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unusual facts about Cheerleading



Balwyn High School

Its chess teams have consistently reached state level competitions, while the school's cheerleading squad, the Skyraiders, earned two gold medals in Pom and Stunt and finished second (Level 2 Cheerleading/Scholastic) at the 2007 National Cheerleading Championships.

Boyceville, Wisconsin

Extra curricular activities at the middle and high school levels include, basketball, football, softball, baseball, cross country, track, volleyball, dance, cheerleading, wrestling, Science Olympiad, FFA, Academic Decathlon, quiz bowl, student council, National Honors Society, drama club, art club, FCCLA, FBLA, glee club, and yearbook.

Buckeye, Arizona

In 2013, a video featuring a Verrado High School student who overcame Down's Syndrome to join the school's cheerleading squad, and using the Katy Perry song "Roar", was selected as a finalist in a Good Morning America contest.

Cane Creek Middle School

Cane Creek participates in many national and international education contests including Mathcounts, Battle of the Books, Odyssey of the Mind, Science Olympiad, National History Day, National Geographic Bee, as well as all regular middle school sports cheerleading, cross country, football, boys soccer, tennis, volleyball, boys basketball, girls basketball, wrestling, baseball, golf, girls soccer, softball, and tack and field.

Channelview, Texas

Wanda Webb Holloway was upset that her daughter, Shanna, had failed two consecutive years to make her junior high school's cheerleading squad.

Cheerleading in the United Kingdom

The governing body is SportcheerGB, recognised by the International Cheer Union (ICU) which is promoting cheerleading as a sport to the Olympic bodies.

Collegiate Cheerleading Championships

The National Collegiate Cheerleading Championships were first introduced in 1978 on CBS Sports.

Glease

With the McKinley production of Grease approaching, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) names Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) as interim director of New Directions during his sabbatical in Washington, D.C. Cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) opposes, citing Finn's age and lack of qualifications, but Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) agrees, which angers Sue.

Green Bay Packers cheerleaders

Packers coach Vince Lombardi notified Mary Jane Sorgel that he wanted her to organize a professional cheerleading squad.

The team currently uses college cheerleading squads, with the UWGB squad (coed) and St. Norbert's (all girl) cheering at each home game.

Green Dragons

The same autumn one of the largest incidents in Slovenian cheerleading history took place on the way to Maribor, at the train station in Štore, near Celje, considered mostly the fault of the Slovenian Police and weird coincidence.

Groove Squad

Endowed with their superpowers like X-ray vision, Super Strength and the ability to Fly; cheerleaders Chrissy, Ping and Mackenzie soon finds themselves with a responsibility greater than winning the cheerleading competition—thwarting the evil Dr. Nightingale's plans for total world domination.

Hairography

New Directions' director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) suspects that cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) has been colluding with rival glee clubs, and visits the Jane Addams Academy for girls recently released from juvenile detention.

Harley Tat

During his time at A Current Affair, Tat produced a segment about Wanda Holloway, the Texas mother accused of murdering her daughter's cheerleading rival.

Houston Texans Cheerleaders

The Houston Texans Cheerleaders are the official cheerleading squad of the Houston Texans of the National Football League.

Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders

The Colts cheerleading squad achieved greater fame when several of them shaved their heads bald in 2012 in tribute to coach Chuck Pagano and his successful battle with leukemia.

Linda K. Myers

She is a former cheerleading coach at Essex High School, and has been involved in cheerleading on the local, state and national levels for twenty-five years.

Mid Buchanan

Dragons are the mascot of Mid Buchanan, which competes in the Missouri State High School Activities Association as a member of the Kansas City Interscholastic Conference in several interscholastic sports: football, girls volleyball, softball, cheerleading, boys and girls basketball, wrestling, track and field, cross country, academic team, and baseball.

Mike Farmwald

His recent investments include technology companies incubated at Skymoon R&D (Dash, whose navigation systems bring internet to the car, and Finesse Solutions, a measurement and control provider to the biotechnology industry) as well as companies that bring technology to traditional business (Remote Lands, a luxury bespoke Asian travel outfitter started by entrepreneur Catherine Heald and ICE, a fitness concept company started by award-winning cheerleading coach Darlene Fanning).

National Cheerleaders Association

The NCA was founded in 1948 by the "Grandfather" of cheerleading, Lawrence Herkimer.

Oakcrest High School

The school offers many sports to its students including Football, Fall Cheerleading, Field hockey, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, Winter Cheerleading, Lacrosse, Wrestling, Crew, Track and Field, Cross country running, Powerlifting and Baseball

Pop Warner

Pop Warner Little Scholars, a non-profit organization named after the coach that offers youth American football and cheerleading and dance programs

Schae Harrison

Her innovative dance style and choreography led to a position with the NFL Seattle Seahawks' cheerleading-dance squad.

Sectionals

Back at school, Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) suspends cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) for leaking the glee club's set list, and has Will reinstated as the director of New Directions.

South Granville High School

The game also had many invited guests such as the NCSU Cheerleading Squad, Stormy, the mascot of the Carolina Hurricanes, and Wool E. Bull mascot of the Durham Bulls.

UNC-Chapel Hill Cheerleading

In 1914, Frank Porter Graham was the first student to organize cheerleading at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

World Cup All Stars

World Cup All Stars, founded by 6 time International Champions, Elaine Pascale and Joelle Antico, is home to the 2007, 2008, and 2009 IASF Cheerleading Worlds champions in the Large Senior All Girl division, the World Cup Shooting Stars.

You Rock My World

In Episode 10 of the first season of the CW series Hellcats, "Pledging My Love", the cheerleading team, led by Derrick Altman (played by D. B. Woodside), danced to a shortened version of "You Rock My World" as a means for Altman to propose to coach Vanessa Lodge (played by Sharon Leal).


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