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VALDOSTA ? Valdosta High cheerleader Erin Greenhaw has been named to Inside Cheerleading magazine?s 2011 All-American team.
Greenhaw was one of only 20 cheerleaders from across the nation to make the team, and one of only two from the state of Georgia.
?It is a very big deal, and it makes me very excited, because it means all of my years of working hard and being persistent and helping my teammates and being dedicated have pretty much paid off,? Greenhaw said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and it's so exciting."
For its All-America team, Inside Cheerleading wanted to find 20 exceptional all-around student-athletes who were good ambassadors for cheerleading, both in and out of uniform.
Erin Greenhaw is exactly the type of person they were looking for.
She?s one of the top students at Valdosta High School, owning a 4.3 grade point average. Her class rank is currently No. 1. She says she has had a 100 average in nearly every class in high school. She is enrolled in the International Baccalaureate Program, which is considered the most rigorous and prestigious diploma available to high school students. She recently received a Georgia National Merit Scholar certificate.
She does a lot of community service, and participates in several extracurricular activities at school outside of cheerleading.
And she is a very accomplished cheerleader.
Greenhaw is one of the two captains of Valdosta?s football cheerleading squad. She joined her first cheerleading squad, the Valdosta Vipers at the YMCA, when she was seven years old. She first participated in cheerleading when she was three. She has been a member of Valdosta?s varsity football cheerleading squad for three years, and was on the school?s competition cheerleading squad for three years. She is in her eighth year as a competition cheerleader for Azalea Cheer Extreme, the All-Star program through Cheerzone Gym in Valdosta.
She can do a number of tumbling skills, including the standing tuck, the toe touch tuck, the roundoff back handspring tuck, the roundoff layout, the roundoff switchkick and the front punch. Her stunting skills include backspot and base for any advance stunts and baskets. She has also been a flyer.
She cheered for Valdosta?s 2010 competition cheerleading squad, which placed in the top 10 in the state.
At Cheerzone, she received the Azalea Award, which is the gym?s highest achievement. She has received Cheerzone?s Most Spirited award five times, and she has also received the Best Attitude award and the In-Gym Most Dedicated Cheerleader Scholarship.
She has been a member of two national championship teams and one grand championship team at Cheerzone.
At the 2011-2012 Athletic Championships, she was chosen to participate in an advertising campaign involving cheerleaders.
Outside of cheerleading, she is a member of the high school sorority Sigma Delta Theta. She is a batgirl for the VHS baseball team. She plans to join Valdosta?s swim team this year. She is also a member of Cheerzone?s traveling hip-hop dance team.
A devout Christian, Greenhaw is on the leadership team for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Valdosta High School. She attends Crosspointe Church, and is also involved in Young Life.
She is involved in community service through her church and her high school sorority. She is currently participating in "Project Djibouti? a program conducted by the IB students at VHS that aims to help orphans in the small African country of Djibouti. This summer, she volunteered as a DOSA camp counselor, working at a week-long summer camp for people with special needs.
?The children were given opportunities of a lifetime, and just being able to contribute to the excitement was a great honor,? she said about the DOSA camp.
Greenhaw says she will probably go to college at Georgia Tech. She plans to major in either biomedical engineering, chemical engineering or pre-medical. She is interested in medical research. She will minor in Spanish, a language she says she is already pretty fluent in.
She has a very ambitious ultimate goal: she wants to help find a cure for cancer.
?A girl named Elizabeth Pitts died (on July 1, 2010) of leukemia. She was 10 years old, and she was a dear family friend of ours. She had possessed cancer since she was about five years old, and she?d gone through all these treatments. ... She had brain tumors and leukemia and all these different things. It just broke my heart, knowing her and knowing how much pain she was going through,? Greenhaw said. ?That?s what inspired me to want to pursue the cancer field.?
?That?s why I?m going to pursue either the engineering, with the research and development, or if I don?t do that, I?m going to go into pediatric oncology, so I?ll still be able to work with the children who have cancer,? she added. ?My heart?s pretty set on that job area.?
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