Former sports editor elected to PVHS Hall of Fame

Don McDermott, sports editor of the Greenville Daily Advocate from 1962 through 1966 and 1987 through 2001, has been elected to the Pahrump Valley High School (PVHS) Athletics Hall of Fame as a major community contributor.

McDermott was the sports editor of the Pahrump Valley Times from June 2001 through April 2012. He retired (again), but returned to the newspaper business in July 2002 as editorial manager of the Pahrump Valley Mirror, a weekly newspaper.

At the Times, he reported on 11 Nevada state championship teams in six different sports from 2002 through 2008. At the Mirror, he covered a girls soccer team that won its second straight state crown in 2012. He also covered three-time Arizona State University track All-American Dominique Maloy when she was in high school. At PVHS, Maloy won 15 out of a possible 16 individual state titles in track, including four each in the 100, 200 and 400 meter dashes and three in the long jump.

In 2012, McDermott wrote a story about Gene Riegle and Life Sign's victory in the 1993 Little Brown Jug for Online news. In 2007, he covered the National Fast Pitch Softball convention in Las Vegas and reported on Jerald Newland's receiving a major award.