A cute and spunky cheerleading team practices over summer break to win the spirit stick at their pep rally and to compete in a national competition.
But when the team captain Campbell, played by Nadia Vynnytsky, gets relocated to a different school things get a little shaky.
Once at her new school, Jackson High School, she sees a familiar face, Bridget, played by Massie Salinger.
She was formally known as their mascot. Trying to find their way through the school, they stumble upon the school’s dance crew and make fast enemies with their leader, Danielle, played by Zuri Washington.
After a long day of school, Bridget and Campbell go to the restaurant Burger Pagoda, where two girls are bullying Danielle. Campbell decides to stand up for Danielle and the two girls leave.
Campbell really wants to be a part of the school’s dance crew and would do anything to be on it, so she does.
She agrees to be the mascot, Lucky the Irish leprechaun, to prove how much it means to her to be on a team. After they all dance for the school, Danielle and Campbell become friends and Campbell suggests entering the cheerleading competition.
These are both lies, because the winner’s only win a trophy. But Danielle agrees and works the team to be the best it can be.
Days before the competition, Danielle finds out that Campbell lied to her about the prizes. Danielle and Campbell fight and break the team up. At the last minute, Campbell realizes that she really hurt Danielle and apologizes.
The reason all of this happened was because of Campbell’s next door neighbor, sophomore Eva, played by Emily Mitchell.
She purposely got Campbell relocated so she could take over the cheer squad and win the trophy, but after Campbell explains everything to Danielle, they reunite and go to the cheer competition. At the competition, Eva sees Campbell and her team and questions them as to why they are there.
After they put on amazing performances, full of flips, pyramids, cheers and tricks, they wait anxiously for the winner. And the winner is…Truman High School!
Even though Campbell and Danielle’s team did not win, they were OK with it and remained friends throughout their final year of high school.
-Sarah Davidson is a sophomore at Shippensburg Area Senior High School.
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