{"id":24209,"date":"2024-12-25T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-shayda-clark-and-bluejays-elly-coey-earn-all-state-cheer-honors\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:50:09","slug":"panthers-shayda-clark-and-bluejays-elly-coey-earn-all-state-cheer-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-shayda-clark-and-bluejays-elly-coey-earn-all-state-cheer-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers\u2019 Shayda Clark and Bluejays\u2019 Elly Coey earn all-state cheer honors"},"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=6dc6a416-7ed8-5bbd-85ad-f4254d955910&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"788\" height=\"951\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez senior Shayda Clark earned all-state honors after helping the Panthers reach the state competition in 2024. Clark has committed to attend Montana State University-Billings this fall to continue her cheer career. Photo courtesy of M-CHS Athletics.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez senior Shayda Clark earned all-state honors after helping the Panthers reach the state competition in 2024. Clark has committed to attend Montana State University-Billings this fall to continue her cheer career. Photo courtesy of M-CHS Athletics.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another strong season on the cheer mats yielded more feathers in the caps of local spirit programs at Mancos and Montezuma-Cortez, as each team earned an all-state selection from their performance at the state cheerleading finals in mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers senior Shayda Clark closed out her high school career with an honorable mention selection for Class 3A, helping M-CHS advance to another state appearance in the 2A\/3A Game Day competition. The state appearance came after the Panthers took down the regional title this fall to make a return trip to the Denver Coliseum floor. Clark\u2019s cheer days aren\u2019t over, however, as the senior recently inked her intent to cheer for Montana State University-Billings next year.<\/p>\n<p>After her four-year stint working with M-CHS head coach Emily Baumgartner, Clark looks forward to continuing her competitive cheer for the Yellowjacket Co-Ed Cheer and Stunt team, while planning to study radiology this fall.<\/p>\n<p>For Mancos, junior Elly Coey landed on the 2A honorable mention team for her guidance of the Bluejays 2A\/3A Co-Ed cheer performance. After helping the Jays to regional titles in the 2A Game Day and Co-Ed divisions, Coey and her spirited group claimed fifth in the state championships under head coach Megan Daves-Warner.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are the second straight all-state selections for their respective programs, as both Mancos and M-CHS earned all-state performers in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to cheer at Montana State in Billings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24210,"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-24209","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\/24209","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=24209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78441,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24209\/revisions\/78441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24209"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}