BC Cheerleading CUNYAC Champs for Ninth Time
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR BULLDOGS? Brooklyn College is not the only school with a bulldog as a mascot. Can you match the schools to their dog?
T
he Brooklyn College cheerleading team once again dazzled a capacity crowd at the 2015 CUNYAC Cheerleading
Championships, hosted by York College, CUNY capturing its ninth overall—and third consecutive—conference crown. Brooklyn finished first out of the five squads that
1. Mississippi State University
a. Handsome Dan
entered into the team-scoring competition,
2. University of Minnesota, Duluth
b. Colonel Rock
3. Yale c. Bully
earning a score of 78.33. “I am extremely proud of this team,” says
Head Coach Tonika Simmons. “We worked hard and never gave up when times got stressful.
4. Georgetown
d. Jack
Our seniors are an amazing group that will be
5. Brooklyn College
e. Uga
led us tonight.”
6. Western Illinois University
f. Champ
7. University of Georgia
g. Buster
competition, while Jacey Friedlander won the
missed, but they had a tremendous impact, and The Bulldogs also won two of the three
skills competitions, taking first in the stunt jumping competition. Brooklyn College Junior
Answers: 1–c; 2–f; 3–a; 4–d; 5–g; 6–b; 7–e.
Cristina Careri finished second in the tumbling competition. The Bulldogs were not done there, as senior Amanda Strano was named CUNYAC Performer of the Year in the first year of that award being given in the sport of cheerleading. —Alex Lang
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