Nikki Regalado, member of the UNLV Cross Country team, poses for a photo on Aug. 19, 2014 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (Aaron Mayes / UNLV Photo Services)

Cienega grad Regalado sets UNLV record in debut 

Nikki Regalado was an All-American distance runner at Pima College, following a terrific high school career at Cienega. In her college debut, for UNLV at the Husky Classic last week in Seattle, Regalado set the Rebels’ school record for 5,000 meters, running the distance in 17 minutes and 74/100ths of a second. Her best at Pima was 17:30. That’s an almost unheard of improvement in a year’s time in distance running. 


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