Last weekend, my daughter and her provincial champion teammates took the show to the Power Cheer National Championships, which were held in Mississauga, Ontario.<\/p>\n
The weekend started out with some fun as T-bone, the better half and I made a pitstop at Staples to pick up some bristol board and markers, with which we proceeded to make up some signs to wave as we cheered on Cookie and her teammates.<\/p>\n
The Hershey Center was split up with two floors going at once which meant the place was rocking all weekend.\u00a0 They had demo performances and some great tumbling stunts performed by alum from my alma mater, the University of Western Ontario.\u00a0 The reigning national collegiate champs for over 20 years running.<\/p>\n
Cookie and her teammates took the floor for their first performance on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 The run was a bit shaky and they were sitting in 9th out of 12 teams when the first round came to a close.\u00a0 Hope was not lost, but they knew they needed to make up a lot of ground to climb into the medals.<\/p>\n
The second run started out really strong and they maintained it through to the end of their performance, where they had a slight bauble in their last stunt.\u00a0 All in all, it was a very solid performance and ranked third best in the second run.
\nWhen the two scores were tabulated, they had finished a solid fifth in the nation.\u00a0 This means her cheerleading season is winding down with one invitational left to go.\u00a0 Needless to say, I am the very proud father of this 9 year old provincial champion.\u00a0 She (and her team mates) may have finished 5th in the country, but they are, definately, first in my eyes.
\nShe still has the provincial rhythmic gymnastics championships to go in a few weeks and then she (and we) can relax a little bit.\u00a0 T-Bone has soccer season revving up soon which means many evenings swatting bugs and smearing the sunscreen on as we tour around Kanata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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