DON McDERMOTT / PVT Dominique Maloy, top, won her 15th and final Nevada Class 3-A state championship in the 200-meter dash Saturday at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, as Pahrump Valley's girls won the championship. DON McDERMOTT / PVT McKenzie Dean won the 3200-meter run for the second straight year. DON McDERMOTT / PVT Casy Burtenshaw, Carrie Musick, Stephanie Manley and Tee Tee Hughes gave the PV girls a win in the 4x200-meter relay. Advertisement

LAS VEGAS -- Six years ago, 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.

Last Friday and Saturday at Del Sol High School in east Las Vegas, 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.

In the last five school years, Pahrump Valley girls teams have won nine state championships: three in fast-pitch softball (2003, 2004, 2005); three in golf (2002, 2005, 2006), and two in basketball (2004 and 2005).

"This spring, we were second in our invitational, second at Boulder City, second at Faith Lutheran, and second to Boulder City in the regionals by seven points," said Odegard, "but the state meet is different. Runners who were second or third at the regionals were fifth or sixth at state. I believed if our girls could match their seedings or better them, we could win the championship."

The common thread in all of those accomplishments was senior leadership; the 2007 Lady Trojans were no exception, with Dominique Maloy, Casey Burtenshaw and Carrie Musick leading the charge.

Maloy won four individual titles, 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 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.

Burtenshaw, who moved to Pahrump after her freshman season at Las Vegas Bonanza High School, and 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.

McKenzie Dean, a sophomore distance running standout, repeated as state 3200 champion, blitzing the field in 11:47.79, almost 18 seconds ahead of the runnerup (Kara Schrock, Fernley, 12:05.24). Dean was second in the 1600 in 5:26.52 and second in the 800 in 2:22.59; both of those races were won by Boulder City superstar Katie Palmer in 5:07.02 and a state record 2:12.07, respectively.

Dean also ran the 400, finishing fifth in 1:02.01; it was just the second time she had run that event in competition.

Hughes was third in the 100 hurdles in a school-record 0:16.23 and fourth in the 300 hurdles in 0:49.48. Palmer won both events in 0:15.29 and 0:45.05.

Manley, who did the triple jump for the first time at the 3-A regionals a week earlier at Faith Lutheran, was fourth in the state meet at 33 feet, another school record. Nevada-Reno signee Alicia Echevarria of Lowry won at 35-3 3/4.

Alexis Abou-Halaka, a sophomore weights specialist, was third in the shot put at 35- 3/4; Rebecca Monzello of Dayton won at 36-11 3/4. PV teammate Ashley Rencher, another sophomore, was fifth at 34-4 1/4.

In the discus, Rencher was third at 105-10; Kayla Lommori of Yerington was first at 124-05. Lommori, a 6-foot-1 sophomore, was on the Yerington basketball team that lost 51-40 to the Lady Trojans in the state 3-A semifinals at Green Valley High School in February.

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

NOTES -- Jill Harris, Marcus Cornelius, Andy Schneider, Craig Rieger and Nick Moore were the assistant coaches this season, a season in which more than 100 boys and girls sought starting jobs with the track team ... Arizona State-bound Maloy received special recognition Saturday, after winning her 15th state championship (the 200-meter dash in a state-record 0:24.93) with a crowd of more than 1,500 giving her a warm reception and loud applause ... Several Pahrump Valley graduates were in the crowd, watching the meet and cheering on the Trojans, both boys and girls. ... All of the state-meet results are on the Nevada track stats Web site ... The meet was well-organized and finished just four minutes off schedule, despite sometimes raging heat and annoying cross winds that affected several track events.