Bulls cheer units solidify standing as best in the nation as All-Girl wins a pair of national titles and the Coed Team finishes second, just missing a fourth-straight national title;
USF teams have collected six national titles in the last four years
TAMPA, JAN. 16, 2024 – The University of South Florida All Girl Cheer Team, led by head coach Sandy Clarke, brought home a pair of national titles from the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) College Nationals in Orlando, securing their second-straight national championship in the Division IA Game Day competition and the squad’s first in the Division IA Traditional competition.
USF became the first-ever Division I program to win national titles in both All Girl Game Day and All Girl Traditional competitions in the same year. The wins marked the fifth and sixth UCA national championships earned by the USF cheer programs in the last four years.
“I’m very proud of our team, all the hard work they put in and to perform at the level they did to claim a second-straight national championship and become to first All Girl team to win both Game Day and Traditional in the same year is a tremendous achievement,” Clarke said. “We have built extremely competitive and talented cheer teams at USF and this year’s squad continued to move the bar forward in establishing USF as the top cheer program in the nation.”
Assisting Clarke in coaching the team are Kelly Budnick, Leighton Clarke and Jessica Shefman. Competing for the 2024 USF All Girl Cheer team at nationals were: Ally Stoyan, Avery Brooks, Camryn Rausch, Dallas Cornish, Tori Crawford, Ella Harrelson, Emalee West, Emily Selba, Gabby Healis, Haylee Apostoloff, Hayley Clark, Hollyn Cate Henderson, Bella Guerra, Izzy Watson, Jaylee Luna, Jessica Sinphay, Juliette Pacheco, Katelyn Blalock, Kate Shapiro, Kayla Dick, Kayla Rivera, Kierra Lane, Krysta Vinacco, Lanie Mullowney, Leilani Gillie, Louie Louis, Maddie Hollis, Makayla Johnson, Malayna Boring, Marissa Smith, Melanie Kral, Mikenzie Shiflett, Natalie Virgen, Paytenn Rollins, Regan Williams, Regan Barnes, Riley Guell, Rylee Zais, Ryleigh Hajek, Sage Dawson, Sammi Fischer, Sammy Radzwilka, Sasha Payne, Sophia Crow, Taryn Brown, Vivi Falkstein, Wesleigh Hobbs, and Zaniyah Anderson-Spencer.
Meanwhile, head coach Ronnie Patrick’s USF Coed Cheer Team saw their string of three-straight national titles come to an end as they finished second in the Division IA Large Coed Game Day category and fourth in the Division 1A Large Coed category. Last year, USF joined Kentucky as the only programs to win three straight Coed national championships, doing so just three seasons after claiming the program’s first-ever national championship in 2021.
The USF Coed Cheer Team led by Patrick and assistant coaches Gillian Guadagnino and SaVannah Wright has established itself as the standard bearer in collegiate cheer.
Competing for the 2024 USF Coed Cheer team at nationals were: Ashlyn Pinner, Brandon Gray, Brian Gomez Jr., Chloe George, Dylan Tardie, Eric Zell, Erica Scarborough, Gabriel Hopkins, Gabriel Oliveira, Gabriel Rodriquez, Harly Sultuska, Jordan Wilson, Joseph Apisa, Kaleb Kelley, Katie Ross, Kayla Unterweiser, Kendrick Bland, Kenzie Davis, Alexis Kouras, Lindsey Nichols, Logan Keester, Madalynn Redo, Madison Holland, Ramsey Robinson, Sarah Wood, Skylen Kerbs, Stephon Ramos-Benavides, Tatum Taylor, Tatum Reel, Thomas Crawford and Trenton Hayden.
USF Coed Cheer renewed national competition in 2016 following a 13-year hiatus and progressively climbed up the leaderboard to become a dominant program, finishing 12th (2017), 8th (2018), 4th (2019), 5th (2020) and finally No. 1 in 2021, 2022 and again in 2023.
USF Cheerleading National Titles:
2024 UCA Division 1A All Girl Game Day
2024 UCA Division 1A All Girl Traditional
2023 UCA Division 1A All Girl Game Day
2023 UCA Division 1A Large Coed
2022 UCA Division 1A Large Coed
2021 UCA Division 1A Large Coed
About USF Athletics
USF Athletics currently sponsors 21 varsity men’s and women’s teams that compete in 13 different sports, 20 at the NCAA Division I level in the American Athletic Conference, including the recent additions of women’s lacrosse and women’s beach volleyball. The Bulls’ athletic program began in 1965 and is in its 58th season in 2023-24. More than 450 student-athletes train and compete in the athletic district located on the east end of the campus in Tampa, Fla. USF garnered two national championships in 2022-23 as Romaine Beckford won NCAA indoor and outdoor high jump titles. The Bulls have claimed 28 American Athletic Conference team titles since joining the conference in 2013 and own 142 conference titles claimed in 15 sports in department history, led by 20 each for men’s tennis and men’s soccer. USF has claimed 76 men’s conference championships and 66 women’s titles, led by 14 in women’s tennis and 12 in volleyball. The Bulls have posted a combined annual grade-point average for a program record of 18 straight as of fall 2023. USF has had over 600 student-athletes earn their degree since 2016-17.
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