The Zeeland West Cheer team competed in the LMCCOA Scholarship Invite at Byron Center High School on January 25. The girls placed second with a score of 740.8.

Their coach Emillie Gort said “I thought the girls competed very well. They came out with a lot of energy. Although I think the scores didn’t reflect their effort, we got robbed of first place. This was a good trial run for regionals because a lot of the teams at LMCCOA, we compete with at regionals. We are really proud of our senior Riley Howe for earning the scholarship, she works very hard on the mat and off.”

The girls scored 226.5 in round one, 218.1 in round 2, and 296.2 in round 3.

Sr. Riley Howe earned a scholarship through this invitational. Howe said “I thought that our competition went really well. We had a very strong round one, and all of our jumps were on time. Our round two was different from previous competitions, but it scored better, and all of our skills went well. We hit our round three, and our stunts looked really good! It felt very rewarding to earn the scholarship, and it was nice to be acknowledged!”