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