PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — George Fox University Cheer and Stunt Program Director Reba McLennan and her coaching staff took the Bruins’ cheer squad from a club team in 2018 that was filed under Marketing — to just this last year, a team under Athletics that is recognized as a sanctioned Division III Cheer and Stunt Team.
It was a goal of McLennan’s to one-day field a team to compete in Stunt when she first arrived on campus six years ago.
Now that these cheer and stunt team members are George Fox student athletes and not just a club team, they are doing something the Northwest Conference has never seen before.
“We had three tournaments – one in Arizona and two in California and it was about our second tournament and they publish rankings every week, kind of like any other sport would,” McLennan explained of the 2024 season last spring, “and we slowly got further and further up on the rankings.”
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And in their inaugural season last year they accomplished something that many programs don’t even come close to achieving — a third place finish at Nationals in all of Division III Stunt.