The school’s teams will have a new nickname in August after an agreement with Arizona State to use the Sundevils moniker and the Sparky mascot was discontinued.
Nevada Preps
The Gatorade Company announced its 2016-17 boys and girls track athletes of the year on Thursday.
Centennial swept both genders in the Class 4A state track meet at Foothill on Saturday, winning the seventh consecutive state title for the girls, and fourth in six years for the boys.
Angela Hammond won three state titles, one individual, and helped Cheyenne’s girls track team finish second at the Class 3A state championship at Foothill on Saturday, the best placement of any Southern Nevada school.
Gizelle Reid won the title in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.98 seconds at the Class 4A state track meet at Foothill on Friday.
Gabby Carson of Liberty broke her personal record, school record and region record with a mark of 12 feet, 11 inches in the pole vault Saturday during the Class 4A Sunrise Region track and field meet at Foothill.
Cheyenne’s Angela Hammond won two individual events and ran on two winning relays Friday and Saturday to lead the Desert Shields to the Class 3A Southern Region girls track title in Overton.
Deborah Grant swept the sprints on Saturday to lead Green Valley’s girls track team to victory at the Sunrise FAST Classic at Green Valley.
Jamaica Lewis won two events Thursday to lead Green Valley’s girls track team to a 74-71 home win over Coronado in a Southeast League dual meet.
Green Valley’s Deborah Grant won the seeded girls 400-meter dash at the Mt. SAC relays in Walnut, California on Saturday.
Coronado’s girls track and field team won two relays, and the Cougars went on to capture the team title at the Valley Relays on Saturday at Valley High.
Frankie Morrill won three individual events to help Foothill’s girls track and field team to a first-place finish at the Ron Resler Invitational at Boulder City.
Ariyanna Ringgold won the 400-meter dash on Wednesday to help Mojave’s girls track team claim victory in a three-team meet at Western.
Devyn Rosenbverg and Gwenavere Bobowicz each won two individual events and ran on the winning 400-meter relay team Tuesday to lead Bishop Gorman’s girls track team to an 87-54 home win over Desert Oasis.
Ty’Jae Harrell placed first in two individual events and second in another to lead Mojave’s girls track team to victory in a three-team home meet.
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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.
Bishop Gorman announced Wednesday that its baseball team was forfeiting games over paperwork related to the eligibility of a transfer student.
