Sports
Elkridge Cheerleading Team Makes It To World Championships, ESPN
Tsunami, a team that practices in a Dorsey Run Road gym, will be featured for its performance during the 2011 'Olympics of cheerleading.'
An Elkridge-based cheerleading team will be featured during ESPN’s coverage of the "Cheerleading Worlds" championship on Sunday, May 15.
This is the third consecutive year that the local team, Tsunami, made it to the international competition.
From summer through spring, the Tsunami girls run through cheer routines at the Maryland Marlins gym (7111 Dorsey Run Rd.) in Elkridge. Their three-hour practices occur several times a week but pick up in frequency as the world competition approaches, said coach Terri Curley.
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“Walking out on the worlds floor is the best thing. That’s what we wait for all season,” said Brittany Trappe of Edgewater, captain of the 35-member team. “Worlds is like the Olympics of cheerleading."
More than 100 teams competed this year, representing over 40 countries, according to event sponsor the U.S. All Star Federation. The competition took place at Disney World in Orlando.
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While the finals for the championship were on May 1, the competition will be broadcast on ESPN U at 10 a.m. and ESPN 2 at 12 p.m. on Sunday, May 15.
Check Elkridge Patch on Monday to find out what could have ruined the Tsunami performance but didn’t and why one national magazine was knocking at the team’s door afterward.
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