Find out the winners of the male and female athletes of the year, the coach and team of the year, winners of each sport’s athlete and coach of the year, and two special awards.
Football
Virgin Valley three-sport athlete Jayden Perkins won the Male Athlete of the Year
The Best of Nevada Preps awards are underway in Las Vegas.
Centennial’s Karen Weitz is expected to become the first basketball coach in state history to reach 600 career victories when the Bulldogs host Legacy in a Northwest League game at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Tony Fields, a 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound linebacker, has been one of the area’s most heavily recruited players this spring. He has 19 scholarship offers — Northwestern was the most recent on April 30 — and his family has racked up plenty of hotel points over the past month and a half making unofficial visits on the weekends.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association last year quickly rebuffed a proposal to allow member schools to play in a postseason football bowl game.
Fourteen months later, the NIAA is at least willing to reconsider a similar request.
Two prep coaches who started the programs at their schools have stepped down.
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