Grandville
Cheerleading team wins Regionals

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Newspapers, March 02, 2009

GRANDVILLE CHEERLEADING TEAM WINS REGIONALS: The Grandville
competitive cheerleading team won the regional title last weekend and will
compete in the state finals for the 16th straight year.
Competitive cheerleading first became a competition around 1981, and every
year since Grandville has been in the state finals, competing for the title.

"We are ecstatic, it
has been a bumpy year, the O-K Red is one of the toughest divisions in the
state, and it has been a learning curve all season," said Grandville
coach Julie Smith-Boyd.

Everyone on the team
contributed as the Bulldogs won the first two rounds of the competition, and
finished with a good third round to propel them to the win. The final score
was 799.5144, and East Kentwood finished in second with a score of 793.0464.

"We were solid for
all three rounds, and it was a total team effort, it was a blending of
everyone," said coach Smith-Boyd, who is in her 28th season
of coaching.

Grandville has a
relatively young team, there are only five seniors on the squad, but coach
Smith-Boyd thinks the team is ready.

"This will give us
confidence going into next week, we are peaking at the right time and I think
that is one of the keys to winning," said coach Smith-Boyd.

The state finals are next
Saturday, March 7th at 9 a.m. at the DeltaPlex.