Pahrump Valley girls soccer teams up with alumni for summer scrimmage
PVHS girls soccer used a summer alumni match to test a young roster, with former Trojans and current players spotting early gaps before fall.
A mix of current Pahrump Valley High School girls soccer players and former Trojans turned a summer alumni scrimmage into an early read on the program’s depth, communication and pace. The July 9 match marked the third straight year the school has brought graduates back onto the field, and it showed how the program is using summer work as a measurable checkpoint before the fall season begins.
What started as a fundraiser was changed into a practice match because of participation numbers, but the coaches still got the kind of live competition they wanted. Former Trojans Avery Moore, Khylar Park, Ryleigh Denton, Kailani Martinez, Diona Nixon, Sarah Brown, Julie Briggs, Natalia Vallin, Aubrey Williams, Jessica Garcia, Kiara Ramos, Paris Coleman, Emily Lewis, Maddie Sandoval and Haylee Barajas-Solis returned for the scrimmage, representing several graduating classes and giving younger players a chance to line up against athletes who once wore the same uniform.
The alumni group was coached by former PVHS coach Danny Coleman, while current players Jessie Roman, Rene Gonzalez and Leo volunteered as referees. That made the evening more than an informal summer run. It gave the current roster a real game setting, with familiar names on the other side and an immediate test of defensive spacing, decision-making under pressure and how quickly the younger Trojans adjusted when the opposition already understood the school’s style.
For Amy Carlson’s program, the alumni match fit into a larger pattern of continuity. PVHS won the Nevada 3A girls soccer state championship in 2021, and Carlson later picked up the 3A Southern Coach of the Year and United Coaches Women’s Small School Coach of the Year honors in 2023. The Trojans then lost 3-1 to Virgin Valley in the Class 3A Southern Region playoffs on Oct. 28, 2024, before finishing the 2025 season 8-5-6 overall and 8-2-4 in league play.
Carlson said in August 2025 that the team had nine seniors, but only four were returning varsity players, with the rest moving up from JV. She said the Trojans had been training since the first Monday in June, likely would open in a 4-3-3 formation because of the number of young players and were adjusting to a reorganized Southern 3A landscape that added new opponents and moved several programs to 4A. Carlson also said many of the younger players came through Jr Trojans youth soccer, which is part of why an alumni scrimmage carries so much weight in Pahrump: it connects the school team to the broader ladder that has built the program.
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