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2025 AIA State Spiritline Championships at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

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2025 AIA State Championship Prelims - Pom - Ashley Durham Photography-3_AIA State Spiritline Championships

This past weekend I spent three days in a row hanging out with the Shadow Ridge High School cheer and pom teams for the 2025 AIA State Spiritline Championships at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. I attended last year’s finals for cheer to support one of my best friend’s daughters (hi Jianna!), but this year I went for preliminaries and finals. Since Noah’s girlfriend is a varsity pommie as well as a hip hop dancer, we stayed and watched those preliminaries and finals as well!

These young women and men are incredible athletes, and it was mind-blowing to see some of the awesome things they were able to do. It broke my heart a bit to see that Shadow Ridge was one of the only high schools that had a professional photographer to capture their athletes – I’ve gotten so many messages from other schools asking if I had photos of their teams, too. If your Phoenix youth, high school or professional athletic team would like official photography coverage for their practices, games, meets, competitions and championships, please contact me. 

With that said, here are some of my favorites from this year’s Arizona state championships for pom team, hip hop and the cheer teams!

Shadow Ridge High School Pom Team • AIA Arizona State Championships • 5th place

Shadow Ridge High School Hip Hop Dance Team • 3rd Place

Shadow Ridge High School Cheer Team • 3rd Place

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