Hours before the shooting death of Se’Mauri Norris-Johnson on Halloween night, his high school football coach was talking about him with a coach of the University of Georgia football program.
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Three Las Vegas high school athletic programs are receiving grants from the Shaquille O’Neal Foundation and Icy Hot.
David Hill helps student-athletes in the Las Vegas Valley earn athletic scholarships through relationships with seemingly every Division I program in the country.
Desert Pines three-sport athlete and highly-touted football star Darnell Washington is the winner of the Richard Nelson Courage Award.
Mwani Wilkinson scored all 18 of his points in the second half, including Gorman’s first 12 points of the fourth quarter, as the Gaels defeated the Jaguars 52-42 in the Southern Nevada boys basketball championship game.
The Aggies (11-1) scored 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter and forced a turnover on downs near their own goal line in the waning seconds to clinch a 28-21 victory over Desert Pines.
Desert Pines’ Cameron Wiley comes in at No. 1 on our list of Southern Nevada’s top five running backs.
Desert Pines senior guard Darius Mitchell capped his only varsity campaign with a tiebreaking floater and subsequent pair of free throws in a 48-44 overtime win over rival Cheyenne on Saturday in Reno.
Spring Valley 132-pounder Andres Garcia beat the Sunrise Region champion, the Sunset runner-up and last week’s Sunset Region champion to claim his first Class 4A state championship Friday at The Orleans Arena.
Isaiah Cottrell, a 6-foot-9-inch sophomore, is the latest elite prospect to man the middle for the top-ranked Gaels. He already has 19 scholarship offers and is the No. 30 prospect in his class, per Rivals.com.
Sophomore running backs Michael Lofton and Jyden King each scored three touchdowns as the Jaguars’ cruised to a 50-28 victory over visiting Spring Creek in a Class 3A state semifinal football game.
Desert Pines scored on offense, defense and special teams to beat Sunrise Mountain on Thursday night and advance to the Class 3A state semifinals next weekend.
The Jaguars have won three straight games after being shutout in their first two.
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