Amazing Athletes

SALISBURY – Congratulations to these two Parkside High School student athletes. Kristin Morris and Chelsea Lahey traveled over 700 miles to Indianapolis, Indiana along with their 34 teammates to capture the title of JamFest National Cheerleading Champions in the Large Senior Level 5 All-girl Division.

These young ladies are members of an elite and nationally ranked competitive cheerleading team out of Glen Burnie, Maryland, Maryland Twisters F5. Not only did they win their division, but they were awarded a full paid bid to cheerleading Worlds held in Orlando, Florida in April and the Maryland Twisters F5 team is definitely a contender to win Cheerleading Worlds in 2009.

There were 470 teams and over 9000 cheerleaders battling for the prestigious titles. Dedication and commitment is what has inspired these athletes to travel a minimum of 3 times per week to just outside of the Baltimore area for practices. (2 hrs. each way) Their friends have commented that the amount of time, travel, and expense of this commitment is ridiculous. However, these ladies have in mind a bigger goal, full paid college cheerleading scholarships.

Chelsea, a senior in high school, was just accepted to Louisville in Kentucky and hopes to make the college cheerleading team. The girls agree that without discipline and focus they would not have been victorious last weekend over the 2008 reigning 0World Cheerleading Championship team, “World Cup ~ Shooting Stars”. The next venue for a National Championship title is with NCA in Dallas, Texas in February and will be televised on ESPN. Kristin is the daughter of Lori & Michael Benson of Salisbury and Chelsea is the daughter of Mike Lahey of Salisbury and Cathy Landon of Crisfield.