Future Cheer Triumph

We competed for the very first time as a team last weekend at Future Cheer's Saturday Night Fever Competition.

After a full day of routines, the awards were announced. The Celtics took home four first place trophies for University/Open All-Girl Level 5, All-Girl Open Stunt Group Level 5, Mike and Rachel Partner Stunt level 6 and Co-Ed Open Stunt Group level 6. Two 2nd place trophies for University/Open Co-Ed 6 and Tim and Sarah Partner Stunt 5. They were also proud of James and Laura, Sophie and Jen who both entered Partner Stunt 5, placing 4th and 6th respectively.

This weekend was a tremendous accomplishment for the Celtics, seeing their Co-Ed Group Stunt defending their title for the 16th time in a row, their All-Girl team were favourites to win the Grand Champion title and their Co-Ed team displaying complex and inspiring stunts and pyramids previously unseen in the UK, securing their consistent ranking as some of Britain’s best cheerleaders.

Post comp, the training and competition pressure seems to have caught up with everyone, especially Laura who has Bronchitis! During the competition day I thought I was going to die; the night before I didn't comit to a basket and torpedoed head first into Tim Burnett's chest from my arabian split full basket leaving me seeing stars and one side of my neck was a lot bigger than the other!

Cheerleaders triumph at ICC Regionals

The Celtic's were featured in the Leeds Student Paper:

24/01/2008

The Leeds Celtics have wiped the gymnasium floor clean once again, being placed first in every division that they entered at the recent ICC Northern Regional competition held here in Leeds. Against tough competition the Senior Group Stunt, Senior Co-ed Group Stunt, Senior All Girl and Open Co-ed teams all achieved first place positions. Mike McMahon and Rachel Pearson, Stunt and Sophie Ibbotson and Jennifer Ingram both won in the pairs events. The Celtics are next in action at the 'Heart of England' Championships on Valentines Day.

The year so far...

This little video created by Steph Lim highlights our progress and skills since September 2007, as well as showing how much fun we have had this term.



Our most first competition of the year was hosted by the International Cheerleading Coalition(ICC) which took place in our back garden at the University of Leeds. We entered 6 divisions, and won 6 First Place trophies!

I am extremely proud of every single member of the team who in spite of other commitments to academics, work, and extra curricular activities, made every effort to be at training and to work hard to excel in their area of the routine.

Becky Hughes, a former Lincoln Jet Cheerleader said,
“ICC Northern Regionals 2007 was my first competition with the Celtics, we’d trained hard for a couple of months, there was a few problems along the way with stunts, but we all pulled through together on the day. This is a fantastic experience knowing that the team will help each other out, work hard when it counts and make sure we have those 1st place trophies at the end of it. Nothing beats that!”

We encourage each other, we fight along side each other, and we work for each other.

I am proud to be a Celtic

For more videos of our team visit our media page.