After years of waiting for official recognition, the Pahrump Valley High School boys volleyball team finally took the court this spring as an NIAA-sanctioned program.
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PVHS track and field closed out the 2026 season with a series of record-breaking performances and podium finishes at the NIAA Class 3A state championships in Sparks.
Competitors battled through warm temperatures as players, families and fans gathered for an afternoon of horseshoes, food and community fellowship in Henderson.
Behind a community-wide sendoff and a dominant tournament performance capped by a 12–1 championship victory over Lowry, the Lady Trojans captured their fifth Class 3A state softball title.
The Trojans stranded runners in scoring position, survived a controversial balk call and pushed Virgin Valley through 12 exhausting innings before finally falling 4-3 in a heartbreaking Class 3A Southern Regional elimination game on May 8 in Boulder City.
Pahrump Valley came out with an intensity coach Joe Clayton said he had not seen before, and he said one of the reasons might be emotional.
With a corner kick coming up midway through the second half of a tied game against Valley, the Pahrump Valley High School boys soccer team had no need to reach deep into its bag of tricks.
When you play a team that has won nine of the past 10 state championships, winning every game but one during those seasons, the barometer for success is a bit different.
Mountain Falls Golf Course has hosted several successful fundraising tournaments, and Infinity Hospice Foundation officials have high hopes Pahrump individuals and businesses will turn out for the latest one.
The setting has some of the same feel of a Pahrump Valley High School football game.
It was a tale of two halves Friday night for the Pahrump Valley High School football team, but their dominance in the second half made it easy to forget the crazy back-and-forth nature of the first.
Pahrump Valley senior Jacob Cipollini finished the three-mile course in 16 minutes, 46.3 seconds to finish seventh in the Senior Division 3 race Saturday at the 45th Dana Hills Nike Invitational in Dana Point, California.
Madelyn Souza calmly stepped up to the ball, sitting about 35 yards from the Western goal, with about 15 minutes left in the second half.
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After years of waiting for official recognition, the Pahrump Valley High School boys volleyball team finally took the court this spring as an NIAA-sanctioned program.
PVHS track and field closed out the 2026 season with a series of record-breaking performances and podium finishes at the NIAA Class 3A state championships in Sparks.
Competitors battled through warm temperatures as players, families and fans gathered for an afternoon of horseshoes, food and community fellowship in Henderson.
Behind a community-wide sendoff and a dominant tournament performance capped by a 12–1 championship victory over Lowry, the Lady Trojans captured their fifth Class 3A state softball title.
