FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Nanooks Department of Athletics and Assistant AD for Marketing, Sponsorships, and Fan Engagement Brooke Larson have announced Sam Bristor as the Marketing Intern for the 2026-27 season. 

Bristor will hold this position through June 2027 and will assist with student engagement, fan engagement, and special events run throughout the athletic season. "Sam brings a passion for athletics, especially as a student-athlete herself," said Larson. "We are thrilled to have her on the team helping with social media content, student marketing, and fan engagement." 

This season, Bristor will work with campus partners, table events to strategically promote athletics, help formulate and execute strategies to increase student attendance at all Nanooks sporting events, cultivate partnerships on campus to increase engagement opportunities, and support student section engagement. Alongside her student engagement role, she will help spearhead fan engagement through social media content creation while also assisting in the prep and coordination of in-game promotion; she will support interactive elements of the fan experience, coordinate national anthem singers, ice crew, and court crew members, and develop and finalize game day scripts. All of this while assisting in the Nanooks' larger events like Giving Week, UA Giving Day, and the Alaska Nanooks' Gold Rush event, presented by Usibelli Coal Mine.

"I'm super excited to learn more about the marketing side of athletics and work with multiple sports," added Sam Bristor. "I'd like to extend a thank you to Brooke Larson and the rest of the admin team for this opportunity, and I can't wait to grow with this professional experience!" Bristor is currently a senior at UAF, studying business management with a concentration in sports management. She is a current member of the Nanooks swim team and in the past, she was an accounting intern at Enstar Natural Gas and spent time as a social media intern with the Alaska Goldpanners. There, she gained experience working with social media, specializing in direct team promotion. 

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