The USF All-Girl cheer team decided that winning a national championship wasn’t their goal. They wanted to win two, and that’s exactly what they did at last week’s Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) College Nationals in Orlando.
For the Bulls, it’s their second-straight national championship in the Division I-A Game Day competition and the squad’s first in the Division I-A Traditional competition.
USF became the first-ever Division I program to win national titles in both All Girl Game Day and All Girl Traditional competitions in the same year. The wins marked the fifth and sixth UCA national championships earned by the USF cheer programs in the last four years.
“Our motto all season was to ‘Leave No Doubt,'” said head coach Sandy Clarke. “To be able to do back-to-back in “Game Day” and “Traditional” in the same year, it gives me chills. Still one of those things that I’m not quite grasping that it’s real.”
Cheerleading is a year-round sport at the college level. The athletes said doing all the little things right is the key to finding success on the biggest stage.