Four Spring Valley seniors made up for a lost season by signing to play in college. Other elite players from the valley will do the same Wednesday.
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When competition begins Friday, it will end a 401-day drought since the Clark County School District suspended all sporting events at the start of the COVID pandemic.
The Clark County School District will allow home fans to attend spring sporting events, with attendance capped at 250 or 50 percent of the venue’s capacity.
The Raiders and UNLV hosted a virtual coaching clinic to help high school coaches throughout Nevada.
The six-week season will begin March 5 after having been delayed by the COVID pandemic. The 17 Southern Nevada schools that will compete have four to six games scheduled.
The Clark County School District announced Wednesday that spring sports will be played, but the fall sports season remains canceled for interscholastic competition.
CCSD athletes and their parents are keeping the pressure on superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara to let them play in advance of Thursday’s school board meeting.
The NIAA has put the onus on its school districts to determine if they will allow sports to be played. Of the state’s 17 districts, only the CCSD has opted out.
The decision on whether to play all sports in the fall season is in the hands of school districts. The CCSD is the only one of 17 districts that has opted out of the fall season.
Rallies were held at several Clark County School District schools as students and parents voiced support for bringing back high school sports.
It’s been nearly 11 months since Nevada shut down high school sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All neighboring Western states have done so as well, to varying degrees.
A group of about 75 athletes and parents from Clark County School District high schools gathered Thursday to protest the cancellation of winter and fall sports.
Three Las Vegas high school athletic programs are receiving grants from the Shaquille O’Neal Foundation and Icy Hot.
The Clark County School District informed its schools that it will not participate in fall sports, which includes football, for the 2020-21 school year.
The Clark County School District announced the winter sports season, which includes basketball, bowling, flag football and wrestling, has been canceled.