By Brett Fisher

  • Photos by Brett Fisher. Excited CHS seniors walk back to their seats after receiving their diplomas.
    Photos by Brett Fisher. Excited CHS seniors walk back to their seats after receiving their diplomas.
  • Graduation balloons in the foreground of CHS seniors receiving their diplomas.
    Graduation balloons in the foreground of CHS seniors receiving their diplomas.
  • CHS seniors file onto the football field to take their seats Saturday morning.
    CHS seniors file onto the football field to take their seats Saturday morning.
  • Class of 2017 valedictorian Ana Glenn delivers opening remarks Saturday.
    Class of 2017 valedictorian Ana Glenn delivers opening remarks Saturday.
  • Excited CHS seniors await the start of the graduation ceremony Saturday.
    Excited CHS seniors await the start of the graduation ceremony Saturday.
  • CHS Principal Tasha Fuson hugs a CHS senior coming off stage Saturday.
    CHS Principal Tasha Fuson hugs a CHS senior coming off stage Saturday.
  • CHS seniors perform the graduation song Saturday before diplomas are handed out.
    CHS seniors perform the graduation song Saturday before diplomas are handed out.
  • CHS senior shakes hands Saturday upon receiving his diploma.
    CHS senior shakes hands Saturday upon receiving his diploma.
  • Line of seniors wait to exit the stage upon receiving their diplomas Saturday.
    Line of seniors wait to exit the stage upon receiving their diplomas Saturday.
  • A graduate acknowledges her family in the crowd Saturday upon receiving her diploma.
    A graduate acknowledges her family in the crowd Saturday upon receiving her diploma.
  • CHS seniors receive their diplomas and congratulations from CCSD administration.
    CHS seniors receive their diplomas and congratulations from CCSD administration.
  • CHS senior just received his diploma Saturday.
    CHS senior just received his diploma Saturday.
  • CHS senior Chandler Blueberg receives congratulations along with her diploma.
    CHS senior Chandler Blueberg receives congratulations along with her diploma.
  • CHS Senior Class President Alyssa Woodward hugs Principal Tasha Fuson.
    CHS Senior Class President Alyssa Woodward hugs Principal Tasha Fuson.
  • CHS band plays pomp and circumstance as seniors file into the stadium.
    CHS band plays pomp and circumstance as seniors file into the stadium.

Thousands crowded the Carson High football stadium Saturday morning to watch more than 500 graduating seniors receive their diplomas as the Class of 2017 made its official transition out of grade school and into the world of adulthood.

Seniors Alyssa Woodward and Ana Glenn delivered opening remarks before diplomas were passed to one of Carson High’s largest graduating classes.

Glenn opened Saturday morning’s ceremony as valedictorian, while Woodward spoke to her fellow seniors as their class president.

CHS Principal Tasha Fuson offered some final words of wisdom and advice to students she had come to know well over the last four years, before ushering them forward to receive their high school diplomas.

Saliman Drive from William to Robinson streets shut down to through traffic for the massive event, which required overflow parking at Mills Park and the Marv Teixeira Pavilion as well as church parking lots and street parking down Robinson.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office and Nevada Highway Patrol provided traffic control at the intersections of William and Saliman as well as Robinson and Saliman.

Motorists are advised to avoid the area until traffic control has been lifted following post-graduation activities on the field at school.