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Article: North County team tops cheerleading contest
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- February 6, 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 last night to battle for bragging rights and an invitation
to the Regional Championship cheerleading contest on Valentine's Day.
At the fiercely competitive County Cheerleading Championship
hosted by Pasadena's 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 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 ...