Jaycee B. and competitive cheer

In a recent interview with Burton's own Jaycee B., she talked about her competitive cheer team.  Competitive cheer is when cheer teams compete against each other at a competition.  At a typical cheer competition, teams perform a two and a half minute routine with music that includes stunts, jumps and tumbling.  The name of Jaycee's team is called Top Gun.  Jaycee has been a competitive cheerleader since she was 11 years old, and she is now 16.  She has been on the Top Gun cheer team for 2 years.

The Top Gun Cheer Team consists of 21 people, all of which are girls.  The team practices for 4 hours, 3 days a week in Kingsport, Tennessee.  Her team participates in competitions that last all day.  The ages of the cheerleaders she competes against vary from 12 to 18.

They practice for their competitions that occur twice a month, January through April.  It is a level 4 cheer team, meaning that they are higher level performers that get to do stunts.  There are six levels, but the sixth level is usually reserved exhibition teams.

While asking Jaycee if she plans on having a future in cheer, she stated that she would like to go to cheer for Ole Miss, a college in Mississippi. Jaycee fell in love with Ole Miss when she went to an Ole Miss football game and a recruitment cheer clinic.

Written by: Tia