Wigan Hawks celebrate success

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Wigan Hawks Intensity Cheer and Dance celebrate their success in Florida as not one but three teams qualified in the prestigious global competition The Cheerleading and Dance Worlds.

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00:00Let's go Hawks! Let's go Hawks!

00:04Hi, I'm Nicola Lebn-Evans and I am head coach of Hawks Intensity Cheer and Dance.

00:09We are a team based in Wigan and this year sees our 20th year anniversary of when we first formed.

00:15We've been very fortunate over the years. We've competed at European level for many years

00:20but in the latter couple of years we have been considered what they consider a world's worthy team.

00:27In other words, you're scoring high enough in the UK to be considered to compete at the World Championships

00:32and therefore competing with the best of the best.

00:35This year not only did our senior team get the opportunity in a qualifying bid to compete in Orlando, Florida

00:41but two of our younger teams did as well.

00:43So we took a 40-strong team of athletes out there to compete.

00:47We spent two weeks in Orlando, Florida, had the best time

00:51and we got to see three of our teams get up on that world stage in front of some of the best teams in the world.

00:58At our club we offer classes weekly in cheerleading and in different styles of dance.

01:02This year at the World Championships we competed in a discipline of dance called pom dance.

01:07Unlike cheerleading, which is very much tumbles and stunts, pom dance is a very fast-paced, high-energy style of dancing

01:16that incorporates pirouettes, leaps, jumps, etc.

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