.

Talking shop in the UAA Wax Room before Alaska Cup Weekend.

There was nothing wrong with the snow conditions at Kincaid Park.

Seawolves Ski Team satellite headquarters at Kincaid Park.

This was us yesterday.

Women's skate podium: Marit, Rosie Fordham (UAF) and Hedda. Men's podium (all Nanooks): Philipp Moosmayer, Ben Dohlby, Gabriele Rigaudo.

This was us today.