The Coronado High School boys soccer team’s 2025 Class 5A state championship has been vacated by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, nine months after the Cougars completed a perfect season.

The NIAA record book no longer lists Coronado as the 2025 Class 5A champion. In place of the winning school’s name is one word: “Vacated.”

No reason for the decision has been disclosed publicly and the NIAA refused to comment on the matter when contacted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Coronado coach Dustin Barton also declined to discuss the matter, telling the newspaper that the program would have no further comment.

A Dominant Run

Coronado has won the last three state championships at the Class 5A. Last season may have been the most impressive of them all as the team scored 187 goals for the season while allowing only 12. Those would be records but are also not acknowledged by the NIAA.

“This is the last game together for a lot of these kids. They weren’t going to lose this game. It was not going to happen,” Barton told the Review-Journal following the state title win. “They’ve left their legacy. They’ve won all their games, set all the records.”

The Cougars shut out 14 opponents last season and allowed more than one goal in a game just once and that came in a 7-2 win over Palo Verde on Oct. 15. With its victory over Hug last November, the school was on a 55-game winning streak, but all that is reflected with the NIAA is a 30-game unbeaten streak that spanned from 2023 through 2024. Basically, the 2025 season has been scrubbed as far as the NIAA is concerned.

Coronado’s win streak on the pitch swelled to 59 games before ending Wednesday with a 2-1 loss to Palo Verde. That result followed a 1-1 tie against Sparks on Aug. 15. The Cougars seem a little more human this season, allowing five goals through five games while owning a 3-1-1 record.

Coronado’s Baseball Team Also Received NIAA Sanction

The soccer decision comes several months after another unusual NIAA action involving a Coronado athletic program. In May, the school’s baseball team was pulled from the Southern Nevada Region Class 5A playoffs with no reason given by the NIAA or the school. The team’s would-be spot in the bracket was replaced by “vacated.”

Located in the Green Valley enclave of Henderson, NV., Coronado High boasts several of the Las Vegas area’s top public school athletic programs. Boys soccer is the flagship, but the school also owns recent state championship wins in baseball, boys basketball and girls volleyball.