Cheer, dance, step teams, color guards perform in showcase
Author: Tammy L. Lane • First Posted: Tuesday, March 05, 2013
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Beaumont: grand champion / cheer
Students put their best foot forward in the annual Fayette County Middle School Cheer, Dance and Step Showcase, which Paul Laurence Dunbar High School hosted March 2. Grand champion trophies went to Beaumont, Edythe J. Hayes and Lexington Traditional Magnet School, and more than 400 students were recognized for achieving GPA’s between 3.0 and 4.0.
Cheerleading awards
- Grand champion: Beaumont
- Choreography: Edythe J. Hayes
- Spirit: Tates Creek
- Crowd spirit: Edythe J. Hayes
- Sideline/timeout cheer: 1st Southern
- Level 1: 1st Morton B, 2nd Crawford, 3rd Leestown, 4th Bryan Station
- Level 3: 1st Jessie Clark, 2nd Winburn, 3rd LTMS, 4th Tates Creek
- Level 5: 1st Beaumont, 2nd E.J. Hayes, 3rd Morton A
Dance, step, color guard awards
- Grand champion / dance: Edythe J. Hayes pom
- Grand champion / step: LTMS
- Grand champion / color guard: LTMS
- Choreography: LTMS hip hop
- Spirit award: LTMS
- Crowd award: Morton
- Pom: 1st Edythe J. Hayes, 2nd Southern
- Hip hop: 1st LTMS, 2nd Jessie Clark, 3rd Crawford, 4th Tates Creek
- Jazz: 1st Edythe J. Hayes, 2nd Morton, 3rd LTMS, 4th Jessie Clark, 5th Beaumont
- Step: 1st LTMS, 2nd Tates Creek, 3rd Beaumont
- Color guard: 1st LTMS
Spirit awards
- Beaumont: Nakaiya Mayberry, cheer; Jordan Scholl, dance; Caitlyn Merriam, step
- Bryan Station: Sienna Smedley, cheer
- Crawford: Kaitlynn Kersey, cheer; Sierra Gilbert, dance
- Edythe J. Hayes: Kayla Williams, cheer; Blair Preston, dance
- Jessie Clark: Ashley Romero, cheer; Tayver Allen, dance
- Leestown: Katera Williams, cheer
- LTMS: Becky Faulconer, cheer; Courtney Fuller and Ashton Whitney, dance; Sabri Williams, step; Lishaun Shelby, hip hop; Kira Whitfield, color guard
- Morton: Claire Marie Hall and Lucie Helmers, cheer; Caroline Mahan, dance
- Southern: Allison Rickert, cheer; Stacia Goodman, dance
- Tates Creek: Shianne White, cheer; Presley Back, dance; Jassmine Byrd, step
- Winburn: Leighanne Guetller-James, cheer
For more information about the showcase, contact Judy Lowry at Morton.
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