{"id":1704,"date":"2026-03-03T23:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/1704\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:47:17","slug":"sweet-home-lebanon-compete-at-national-cheer-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/1704\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Home, Lebanon compete at national cheer competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A week after winning state titles at the OSAA state 4A and 5A championships, Sweet Home\u2019s and Lebanon\u2019s competition cheer teams were in Anaheim, Calif., to compete in the USA Spirit Nationals.<\/p>\n

The competition, held Feb. 19-23, drew top teams from throughout the West, including Hawaii and Alaska, Sweet Home Coach Amber Rosa said.<\/p>\n

The Huskies competed in a total of seven competitions, involving both stunt and traditional cheer, at the competition, where they found themselves up against teams from much larger schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were one of the smaller schools,\u201d Rosa said.<\/p>\n

Still, Sweet Home finished fourth in the Show Cheer Intermediate competition prelims, than sixth in the finals.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWe hit it perfectly on Friday and our goal was to hit it perfectly on Saturday,\u201d Rosa said. They did, performing the same routine they had at state, and actually increased their score from 94.4 in the prelims to 95.1 in the finals, \u201cbut some other teams also upped their scores,\u201d Rosa said. \u201cWe fell to sixth, but sixth place feels like first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal there was just to improve our scores,\u201d she added. \u201cWe did much better than we have in the past, but not quite high enough to place.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Varsity Show Cheer Novice competition, Lebanon placed eighth with a score of 91.4, after a three-point deduction.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sweet Home finished 14th in Game Day Situational Sideline\/Cheer, finishing with a 92.2 score after a two-point deduction.<\/p>\n

At the Oregon Cheer Coaches Association championships, held that same weekend in Salem,<\/p>\n

Sweet Home\u2019s third- through sixth-grade club team finished first, and its sixth- through eighth-grade team finished second.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great year and we\u2019re looking forward to next year,\u201d Rosa said. \u201cWe\u2019re just losing two seniors and we have just two juniors (of 11 total on the roster). We\u2019re getting 12 eighth-graders, so the future is bright.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after winning state titles at the OSAA state 4A and 5A championships, Sweet Home\u2019s and Lebanon\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[1535,93,549,1536],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-cheer","tag-lebanon","tag-sports","tag-sweet-home"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116167917412753143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}