by ANCHORAGE – The brightest star in Alaska small-schools basketball the past two seasons, Elaina Mack (Agdaadux Tribe) has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the University of Alaska Anchorage, head coach McCarthy announced Friday.
A 5-7 guard, Mack was the 2019-20 ASAA Class 1A Player of the Year for King Cove High School, which she led to a state-best 55-game winning streak prior to the COVID-19-shortened end of this season.
As a senior, Mack averaged 40.1 points per game – with four 50-plus efforts – and drained 127 three-pointers as the Rookies finished 25-0 and captured their fourth straight Aleutian Conference title. She averaged more than 30 points per game as a junior in 2018-19, leading King Cove to its first state title since 2004.
“We are thrilled to sign Elaina Mack,” said McCarthy, who led UAA to a 31-2 record and a No. 4 final NCAA Div. II national rank in 2019-20. “Not being able to see her play in person, she was highly praised by her Alaska Stars AAU coaches, and were able to evaluate her against teams from the Lower 48. She is exactly the type of student-athlete who we seek at UAA – a high-achieving student from Alaska, who chose UAA because she is passionate about our basketball program and representing her state. She absolutely dominated the state of Alaska, and at times played against schools much bigger than King Cove. I’m excited for her because not only will she be representing her home state, she will be representing rural Alaska now on a national stage.”
Mack becomes the third signee in the Seawolves’ 2020 recruiting class
