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In only her freshman season, Petersburg swimmer Lexie Tow swam her way to the top and brought home a state championship title in the Girl's 100-Yard Breaststroke on Saturday. With her title, Tow became just the second female swimmer in Viking history to win an individual state title, with Abbey Jackson winning in 2004. Tow entered the state meet as the number one seed in the Girl's 100-Yard Breaststroke but knew she had to finish the job. "I knew I could win but I knew that I had to push a lot...
The PHS Volleyball team went 5-2 at home during the North Seeding tournament consisting of Wrangell, Skagway, Klawock, Metlakatla, Craig, Hoonah and Haines. The tournament results mark a significant improvement after a slow start to their season – thanks to making adjustments and putting impressive amounts of work into practice. Their tournament started with a two-set shutout loss to last year's regional champions – the Wrangell Wolves. The Vikings lost the first set 25-22 and the second 25-...
The PHS Wrestling team continued its positive momentum at the Bill Weiss Tournament in Ketchikan. Unfortunately, the Vikings had to battle an illness that spread throughout the team and fatigue in a round-robin style tournament. "It definitely caught up with us ... We knew that going into this tournament so the theme of [the tournament] was we're not afraid to try new things," head coach James Valentine said. "We already know that everybody is sick so let's just try some new things and see if...
All members of the 2024 PHS Swim team qualified for the state meet, which is the outcome that head coach Andy Carlise was confident about heading into the regional meet. "They worked real hard and it paid off," Carlise said. The regional meet was highlighted by junior Logan Tow and freshman Lexie Tow, who each won a Region V title in their respective event. Logan Tow finished first out of eight swimmers in the Boy's 500-Yard Freestyle with a finals time of 4 minutes and 57 seconds, 11 seconds...
The PHS Wrestling team got their first taste of playoff competition at the Mountain City Christian Invitational, from Nov. 1-2, in Anchorage. At this tournament, there were multiple 32-player brackets and roughly 52 teams from across Alaska. Seniors Kaden Duke, Angus Olsen and Markus Anderson (assistant), were the only team members to travel for this tournament. "We were as sharp as we could be a month into the season," head coach James Valentine said. "We were out here to prove to the up north...
Petersburg's Devil Thumb Shooters competed in the Southeast Regional tournament in Juneau from Oct. 26-27. The fall season saw a record attendance of 19 athletes participating in the event due to the help of Hammer and Wikan's donated Alaska Airlines miles — allowing the team to travel to the tournament. "They donated quite a few miles and that's one thing that helped us get that many athletes up there," said Devil Thumbs Shooter assistant coach Jake Slaven. After this meet, it was revealed, t...
The PHS Wrestling team grappled through their second meet in Juneau-Douglas over the weekend. While the young squad didn't have the best results, Head Coach James Valentine is focused on the experience his young team is getting early in the season. The majority of the Vikings who traveled to this meet were freshmen, except for sophomore Fyscher Humphrey and senior Kaden Duke. "It was still their very first tournament ... the first tournament in Hoonah. It was a majority learning curve...
Petersburg's Uriah Lucas, age 20, wins Juneau's Halloween Half Marathon in 1:16:05 on Saturday along North Douglas Highway. The actual distance of the half was slightly longer at 13.27 miles. 53 runners entered the Half Marathon and another 51 the 5K....
The PHS Volleyball team lost their first home matches of the season against the Ketchikan Kings on Oct. 25-26, though the Vikings were able to be more competitive against the 4A Kings, compared to earlier in the season, in part due to some lineup adjustments. We put "people in specific positions and it helped us a lot being defensively and offensively stronger – all of our games, I think the biggest emphasis was to find points," Head Coach Jaime Cabral said. "We took a set off of them [Kings] o...
The PHS Wrestling team got off to a strong start during their first meet at Hoonah over the past weekend. Only four kids took the trip to Hoonah due to the 10 practice criteria, but the Vikings left feeling good about how they performed to start the season. "Overall the experience was really good," Head Coach James Valentine said. "The first tournament of the year – we like to call it getting the bats out of the cage. This is your first match, we're going to make some mistakes and it's going t...
The PHS Swim team is rounding into form with strong performances from several swimmers in Sitka, with the playoffs on the horizon. “Our racing was pretty good and the splits on their [swimmers] races were pretty good,” Head Coach Andy Carlisle said. “I feel like their fitness level is really good – we just need to work on some speed and once they rest, that will come pretty good.” The Vikings are peaking at the right time heading into regions and potentially state. “Everybody was getting closer to best times – we’re going in the right direc...
Coming off a season in 2023 in which Petersburg High School's wrestling team sent four competitors to state, the Vikings will look to get back there again, with seniors Kaden Duke, Angus Olsen and Marcus Anderson leading the way. Having wrestled for 12 years now, Duke knows what he needs to do to achieve his goal to improve on his 2-2 finish at state last year. "I've accumulated a lot of knowledge of how to properly diet – I'm hoping this year I can at least win a regional championship – my seco...
For the first time in program history, the PHS Boys and Girls Cross Country teams are both the ASAA State Champions for Division III. "It's a special and historic day – I'm so happy for the kids, they earned it ... they've been consistent and worked hard every day," Head Coach Casey Gates said. Last season, the PHS boys cross country team finished third, behind Cordova and Wrangell. This year, the Vikings were able to beat Wrangell and claim their spot on top. The team was led by junior Gaje V...
