The preliminaries are over at the IHSA cheerleading state championships in Bloomington. Of the 100 teams that qualified for state, 40 now remain to compete in Saturday's finals - 10 each in the categories of coed, large schools, medium schools and small schools.
The small school category is dominated by high schools downstate - the only qualifying "small" school from in or near the Daily Herald coverage area is Timothy Christian in Elmhurst.
Once the finalists are determined the scores are wiped out, and all cheer teams start out Saturday's competition with "0" scores.
Here are the finalists:
Coed Division
1. Elk Grove High School
2. Downers Grove South
3. Lake Park
4. Libertyville
5. Barrington
6. Mascoutah
7. Normal West
8. Thornwood
9. St. Ignatius College Prep
10. Belleville West
Large Division
1. Conant
2. Sandburg
3. Lockport Township
4. Neuqua Valley
5. Stevenson
6. Andrew
7. Marist
8. Bradley-Bourbannais
9. Edwardsville
10. St. Viator
Medium Division
1. Lemont
2. Grant
3. Oak Forest
4. Riverside-Brookfield
5. Prairie Ridge
6. Antioch
7. Wauconda
8. Highland
9. Triad
10. Bloomington
Small Division
1. Columbia
2. South Fork
3. Breese Central
4. Paris
5. Timothy Christian
6. Lexington
7. Wilmington
8. Sesser-Valier
9. Tremont
10. Eureka
