BW wins 6th OCC Competition Cheer crown

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Mem­bers of the Big Wal­nut High School Com­pe­ti­tion Cheer­lead­ing Team won first place dur­ing Sunday’s Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Com­pe­ti­tion held at Dublin Jerome High School.

Big Wal­nut pre­vi­ously won the OCC Cap in 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2010, and been divi­sion runners-up in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

“This year’s com­pe­ti­tion team has had an impres­sive run,” said Big Walnut’s Head Cheer­lead­ing Coach Sarah Kern-Kildow. “The girls earned a First Place at Pick­er­ing­ton Cheer For A Cure, they were third at Ohio State, State Qual­i­fier for OASSA, First Place at Americheer Open Nation­als, and now reclaim­ing our OCC League Title.”

Kern-Kildow said the Sat­ur­day, March 2, Arnold Clas­sic Nation­als and OASSA State Com­pe­ti­tion on Sun­day, March 3, are still on the team’s schedule.

“Last year we fin­ished our per­sonal best third in the State for Divi­sion 2 Non-Mount,” Kern-Kildow said. “This year we’re focus­ing on tak­ing the top spot. We have increased our tum­bling this year and it’s pay­ing off in the results at our competitions.”

Kern-Kildow said the com­pe­ti­tion squad has been con­sis­tently beat­ing or scor­ing along side estab­lished Divi­sion I schools like Hilliard David­son, Darby, Bradley, Gahanna, the Pick­er­ing­tons, Dublins and Westervilles.

“We have an amaz­ing group of young ath­letes who show a tremen­dous work ethic, pos­i­tive atti­tudes and sup­port one another,” Kern-Kildow said. “This is one of the most tal­ented groups I have ever worked with, and our senior lead­er­ship has helped get us this far.”

Mem­bers of the Big Wal­nut High School Com­pe­ti­tion Cheer­lead­ing Team are seniors Jour­ney Ramey, Court­ney King, Stephanie Keller and Sela Garand (all four seniors were named OCC All-Stars at the OCC com­pe­ti­tion); junior Alli­son Daugh­erty; sopho­mores Kennedy Walls and Stephanie Sut­ton; and fresh­men Syd­ney King, Devin Rear­don, Saman­tha Bux­ton, Kylie McKen­zie and Danielle Herman.

Kern-Kildow’s assis­tant coaches are Stacey Hamil­ton and Savan­nah Brown.

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