The PHS Swim team continues to ramp up their intensity heading towards regions, with strong performances from multiple swimmers at the Juneau meet. "We bumped everything up after Ketchikan – they're getting pretty fit right now and we'll start working on speed," Head Coach Andy Carlisle said. "We're getting pretty close to our best times in the middle of the season which makes me pretty optimistic after we get another month of work in, we'll be doing pretty well at regions." One swimmer who h...
For the first time since 2018, the PHS girls' cross country team are the Region V Champions for Division III. Last year – despite a few very strong finishes including a second place overall finish from Maria Toth – the girls' team was unable to place as a team because of having too few runners, which made this year's championship win that much sweeter. This time around Maria Toth claimed first place in the race. And along with her, all of Petersburg's girls finished in the top ten. With a com...
Petersburg High School's volleyball team lost their first games of the season, falling to the Ketchikan Kings in games one and two this past week. The Vikings lost the first set of game one 25-13, 25-17 in the second set, and 25-19 in the third set on Thursday, Sept. 26, in Ketchikan. The Vikings had just 18 total kills on 43 attempts (41.8%) in total through both nights. "We struggled offensively, we could not put a ball away from our hitters – we didn't attack well," Head Coach Jaime Cabral s...
The PHS Cross Country team continued to build momentum toward regionals with strong performances from the men's and women's teams at the Capital Invite on Saturday, Sept. 21., in Juneau. A mid-season break didn't slow the Vikings as they race towards regionals. "The kids had a real strong week of training – and with this race, I was more excited about the overall experience and the kids pushing through a tough, gritty course," Head Coach Casey Gates said. "It was really wet, it was really m...
The PHS Swim team continued their 2024 season with strong results on Sept. 20 to 21, in a meet that included Juneau-Douglas, Ketchikan, Sitka, Craig and Wrangell, at the Ketchikan Invite. Head Coach Andy Carlisle was pleased with his team’s progress since their first meet in Petersburg. “We had a pretty good meet,” Carlisle said. Junior swimmer Logan Tow was one of the swimmers who posted strong results throughout the two-day meet. On Friday, Tow finished second out of 11 swimmers in the Men’s 100 Yard Freestyle, with a time of 50 seconds and t...
Coming off a season in which they finished third at regions in 2023, the Petersburg High School Volleyball team open 2024 with a young team, on a mission to qualify for the 2A Volleyball State Championship. "The seniors this year, they've got this mentality that last year is over, this year is this year now, but we learned a lot of stuff from last year that we got to continue on to keep it going," Head Coach Jaime Cabral said. "The closer we unite and stay together, the more production we can ge...
Jaime Cabral, Petersburg Athletics Director for the past 14 years, has made it his mission to orchestrate as many home athletic events as possible for Petersburg. Hosting the events involves a great deal of work but doing so brings numerous benefits to the community. "Having home events helps the community financially – bringing that business into the community," said Cabral. Many local families are not able to travel with their student athletes to support their away game efforts. "We don't h...
Heading into their first meet on the road, the Petersburg High School cross country team looked to build on their momentum from the invitational hosted in Petersburg. And they did exactly that. The PHS cross country girls team had a dominant showing this past weekend in Craig, with sophomore Maria Toth, junior Gabriele Whitacre and freshmen Ariel Tucker and Zia Hulebak finishing first, second, third and fourth in the entire meet in the Women's 5000 Meters. "It was really promising and really...
Petersburg High School's swim team started the 2024 season with solid results during the Petersburg Invite on Friday Sept. 6 and Saturday Sept. 7 which featured teams from Juneau Douglas, Ketchikan, Sitka, Craig and Wrangell. Head Coach Andy Carlisle was pleased with his team's overall performance. "I can see where we're actually a little ahead of where I thought we would be, so everything is good." Carlisle looks forward to the first meet to see where his team stacks up against other competitio...
The 2024 Petersburg high school swim season is now underway. Coming off a season in 2023 where they made the state championships, the Vikings are looking to return to the championship meet in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2023, there were only two members of the team, now junior swimmers- Brooklyn Whitethorn and Logan Tow. This year, the Vikings have eight total members on the team. What I'm most excited about is "having relays because I have four boys and four girls now," this year is going to be way m...
Petersburg High School's cross country team raced out to a strong start to the 2024 season on Saturday, Aug. 24, in Petersburg. In a meet that included Sitka, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Juneau-Douglas, Skagway and Craig, the boys placed fourth out of seven teams. The girls placed second out of four teams. Head coach Casey Gates was very pleased with his team's performance during the first meet of the season. "I'm very excited and happy with how today went and also with the outlook of the season, I...
The 2024 Cross Country season has officially begun. Coming off of his first season as a head coach, Casey Gates believes this year's team could do something special. "I think the sky's the limit for us, I think we can have a very successful season," Gates said. Gates is eager to see what the talented newcomers increasing the roster on the girls team might mean for this year. "I'm excited about our girls' team this season, mostly because we're bringing in some talented freshmen and we're going...
