Shreveport- The Centenary Competitive Cheer team has been selected as Centenary Athletics' "Team of the Week" after they recorded three national runner-up finishes this past weekend at the United Spirit Association Collegiate Championships in Anaheim, Calif.
Centenary, which earned two runner ups and an additional third-place finish on Saturday, recorded another national runner-up finish in band chant on Sunday.
The team competed on Saturday in the college game day division where they were crowned national runner-up in the fight song and band chant division and brought home third place in the situational sideline division. The team posted season and program-high scores in each routine earning a 94.9/100 in fight song, 96.4/100 in situational sideline, and 96.8/100 in band chant.
"Words cannot describe the pride I have for this team," said Centenary head coach Kaylee King. The amount of work they put into these routines since July is astounding. They poured there all into making them as perfect as possible. To bring home program high scores at nationals is really unheard of. Not only that, but they competed against schools of much larger size and truly stood their own. They were hungry and it showed. For a program who's only been competitive for two seasons, runner-up is something to be very proud of. We said from the beginning, if we leave it all on the mat and have no regrets, then the rest will happen how it happens and that's exactly what they did. They walked off with no regrets. What a statement to make as our last year of a competitive cheer team."
Centenary athletics announced the addition of STUNT in the 2024-2025 Academic year back in November, with competition to begin Spring 2025, and is the first collegiate program in the State of Louisiana.
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See the complete Cheer season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/cheer/2023-24/schedule
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