The Little Team with the Big Heart

Some of you know we have a 12-year old daughter who we lovingly call "the Monster." Well, over the last few years our little monster has decided that her sport of choice is cheerleading. She's not picky, she loves yelling for the boys at football games as much as she loves competitive cheerleading. Last summer she took it into her heart to try out for a squad which has fielded huge championship teams for several years. However, this year many of the cheerleaders moved on to school teams or other gyms for a variety of reasons, and the squad she joined only had 13 girls. We called them PCB's Lucky 13. They had a great season, really bonding and becoming a true "team" along the way.

On Saturday this great group of girls had their last competition of the season in Gainesville. They went in strong and made us incredibly proud with an almost perfect performance. They placed first in their division (Youth Level 2), but what REALLY knocked our socks off was the announcement that they were Grand Champions for the entire competition. For those of you not familiar with competitive cheerleading, this means, across the board they had the highest score of any competing team. We knew they were wonderful, but after a long, sometimes hard season, the fact they were finally getting the recognition they deserved from the judges, well, let's just say, there were some tears...

I guess it helps to have parents who do what we do for a living because we did our best to document the season for the girls and their families. Yesterday they had the end of year banquet for Elite and we showed this highlight video we put together. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed working on it. We know that this is an end of an era for many of these girls, 10 of the 13 will be trying out for the junior high squad this week. We wish you all luck and hope you get the chance to continue to be the strong, supportive team you became this year at Surfside!