{"id":21362,"date":"2025-07-19T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/onward-awards-over-100000-in-scholarships-to-southwest-colorado-students\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:06:04","slug":"onward-awards-over-100000-in-scholarships-to-southwest-colorado-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/onward-awards-over-100000-in-scholarships-to-southwest-colorado-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Onward! awards over $100,000 in scholarships to Southwest Colorado students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=71a0cc11-e5aa-542a-9d9c-8c92080764fd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1491\" alt=\"Onward! Foundation has announced its scholarship recipients for 2025. (Matthew Tangeman\/Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Onward! Foundation has announced its scholarship recipients for 2025. (Matthew Tangeman\/Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Onward! A Legacy Foundation, has announced its 2025-26 scholarship recipients. The foundation is distributing over $133,000 in new and renewed scholarships to support local students who are pursuing higher education.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">2025 scholarship recipients<\/div>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-x-im-unordered-list\">Bill and Peg Rees Scholarship: Leopold Morey, Montezuma-Cortez High School.Montezuma-Cortez High School Alumni Scholarship: Cruz Hernandez and Atticus Keel, MCHS.Leonard Cain Medical Scholarship: Abraham Hafner and Maecyn White, MCHS; Siena Parr, Dolores.Hoover Endowed Medical Scholarship: Abraham Hafner, Houston Hurst, Samson Lein, Maddisyn Morris and Maecyn White, MCHS; Kaiden Wyatt, Mancos High School; Alexis Anderson, Siena Parr and Coralea Wright, Dolores.Shaun M. McAndrew Memorial Scholarship: Emily Howell, MCHS.Roland R. Schneider Memorial Scholarship: Emily Carver, Abraham Hafner, Cruz Hernandez, Emily Howell, Houston Hurst, Samson Lein, Luna Moore, Maddisyn Morris and Adisyn Todacheeny, MCHS.Larry Larsen Endowed Scholarship: Shayda Clark and Abraham Hafner, MCHS.Mancos Centennial Scholarship: Tori McKinley and Trista Soto, Mancos.Mancos Centennial \u2013 Margie Bader Russell Scholarship: Lucas Figueroa, Mancos.Aikin Scholarship in Memory of Erik and Jeffrey Hobbs: Spencer Eschallier, Lucas Figueroa, Tori McKinley and Trista Soto, Mancos.Allen Lichliter Memorial Scholarship: Abraham Hafner, Houston Hurst and Kendall Simmons, MCHS; Lucas Figueroa, Mancos; Halee Kibel and Isla Vaughn, Dolores.Tri-City Soccer Association Scholarship: Abraham Hafner, Benjamin Hoffman, Emily Howell, Atticus Keel, Samson Lein, Luna Moore and Leopold Morey, MCHS.Joel Stevenson Memorial Scholarship: Lucas Figueroa, Mancos.Vic and Ethel Poma Memorial Scholarship: Jesse Beck, Pagosa Springs High School; Brady Dale, MCHS.Montezuma County Fair Junior Livestock Committee Scholarship: Kenzie Whipple,  MCHS.Eddie Marshall Memorial Scholarship: Maya Lowe, Dolores.<\/div>\n<p>Onward!\u2019s scholarship application period runs from Jan. 1 to April 1 each year. For eligibility details or to contribute to the scholarship funds, visit Onward! <a href=\"Www.onwardfoundation.com\" id=\"link-f65428158a37384e09bb12244020236b\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> at www.onwardfoundation.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scholarships were awarded for 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,38,155,28,83,37,60,36,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362","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=21362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77277,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions\/77277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21362"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}