Karen Weitz gathered the Centennial High School girls basketball team together for a meeting to get her players’ feedback on a potential career move. Weitz, the best girls coach in Nevada history with 13 total state championships, had the opportunity ...
Coach Karen Weitz remembers traveling to Reno each February for the state high school basketball tournament and watching from the stands as the Reno schools beat whoever they faced from Las Vegas.
Desi-Rae Young has been out of the basketball game for a few minutes. Her Desert Oasis squad, one of the better teams in the state, is comfortably ahead for another victory. But Young isn’t relaxing on the bench ...
Melanie Isbell is frequently the smallest player on the court. The Centennial High senior is also frequently the best player on the court. Yes, the point guard is undersized at 5-foot-4, and with that comes ...
Justice Ethridge made an NIAA championship game record six 3-pointers in last season's state championship game. She is one of three Centennial players who ...
Eight members of the Centennial girls basketball team’s current senior class were already on their way to forming one of the storied program’s best-ever cores through their first two years of high school. ...
It’s the type of high school matchup television networks and online media salivate over. It’s just this game, a girls basketball contest, didn’t receive nearly as much ...
The girls’ basketball coach at Centennial High School Las Vegas has dual reputations. There’s Scary Karen, the intense, no-nonsense taskmaster. But there’s also the caring mentor whose students appreciate the way their coach prepares them for life after high school. The common …
For the first three quarters of the most anticipated regular season high school basketball game of the year, Bishop Gorman fans watched in the Centennial High gym anxiously waiting.
Before Coronado girl’s basketball coach Bill Crego makes any moves or changes this season, there’s one key person he’s always planning to consult. It’s not an assistant or a mentor. It’s his best player, senior guard Sofie Cruz. “Being a basketball coach for 20 years now, it’s safe to say I haven’t had many kids like that,” Crego said. “I trust her like I haven’t trusted too many other kids.”