The first community college athletic teams in Nevada was WNCC’s basketball team in 1972. The team won its first game and knocked off the University of Nevada, Reno junior varsity team that year.

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Western Nevada College notes: Recalling WNCC’s first basketball season

Growing up in the small Northern Nevada rural community of Lovelock, it was a big moment in his young adult life to make the first basketball team at WNCC.

• By Western Nevada College
• May 16, 2021