DON McDERMOTT / PVT Dominique Maloy of Pahrump Valley won four events at the 2007 Nevada Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships in May, raising her career total to 15 in four seasons. DON McDERMOTT / PVT Casey Burtenshaw (top left), Carrie Musick, Stephanie Manley and T.T. Hughes, along with McKenzie Dean, below, helped Pahrump Valley win the Nevada Class 3-A state track title last spring. Advertisement

In 2001, only a relay team represented the Pahrump Valley High School girls' team at the Nevada Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships. In 2002, no girl made it to the state meet.

Now look at what the Lady Trojans accomplished, just five years after that shutout.

In May the PV girls claimed their first state team championship. They did it by overpowering perennial Northern League power Spring Creek and Boulder City, the Southern regional champion which had not lost to Pahrump Valley all season.

Pahrump Valley finished with 139 points, while Spring Creek had 99 1/2 and Boulder City 97 1/2. Winnemucca Lowry had 60, Yerington 59 1/2, Incline 51, North Tahoe 30, Sparks 29, Truckee, Calif., 28, Dayton 27 1/2, Fernley 27, Las Vegas Faith Lutheran 25, Overton Moapa Valley 17, and Mesquite Virgin Valley 9.

The Pahrump Valley boys scored 72 points and finished third, behind Dayton and Spring Creek. Kyle Mills won the triple jump, with a school-record leap of 46 feet, 3 1/4 inches.

The common thread throughout the spring was senior leadership; the 2007 Lady Trojans were no exception, with Dominique Maloy, Casey Burtenshaw and Carrie Musick leading the charge.

McKenzie Dean, a rising junior, won the state 3200-meter run in 11:47.19, almost 20 seconds ahead of the runnerup. In November Dean won her second straight Class 3-A cross country title.

Dominque Maloy won four individual titles for Pahrump Valley, giving her an incredible 12-0 record at state meets in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter dashes, and a 3-0 mark in the long jump.

Those 15 titles are a state record, with Maloy's only setback at state coming in the 4x200-meter relay in her freshman season at Sparks Reed High School.

Maloy won the 100 in a state-meet record 0:12.23, the 200 in another state best 0:24.93, and the 400 in 0:55.63, .44 of a second off her own Nevada best. In the long jump, Maloy soared 18 feet, 2 inches, beating every other state competitor, regardless of class.

Casey Burtenshaw, who moved to Pahrump after her freshman season at Las Vegas Bonanza High School, and Carrie Musick were key members of the 4x200 and 4x100-meter relay teams that won state championships. Freshmen T.T. Hughes and Stephanie Manley, along with sophomore Stephanie Jackson, completed those quartets that won in 1:51.89 and 0:51.69, respectively.

Alexis Abou-Halaka, a sophomore weights specialist, was third in the shot put at 35- 3/4; In the discus, Pahrump's Ashley Rencher was third at 105-1.

"I knew our girls had to be at their best for us to win the title," said Odegard, "and they were."

The PVHS baseball team lost 6-1 to Southern League rival Las Vegas Faith Lutheran in the state baseball championship game, after coach Doug Marion's team had finished second in the regionals.