Arbor View High School baseball player Nick Quintana accepts the award for male athlete of the year during the inaugural Las Vegas Sun Standout Awards at the South Point Thursday, May 19, 2016.
Monday, May 23, 2016 | 2:01 a.m.
An underdog football team reaches the state semifinals for the first time in 26 years by converting consecutive do-or-die plays in the final minute of a playoff game. A baseball player helps the United States win a gold medal in a prestigious international event. A young wrestler never loses in more than 50 matches.
High school sports in Southern Nevada annually produce a surplus of feats and moments that merit special recognition, and this year was definitely no exception.
That’s the genesis of the Sun Standout Awards, a celebration of local athletes, coaches, administrators and volunteers. The inaugural event took place Thursday at the South Point Showroom with the presentation of 13 awards.
Nominations for all categories were accepted online for three months before a selection committee (made up of school athletic directors and staff members from The Sunday) met to pare down the list to finalists and select winners.
Here are this year’s Sun Standout Award winners and their stories.
• Sun Standout Award: Bishop Gorman High School football team
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Gerald Pentsil
• Game of the Year: Chaparral High School football vs. Faith Lutheran
• Male Athlete of the Year: Nick Quintana
• Female Athlete of the Year: Jeanne Carmell
• Male Student-athlete of the Year: Christian Ong
• Female Student-athlete of the Year: Guadalupe Gomez-Navarro
• Coach of the Year: Chad Beeten
• Team of the Year: Centennial High girls basketball team
• Moment of the Year: Ron Chan
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