Here is a recap of every team that won a state title during the 2017-18 winter sports season.
Basketball
Jayden Perkins was a three-sport star for Virgin Valley this year.
Liberty senior Rae Burrell was a star basketball player and track athlete last season.
The Washington Wizards selected Las Vegan Troy Brown Jr. with the 15th pick in the first round of the NBA draft on Thursday. Brown, a 6-foot-7-inch guard/forward, played one year at Oregon after starring at Centennial High School.
Chaparral basketball player Nick Doland is the 2017-18 Richard Nelson Courage Award winner
Centennial continued its run as the state’s most dominant girls basketball program by rallying for a 74-65 overtime win over Liberty in the Class 4A state championship game.
A look at the Review-Journal’s Athletes of the Year from the winter season.
Virgin Valley three-sport athlete Jayden Perkins won the Male Athlete of the Year
Cottrell, a 6-foot-10-inch prototypical modern big man, is set to attend three prestigious, invite-only national camps this month, and will compete in front of NBA scouts and personnel against some of the nation’s best players.
Centennial freshman point guard Taylor Bigby is blossoming into one of the top freshmen on the West Coast and already has secured scholarship offers from Colorado and Utah of the Pac-12.
The 6-foot-1-inch, 185-pound senior shortstop was batting .515 with four home runs, six doubles, 12 stolen bases and 19 RBIs through last week as the Rams’ leadoff man.
Liberty senior Cameron Burist is playing AAU basketball for Vegas Elite this spring as an unsigned senior and hopes to earn the Division I scholarship offer that has eluded him.
Here is the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2018 all-state girls basketball team.
Findlay Prep, the nation’s No. 3 high school basketball team, will compete in the GEICO High School Basketball Nationals in New York City next week.
Kamari Burnside scored five points in the final 1:30, and his alley-oop to Desert Oasis teammate Jacob Heese with 11 seconds to play sealed the Sunset Region’s 115-110 win over the Sunrise.