For the eleventh straight year, West Valley Preps honors the best football players from schools in the Northwest Valley.We picked three running backs for each team. With most teams running a variant of the spread offense, the first team has three receivers and the second team includes a tight end.
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1/25/21
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A shorter, COVID-delayed season is under way for Northwest Valley high schools. Here are previews, with boys coaches’ comments, for teams that responded to our …
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1/22/21
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A shorter, COVID-delayed girls soccer season is under way for Northwest Valley high schools. Here are previews, with coaches’ comments, for teams that responded to our questions.
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1/19/21
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By a 5-4 vote Jan. 12 Arizona interscholastic Association board vote, winter sports — boys and girls basketball, soccer and wrestling — will start as (re)scheduled on Jan. 18.
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 1/12/21 |
Much like the decision of the Arizona Interscholastic Association Executive Board to cancel the winter sports season Jan. 8 by one vote, the 5-4 decision at Tuesday's board meeting to reinstate the winter sports season.
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 1/12/21 |
The Arizona Interscholastic Association executive board voted to cancel the winter sports season, due to the surge in COVID-19 cases since the holidays and the recommendations of the AIA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee.
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1/8/21
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West Valley Preps has selected the top volleyball players in the Northwest Valley for the 2020 season.
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1/1/21
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To support efforts to mitigate COVID-19 hospitalizations and improve the opportunity for a winter sports season to occur, the Arizona Interscholastic Association executive board decided to adjust the season start date to Jan. 18.
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12/18/20
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Shadow Ridge junior receiver Isaac Yates helped his team repeat in the football player of the week poll and won a two-player race for the Week 8 vote.
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12/9/20
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More than even winning a second state title, the Millennium girls volleyball seniors wanted to pass the program’s success and upbeat atmosphere to the four freshmen and two sophomores new to …
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 12/8/20 |
Going into their Nov. 20 game, both Millennium and Kellis had football teams with winless records, and no reason to play other than pride and a love of football.
Millennium and Kellis were quickly …
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By Maddux Burks, For West Valley Preps
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11/25/20
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If Jordan Miller could rub her eyes (and it's 2020 so she really shouldn't)Nov. 21 she might have thought she was still playing on the 2018 Millennium team.
The 2020 Tigers won the program's second state title Saturday, beating #7 Cave Creek Cactus Shadows (15-5) 25-22, 25-17, 25-20
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 11/22/20 |
The Millennium High School volleyball team has lost only one game since the start of the 5A tournament and after an impressive performance at the net in a semi-final win Nov. 19, the team is …
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![]() Twitter: @SCW_Independent | 11/20/20 |
Two West Valley girls volleyball programs with completely different perspectives met for the first time in recent memory in a 5A playoff quarterfinal Tuesday night.
Ironwood came in …
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 11/19/20 |
It may be hard for the three freshmen and two sophomore newcomers on the Millennium varsity volleyball roster to believe, but senior captain Jordan Miller was in their shoes two years ago.
Miller …
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 11/17/20 |
The statewide wave of COVID-related high school football game cancellations and changes hit the West Valley in earnest this week.
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 10/21/20 |
The following West Valley area high school seniors have signed a letter of intent or made a verbal commitment to the following college programs.
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10/15/20
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Games played Oct. 2 unless otherwise noted.
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10/2/20
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There was every reason for Millennium volleyball to run out of gas in the third set of its Sept. 24 match against visiting Sunrise Mountain.
It was the Tigers 12th set of play in three …
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![]() Twitter: @rsmithYWV | 9/30/20 |