She doesn’t remember having the lower part of her leg, but she does remember the nerves she felt while trying out for the 7th-grade cheerleading squad. Beard had taken part in gymnastics throughout elementary school, doing so while adapting to a number …
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Redefining team spirit – StandardNet
Yet the cheerleading squad is a campus organization with faculty oversight, and it represents the school, wears its uniform and occupies a privileged space on the playing field. Its banners are part of a pregame ritual that involves the football players, for whom …
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The cheerleader knows her way along the sidelines – StandardNet
Brunson told WKRN-TV (http://bit.ly/QpWifC ) she first cheered on the Tigers as a member of the university’s cheerleading squad in 1934-35. She will suit up again for TSU’s centennial homecoming game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Brunson said she won’t …
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Initiations getting worse by cheerleaders – StandardNet
By Rachel J. Trotter OGDEN — Ogden High School cheerleaders haven’t always been welcomed to the squad with condiments being thrown at them while being called unprintable names. There were times when the initiation to the squad was as simple as a pool …
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‘Spirit Squad’ moviemaker adds hazing scene to new film made in Ogden – StandardNet
By Scott Schwebke OGDEN — When Thom Rockwell began work six months ago on a trailer for his upcoming film “Spirit Squad,” depicting five crime-fighting Ogden High School cheerleaders, he never imagined he might have to alter the fictional movie to …
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Layton woman living dream as Cowboys cheerleader – StandardNet
A 2010 Davis High School graduate and a former Layton High School student, Courtney Cook, 19, is living her dream of being a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. The youngest member of the squad, she also appears to be the most popular. …
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Rah? Nah! Mount Ogden Junior High team to be spirit squad, not cheerleaders – StandardNet
OGDEN — There will be no cheers or stunt flips to honor the Ogden School District, at least not coming from the 18-member Mount Ogden Junior High Cheer Squad. When the squad asked the school board’s permission to attend summer …
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Popular TV shows get reality check – StandardNet
… Pre-law student Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka) loses her academic scholarship, so she scrambles to land a cheerleading scholarship on her college squad. …
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