Here is the 2024 Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada girls track and field team, selected after the spring sports season.
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Four teams have locked up spots. Eight more remain alive for the other four spots, and the possibilities seem endless.
Centennial junior Alexis Gourrier won the Sunset regional cross country championship and helped the Bulldogs to the team title.
Green Valley senior Omar Rubio won the Sunrise regional cross country meet as the Gators coasted to the team championship.
Green Valley’s Rachel Klopfer had 20 kills, nine digs and four blocks, and Anya Olsen added 16 kills as the Gators upset visiting Silverado, 10-25, 25-14, 31-33, 25-19, 15-9 on Wednesday.
Yudi Alvarez scored a second-half goal to break a scoreless tie and lift Tech’s girls soccer team to a 1-0 home win over Moapa Valley on Wednesday.
Green Valley’s boys soccer team scored three goals in the second half Wednesday to overcome a 1-0 halftime deficit and beat host Silverado, 3-2.
Rachel Klopfer had 10 kills and 12 digs Monday to power the Green Valley girls volleyball team past Basic, 25-18, 25-9, 25-19.
Kapono Maruyama scored midway through the first half, and Foothill’s boys soccer team held on for a 1-0 home win over Coronado on Monday.
Mariah Moses had nine kills and an ace, and Cadie Espe added seven kills for Tech’s girls volleyball team in a 18-25, 25-15, 23-25, 25-12, 15-5 victory over visiting Chaparral on Thursday.
Alexis Kirson had two goals, and Green Valley’s girls soccer team upset visiting Coronado 4-2 on Thursday in a Southeast League girls soccer match.
Whitley Brow had 11 kills and 16 digs, and Aysia Mabry added four kills, four aces and 17 digs to help Foothill’s girls volleyball team outlast visiting Green Valley, 25-12, 21-25, 25-20, 8-25, 15-8 on Thursday.
Caitlin Shannon and Jenson Boman each had a goal and an assist Thursday to lead Coronado’s girls soccer team to a 2-0 home win over Silverado.
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Centennial’s boys cross country team had three of the top six runners on Monday to win the Bud O’Dea Classic freshman race at Desert Breeze.
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Faith Lutheran thrower Preston Beery set the unofficial state record in the shot put Friday to earn Nevada Preps Boys Athlete of the Week honors.
Basic’s baseball team has been forced to forfeit all of its league games for using ineligible players, the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association confirmed.
Former Bishop Gorman standout Rome Odunze was selected ninth by the Chicago Bears, and former Liberty athlete Troy Fautanu went 20th overall to the Steelers.