Comp Cheer: State Competition

Top Five is the Place to be!

By: Ally Fleischer
Our Madison Blue Streak Competition Cheerleaders will be traveling all the way to Columbus this Saturday, March 4th, to be competing in the biggest and most important competition of the year; States. The teams compete at Regionals in order to qualify for States only select few in each division make the cut. In States our Cheerleaders are in the non-mount, non-tumble division. Our division this year is the most teams our cheerleaders have ever gone against which is a total of eighteen including our team.
The MHS cheerleaders work very hard all year up until this competition to make sure they are giving their all. 
        “I think we have been working really hard this season, I believe if we can keep up our energy since that is our main issue, that we will definitely make it in the top five,” says one of the captains, Grace Carpenter. 
        “I think our team is going to do very well this year, considering we placed fourth last season, efforts come from all ends of the team which makes it so much easier and fun,” said senior cheerleader Jamie Bowers. 
Practice for the cheerleaders starts all the way in the middle of August, when they pay a choreographer to make up their routine on the spot. They stay after school twice a week to go over it, perfect every little thing, and critique the formations, or motions the judges say they don’t like on the score sheets. Being a cheerleader isn’t as easy as everyone may thinks, they work very hard to get where they are at right now. Getting placed as the Grand Champions in the first competition they competed in this season is something these girls are should be very proud of.
Even if these girls don’t place first this weekend they will still be proud of themselves because they made it that far and that is all that matters. First place is something they are definitely wishing and working for, but any place in the top five is good enough for them, its an honor for these girls and their coach to be attending this competition because it shows that they are truly a great team and have accomplished so much. Wish these girls luck for a very exciting weekend!