The Alaska High School Football Player of the Year is Jack Nash of Colony High. After winning the Alaska Division I state championship, Colony finished No. 2 in the High School Football America Alaska Top 5, powered by NFL Play Football.
The 6-foot-2, 185-pound junior quarterback and safety led Colony High School to a 9-2 record and the program’s first Division I championship in history, scoring the game-winning touchdown with 17 seconds left on the clock to clinch a 14-7 victory over Juneau-Douglas/Thunder Mountain High School. Nash compiled 2,656 total yards and 34 touchdowns as a dual-threat quarterback and recorded 103 tackles as a safety. He also intercepted a state seasonhigh 12 passes on defense, returning three for touchdowns.
Nash has volunteered locally as part of student government and leadership programs at Colony High School and also as a football coach in the area Pop Warner program. “Nash is one of the most explosive two-way players that Alaska has seen in many years,” said West Anchorage High School coach Tim Davis. “He’s the complete quarterback and a [continual homerun] threat. Defensively, he covers sideline-to-sideline and plays the run with physicality. Nash is one of the most complete players this state has seen.”
Nash has maintained a 3.4 GPA in the classroom. He will begin his senior year of high school this fall.
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