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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...
Triathlete Dustin Barber competed in Petersburg's Summer Sprint Triathlon last Saturday, running a personal best for himself, finishing with a time of 69 minutes and 18 seconds – an improvement from 2023 when Barber completed the triathlon in 71 minutes and 46 seconds. The summer triathlon consisted of a 500-yard pool swim, then a 10-mile bike ride and a 5k run to finish everything off. Unfortunately, Barber was the only competitor in this year's race. "I expected eight," Aquatic Supervisor S...
Petersburg's Rebecca Fisher, a 17-year old competitor in Native Youth Olympics, brought home a gold medal this month from the 2024 Indigenous Summer Games in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. In addition to winning gold, Fisher also claimed two silver and two bronze medals. To qualify for the Summer Games in Canada, Fisher first competed at the Traditional Games in Juneau, Alaska. When Fisher found out she qualified, she thought she was being pranked. "I was getting ready for my...
This month, twelve athletes from the Devil's Thumb Shooters - Petersburg's youth marksmanship program - flew north to compete in the Alaska Youth Education in Shooting Sports (YESS) State Tournament in Chugiak. They joined competitors from 18 teams across the state, and the tournament results speak to the caliber of Petersburg's shooting athletes - with first, second, and third place finishes across several disciplines and divisions. One tournament highlight for the Petersburg team was the...
Petersburg High School's baseball team capped off a historic season last weekend, taking fourth place at the Alaska State Tournament in Wasilla. After losing their first game against Kenai Central Kardinals, the Vikings fought through their loser's bracket games without taking another loss, with the team's freshman and sophomore pitchers stepping up to carry them to victory. "We were 9-11 for the season... For our baseball program three or four wins in a season is actually considered to be a...
Petersburg High School's track team's seven qualifying athletes wrapped up their season last weekend competing against Alaska's best at the state championships in Anchorage. Several athletes earned podium finishes and final placements across the two-day event by excelling in running, jumping, and throwing, but they were still left with a drive to improve and reach the top in their fields. "Everybody felt good, it was good for the most part. A couple guys didn't do as well as they wanted to, but...
With a full season of running, throwing, and jumping under their belts, Petersburg High School's track and field team returned to Ketchikan to compete in the Region V Championships last weekend. Three Petersburg athletes won Region V titles in their events and many more ended up on the podium across the two-day event, with seven students qualifying for this week's state championships in Anchorage. "They were pretty excited [heading into the event]. They were feeling good, feeling excited, lots...
Petersburg High School's baseball team finished off their regular season games with a bang last weekend taking down Wasilla's Redington High School in a clean 3-0 series. This year's young roster of Vikings rounded out their monumental season with two blowout games, featuring highlight performances from the team's seniors who were honored during senior appreciation on Saturday, as well as all-around success on offense and defense from the team's rookies. "This has been a historic season. We got...
Petersburg High School’s track and field team is already heading into the final few weeks of their season, coming off an exciting meet in Juneau and moving towards the Region 5 Championships in Ketchikan this weekend. After competing in their first meet with a reduced squad, PHS were able to bring their full team of 28 kids to Juneau to compete in 112 total events, giving them a great chance to prepare for their last few meets. “It’s so hard to look at a track meet as a whole because there...
Petersburg High School's baseball team achieved a program first last weekend as they picked up their first ever winning series against Ketchikan. Facing a team they hadn't won a game against in a decade, the series also served as the Vikings' first winning series of the season, making the weekend's achievements an even sweeter success. "All in all it was a really good outing, doing to them what they do to us quite often. It was nice to win the doubleheader, it's hard to do," said head coach Jim...
Petersburg High School’s track team are off to the races this season as they prepare for their second meet in Juneau, with their first meet already under their belts. Many of the younger Viking athletes ran on a full track for the first time ever in Ketchikan on April 19 and 20, as the team competed in running, throwing, and jumping events across the two-day meet. “The athletes who have been around knew what to expect, but we have a fair amount of young athletes who haven’t really been around so they were a little bit nervous. Overall, I think...
Petersburg's Viking Swim Club's small team made a big showing last weekend at the Alaska Swimming State Championships in Anchorage. In their last major event of the short course season, Petersburg's 13 swimmers competed against the best in the state, coming out of the weekend with championship titles in 12 separate events and winning the Highest Points Per Swimmer title as a team. "It's incredibly exciting to see our growth, to see our swimmers going toe to toe with the best in the state and...
Petersburg High School’s baseball team fought their way through a series full of action during their three games against Juneau-Douglas High School last weekend. Each game had a wildly different story, but the Vikings were able to find a burst of consistency in their first game on Sunday, allowing them to pick up their first win of the season. “We’ve been saying it all year to the boys that if you play a clean game of baseball, you’re going to give yourself a really good chance of winning the game. It showed and they were dialed in,” said head...
Petersburg High School's baseball team stepped up to the plate on their home field last weekend, taking on Thunder Mountain High School in a series of difficult games that resulted in three losses for the Vikings. Although Friday's game and Saturday's doubleheader all finished in a similar fashion-with fielding errors creating a bottleneck with the team's limited pitching roster-the team has felt a noticeable shift in momentum during practices this week, hinting towards an upwards trajectory...
Petersburg's Viking Swim Club competed against teams from eight Southeast communities at the Southeast Championships in Juneau last weekend. The 34 kids traveled up to swim in multiple events across two days where the VSC claimed second place overall for the second year in a row, showing great improvement and shrinking the gap towards their first-place competitors in Juneau's Glacier Swim Club. "Every year that we go we score a little bit more points than we did the year before, so I'm really ha...
Petersburg High School's Baseball team started their season off with a challenging series of games in Sitka this last weekend. This year's young roster faced off against several opponents over the course of three days, starting off strong with a win up against Thunder Mountain before struggling against tough competition from West Valley High School and Sitka. "[We] were excited to be playing," said head coach Jim Engell. "It's always nice to get on and see in a game situation the things you...
Petersburg swimmers Tori Miller and Lexie Tow both competed in a pre-qualifying event in Federal Way Washington from March 21-24. The Viking Swim Club duo along with eight other Southeast swimmers raced against almost 1400 kids from nine different states, all aged from 10 and under to 18, with Miller and Tow both performing well in incredibly competitive events. "A lot of amazing swims took place there, and the Viking Swim Club and the kids should be proud," said Jason Miller, Tori's father....
Petersburg High School's track team is out on the field and ready to get things started this spring as they begin preparing for their first meet of the season. Alongside a larger team this year, the coaching staff has expanded with the inclusion of new head coach Casey Gates, working alongside James Valentine with some additional help from Eva Lenhard. "We've got a lot of kids out for the team right now. We've got 30 athletes or so, so there's a lot of moving pieces [and] moving parts at each pr...
Most of the racers in the Iditarod Trail Invitational reach the finish line in McGrath, Alaska and celebrate after their impressive journey through 350 miles of Alaskan wilderness. But for Phil Hofstetter, 51, and the handful of other athletes going the full thousand miles, McGrath was just a checkpoint. Having started in Anchorage on Feb. 25, Phil still had hundreds and hundreds of more miles to go until he reached the final finish line in Nome. After doing some maintenance on his bike, oiling...
