Grandville wins Falcon
invitational

by Advance Newspapers

Monday January 28, 2008, 2:32 PM

The Grandville cheer team
won the Falcon Invitational at East Kentwood
last week. Their scores were 222.5, 241.524 and 311, for a total of 775.024.
The girls have a young team, but they continue to compete at a high-level.

"It
was a team effort, all of the seniors are doing a great job, and the younger
girls have been following their lead," said Grandville coach Julie
Smith-Boyd.

Coach Smith-Boyd has been
coaching for 27 years, but she was unable to be at this competition, and her
two assistant coaches stepped-in and did a great job in her place, Christy
Olivier and one of her former cheerleaders Katie Nguyen.

On Saturday, the girls
competed at Lake
Orion and finished
third. They were ahead by 40 points after the first round, and coach
Smith-Boyd thinks it was their best first round of the year. After the second
round, they were behind by two points to last year's state champions Rochester, and then
finished in third place.

The girls will be at Mt. Pleasant
this weekend, and then the following week at the Delta Plex.