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Saint Leo University offers clinic for girls

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Saint Leo University’s new acrobatics and tumbling program hosted its first cheerleading, acrobatics and tumbling clinic for girls ages 9 to 18 on March 23, at the Marion Bowman Activities Center, 33701 State Road 54 in St. Leo. The clinic was geared to all skill levels and focused on acrobatic, tumbling and cheerleading set skills and the proper techniques used in the sport.

Ten-year-old Samantha Alexander, of Wesley Chapel, center, receives pointers from 18-year-old Alexis Schlitt, left, and 18-year-old Carlie Whidden, right, while seated on a ‘Pac-Man,’ which is a device designed to help teach the user how to do a backhand spring. Schlitt and Whidden are both on the cheerleading squad at Saint Leo University. (Christine Holtzman)
Monica Shaw, an 18-year-old varsity cheerleader from Lakewood Ranch, performs a maneuver called a ‘standing back tuck.’ University coaches, Allie Williams, Haylee Monk and Megan Kraus, provided the instruction.
A member of the Saint Leo University cheerleading squad teaches clinic participants a new dance routine, one that is typically performed during a competition.

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