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76th Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau Alaska March 23rd-29th, 2025.
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Photo Left - Womens Bracket champions Craig pose for a photo Saturday after winning the 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament.
(Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - The 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament Womens Bracket All Tournament Team, left to right, Nani Weimer (Craig), Melissa Fisher (Hoonah), Florence Kargi (Hooper Bay), Susie Long (Hooper Bay), Michaela Demmert (Craig). Not pictured Brandi Hale (Hooper Bay), Nadine Fraker (Yakutat), Trinity Jackson (Yakutat), Monica Ashenfelter (Kake). (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
MVP Weimer leads Craig women to Gold Medal title By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - B Bracket champions Angoon pose for a photo Saturday after winning the 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament
(Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo RIght - The 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament B Bracket All-Tournament Team, left to right, Clayton Edwin (Angoon), Kyle Fossman (Haines), Sean Oliver (Hoonah), Clayton Olmstead (Ketchikan), Ethan Kadake (Kake), Orion Dybdahl (Hoonah), Kirby Faverty (Haines) Dominic Brinson (Angoon), Tyler Swinton (Haines). Not pictured Vinny Edenshaw (Hydaburg), Nate Yockey (Klawock), Arthur Adams (Yakutat). (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Angoon defends B bracket Gold Medal championship By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - C Bracket champions Hydaburg pose for a photo Saturday after winning the 76th Annual
Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - The 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament C Bracket All-Tournament Team, left to right, Darren Edenshaw (Hydaburg), Clifton Guthrie (Metlakatla), Eric Hamilton (Hydaburg), Chris Bryant (Metlakatla), and Travis Dybdahl (Hoonah). Not pictured Cody Hotch (Klukwan), Martin Sensmeier (Yakutat), Trevor Rostad (Kake). (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Hydaburg tops Metlakatla 85-70 for C Bracket title By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo left - Referee Michael Smith shared on Facebook a photo of Gold Medal Tournament Refs Michael Smith, Jerry Meneese
and Manuel Gibson Fernandez with Martin Sensmeier (Yakutat).
Photo Right - Michael Smith shared on Facebook Martin Sensmeier is in the upcoming Season 2 of The Terminal List.
Michael Smith - Coming to the Lions Club 76th Gold Medal Games you can sometimes run into basketball players who moonlight
doing other things. So nice to see Martin Sensmeier again. He’s actually a pretty good player in his own right.
Martin Sensmeier made The 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament C Bracket All-Tournament Team
Photo Left - Masters Bracket champions Sitka pose for a photo Saturday after winning the 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament.
(Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - The 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament Masters Bracket All-Tournament Team, left to right, Syd Eubanks (Sitka), Jeremy Martin (Hoonah), Willie Hayward (Metlakatla), Danny Marsden (Metlakatla), Brian Friske (Klukwan), Michael Ganey (Klukwan). Not pictured Mitch Mork (Sitka),
Nick Davis (Kake), Jay Peterson (Kake). (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Masterful win by Sitka earns Gold Medal Championship By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - A (Open) Bracket champions Juneau-AML pose for a photo Saturday after winning the
76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - The 76th Annual Gold Medal Basketball Tournament A (Open) Bracket All Tournament Team, left to right, Zach Kline (Mt. Edgecumbe), Kaleb Tompkins (Juneau-AML), Zach Anderson (Mt. Edgecumbe), Chase Saviers (Juneau-AML), Kaison Herrmann (Mt. Edgecumbe).
Not pictured Alwen Carrillo (Filcom), Sam Lockhart (Southeast Boys). (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
MVP Tompkins leads Juneau to Gold Medal title By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - Hoonah’s Kayden Lamebull-Ingram (11) is fouled by Haines’ Kyle Rush (behind) while Tyler Swinton and Kyle Fossman defend
during Haines’ 75-70 B Bracket elimination game win Friday. (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - Hooper Bay’s Ernie Joe and Yakutat’s Lorena Williams battle for a loose ball Friday during Hooper Bay’s 60-58 Women’s Bracket
elimination game win over Yakutat. (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Championships set for Gold Medal tournament on Saturday By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Juneau v. Mt. Edgecumbe; Craig v. Hooper Bay; Sitka v. Klukwan; Metlakatla v. Hydaburg; Angoon v. Haines.
