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2024 Nevada 4A HS State: Vannah Powers Doral Red Rock Girls, Tellier Aids Sierra Vista Boys

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May 17, 2024

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2024 Nevada 4A HS State: Vannah Powers Doral Red Rock Girls, Tellier Aids Sierra Vista Boys

2024 NIAA 4A State Swimming and Diving Championships

May 16th, 2024 (Swimming)
Pavilion Center Pool (Swimming)
Las Vegas, NV (PDT)
Timed Finals
SCY (25y)
Meet Central
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The 2024 NIAA Nevada High School State Swimming and Diving Championships have kicked off, with swimming action happening at the Pavilion Center Pool in Las Vegas, NV. The series is split up into three classes: 3A (and under), 4A, and 5A, which did not begin until 2022 following two cancelled state meets in 2020 and 2021 from the COVID-19 pandemic. To qualify for each class’ respective state meet, the top four finishers from each individual/relay event move on from each class’ two regional championships.

The 4A finals session concluded on Thursday, with all three classes (3A/4A/5A) contesting their 1-meter diving competition at UNLV on Friday. Saturday morning will showcase class 3A’s finals while the evening will sound off the 5A finals.

At Thursday’s 4A state finals, the Doral Red Rock dominated for the girls team title over runner-up Southeast Career Tech. Meanwhile, the Sierra Vista boys also commanded a lead for their title over Basic High School.

4A Girls Team Scores

Doral Red Rock, 102
Southeast Career Tech, 63
Durango, 49
Foothill, 47
Cimarron-Memorial, 46

4A Boys Team Scores

Sierra Vista, 105
Basic, 87
Doral Red Rock, 71
Legacy, 61
Green Valley, 45

Girls Finals Highlights

Powering the Doral Red Rock girls to the 2024 team title was their 3-for-3 relay sweep. Emery Vannah crushed a 30.54 on the breaststroke leg to propel their first relay win, the 200 medley relay (1:58.10). Following Foothill’s Italia Ingle flying to 26.06 on the butterfly leg, Durango’s Lauren Taylor made a freestyle comeback for her relay to place second over Foothill, 2:07.32 to 2:08.49.

After winning the 100 free at 2023 state, Vannah was back to overwhelmingly win the 200 free at 1:54.03, way ahead of runner-up Maryliam Reyes of Mojave (2:07.98) and Doral Red Rock teammate Evey Lum (2:15.16).

Lum and Vannah were back for Doral Red Rock in the 200 free relay, with Vannah anchoring in 23.26 to aid their relay winning time of 1:48.82. Also anchoring sub-24 was Arianna DeLuna, putting down a 23.67 to contribute to Durango’s runner-up time of 1:49.42. Lum was also member of the winning 400 free relay for Doral Red Rock (4:15.20), featuring EJ Wegner‘s 55.01 anchor. It was Spring Valley who took second place at 4:21.84, just ahead of Southeast Career Tech (4:23.38).

Shortly after the 200 free relay, Vannah took on a second 4A title in the 100 back, touching in at 57.78. After swimming neck-and-neck the whole race, Cheyenne’s Roxanne Guimary touched out Durango’s DeLuna by 0.03s for second place, 1:04.02 to 1:04.05.

Foothill’s Ingle was another double 4A state champion. She first won the 200 IM, following her blazing fly leg on the medley relay, at 2:11.17, ahead of Doral Red Rock’s Wegner (2:14.44) and Cheyenne’s Guielsie Borbon (2:17.78). Ingle then dominated the 100 fly at 57.85, with Durango’s DeLuna taking second at 1:00.81. Cheyenne’s Borbon later won the 500 free at 5:15.10, with Mojave’s Reyes grabbing another runner-up finish at 5:37.73.

Green Valley’s Isabella Aiello was the double freestyle sprint 4A state champion, joining Ingle and Vannah in winning two titles each. Aiello first won the 50 free at 24.88, with Cimarron-Memorial’s Delaney Johns taking second at 25.65. Aiello then won the 100 free at 53.54, with Doral Red Rock’s Wegner taking another second-place finish at 54.75. In the 100 breast, Cimarron Memorial’s Johns clinched her own 4A state title at 1:06.01.

