Morehead State University’s coed and all-girl cheerleading squads will host the fifth annual MSU Cheerleading Showcase on Sunday, Jan. 10, beginning at 3 p.m. at MSU’s Academic-Athletic Center.
Admission will be $5. Doors will open at 2 p.m.
Both MSU cheer squads will present their routines before heading off to compete in the UCA College National Cheerleading Championships, Jan. 15-18, in Orlando, Fla. The Universal Cheerleaders Association will sponsor the competition, which will be held at Walt Disney’s Wide World of Sports.
In addition to the MSU squads, there will be area high school squads and Eastern Kentucky University, Northern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky cheerleaders all will perform their 2010 national routines.
The coed and all-girl cheerleading squads placed first in the country in their division in the qualifying round, which consisted of a cheer video and a one-and-a-half-minute video that demonstrated the teams’ stunts, pyramids, basket tosses and tumbling skills.
This is a return trip for both groups. In the 2009 competition, the coed squad won its eighth consecutive national title. They have won a total of 19 national championships overall. The all-girl squad placed second for the second straight year in the highly competitive All-Girl Division I. The all-girl squad has won a total of six national championships.
“Placing first in the qualifying round with both teams is a huge accomplishment for us,” said Tony Nash, MSU spirit coordinator. “This is the sixth year in a row that both teams have achieved this. We set this as one of our team goals at the beginning of the year,” he said.
“We knew going into the qualification process that we had to step up even more than last year. The talent level of both the all-girl and coed divisions is growing every year, so it just keeps getting more difficult. We are the defending national champions, so our expectation level from the inside as well as the outside is very high,” said Nash. “We know that going in, so we work hard to maintain that level of excellence. These athletes must train harder and prepare more mentally every day. Since both teams qualified first, that puts a huge target on our backs; everyone wants to knock us off the top. We understand and try to put that aside and concentrate on what we have to do as a team. My teams don’t worry about our competitors; we want to keep focused on our team and what we have to do to accomplish our goals.”
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