Cheerleading Championships set for Saturday
RALEIGH– The seventh annual North Carolina High School
Athletic Association state invitational cheerleading championships are
scheduled for Saturday at the Raleigh Convention Center.
A record number of 116 teams have registered for the
event.
Competition will be held in 10 different categories. The
doors open at 7:30 am and competition will begin at nine o¹clock Saturday
morning.
The Carolina Cup will also be awarded during the course of
competition. Cheer Ltd., Inc., an NCHSAA corporate partner that assists with
the invitational championship, established the Carolina Cup to recognize
annually the top high school varsity cheerleading team in the state. The
team that earns the highest cumulative score among varsity teams during the
invitational championship earns the Cup.
Jamestown Ragsdale won the Carolina Cup last year. Previous
winners include Cardinal Gibbons in 2007, North Gaston in 2006 and Raleigh
Sanderson took the Cup in its inaugural year in 2005.
The Raleigh Sports Consortium is the primary host city sponsor
for the event.
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