4 AYF Cheer Teams From Brick Honored By Mayor, Council

Two won national championships and the others placed high at the competition in December.

Karen Wall, Patch Staff

Posted Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm ET|Updated Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:27 am ET

BRICK, NJ — Four teams of cheerleaders from Brick were honored Tuesday night for their successes at the American Youth Cheer national championships in Florida in December.

Two teams from the Brick Memorial Mustangs and two from the Brick Dragons AYC organizations were honored with resolutions and certificates, and also with a fire truck escort to the municipal building.

"Even we were caught off-guard by that," Mayor John G. Ducey said, laughing, as he praised the fire companies for supporting the girlls. "We heard the sirens and didn't know what was going on."

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The Brick Memorial Mustangs D14 Large Red and the Brick Dragons D8 Small White each won national championships. The Mustangs D14 team placed first in all of its competitions en route to nationals, Brick Memorial AYF/AYC president Dave Betten said.

The Brick Memorial Mustangs D8 Small White team placed second and the Brick Dragons D12 Small White team placed third.