Grade: Senior
Age: 18
Sports: Cheer/competitive cheer, track
Claim to fame/honors: Three-time city high jump champion; captain and lead choreographer for cheerleading team; member of competitive cheerleading team that finished third in state; named team’s cheerleader of the year, most dedicated and earned Coach’s Award; received the Dayton Public Schools Superintendent Scholar-Athlete Award; honors student plans to attend Central State University.
Bet you didn’t know … Cheerleading IS a sport
Words you live by: Book sense without common sense makes no sense — Bobby J. Bogan, Sr.
Toughest opponent: Myself
Biggest influence: My family and cheer coach
Match-day rituals: Praying before every game
What’s on your bedroom walls? Tiffany Blue paint
When I’m bored I like to … make up cheers
Favorite movie: Dreamgirls
Person who would play you in a movie: My best friend Genae or Taraji P. Henson
Favorite TV show: Sponge Bob and Law & Order SVU
Favorite musical artist: Frank Ocean and Daniel Caesar
I can’t live without: Food; I love to eat.
I can live without: Pets
Event you’d like to attend: Frank Ocean concert, National Stomp-N-Shake Cheer and Dance Competition
Favorite book: The Bible
Favorite home-cooked meal: Anything my mom cooks
Favorite restaurant: Chick-fil-A
Favorite smell: Twisted Peppermint by Bath and Body Works
Favorite cereal: Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Store where you’d like a shopping spree: Build-A-Bear. I would get about five bears and deck them out.
Vegetable you won’t eat: Okra and cauliflower
I’d love to trade places for a day with … Jhene’ Aiko (singer and songwriter)
Whose mind would you like to read? My dad’s
Place where you’d love to travel? Hawaii
Talent you’d like to have? I’d like to play the piano
Favorite school subject: Language Arts
Favorite athlete: Angel Rice (two-time World Cheerleading Champion and member of USA Gymnastics National Power Tumbling Team)
Favorite team: Cleveland Cavaliers
Favorite Olympic sport: Diving
Something in the world I’d like to change: Racism and child hunger
Favorite sports moment: Stivers cheerleaders being the first Dayton Public School to compete and place at the state level
Favorite junk food: I don’t eat junk food
Best thing about cheer: I encourage others to be happy
In 10 years, I hope to be … successful with my master’s degree, and own a day care and cheer gym
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