FAVORITE SONS & DAUGHTERS

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View welcomes announcements of recent achievements of Favorite Sons & Daughters who have graduated from local high schools. Achievements may run the gamut from earning a college degree to successfully climbing Mount Everest. Please include the name of the area high school and year graduated. Send announcements and photos by mail to: Lynn Benson, View, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070; by fax to 477-3852; or by e-mail, viewcalendars@viewnews.com.

Garrett Blizzard and Andrew "Drew" Chesser have been awarded scholarships from the Nevada South Youth Soccer League.

Each year, the league provides two scholarships for young men who have played for the past three years and have successfully gone on to play at the collegiate level. The scholarships are named after two men who helped lay the foundation for the league, Don Marshall and Darl Rose.

Blizzard was awarded the Don Marshall Scholarship. He is attending and playing soccer for George Fox University in Newberg, Ore.

Blizzard attended Advanced Technologies Academy, where he achieved a 3.88 grade-point average.

He played soccer for Bonanza High School for four years and club soccer for Premier '87, NLV Academy, United '87 and the Hurricanes.

Blizzard was active in track for Bonanza High School as the anchor for the 4x400 state champion relay team his senior year.

He also was captain for the soccer team for two years, and captain of the track team his senior year.

Blizzard is the son of Doug Blizzard and Julie Blizzard, both of Las Vegas.

Chesser was awarded the Darl Rose Scholarship. He is attending and playing soccer for the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Chesser attended Green Valley High School and achieved a 4.51 grade-point average.

He played soccer for Green Valley High School for four years, and was captain for two years.

He played club soccer for Premier '87 for more than four years, and was captain for four years.

Chesser received many honors for his performance on the field, and also for his outstanding achievement in the classroom, including Nevada Scholar Athlete, High Honors Graduate, National Honor Society and College Board AP Scholar Award.

Chesser is the son of Peggy Chesser, of Las Vegas, and Donald Chesser, of Chicago.

FROM OUR READERS

Goorjians get a nod from competing coach

What a great article on the Goorjians! ("Family Teamwork," Feb. 21 Southwest View and Centennial View; "Keeping up Traditions," Feb. 21 Summerlin View and Summerlin South View).

I have known Ed and Greg for 30 years. I never miss a breakfast in Del Mar when I am down there during the summer. My college coach Dan Ayala also attends. He later became Tark's assistant at UNLV and then the UNLV women's coach. It is like the good 'ol boys club in Del Mar. Lots of basketball games sitting there.

Let me tell you a quick story. I was a 25-year-old -- young -- coach, just starting out at Western High School.

In 1977, Greg's junior year, we played Crescenta Valley in the finals of the Holiday Prep Classic and Greg hits 51 on us!

As fate would have it, we played them in the finals the next year in the same tourney and I pop off to the newspaper that Goorjian isn't going to get 51 if I have to guard him myself.

He only got 49! To this day, I tease Greg that he averages 50 a game against me.

What a beautiful shot he had. He looked like a ballerina playing basketball -- very smooth.

You sure do a good job of getting the details of a story.

AL LA ROCQUE BOYS BASKETBALL COACH, DURANGO HIGH SCHOOL