All Girls 2024 NIAA 4A Swimming Champions

Girls 200 Medley Relay: Doral Red Rock, 1:58.10
Girls 200 Free: Emery Vannah (Doral Red Rock), 1:54.03
Girls 200 IM: Italia Ingle (Foothill), 2:11.17
Girls 50 Free: Isabella Aiello (Green Valley), 24.88
Girls 100 Fly: Italia Ingle (Foothill), 57.85
Girls 100 Free: Isabella Aiello (Green Valley), 53.54
Girls 500 Free: Guielsie Borbon (Cheyenne), 5:15.10
Girls 200 Free Relay: Doral Red Rock, 1:48.82
Girls 100 Back: Emery Vannah (Doral Red Rock), 57.78
Girls 100 Breast: Delaney Johns (Cimarron-Memorial), 1:06.01
Girls 400 Free Relay: Doral Red Rock, 4:15.20

Boys Finals Highlights

Sierra Vista’s team win was aided by Hayden Tellier‘s accomplishment of not only two 4A titles, but defending both of those state titles from last year. Tellier first won the 200 IM at 1:57.89, but not without a big 25.48 freestyle closer from Bonanza’s Jaydon Castro, settling for a tough second place at 1:57.91. Tellier then also had a close race in the 100 fly, touching out Legacy’s Bam Silvestre by 0.02s, 51.31 to 51.33. Castro took third in 53.29 while Doral Red Rock’s Maksim Nazarov took fourth at 53.49.

Nazarov later won the 100 back at 52.32, ahead of aonother Sierra Vista swimmer, Victor Mirchev (55.32). Earlier in the meet, Mirchev defended his 100 free 4A state title, winning at 49.09. Legacy’s Andrei Fajardo took second place at 50.91.

Tellier and Mirchev then hopped into the winning 200 free relay for Sierra Vista at 1:33.63, with both swimmers nailing 22.7’s on their legs.

Basic’s Andrew Cooper was also a double 4A champion, defending both of his 2023 state titles. In the 200 free, Cooper dropped 1:42.37 to win. Taking second place was Legacy’s Silvestre (1:50.69), touching out Silverado’s Daniel Barlow (1:51.09). Then in the 500 free, Cooper easily won at 4:36.44, much faster than his 2023 winning time of 4:39.02. More than 30 seconds after Cooper touched the wall, Foothill’s Afonso Campanico finished second at 5:12.88 with Sierra Vista’s Brecken Jaeger in third at 5:15.21.

Doral Red Rock’s Kristian Cholakov also defended his 2023 4A state title in the 100 breast this year at 1:00.27, a hair faster than last year’s 1:00.50 top mark. Legacy’s Fajardo touched out Green Valley’s Nathan Jobin for second, 1:04.54 to 1:04.78. Earlier in the 50 free, it was Jobin who touched out Chaparral’s Joshua Masakha for the win, 22.79 to 22.99.

Despite the team finishing third overall, Nazarov, Cholakov, and brothers Isaac Vannah and Parker Vannah gave Doral Red Rock two relay wins. They first won the 200 medley relay at 1:43.83, with Nazarov leading off in 24.38 on backstroke and Cholakov splitting 28.16 in breaststroke. Sierra Vista (1:44.93) and Legacy (1:47.43) finished second and third respectively, both powered by sub-24 fly legs from Sierra Vista’s Tellier (23.90) and Legacy’s Silvestre (23.08).

They then won the 400 free relay at 3:33.04, with Nazarov’s 51.50 lead-off and Cholakov’s 51.66 split giving Doral Red Rock a 17-second winning margin. Placing second was Sierra Vista (3:49.13), featuring 500 free runner-up Jaeger.

All Boys 2024 NIAA 4A Swimming Champions

Boys 200 Medley Relay: Doral Red Rock, 1:43.83
Boys 200 Free: Andrew Cooper (Basic), 1:42.37
Boys 200 IM: Hayden Tellier (Sierra Vista), 1:57.89
Boys 50 Free: Nathan Jobin (Green Valley), 22.79
Boys 100 Fly: Hayden Tellier (Sierra Vista), 51.31
Boys 100 Free: Victor Mirchev (Sierra Vista), 49.09
Boys 500 Free: Andrew Cooper (Basic), 4:36.44
Boys 200 Free Relay: Sierra Vista, 1:33.63
Boys 100 Back: Maksim Nazarov (Doral Red Rock), 52.32
Boys 100 Breast: Kristian Cholakov (Doral Red Rock), 1:00.27
Boys 400 Free Relay: Doral Red Rock, 3:33.04

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Rockies snowpack season for Colorado River basin off to rocky start

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January 10, 2025

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Rockies snowpack season for Colorado River basin off to rocky start

It’s too early to make sweeping assessments of this year’s snowpack, but some signs point to a remarkably average year in the Rocky Mountains, where snow turns to water and flows down the Colorado River into ever-shrinking reservoirs.

Las Vegas residents make up a portion of the 40 million people who rely on yearly flows from the river to drink, bathe, water crops or lawns, and more. Southern Nevada sources about 90 percent of its water from Lake Mead — part of a fickle river system that’s becoming drier every year and would need several consecutive, above-average years of snow to recover.

