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Article: North County team tops in cheerleading
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- February 7, 2004
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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 ...