Spectators are used to seeing cheerleaders pumping up the crowd at football games, but this weekend the spotlight is all theirs.
The varsity cheerleading team at Plant City High School is competing on Feb. 10 at the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship in Orlando.
The team won its category in the state competition last weekend.
“How excited are you guys for this weekend?” asked St. Germain.
“We’ve always worked to be going to nationals, and this is one of the years we are a very good contender, so all of our hard work has paid off,” said Larkin Baxter, Cheerleader at Plant City High School.
Skotti Snapp Mesquita is the varsity cheerleading coach at Plant City High School.
“We won our first regional championship in 2020, and that really turned the page that 2020 year for us,” said Snapp Mesquita.
She continued, “Since then, we won our 5th regional title this year. Our district championship twice. We just won our second state championship, and we are going to national this weekend as a true contender.”