AOTW: Ketchikan star and UAF commit Marcus Stockhausen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Ketchikan senior Marcus Stockhausen reached a milestone this week that many high school athletes hope to achieve: scoring 1,000 career points.

“It is showing how much the work paid off,” the 6-foot-4 forward said last weekend at the Alaska Prep Shootout in Anchorage. “Now I am in company with guys like Chris and Marcus Lee and legends from Ketchikan and people around the state.”

Stockhausen’s hard work included getting up early to ride with dad — Ketchikan teacher and basketball coach Eric Stockhausen — into school.

”I leave the house at 5:15 every single day,” Eric Stockhausen said. “I told him, ‘I am never going to wake you up, if you want to go, you’ll be in the truck.’ He’s never missed a day, and I’ve never woken him up.”

Hard work in the gym and classroom — Marcus boasts a 4.0 GPA — helped earn him a scholarship to play college basketball at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

“It was a great combination between the coaching staff, the kids there, and just the school in general,” Marcus said of signing with UAF. “I am planning to be a teacher and they have a great education program. ... Just the perfect combination for me to really want to go there and spend four years.”

Previous Kayhi Kings have shined as part of UAF’s basketball team, like Chris Lee, who is averaging nearly 17 points per game for the Nanooks this season.

″It is really motivational, like if they can do it and they can succeed at that level, then I can too," he said. “It is really inspiring for me to be able to see that.”

UAF will be getting a versatile player who can obviously score, but also defend, rebound and make the right play with the ball.

”He’s extremely vocal, he never shuts up,” Eric said. “He is a coach already, he understands the game. I would argue he is probably one of the highest IQ high school kids I have ever seen.”

But before bringing his talents to the interior, Marcus hopes to bring a state championship back to the rich basketball community of Ketchikan. The town has seen one state championship in the last 50 years, which came in 2019.

”I was 12 years old in 6th grade,” Marcus recalled of the Ketchikan’s improbable state championship as the No. 8 seed. “It was probably one of the best things to happen for our community in a very long time because it really brought us together. ... It was just one of the best memories I have in my life, just seeing everybody praise our team.“

”We want to replicate that feeling, not just for us, but for the entire community.”

The ASAA 3A/4A Alaska State Basketball Championships run March 19-22, 2025, at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage.

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