Red Rock Nevada

It’s been a wild past year for the team, rife with the highest of highs, and to be fair, at least a couple of recent lows.

The Sun Standout Awards returned for their sixth edition on May 22 at the South Point Showroom, recognizing the best and brightest in Southern Nevada high school athletics.

Madeleine Hebert was never athletic as a young child. She got involved in sports through dancing, and it was fun to start.

The Silverado boys basketball team built a 17-point advantage in its opening-round playoff game, only to watch Valley storm back in the final minutes to take a 70-69 lead with four seconds to play.

After he piloted Liberty to a historic state championship last year, expectations were set sky high for Dedan Thomas Jr.’s junior season this year. He delivered.

As a freshman a year ago, Brynn Kort lost out on the individual state title by a single stroke to perhaps the best female prep golfer in state history, then-teammate Yana Wilson.

There’s dominance, and then there’s what SLAM Nevada did on the wrestling mat this year.

Her 16-year pro career has seen her earn seven All-Star berths, two MVP awards and a pair of WNBA championship rings.

Christian Thatcher, a 6-foot-2, 192-pound sophomore linebacker, picked up scholarship offers from Oklahoma, Colorado and West Virginia all on the same day earlier this May.

Bruce Woodbury plans to attend BYU in the fall, and Justine Dunaway will go to Williams College in Massachusetts.