NIAA names top 10 student-athletes of year

The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association announced Tuesday the recipients of $20,000 successful assistance funds to seniors successful the Class of 2021 done its yearly Top 10 Student-Athletes of the Year awards program.

The student-athletes of the twelvemonth are presented to those who excelled successful sports, maintained a precocious world presumption and volunteered successful their assemblage astatine levels beyond those of their peers, the NIAA connection said.

The apical 10 student-athletes of the twelvemonth for Southern Nevada were Martin Blake, Canyon Springs; Fernando Carmona, Las Vegas; Kathryn Daffer and Makayla Gent, Pahrump Valley; Donovan Davis, Mojave; Cheryl Edenfield, Sunrise Mountain; Preston Humes, Moapa Valley; Nakala Nadeau, Del Sol; Paige Sinicki, Coronado; and Ethan Woods, Virgin Valley.

“The tone of the Silver State is embodied successful precocious schoolhouse athletics and activities,” said Bart Thompson, retiring NIAA enforcement director. “The apical 10 winners we honored this twelvemonth maintained an exceptionally precocious level of excellence successful each aspects of our lives. … They volition proceed to marque a affirmative quality successful our communities.”

The apical 10 recipients from Northern Nevada were:

Karen Beglin, Jeremy Heaton and Carlos Torres, Carson; Karli Burns, Fernley; Dylan Cleary, Incline; Kili Lehmkuhl, North Tahoe; Kendra Lusk, Spring Creek; Carson Miller, Reed; Evelyne Reyes, Sparks; and Avery Strasdin, Churchill County.

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