Photo Left - Hydaburg’s Darren Edenshaw powers a shot through Metlakatla’s Bradley Martinez (11), Jason Enright (21) and Bryan Hayward during Metlakatla’s 74-65 C Bracket semifinal win Thursday. (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - Hoonah fans lead a cheer during the B Bracket semifinal between Angoon and Hoonah on Thursday at the 76th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Thursday Gold Medal play features semifinal action
By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
3 Screen captures as a panoramic view
Another view from our play by play on KINY live from the Gold Medal basketball tournament . The Eagle Raven dance group
KINY Facebook Reels Video Link - The Eagle Raven Dancers performing Thursday at the Gold Medal Basketball
Gold Medal Broadcast Game Schedule and Listen to Play by Play on KINY Radio - (Juneau's Lions Club)
https://www.frontiermediausa.com/gold-medal-basketball
Also https://www.iheart.com/live/am-800-kiny-8339/
Gold Medal Basketball Podcast - from KINY Radio's live broadcasts,
this podcast series includes the play-by-play for all 2025 Games and archived 2024 Games
Photo Left - Klukwan’s Andrew Friske (12) and Dave Buss (22) try to contain Hoonah’s Mark Prpich during Klukwan’s 94-73
Masters Bracket elimination game win Wednesday. (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - Young fans cheer for Klukwan during a Master’s Bracket elimination game
against Hoonah on Wednesday (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Shakeout of teams underway as Gold Medal hits halfway point on Wednesday
By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - Filcom’s Alwen Carrillo (11) floats a shot over Southeast Boys’ Ryan Lee (40) during Filcom’s 77-74 A Bracket win Tuesday
(Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo RIght - Kake’s Jay Peterson (13) scores among Metlakatla’s Danny Marsden (33), Archie Dundas and Steve Booth (42)
during Kake’s 62-48 Masters Bracket win Tuesday (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
New bracket, new thrills and elimination games Tuesday at Gold Medal
By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - Floor generals Kyle Fossman of Haines and Aquino Brinson of Angoon went head-to-head
in Angoon’s 77-72 B Bracket win Monday (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - Hooper Bay’s Susie Long (3) shoots from past the arc over Hoonah’s Antonia Fogg and Jonelle Stavland (back)
in Women’s Bracket play Monday. (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Monday madness at Gold Medal By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Photo Left - Craig’s Nani Weimer shoots against Kake during Women’s Bracket action Sunday (Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Photo Right - Kake’s Simon Friday shoots from past the arc over Ketchikan’s Archie Dundas (10) in B Bracket action Sunday
(Photo Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Opening day of 76th Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament sets the bar high
By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
Three Chilkat Valley teams slated to play in Gold Medal
by Rashah McChesney - Chilkat Valley News
Hoonah’s Melissa Fisher and Taryn White (24) challenge a shot by Angoon’s Tasha McCoy during their elimination game in the
2015 Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Gold Medal returns with hearty schedules By Klas Stolpe (Juneau Empire)
“Our rosters are diverse each year,” Juneau Lions Club President Tim Wilson said. “A lot of times that happens as players age up into other brackets and younger players enter the tournament. Then again, a lot of the names will be familiar to Gold Medal fans. We are excited about some of the new features this year.”
Official Rosters for the 2025 Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament (From Klas Stolpe's article)
Photo - ‘Wáats’asdiyei Joe Yates, Raye Lankford, X̱’unei Lance Twitchell and Rochelle Adams pose with the Children’s and Family Emmy Award award Lankford and Twitchell won for co-writing the an episode of the PBS animated children’s show “Molly of Denali.” (Photo courtesy of ‘Wáats’asdiyei Joe Yates)
‘Molly of Denali’ episode wins best writing honor at 2025 Children’s and Family Emmy Awards By Mark Sabbatini (Juneau Empire)
First Emmy win for animated PBS show goes to episode “Not a Mascot” the co-writers are X̱'unei Lance Twitchell and Raye Lankford. The episode premiered March 27, 2024 as part of the series’ fourth season won the best writing award among five nominees. “Molly learns that her basketball team is playing against the War Chiefs, whose mascot is a tomahawk-waving stereotype of an Indigenous person,” a PBS description of the episode notes. “Molly and her teammates set out to find a new mascot for them.”X̱'unei Lance Twitchell is Tlingit, and a language professor at the University of Alaska Southeast. The other co-writer of the Emmy-winning episode is Raye Lankford, a contributor for numerous other episodes as well as other children’s shows including “Sesame Street.” Other Juneau tribal citizens involved in the writing and production of “Molly of Denali” include Frank Katasse, ‘Wáats’asdiyei Joe Yates and Vera Starbard, the latter of whom is the current Alaska State Writer Laureate.
‘Percy Jackson,’ Meryl Streep, Christian Slater Among 3rd Annual Children’s & Family Emmys Winners (FULL LIST)
By Michael Schneider (Variety)
Screen capture Idle No More Washington (Facebook) shared a video uploaded by Molly of Denali and GBH.
Video link - Molly of Denali EMMY Award (Facebook)
4 Screen captures as a panoramic view from Video shot by Bostin Christopher/KTOO and uploaded to Instragram.
Video Link - X_’unei Lance Twitchell is welcomed home at the Juneau Airport after winning an Emmy Award for “Molly of Denali.”
X̱’unei Lance Twitchell is holding the Emmy while he is dancing.
Nat Geo Documentary Films - In the 97 years of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' History,
No Film directed by a Indigenious North American Person has ever been nominated for an Oscar until now.
Sugarcane | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films (YouTube)
I Told a Native Story That Earned an Oscar Nomination. (New York Times)
Mr. NoiseCat is a journalist and, alongside Emily Kassie, a director of the documentary “Sugarcane,” which is nominated for an Academy Award.
‘Sugarcane’ at the Academy Awards Searing documentary didn't win gold statue but makes Oscar history anyway'
BY Sandra Hale Schulman (Indian Country Today)
Seminole Media Productions and Native Reel Cinema Fest
We are excited to announce the first of many surprises in store for the 2025 Native Reel Cinema Fest
at the Seminole Tribal Fair and Pow Wow!
NRCF welcomes!! MR. MARTIN SENSMEIER @martinsensmeier
An accomplished Actor / Model / Producer
Mr. Sensmeier has appeared in films such as: - Magnificent Seven - Wind River - The Last manhunt Ap
Appeared on television series such as: - Rutherford Falls - WestWorld - 1883 - Alaska Daily
Producer of films such as: - The Last Manhunt
5 upcoming Films with MARTIN SENSMEIER https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2936232/
(1) Mary Margaret Road Grader Post-production Short
(2) Ice Fall Post-production
(3) Cottonmouth Ed Dantes Completed
(4) Wind River: Rising Chip Hanson Post-production
(5) Takeover Hilario Post-production
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