“Even if we have a great snowpack year, the trends are that water supply is declining,” said Abby Burk, senior manager of The Audubon Society’s Western Rivers Program, who is based in Colorado. “We are burning through an increasingly shortened timeline by playing a zero-sum game.”

As of Thursday, the entirety of the Upper Colorado River Basin sat at 95 percent of a historical median, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

That’s not necessarily the start to the banner year that Las Vegas’ water managers were hoping for, though high snow numbers don’t always translate to elevated runoff levels, said Bronson Mack, a spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

Hydrologists said last year was average, but 2022 and 2023 were widely regarded as stabilizing years for the Colorado River system, bringing Lake Mead up from its all-time low level reached in July 2022.

“The twenty-first century has taught us to not count our water — or snow — before it is in the reservoirs,” Mack said in a statement. “Good snowpack years have been foiled by poor runoff and bad snowpack years have been saved by late-spring storms.”

Rural, Northern Nevada in good shape so far

Snowpack numbers are most promising in the rest of Nevada, where cities like Reno depend on recharge to the Truckee River.

With the exception of the Spring Mountains in Southern Nevada, all of the state’s basins that fuel rivers other than the Colorado were above 100 percent of the median as of Thursday.

Hints of snow in the Spring Mountains, which melts into runoff for Southern Nevada’s underground aquifers, are just beginning to show, with only 2 percent of the median.

“As you move north, things improve fairly quickly,” said Baker Perry, Nevada’s state climatologist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. “Northern Nevada is in pretty good shape from a snowpack standpoint: The numbers are generally well above the median.”

In much of rural Nevada, residents are dependent on groundwater wells rather than municipal water systems. Consistently poor snowpack and dry soil conditions could some day force well users to drill deeper to reach aquifers that become lower with less available water.

Climate change spells bad news

A plethora of factors may prevent snowmelt from arriving in the Colorado River’s reservoirs.

One of those is soil dryness, said Burk, of The Audubon Society.

“Soil takes the first drink before water arrives in a stream,” she said.

Almost 47 percent of the Colorado River basin was experiencing drought conditions as of Thursday, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System.

That dryness is felt in Las Vegas, as well, with five months in a row of no measurable precipitation — the second-longest such streak on record, as reported by the state climatologist office’s January drought update released on Thursday.

John Berggren, regional policy manager for nonprofit Western Resource Advocates, said other factors to keep in mind are how much precipitation falls as rain rather than snow and exactly when snowpack begins to turn into runoff.

Unfettered warming caused by climate change is causing snow to melt earlier, he said. That can cause vegetation to soak up water through evapotranspiration, the loss of water to evaporation from soil surfaces and transpiration from the leaves of plants.

“Because of climate change, snowpack numbers aren’t translating into the same stream flow numbers that we might have seen 10, 15, 20 or 30 years ago,” Berggren said.

Some years will see snowpack levels shrink early in the season, while other years start off slowly and bring snowstorms later on, he said.

“Fingers crossed for the latter, but we have to be prepared for the former,” Berggren said.

Contact Alan Halaly at ahalaly@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AlanHalaly on X.

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Nevada fuel line will return to normal service

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January 10, 2025

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Nevada fuel line will return to normal service

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Clark County asks consumers to ”not panic buy at the pump.”

After messages from Clark County saying the fires in California were potentially affecting the fuel lines servicing Southern Nevada, the County is advising the public to not run out and buy gas for their cars.

The gas line from California to Nevada will re-start and be operational by Friday.

Message from Clark County:

“In working with California, a solution has been put in place which will power the Kinder Morgan fuel line into southern Nevada and fuel should start to flow into the valley in the next 12-24 hours. Clark County Office of Emergency Management remains engaged on this issue with regional and state partners. The public is encouraged to not panic buy at the pump.”

FOX5 will have a full report on the gas line running from California to Nevada at 10 and 11 p.m.

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Missing Southfield girl might be in Nevada with man who just found out he’s her father, police say

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January 9, 2025

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Missing Southfield girl might be in Nevada with man who just found out he’s her father, police say

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – A 4-year-old Southfield girl who has been missing for two months might be in Nevada with a man who just found out he’s her father, police said.

Bali Packer was picked up by her biological father, Juwon Madison, on Nov. 10, 2024, and has not been returned to her mother, Timeah Wright-Smith.

Packer was last seen wearing a blue PJ mask shirt, pink hat, pink leggings, and pink boots.

Madison is not listed on Packer’s birth certificate, and no court order in place states he has any parenting time.

He recently discovered that he may have been the father of Packer prior to picking her up with her mother’s permission, who is the sole guardian of the 4-year-old girl.

Madison is believed to have left Michigan and went down to Nevada.

Wright-Smith does not believe Packer is in any danger.