Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Winter Cheerleading Wrap Up


By Jenn O’Neill

            In the blink of an eye, the winter cheer season has come to a close. This season was a little different than those in the past. There were two different squads, the white team, which was the competition team, and the blue team, which only came to basketball games. The white team consisted of 20 girls, 15 of which were on the mat at competitions.
These girls traveled to three major competitions this season: FCIACs, BEST, and States. At FCIACs the team placed in the top 10 and at BEST they placed top 5. States brought the most challenging competition the team had seen this season but they managed to hold their own and did extremely well. “Overall, I don’t think our winter season could have gone any better. The whole team pushed themselves to their full potential,” said junior Julia Westerman. “We’ve really improved in our stunting and tumbling abilities. We were able to have 7 girls throwing tumbling in the routine.”
When asked what next year had in store, Westerman said, “I’m so exicited to continue on with cheer for my senior year. I can only hope to be as good of a leader as my seniors were this year and I can’t wait to improve even further.”
This group of girls has grown immensely over the past two years in size and in skill level and it will be exciting to see how they continue next season. Congratulations on such a successful winter season, Ladies!

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