March 12-16 was the week of Canton’s junior high and high school cheer tryouts for the upcoming school year. Monday through Thursday students trying out will stay after school from four to five o’clock. The students trying out have to learn the fight song, two cheers, and jumps.

On Friday three cheerleaders from NOC (Northern Oklahoma College) will be coming to Canton to judge the high school tryouts, and three cheerleaders from SWOSU (Southwestern Oklahoma State University) are judging the junior high tryouts.

There are a total of fourteen people trying out for the high school cheerleading team and a total of fourteen people trying out for the junior high cheerleading team. Seniors Kyla Littleton and Callie Butler volunteered to stay after school and help cheer coaches Kayce Thompson and Sarah Keefer with teaching the students at tryouts.

The new high school cheerleaders are

High School

Jenny Delgado

Ally Nix

Kalissa Wile

Courtney Thompson

Brianna Ross

Kenidi Humbargar

Hanna Sullins

Cadence Pugh

Braxton Thompson

Kenzi Nix

Kylie Nix

Junior High:

Ariel Green

Ashlyn Ruiz

Lea Vowell

Kiana Whiteman 

Alyse Whiteman

Kylie Stricklin

Kylie Carrasco

Alexa Delgado