April 14, 2011

The Charlottesville Shooting Stars are a competition cheerleading team. They recently took third place in an east coast tournament.

"We stunt, and we jump, and we tumble and it's just really fun showing a panel of judges what we can do," said Abby Wilson, a Charlottesville Shooting Star cheerleader.

Anyone who wants to join the team is able to participate.

"We invite everyone because we believe that any cheerleader who wants to, can. As long as you have the attitude that you want to learn we will invite you in and teach you everything we can," said Megan Deluccia, the coach. For this week's segment of Make Dan Sweat, CBS19's Dan Schutte decided to try his hand at cheerleading. From the dancing, to the tumbling, to the cheering, Dan learned that cheering takes a lot of practice.

"We practice two times a week for two hours, and lots of us go to tumbling on Tuesday nights," said Madeline Bryant, a Charlottesville Shooting Star cheerleader. "It's really hard work and we get yelled at sometimes, but it's worth it because we ended up doing well."