TNL Sports Editor, Taylor Hall, does a Q&A with UAA Gymnast, Melissa Doucette.
How did you get started in gymnastics?
It was in a “Mommy and Me” class. I saw others doing it and decided I wanted to join in on it.
Archive for the ‘Meet the Seawolf’ Category
Meet the Seawolf: Melissa Doucette
February 21st, 2012 by Taylor Hall
Meet the Seawolf: Steve White
February 7th, 2012 by Taylor Hall
What brought you here to UAA all the way back in 2008? My brother (Kevin) was here and he had been here for a year and was coming off the year UAA went to the Final Four. (Fellow Australian) Luke Cooper had also been here. I didn’t really look at any other schools. I [...]
Meet the Seawolf: Haley Holmstead
January 24th, 2012 by Taylor Hall
UAA junior guard Haley Holmstead seems to have this whole scoring thing down pretty well.
A two-time Scenic West Athletic Conference Player of the Year at Salt Lake Community College, Holmstead was billed as one of the premier offensive threats in the national community college ranks.
Meet the Seawolf: Lonnie Ridgeway
November 15th, 2011 by Kenzie Masson
An Interview with TNL TNL: How long have you been playing basketball for? LR: Ever since I can remember. I remember wearing jerseys in first grade, so right around then. Since I was about six or seven. Was collegiate basketball what you always wanted to do? It’s something I always wanted to do, yes. I [...]
Meet the Seawolf: Mario Gill
November 1st, 2011 by Kenzie Masson
Mario Gill is known for being on the basketball team and is often found on the court whether it’s at practice or in a game. Off the court, he’s a smooth talking, fun, out-going guy who knows everyone’s name. In the gym, he’s determined and focused, but when he’s not “on the clock,” he loves to have fun, relax and listen to music.
The-21-year old hails from Portland, Oregon and has played for Wilson High School. In 2008, he was named Portland Interscholastic League’s Player of the Year, and also participated in the Les Schwab Northwest Shootout.
Meet the Seawolf: Catherine Walczak
October 11th, 2011 by Ashley Snyder
Journalism and Accounting double major. Model. Actress. Fashion connoisseur. Some say she is a blonde hippie goddess from the outskirts of the solar system. Others, a wild-haired mountain girl. No matter what is said, Catherine Walczak is a woman of many talents and dreams.
Meet the Seawolf: Chris Kamal
October 4th, 2011 by Taylor Hall
This week’s Meet the Seawolf features avid hockey player, Chris Kamal. Kamal is currently a sophomore at UAA and has established himself as a commendable goaltender for UAA’s hockey team.
Meet the Seawolves: Nate Sagan and Dallas Baldwin
September 28th, 2011 by Kenzie Masson
Kicking off their fourth season at UAA as a team are Seawolves Nate Sagan and Dallas Baldwin. However, you won’t see them on the court, but rather above or around it doing everything from stats to videos to social media for UAA Athletics. Sagan is in his 13th season here as Sports Information Director backed [...]
Meet the Seawolf: Audri Pleas
September 20th, 2011 by Nicole Luchaco
At only 22 years old “Audri” is the Station Manager for the UAA radio station KRUA. A well known personality on campus, you have probably seen her “creeping” around, seeming to pop up anywhere and everywhere at once, always entertaining and well informed on whatever is going on in your office.
Meet the Seawolf: Kylie Burns
September 7th, 2011 by Ashley Snyder
Every year the women’s basketball team gains a new cast of exceptional players from all over the nation, ready to take their place in the team’s history books. However, the challenge to become a memorable player does not stop after the first year. Kansas City native Kylie Burns is one such player who joined the [...]
Meet the Seawolf: Micah Sauvageau
August 23rd, 2011 by Heather Hamilton
An often under appreciated group at UAA are the theater students, who not only act in productions, but direct them, paint and design sets, create costumes, run sound lights, among several other tasks.
Micah Sauvageau, a theater senior, is one such student. In addition to being a theater major, he is also a member of Theater on the Rocks (UAA’s theater club), and has also worked with the UAA Glee Club during its first year.
Sauvageau has acted in a few UAA productions, such as “Godspell” in 2008, but mostly performs in shows around Anchorage.
Meet the Seawolf: Katie Richens
August 9th, 2011 by Ashley Snyder
The UAA women’s basketball team has been host to many athletic stars, and is always on the lookout for new shiny athletes. One of the newest additions to the UAA women’s basketball team is,Utah native Katie Richens.
Meet the Seawolf: Kimya Jafroudi
July 26th, 2011 by Taylor Hall
Love of the sport can be a powerful effect on an individual. Sometimes, it can even get a person to trade in their swimsuit and sunny Southern California Weather for a large North Face winter coat and the Alaskan cold. Case in point: UAA’s new junior defensive specialist/setter transfer Kimya Jafroudi. This 5’7” Hunington Beach, [...]
Meet the Seawolf: Sariye Jensen
July 12th, 2011 by Ashley Snyder
Over two thousand miles away in a little city called Henderson, Nevada, is where the newest addition to the Seawolf athletic family was discovered. Sariye Jensen recently graduated from her hometown high school and has officially signed onto UAA’s gymnastics team. For the past four years, Jensen has been competing as a level 10 gymnast with Brown’s Gymnastics Las Vegas.
