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SPORTS REPORTER
Jon Allen is a sports reporter for the Daily Inter Lake. He covers youth and high school athletics across the Flathead Valley and Northwest Montana. Allen reports on major games, athletes and teams throughout the region’s prep sports landscape. In addition to game coverage, he contributes features and analysis across print and digital platforms. Jon can be seen on our Big Sky Now podcast, weighing in on the college landscape. His work highlights the athletes and communities that define Northwest Montana sports.
IMPACT: Jon’s work tells the stories of local athletes and the communities that support them.
ARTICLES BY JON ALLEN
One Timer: The biggest star you probably don't know
Sports fans are lucky to live in the current era where superstars are at every corner.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 DAY, 1 HOUR AGO
Out with a win: Engle’s two RBIs help Lakers to victory
After a late Tuesday night doubleheader, the Kalispell AA Lakers brought the energy in a 5-2 victory Wednesday afternoon over the Billings Scarlets at Griffin Field.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK AGO
One Timer: Another new reality for college sports
As the world crossed into the second half of 2026, college sports passed into yet another phase of conference realignment.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 1 DAY AGO
One Timer: Another chance for soccer to make its mark
If you hadn’t noticed, the passion for the world’s game has made its way to the United States.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 WEEKS, 1 DAY AGO
Weeden and Wienke are things of the past
If you have been following college sports in recent years then you know that wins come on the field of play and in the courtroom.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 WEEKS, 1 DAY AGO
One-Timer: Old foes or new; no issue for Avalanche
Things were different this year, and in a very good way.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 1 WEEK AGO
A Lakers will put in the miles
It’s a long road early for the Kalispell A Lakers.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 2 WEEKS AGO
One-Timer: In with a flash, out with a bang
As athletes sat in the Big Sky High School gym in Missoula during a lightning delay at the State AA-B track and field meet, it hit me: the sky has not played kind with Kalispell athletes this school year.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 2 WEEKS AGO
Glacier boys 2nd, girls 3rd at AA track
Seven-thousandths of a second, faster than the blink of an eye, is what separated Glacier from its second State AA boys track and field team championship.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 3 WEEKS AGO
AA track: Wolfpack surge on lightning-shorted 1st day
Day one of the State AA-B track meet featured records falling, a Wolfpack sweep in the 3,200 and a lightning stoppage that Flathead coach Dan Hodge called “unprecedented.”
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 3 WEEKS AGO
AA Tennis: Mantovani moves on
The Glacier Wolfpack entered Thursday’s State AA tennis tournament seven strong, but as day one came to a close only one athlete was in the hunt for a state championship.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 3 WEEKS AGO
Glacier, Flathead thinclads head to Missoula
Coming off a sweep of the Western AA divisional in Helena a week ago, the Glacier Wolfpack are hunting for more at the State AA and B track and field meet in Missoula Friday and Saturday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 3 WEEKS AGO
Glacier tennis set to defend court; Whitefish sending 9 to State A
Home-court advantage awaits the seven Glacier singles and duos who qualified for the State AA tennis tournament that begins today at FVCC.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 3 WEEKS AGO
Hollensteiner into the final turn
They say records are meant to be broken, and Flathead’s Will Hollensteiner has been breaking a lot of marks in his four years with the Braves.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 MONTH, 3 WEEKS AGO
