Alaska sports notebook: Youth wrestler advances to group finals in National Athlete of the Year competition, UAA volleyball suffers first conference loss‎

Sep. 19—Wasilla's Daxton 'Dax' Polis is not only in the running to be named 2026 Youth Athlete of the Year, the 7-year-old wrestler with Mid-Valley Wolves Wrestling Academy has advanced to the Group Finals round. His fellow Alaskans can help him go even further by casting a free vote every day while Polis remains in the competition. He needs to finish first in each advancing round to continue ...