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Vegas Jr. Golden Knights 14U Team becomes first girls team to represent Nevada

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March 13, 2024

Vegas Jr. Golden Knights 14U Team becomes first girls team to represent Nevada

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The Golden Knights have made it a habit over their first seven years of re-writing history, and the trickle-down effect has produced youth hockey teams creating their own history for the state.

After a perfect 16-0 regular season in the Pacific Girls Hockey League, the Vegas Jr. Golden Knights girls 14U AA team punched their ticket to the USA National Tournament, becoming the first female hockey program to represent the state of Nevada.

“I’m so proud of them.” said Head Coach, Gordie Mark. “I believe it only sets them up for success going down the road too; playing under pressure, being the first to do something, representing their state, their city, their families, and themselves. It’s only going to set them up for success in the future.”

Gordie Mark played in the NHL for parts of four seasons with the New Jersey Devils and Edmonton Oilers. He even played right here in Las Vegas for the Thunder during the 1995-96 season.

“Says a lot about the guys doing the private lessons with these girls, the coaches they’ve had before me,” said Mark. “They’ve bought into what I’m teaching them; Effort beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard. I quite often believe we’re the hardest working team on the ice, that leads to some success.”

The girls have been all over the country, from Nashville to San Jose, Denver to St. Louis, playing in big tournaments to prepare them for nationals in South Dakota.

“From only winning a few tournaments a few years ago, now going to Nationals. A great accomplishment in my life and I find it crazy that it’s grown this much in just three years and I’m just really excited.” said Vegas Jr. Golden Knights left winger, Kalie Kizanis.

“I feel like it’s going to be really big competition, but I feel we’ll do good,” said Presley Diehl-Griego. “We’re playing really good.”

“We want to go, we want to compete, play our hardest, play our hearts out, we want to win and go out and play our best game of hockey,” said Kizanis.

Win or lose this group of young ladies have now set the standard for the next generation of hockey players here in the valley.

“I find it crazy that we have little girls that look up to me and want to be just like me,” said Kizanis. “I was that little girl and I find it crazy that other little girls are looking up to me.”

“All these little girls come into hockey, and they can see us, the Vegas Golden Knights girls first to be in Nationals, so I think that’s really cool,” said Diehl-Griego.

“They’re a great group of kids,” said Mark. “Mature beyond their years, great families. and they’re going to represent the state to the best of their ability. I firmly believe that.”

The team has put together a pair of fundraising efforts to with their travel to the USA hockey Nationals.

Also, on Thursday, March 14th, the team will host a public skate at City National Arena from 6:20 p.m – 7:20 p.m. A $15 donation gives you the opportunity to lace up the skates and hit the ice with the team.

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Best Nevada high schools for athletes? One study has revealed a top 25

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May 15, 2026

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Best Nevada high schools for athletes? One study has revealed a top 25

Nevada has a rich history of producing athletic legends.

Total number of sports: 24

1. Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas)

Total number of sports: 14

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Nevada designates more than 119,000 voters inactive

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May 14, 2026

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Nevada designates more than 119,000 voters inactive

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) – The State of Nevada says it has designated more than 119,000 voters as inactive ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar says that in the spring of this year, counties updated 14,164 voter records, designated 119,533 voters as inactive and canceled the voter registrations of 7,583 people.

This is in addition to 2025 voter roll maintenance efforts that registered more than 138,000 voters inactive and canceled nearly 177,000 voter registrations.

“State and local election officials are working hard to prepare voters for the upcoming June Primary, and keeping Nevada’s voter rolls up to date is a critical part of that process. County election officials have dedicated significant resources to make sure Nevada’s voter registration records are accurate, so that all eligible Nevadans – and only eligible Nevadans – can cast a ballot,” said Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar. “Mail ballots are being sent to active, registered voters across the state now. Voters can support their local officials’ work by checking and updating their registration information on VOTE.NV.gov.”

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Arbor View beats rival Centennial for 5A boys volleyball state title

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May 14, 2026

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Arbor View beats rival Centennial for 5A boys volleyball state title

The Arbor View boys volleyball team has embodied the mindset that it would take the efforts of all 16 players to win the school its first boys volleyball title.

It proved to be the case on Wednesday night against rival Centennial in the Class 5A state championship match, and the Aggies’ efforts all season showed up in the biggest game of the season.

No. 3-seeded Arbor View claimed its first boys volleyball title with a 25-20, 25-27, 25-19, 25-19 victory over top-seeded Centennial at Sunrise Mountain.

“It feels amazing. The boys have worked hard, I don’t even know if I could put it into words,” Arbor View coach Nicole Adarme said. “Our big goal was to stay calm and collected the entire time. I just wanted to reflect that for them.”

Arbor View (28-13-1) let its emotions out after the final point on an Owen Wenger kill. The Aggies huddled and jumped for joy, helped carry injured teammate Gunnar Robinson off the bench, and eventually moved the celebration into the stands with a sea of red from the Arbor View student section.

“It feels absolutely great,” junior middle blocker/outside hitter Risden Miller said. “We trust each other so much. We’re best friends in and out of volleyball, and that really helps us on the court with just competing as a team.”

Even though the two team’s previous meeting on April 14 was a three-set win in league play by Centennial (32-6), Adarme said she knew the fourth meeting of the season for the two northwest rivals wasn’t going to be a sweep on either side.

Arbor View won a back-and-forth first set on a kill from Miller. Then it looked like the Aggies were going to win a close second set, but Centennial got a point for Arbor View being out of rotation, and the Bulldogs won four of the last five points to even the match score to one set apiece.

“That’s the traditional thing (when we play) Centennial (to play long matches), so for us, we just treated it like another set,” Adarme said. “We knew they were going to fight, so how do we respond to that? Our constant conversation was responding to the negative and moving forward in a positive direction.”

Arbor View scored six straight points in the third set to take a 20-15 lead, and the Aggies never let up to get to the fourth set with a chance to win the title. The Aggies took advantage of several Centennial errors to take the lead in the third set on their way to the title.

“We took three deep breaths and reset and recollected ourselves as a team,” Miller said of closing out the final two sets. “That’s just completely huge for rebounding from a lost set.

“For me, personally, just looking at all my best friends on the court, that truly calms me down and I know it calms them down as well.”

Miller recorded 18 kills and Wenger was key at the net with eight kills and eight blocks. The Aggies also got contributions from Graham Blanchard, Kenyon Wickliffe and Robinson before he went down with a lower left leg injury in the fourth set.

Lincoln Larson led Centennial with 19 kills. It’s the first boys volleyball state title for Arbor View and first appearance in the title game after the program reached the state semifinals four previous times.

“We can’t (win) with six, we have to do it with all 16,” Adarme said. “We’ve been training all of them to be ready for big moments and it was an amazing moment for Cooper (Ball, coming in for an injured Robinson) to be able to come in for us.

“We just had to know we couldn’t be outside of ourselves. Where we fell short in the past was trying to be more instead of focusing on what our role is and what our job is.”

Contact Alex Wright at awright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AlexWright1028 on X.

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