British Columbia’s Fraser River sets the scene for rekindled friendship.
Sports
Pahrump Valley’s summer basketball season is underway, but Coach Toby Henry isn’t measuring success by wins and losses. The team’s multi-sport athletes are using June’s competition to gain experience.
The Mountain Falls Women’s Golf Association has repeated as champions of the Women’s Southern Nevada Golf Association Net Championship, defeating Spanish Trail Country Club 8–4 on May 21 at Arroyo Golf Club.
Local 4-H Robotics program is investing in its future through advanced engineering training, expanded programming efforts and a packed summer camp.
With most of last season’s roster returning and a full 18-game schedule on the horizon, the Trojans used last week’s summer camp to sharpen their skills and continue building a stronger program.
In what might have been the last competitive event held in Pahrump before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports, Dennis Andersen and Mike Norton of Pahrump won first place in the Silver State Chili Cook-Off Horseshoes Tournament on March 14 at Petrack Park.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, still hoping to conduct competition during the spring season, has been putting together contingency plans based on schools opening May 1, the day after Gov. Steve Sisolak’s most recent “Stay at Home” order expires.
College sports recruiting is not what it used to be, but it worked out well for Tonopah High School senior Dillan Otteson, who found a football home via the internet.
The first word of the long-awaited email told Paris Coleman everything she needed to know.
Before the schools were closed, spring sports were shut down, first by Pahrump Valley High School, then by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association.
Shutting down professional and collegiate sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic left enormous holes in television programming, and not just on networks devoted to sports.
With schools being closed for an undetermined period of time, the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association is making plans for how to handle spring sports should they reopen with enough time left for competition.
All high school athletes hope for a special senior year, the culmination of four years of practicing, training and competing ideally leads to some great memories before the next chapter begins.
This is not a column about the coronavirus.
Closures related to coronavirus are not only affecting indoor spaces, as Lee Canyon announced Tuesday that it was closing for the remainder of the 2019-20 ski season.
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British Columbia’s Fraser River sets the scene for rekindled friendship.
Pahrump Valley’s summer basketball season is underway, but Coach Toby Henry isn’t measuring success by wins and losses. The team’s multi-sport athletes are using June’s competition to gain experience.
The Mountain Falls Women’s Golf Association has repeated as champions of the Women’s Southern Nevada Golf Association Net Championship, defeating Spanish Trail Country Club 8–4 on May 21 at Arroyo Golf Club.
Local 4-H Robotics program is investing in its future through advanced engineering training, expanded programming efforts and a packed summer camp.
