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.
Over the years the Trojans have been blessed with an occasional individual champion. In recent years, we have had two, Austen Ancell in golf in 2015, won as a sophomore and Bryce Odegard for cross-country in 2016, winning as a junior. Both were the first individual champions in their sport for the Trojans.
You probably won’t be seeing this score on the ESPN channel but just so you know, the defending champs, Pahrump business community team, It’s on like Donkey Kong, defeated the Rosemary Clarke Middle School staff team, The Ba-Donk-A-Donks, in the Donkey Basketball Championship game on Friday night, 8-4.
Senior Trojans soccer player Nick Harris has signed with the Utah State University Eastern in Price, Utah. He will go up for media day on March 24.
Gary Miller, at 65-years-old and weighing only 144 pounds, can bench press 380 pounds and he is known in Pahrump as a weightlifter who has broken many world records.
His life was dedicated to his sport, golf, and to the kids of Pahrump Valley.
The Trojans golf team were runner-ups at state last year and will be definitely taking a shot at the state title this year.
A high school rodeo in Clark County was canceled last week and Pahrump Valley High School rodeo director Buddy Krebs has suspended all rodeo practice involving horses due to two equine diseases, EVH-4 and equine distemper as a precaution.
Golf news: Gerald Runau hit a hole-in-one at the 10th hole of Lakeview Executive Golf Course on Feb. 4.
The Storm is upon us. The Stormin’ Mormon Showdown will be in town at the Pahrump Valley Speedway on March 11 at 5 p.m. The race is a tribute to the racing career of Ray Wulfenstein, who passed away on Jan. 13 in a plane crash in Oregon.
Pahrump Valley High will send another student to one of the nation’s military academies. Senior Joey Sladek Jr. was accepted to the United States Air Force Academy on Dec. 3.
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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.
