Cheerleaders Shine at Weekend Tournament at SHS

The Scarsdale Cheerleaders hosted their eighth annual cheerleading competition at Scarsdale High School on Saturday, January 12th. About 30 teams from Westchester County, the Bronx, Putnam County and Pennsylvania participated. The competition was a fundraiser for the high school cheerleading program, helping to send both their JV and Varsity teams to compete at the Nationals Championships in Orlando, Florida the weekend of February 8, 2013.

This year's Scarsdale Varsity team is lead by captains Taylor Doyle and Ali Levy and dominated by seniors.

According to Coach Stacy Monteiro, "Having mostly seniors this year and many of them who have been on Varsity since they were freshman their attitudes, work ethic and skill level is much better this year than in previous years so they have productive practices, work harder and compete better. They have also been scoring much higher on their score sheets, placing in the top 3 at competitions except for regionals. This current team took 5th place out of 18 teams at the Northeast Regional Qualifier for Nationals. Both our JV and Varsity teams will attend the Nationals championships in Orlando from Feb. 7th - 11th."

Here's a list of the teams that participated on Saturday:

Those in bold were winners in their divisions:

Ardsley
Delaware Valley
Eastchester
Good Counsel
Gorton
Harrison
Our Lady of Assumption
Mount Vernon
Portchester
Preston
RC Ketcham
Stars Youth
St. Catharine's

St. Francis Xavier
St. Theresa's
Ursuline
Walton
Westlake

Photos contributed by Mary Blum and Sunny Feinstein