Posts by Joel Priest

Lexy Young (537) and Lauren deKay (538) pursue Fruita Monument’s Kelli Bond (520) during the Grand Junction Tiger Invitational’s JV feature Friday evening, Sept. 11.

Fri Sep 25th, 2020

Lady ‘Cats cop fifth at Southwest Classic

Eppie Quintana (976) extends his stride at Hillcrest Golf Course in Durango during the 2020 Four Corners Southwest Classic’s varsity race Friday afternoon, Sept. 18.

Fri Sep 25th, 2020

YOU GO, BRO: Quintanas pace IHS in Durango

Fri Sep 11th, 2020

Lady ’Cats clutch fourth Emerging Barnes’ fifth-place run paces IHS

Presently IHS Cross-Country’s sole senior boy, Dylan Labarthe (337) keeps pace with La Jara Centauri’s Estevan Vega (331) and Pagosa Springs’ Levi Hinger (367) during the Montezuma-Cortez Invitational, Aug. 28 in Cortez’s Parque de Vida.

Fri Sep 11th, 2020

Bobcats run well at Panther Invitational

Ignacio Lady Bobcats Charlize Valdez (38) and Maci Barnes (32) run in tandem during the early stages of the 2nd Annual Boggy Draw Bear Chase Friday evening, Aug. 21. Barnes, a newcomer to the program, would place a team-best sixth overall; Valdez, the race’s defending champion, would finish 14th.

Fri Aug 28th, 2020

Dormant boys’ XC awakens at Bear Chase

Concluding her first-ever athletic venture, D’Vondra Garcia, right, receives her first athletic letter and accompanying sport-specific pin from head coach Daniel Holley during last year’s end-of-season awards banquet inside IHS Auditorium. A preseason surgery this year will likely keep the eager junior out of the 2020 cross-country season’s early goings.

Fri Aug 14th, 2020

IHS harriers get green light from CHSAA

Seen enjoying a joke following a preseason 2018 practice, now-senior Lawrence Toledo and the rest of the 2020 Bobcat Football warriors will have to wait until Spring 2021 before resuming official practices prior to the coronavirus-postponed season.

Fri Aug 14th, 2020

CHSAA sets football, volleyball target dates

As assistant coach Shasta Pontine emcees the moment, Ignacio Volleyball head coach Thad Cano displays a gifted blanket to onlookers attending the Volleycats’ 2019 end-of-year awards banquet inside IHS Auditorium. In the months that followed, Cano would decide to resign his varsity post, which he’d held since 2012 following a three-year stint as an assistant – making for 11 total seasons with the program.

Fri Jul 31st, 2020

A roots re-route: Cano couldn’t refuse N.M. return

Ignacio’s Joe Garcia (23) looks for running room during the Bobcats’ 2019 season-finale in distant La Jara against Southern Peaks Conference powerhouse Centauri.

Mon Jul 20th, 2020

Talkin’ Tiki: Garcia hyped to play in Hawaii

Fri Jun 5th, 2020

CHSAA sees ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’

Fri Jun 5th, 2020

Highlights of CHSAA Legislative Council meeting

Then-sophomore Morgan Herrera practices free-throw shooting prior to Ignacio’s 2018 CHSAA Class 2A State Championships game versus Yuma inside the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland. Herrera was a four-year varsity cager in both Colorado (Ignacio, 2016-18) and Washington (La Conner, 2018-20), and despite being known as a basketball and volleyball player will be continuing her student-athlete days as a track-and-field athlete at the University of Washington.

Fri May 22nd, 2020

PAC-12 Pact: Herrera chooses Div. I Washington

Seated Friday, May 1, at her home in Durango while following COVID-19 safety guidelines, current DHS senior Aliyana White, who attended Ignacio High her freshman and sophomore years (she first displayed her shot- and discus-throwing talents during the latter), signs via cell phone her Adams State University Track & Field commitment documents.

Fri May 8th, 2020

Ex-IHS thrower White commits to Adams State

Ignacio High School Track & Field sprinters prepare to burst out of the starting blocks during a 2019 practice. Tuesday morning, April 21, CHSAA chose to officially cancel Spring 2020 sports, erasing any last hopes the Bobcat thinclads had of a shortened season.

Fri Apr 24th, 2020

CHSAA pulls the plug; Bobcat bosses react

Seen dribbling forward during road action last season at Ridgway, Brianna Henderson (10) is presently one of numerous Lady Bobcat seniors who were waiting on CHSAA’s decision on whether or not they’ll be able to play at all this spring due to lingering coronavirus concerns.

Fri Apr 24th, 2020

Short season vaguely possible for Lady ’Cats