Fox Chapel Area cheerleaders headed to prestigious national competition

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Fox Chapel Area cheerleaders headed to prestigious national competition

Tribune-Review | Tuesday, December 20, 2022 4:02 p.m.

Courtesy of the Fox Chapel Area School District

Fox Chapel Area High School cheerleaders are headed to the National High School Cheerleading Championship at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 10-12, 2023. The compeition squad is shown here competing in December 2022 at Robert Morris University.

For the first time in school history, a Fox Chapel Area High School varsity cheerleading squad has earned a bid to compete at the National High School Cheerleading Championship.

The competition is Feb. 10-12, 2023 at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. and is considered the most prestigious high school national cheerleading championship in the country.

The competition squad will compete in the small varsity non-tumbling division and will be judged on the difficulty and execution of cheer, partner stunts, pyramid, jumps, and dance, crowd leading, and overall performance.

Members of the competition squad are: seniors Kathryn Billings, Anna Li and Isabella Stipetich; juniors Fiona Brown, Mia Pietropaolo and Sophia River; sophomores, Maurena Cilenti, Mary Ann Frauenholz, Gretchen Shelestak and Alexandra Vita; and freshmen Catherine Conway, Trista Jackson, and Emma Kurtz.

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