Alaska Nanooks

Intercollegiate men's ice hockey began in the 1925–26 season.[3] The team had competed as an independent team in Division I through the 1960s and Division II through the 1970s.[3] The Nanooks returned to the Division I level in the 1985–86 season and joined the Great West Hockey Conference (GWHC).[4] The team won the 1987–88 GWHC regular season and 1988 playoff championship.[4] The team has also been a member of both the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) from 1995 to until its dissolution in 2013, where the Nanooks appeared in their first ever NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament in 2010 before falling 3–1 to Boston College.[5], as well as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) from 2013 until its dissolution in 2021. Currently, the team plays as an independent.

A Dash 8-Q400 of Horizon Air was painted to advertise the Alaska Nanooks. The aircraft is seen here at Los Angeles International Airport (February 2014)

The mixed rifle team has won eleven NCAA Rifle Championships (1994, 1999–2004, 2006–2008, 2023) and finished as runner-up seven times.[6] In addition to the team championships, Nanook riflers have won individual NCAA championships in air rifle and smallbore rifle 17 times.[6] In 2007 the university hosted the NCAA Rifle Championship, which saw the host Nanooks win their eighth title in nine years in front of a crowd of about 1,000.[7] The Nanooks rifle team most recently won the 2023 National Championship, bettering its last runner-up finish to West Virginia University in 2015.[8]

In June 2013, the Nanooks became a charter member of the Patriot Rifle Conference.

The Nanooks were members of the Central Collegiate Ski Association from 1992 to 2016. They joined the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association in the 2016–17 season.[9] Olympic cross-country skier Tyler Kornfield competed for the Nanooks in both Nordic skiing and cross-country running.[10]