Alaska Sports Hall of Fame: Kristen Thorsness
damionbrookkintz  · November 6, 2008
People still revel in Thorsness victory at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because she was the first Alaskan to win an Olympic medal, the first to prove Alaskans belong on the worlds biggest sporting stage. A 1978 graduate of West High in Anchorage, Thorsness didnt learn to row until she was at the University of Wisconsin. She was good enough to get the attention of national team coaches, but at 5-foot-9, 150 pounds, she was tiny by rowing standards. She turned the impossible into the possible, even though she had improbable written all over her. She was inducted into the Hall in 2007.

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