Written by Mr. Inland Empire
The photo above is from the Rialto Knights Twitter account. The picture shows the waiting moments of waiting for the results on their first place finish at Nationals In Anahiem on Sunday. Well a picture is worth a thousand words and this picture tells it all.
Well if the 1st place finish at the USA Spirit State Championships wasn’t enough your Rialto High School Cheer Team has now finished 1st at the USA Spirit Nationals. The Rialto Cheer team division had nine teams for preliminaries on March 19th and three teams for finals on March 20th. Thousand Oaks placed third and Temple City placed second behind your Rialto Knights!!!!!! See the video of the winning cheer at the top of this story.
The AWESOME team of girls took over the stage at the Anaheim Convention Center and owned their performance. The Inland Empire was well represented with teams from Fontana, Rialto, Chino Hills and Beaumont all competing for a win on the National Stage. Were super excited to see this team representing not only the Inland Empire but Rialto in a big way. It’s awesome to see that they were sent off by their classmates in the best way possible to get they big win.
You may have caught our story of Summit High School in Fontana winning their 5th Nationals title. Well if you did and your wondering how two cheer teams in the Inland Empire can be National Champs in the same year we were too. So we reached out to Summit High Coach Jesse Cerda to find out what we were missing:
“The difference between the win is simply the division that we compete in. We compete in Varsity Coed Show Cheer Intermediate which allows for tumbling and Rialto competes in the Varsity Show Cheer Non-Tumbling Division which does not include any type of tumbling in their division but more advanced stunts. Summit and Rialto supported each other in preparing for competition performing for each other prior to the Nationals competition and we went out and cheered for each other in competition so it was really nice to have the mutual support.”
It is awesome to see that sports are teaching student to work together and support each other. It is also awesome to see coaches in Fontana and Rialto raising up Inland Empire all stars that have joined together to show the rest of the Nation and State how we do it in the IE with class and style.
