Denby McGinty celebrating the second-place position at the Future Cheer competition.
A CHEERLEADER from Tong has landed a place in a national team after achieving European success.
Denby McGinty, a pupil at Tong Secondary School, has been been training with the Yorkshire Martyrs team for the last six and a half years.
And, after taking on the Future Cheer comp in Barcelona, the team won a ‘summit bid’ to go to Orlando for a prestigious international competition - an invitation only given to a total of eight teams.
The competition, which will take place in April 2020, is a build-up to the World Cheerleading Championships.
Denby said: “I was really nervous about competing but enjoyed it. I started crying when I got the results, and I am really excited about going to Florida.”
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