Article: North County team tops in cheerleading

In a powder blue gymnasium that throed with wall-shaking music, cheerleading squads representing 11 of the county's high schools turned out Thursday night to battle for bragging rights and an invitation to the Regional Championship cheerleading contest on Valentine's Day.

At the fiercely competitive county meet at Chesapeake High School, each team adhered to a basic performance structure: The members would face the judges and in rock or rap format loudly announce that they were indeed No. 1.

A body or two or six would suddenly hurtle across the mat in a gymnastic routine. At lightning speed, pyramids would form and dissolve, and still more bodies would fly toward the rafters only to ...

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