Alaskans in Port Aransas
In the foreground, Lee Jones, quarterback and outside linebacker with the North Pole High School football team of Alaska, pumps iron with some of his teammates in the weight room at Doyle Marek Gym at Port Aransas High School on Tuesday, June 10. More than a dozen of the team's players were visiting Port Aransas this week, getting a little beach time during a swing through the lower 48 states for football camps in Oregon and at Texas A&M University at College Station. PAHS officials agreed to let the boys work out in the weight room at the request of the Alaska team's coach. North Pole High School is in a Fairbanks suburb.

STAFF PHOTO BY DAN PARKER