DON McDERMOTT / PVT Dominique Maloy is one of four Pahrump Valley High School track and field athletes headed to the Great Southwest Classic, to be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Albuquerque, N.M. McKenzie Dean, Kyle Mills and Reynaldo Veloz will also be part of the Nevada team. Advertisement

Dominique Maloy, Kyle Mills, McKenzie Dean, and Reynaldo Veloz will travel to Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, to compete Saturday in the 32nd annual Great Southwest Track and Field Classic in the 6,000-seat University of New Mexico track stadium.

Maloy, a senior headed for Arizona State University, won the Nevada Class 3-A 100-, 200, and 400-meter dashes, as well as the long jump, for the third consecutive year and had 15 individual titles in four years.

Mills won the triple jump with a school-record leap of 46 feet, 3 1/4 inches in his junior campaign.

Dean, a sophomore, repeated as state 3-A 3200-meter champion.

Veloz, a senior, was among the top competitors in the discus all spring.

Maloy, at the state meet contested almost two weeks ago in Las Vegas, talked with Carson standout Kayla Sanchez about forming a 4x400-meter relay team with Gloria Turner of Las Vegas and Katie Palmer of Boulder City.

Palmer won both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles, as well as the 800 and 1600 in the state 3-A championships. Sanchez won four events in the Class 4-A meet and Turner has a perennial contender for state titles in 4-A.

Individual track and field events are Saturday. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the decathlon and heptathon championships will be contested. The decathlon for men includes the 100, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400, 110 hurdles, javelin, discus, pole vault and 1500-meter run). The heptathon for women includes the 100 hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200, long jump, javelin and 800.

Among the decathlon entries are Robert Drye, Las Vegas Shadow Ridge; Cody Heinreich, Del Sol; Brent Springall, Shadow Ridge, and Zack Vandenl-Hovel, Reno McQueen.

Southern boys entered in the other events include Jordan Rincon, Spring Valley and Joe Bartlett, Reno Bishop Manogue.

Heptathlon competitors will include Alexa Anderson, Sparks Spanish Springs, and Lisa Bernau, Centennial.

Events also include the 2000-meter steeplechase for girls and 2000 'chase' for boys. Palmer, headed for BYU on a track scholarship, reportedly will compete in the steeplechase.

Efforts are being made to get Kylee Gleason, Smith Valley's outstanding pole vaulter and sprinter, to enter.

On the roster are Unique Connor, Western; Rebecca Monzello, Dayton, and Tawny Nua, Liberty.

Entries will come from Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah, as well as New Mexico and Nevada.

Awards are presented to the top six finishers in each individual event and the top six relay teams.