Cheer champs

The Pin Oak Middle School Charger Cheer Team earned first place and the title of Grand Champion Winners out of all competing teams at the United Cheer’s Beach Blast Competition. The Charger Cheer Team won National Grand Champions and first place in their division at the Cheer America iNationals. The team is composed of both seventh- and eighth-grade students and were led by POMS Dance and Cheer Director Jonahira Cordero. Pictured are (back row, from left) Ms. Cordero, Adell Anderson, Anna Claire Dykoski, Lila Byrd, Ella Mukoka, Kourtlyn Kyle, Vivian Hussain, Lilly Rissmiller, Quinn Sachtleben; (middle row, from left) Sydney Barringer, Chloe Pham, Liah Schroit, Cindy Westin, Jentry Byrd, Kate Allen, Reagan Reichek, CJ Meador; (front row, from left) Anika Shultz, Ella Casso, Ella Sederis, Quinn Cernosek, Cameron From, Evann Meador, McKenna Motes, and Charlotte Allen.

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