Cheer Legacy Athletics honour Broncos at nationals
It was an impressive performance for Cheer Legacy Athletics at nationals in Niagara Falls, Ont. this past weekend, and it was also a special performance. The competition team wore green bows to honour the Humboldt Broncos involved in Friday’s tragedy.
The North Battleford club sent its junior level-two team, made up of 14 female athletes and one male athlete between the ages of 10 and 13, and they managed to tie for second place after day one and ended up fourth after the final day of competition.
“Their first performance had us in tears. It was just so so awesome,” CLA head coach and founder Lesia Rathje said. “The stage that they performed on was the largest in Canada. To see them on that stage and smiling and having fun and enjoying themselves, and putting on the floor what they’ve worked for all season just made us, as coaches, so, so proud.”
Rathje said the routines the team performed were also error-free, or, to use the cheerleading term, they ‘hit zero.’