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It boils down this way.... Many squads have junior high girls on their cheerleading squads, PERIOD! Pikeville is not breaking any rule or not allowed to compete in Kapos because they have junior high girls on the squad. People don't say anything, not because it is Pikeville, but because the rules are written so that schools that include students grades 7-12 can include all ages on their competition squads.... waivers are usually filled out, etc.

Unless I miss my guess, the junior high squad that competes at nationals includes ONLY junior high students, while the KAPOS squad has some high schoolers on it (at least this is how it used to be). It seems to me as though we should be happy that a team from this region did well without qualifying it as "If so and so was there, they wouldn't have won..." This thread is a congratulatory thread for the girls who worked their butts off and won a well-deserved title, not a bashing session.