{"id":15196,"date":"2025-12-18T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-daves-m-chs-pipkin-named-to-all-state-spirit-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:45:18","slug":"mancos-daves-m-chs-pipkin-named-to-all-state-spirit-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-daves-m-chs-pipkin-named-to-all-state-spirit-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos\u2019 Daves, M-CHS\u2019 Pipkin named to all-state spirit teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d5aa5d2b-1e64-5506-88a2-f1966af719ea&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1863\" height=\"2486\" alt=\"Mancos senior Madison Daves, who tops the Bluejays pyramid, was named to the CHSAA 2025 Spirit All-state team. Ben Bradley\/Special the The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos senior Madison Daves, who tops the Bluejays pyramid, was named to the CHSAA 2025 Spirit All-state team. Ben Bradley\/Special the The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two Montezuma County cheer captains capped standout seasons with statewide recognition, earning honorable mention on the Colorado High School Activities Association\u2019s all-state spirit teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers placed 10th in the 3A cheer division, while the Jays finished fifth in the 2A\/3A co-ed class, with Emma Pipkin and Madison Daves providing leadership for their squads.<\/p>\n<p>For Daves, the honor marks a second all-state mention, following a 2023 selection. Pipkin earned the recognition for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>As captain of the Bluejays, Daves helped secure a regional title this fall \u2013 highlighting growth that has turned Mancos cheerleading into one of the state\u2019s top small-school programs. Pipkin, also a captain, anchored a young M-CHS team that overcame challenges to compete at state \u2013 the first appearance for most of its members.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations came from schools in six categories, covering hundreds of teams and thousands of athletes. All-state designations \u2013 first team or honorable mention \u2013 depended on whether a team reached its division finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mancos\u2019 Daves, Cortez\u2019s Pipkin earn all-state spirit honors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,39,28,37,36],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19530,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions\/19530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}