Mica Shipley is one of six seniors back to lead the CHS cheer squad. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Don’t stop until you hit the top.
The Coupeville High School cheer squad returned to competition last year and shocked a few people by immediately claiming 3rd place at the state championships.
Now, with most of last year’s key performers back in place, and one big new addition, the Wolves want more.
Second-year CHS coach BreAnna Boon has 11 athletes on her current roster, headed up by six seniors.
Mica Shipley and Ashleigh Battaglia, who competed during the off-season as well, are joined by Melia Welling, Ja’Tarya Hoskins, Marenna Rebischke-Smith and Gavin St Onge.
The younger brother of former Wolf cheerleader Ciera St Onge, Gavin is splitting time between the school’s football team, where he will anchor the line, and the cheer squad.
In his relatively short time in the cheer world, St Onge has already made a significant impact.
He earned All-American honors at a summer camp the team attended, and opens up a world of new stunting for the squad.
Rounding out the current group, which will work the sidelines at CHS football games, are juniors Coral Caveness and Emily Fiedler, sophomore Kim Castro and freshmen Lucy Crouch and Karyme Castro.
The competition squad will be selected in the coming weeks, with the first meet set for Nov. 2.
The Wolves at work:
Go Mica we are so very proud of you!!!! You are so talented and a beautiful young woman inside and out!!! Go on and reach for the stars!!!!!!!! Love Aunt Paula Sarah and the rest of the Richardson Jennings and Burt Family!!!!!!!