Contributed photo Mary Catherine Coltrane and Essence Gilbert received word last night that they had been selected for All State Cheer Team. After being nominated for All-Region by their coach, Meredith Hood, they submitted a video demonstrating cheer, dance, jumps and tumbling. Both girls were selected to All-Region and then invited to try out for All-State at Southern Alamance High School on May 17. They competed with 71 girls in the categories of cheer, dance, jumps, stunting and tumbling. As members of the All-State Cheer Team, they will spend five days in Greensboro in July where they will work on choreography and then perform at the basketball game, coaches’ conference and football game. Coltrane and Gilbert are the first RSHS cheerleaders to receive All-State honors. Thirty-six cheerleaders from high schools in North Carolina were selected for the All-State cheer team.

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Mary Catherine Coltrane and Essence Gilbert received word last night that they had been selected for All State Cheer Team. After being nominated for All-Region by their coach, Meredith Hood, they submitted a video demonstrating cheer, dance, jumps and tumbling. Both girls were selected to All-Region and then invited to try out for All-State at Southern Alamance High School on May 17. They competed with 71 girls in the categories of cheer, dance, jumps, stunting and tumbling. As members of the All-State Cheer Team, they will spend five days in Greensboro in July where they will work on choreography and then perform at the basketball game, coaches’ conference and football game. Coltrane and Gilbert are the first RSHS cheerleaders to receive All-State honors. Thirty-six cheerleaders from high schools in North Carolina were selected for the All-State cheer team.

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