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Suburban Teams Fare Well at State Cheer Competition

Joliet West won the large team division and Buffalo Grove took the state title in the co-ed division. Find out how other teams fared.

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High school cheerleading teams from across the suburbs were celebrating Saturday night following this year’s state competition.

The Buffalo Grove co-ed cheer team captured their third state title in four years Saturday as they competed against dozens of other team in front of a packed arena at the U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, the Daily Herald reports. The cheer team was greeted with applause when returning home Saturday night.


The Joliet West cheerleading squad won the school’s first state trophy, beating Providence Catholic to win the large team division, the Joliet Herald News reports. The team will be honored during a ceremony at noon on Sunday at the auditorium at the west campus.


Oak Forest won the state title in the medium division while Wilmington High School won in the small team division.

Here is a look at how other teams fared at state:

Coed Team

  1. Buffalo Grove
  2. Belvidere North (Belvidere)
  3. Niles North (Skokie)
  4. York High School (Elmhurst)
  5. Homewood-Flossmoor (Flossmoor)
  6. Lake Park (Roselle)
  7. Metea Valley (Aurora)
  8. Grant High School (Fox Lake)
  9. Conant (Hoffman Estates)
  10. University High School (Normal)

Large Team

  1. Joliet West
  2. Providence Catholic (New Lenox)
  3. Neuqua Valley (Naperville)
  4. Sandburg (Orland Park)
  5. Lincoln-Way North (Frankfort)
  6. Huntley
  7. Lake Zurich
  8. Stevenson (Lincolnshire)
  9. Lockport Township High School
  10. Wheaton North

Medium

  1. Oak Forest
  2. Lemont
  3. Crystal Lake Central
  4. Yorkville
  5. Columbia
  6. Tinley Park
  7. Washington
  8. Wauconda
  9. Grayslake (Central)
  10. Highland

Small

  1. Wilmington
  2. Carlyle
  3. Breese (Central)
  4. Fithian (Oakwood
  5. Dwight
  6. Paris
  7. Elmhurst (Timothy Christian)
  8. Braidwood (Reed-Custer)
  9. Carterville
  10. New Berlin

And here is a look at photos and videos posted on the Twitter pages of suburban cheer teams following their trip to state:

Crystal Lake Central


York High School


Neuqua Valley


Wheaton North


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