Sportsman of The Year?

We were very excited for the local paper to come out yesterday. The Pahrump Valley Times has been doing a top 12 sports stories of 2009 section. We were hoping so bad that the Pahrump Valley Speedway would be somewhere in those top 12. Numbers 5 through 12 had already been published in earlier editions and we had yet to be seen. Our only hope left was top 1 through 4 and that was almost too much to hope for. I'm sure you can imagine how surprised we were to see we were listed as top 4. The 1 through 3 top sports stories all belonged to Pahrump Valley High School.

My dear husband will be very embarrassed that I did this, but here is what the article says about the #4 Sports Story of 2009, as printed in the Pahrump Valley Times on January 1, 2010.

4 The Pahrump Valley Speedway closed down in October 2007. Eighteen months later, the facility on East Basin was revived, thanks to the work of Chad Broadhead and his crew. That was big news in the Pahrump Valley: a business reopens in what is a hellish economic situation and manages to complete a highly-successful season. In fact, the 2010 campaign is to start Jan. 9, with events slated almost every two weeks thereafter.

Hundreds of fans got to see some major motor-sports action from June through December and a couple hundred drivers in eight classes got to compete on the facility's quarter-mile dirt oval.

If there was an award for sportsman of the year in Nye County, Broadhead would get it. He took a shot at doing something previous promoters had problems doing, and kept the speedway going. It wasn't all checkered flags, but no one in valley speed-sports has seen the red flag unfurled.

All I can say is: WOW!