RECRUITING: Major picks UNLV

Local high school girls basketball player Diamond Major said she made an oral commitment to UNLV on Sunday night.

The 5-foot-10-inch rising senior forward also had scholarship offers from Hawaii, Boise State, Denver, San Diego and New Mexico.

Major played last season at Bishop Gorman, but said she plans to play her senior season for locally-based Quest Prep.

“It’s a relief that I can actually relax now,” Major said. “It was fun, the whole process and everything, but it got stressful toward the end. You want to wind down and get it over with.”

Major was a key piece of a Gorman team that went 25-4 last season, including a 16-0 record in Southwest League play, on its way to the Sunset Region final.

Major averaged 7.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists on her way to first-team All-Southwest League honors. She said UNLV recruited her mainly as a small forward.

“They had always been there since Day 1, the first school to offer me,” she said of UNLV.

Major, who has already unofficially visited UNLV, is tentatively scheduled to take her official visit to UNLV in September.

The first day she can sign a national letter of intent is Nov. 14.