Clubs, Sports and Activities
Clubs, sports and activities provide great leadership opportunities for students and allow them to pursue interests and passions with peers who share them. AHS students have many extracurricular activities to choose from, and we encourage them to start groups and clubs when they don’t already exist. Each Quarter, students select from a variety of Clubs that meet during the school day; sample Clubs include Album Appreciation, Crafting, Environmental Club, MakerSpace Tinkering, Fashion and more.
In addition to Clubs during the school day, many students engage in extracurricular opportunities after school hours, and several electives include extracurricular opportunities beyond the classroom walls.
- Student Council – works with administration to review school policies and build positive school culture; grade-level representatives are elected by their peers
- Student Ambassador Team – provides school tours, helps with enrollment events, partners with prospective students and serves our greater community
- Animas High School Mountain Biking Team – trains with coaches from Durango DEVO and travels to Colorado High School Cycling League races alongside riders on the Durango High School Mountain Biking Team
- Durango High School Sports — many student-athletes participate in Durango High School Athletics, even though AHS is not part of the Durango School District.
- Quill Media – produces the Quill Media Instagram feed and provides journalistic content for other media outlets, including AHS weekly newsletter, News from the Nest through Journalism electives
- AHS Playmakers — provides students an opportunity to act, direct, write, do set design and more through Theater electives that produce plays
- Music — electives in music performance in partnership with iAM Music provide opportunities for students to form bands, write music, record and perform publicly
The Durango area has a wide range of activities for young adults beyond what we offer at AHS, and many of our students participate in them! For more ideas about opportunities for teens in our community, visit Stillwater Music, Durango Parks & Recreation, The Hive, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Powerhouse Science Center–and look for regular communication from our Career and College Department with ongoing opportunities.