With the Colorado High School Activities Association currently reclassifying and organizing leagues for the 2016-2018 cycle, Montezuma-Cortez High School\u2019s athletic programs may be facing changes.<\/p>\n
M-CHS programs are currently spread across three classes: The football team competes in Class 2A, and boys soccer and girls basketball play at the 3A level, while the remaining programs are in Class 4A.<\/p>\n
However, as CHSAA begins to reclassify according to enrollment numbers from fall 2015, M-CHS may drop down to Class 3A in almost every sport.<\/p>\n
M-CHS currently has 632 enrolled students.<\/p>\n
With an enrollment between 249-626 necessary to be deemed Class 3A, the school would fall into Class 4A in most sports.<\/p>\n
However, M-CHS enrollment numbers include students in the adult education program, who are not eligible to participate in high school athletics, so principal Dr. Jason Wayman and activities director Stacey Hall have petitioned CHSAA to drop to Class 3A.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere we\u2019re at right now is on the bubble,\u201d Hall said during Thursday\u2019s accountability meeting. \u201cIt\u2019s going to depend on how hard and how much they\u2019ll listen when we petition.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the proposal is accepted, M-CHS would fall into Class 3A for all sports except football, where it would remain in 2A, and would compete in the West Slope South League against Alamosa, Bayfield, Pagosa Springs, Delta and Gunnison.<\/p>\n
However, there is no Class 3A for boys tennis or girls swimming, and most of the schools in the proposed league do not offer boys tennis, girls swimming or softball.<\/p>\n
Which poses a problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just throwing out all the data and asking, \u2018Where are we going to play?\u201d\u2019 Wayman said. \u201cWhat league do they put us in when we\u2019re (offering) tennis?\u201d<\/p>\n
The most likely outcome would be that boys tennis, girls swimming and softball programs would be placed into leagues that require much more travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we have to move to those divisions, travel increases,\u201d Wayman said. \u201cThen we\u2019re losing a lot of our budgets trying to get teams to these competitions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not making any proposals,\u201d Wayman said when the thought of cutting programs arose. \u201cI\u2019m just saying that the Intermountain League doesn\u2019t host a lot of these (sports). So we\u2019re going to be pumped into different leagues which are farther away than these schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are no proposals for any program to be cut. But Wayman and Hall said that they want to keep an open discussion and provide participation numbers of every sport since 2011.<\/p>\n
Even if cuts were to become a proposed option, it\u2019s still early.<\/p>\n
Hall just proposed for M-CHS to be dropped to Class 3A on Friday, and CHSAA may not rule on M-CHS\u2019 classification until January.<\/p>\n
Wayman and Hall will continue the discussion on athletic classifications and cutbacks during the December accountability meeting.<\/p>\n
Participation in sports at Montezuma-Cortez High School. The number in parenthesis indicates participating students from Dolores, Mancos and Dove Creek.
\n Fall 2015 (Boys)
\n Soccer: 20
\n Tennis: 7
\n Cross-country: 10
\n Football: 43
\n Golf: 7 (3)
\n Fall 2015 (Girls)
\n Cheerleading: 22
\n Cross-country: 13
\n Dance: 24
\n Softball: 33 (9)
\n Volleyball: 32
\n 2014-2015 (Boys)
\n Soccer: 23 (2)
\n Tennis: 13
\n Cross-country: 14
\n Football: 41
\n Golf: 9 (1)
\n Basketball: 29
\n Wrestling: 9
\n Baseball: 28
\n Track: 32
\n 2014-2015 (Girls)
\n Cross-country: 6
\n Softball: 21 (5)
\n Volleyball: 26
\n Basketball: 25
\n Swimming: 15 (4)
\n Soccer: 18 (6)
\n Tennis: 13
\n Track: 35
\n 2013-2014 (Boys)
\n Soccer: 19 (2)
\n Tennis: 17
\n Cross-country: 5
\n Football: 41
\n Golf: 12 (1)
\n Basketball: 23
\n Wrestling: 6
\n Baseball: 26
\n Track: 31
\n 2013-2014 (Girls)
\n Cross-country: 13
\n Softball: 22 (5)
\n Volleyball: 28
\n Basketball: 21
\n Swimming: 15 (4)
\n Soccer: 21 (8)
\n Tennis: 15
\n Track: 30
\n 2012-2013 (Boys)
\n Soccer: 20
\n Tennis: 13
\n Cross-country: 5
\n Football: 50
\n Golf: 8 (2)
\n Basketball: 17
\n Wrestling: 8
\n Baseball: 29
\n Track: 32
\n 2012-2013 (Girls)
\n Cross-country: 9
\n Softball: 24 (9)
\n Volleyball: 27
\n Basketball: 17
\n Swimming: 15 (4)
\n Soccer: 21 (7)
\n Tennis: 20
\n Track: 28
\n 2011-2012 (Boys)
\n Soccer: 24 (5)
\n Tennis: 14
\n Cross-country: 7
\n Football: 36
\n Golf: 7 (2)
\n Basketball: 28
\n Wrestling: 5
\n Baseball: 31 (2)
\n Track: 28
\n 2011-2012 (Girls)
\n Cross-country: 13
\n Softball: 24 (8)
\n Volleyball: 28
\n Basketball: 10
\n Swimming: 14 (2)
\n Soccer: 21 (5)
\n Tennis: 23
\n Track: 28<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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