As Tyler Swinton prepared for his freshman season on the University of Alaska Anchorage basketball team following a standout career at Haines High School, he still found time to use his season pass at Valley of the Eagles Golf Links.
Swinton, a 2012 Haines graduate who’d been offered a spot at UAA as a “preferred walk-on” who would forego the tryout process required of other non-scholarship players, eventually decided he was pursuing the wrong sport,…