Lindenwood University Athletics

National Championships - Cheerleading [2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018(2)]

2011






















The Lindenwood cheerleading team won the first national championship in program history in the coed division at the 2011 NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla.  The squad competed in the NAIA small coed division, which was made up of all NAIA schools. The team was first after prelims and maintained that position after the final routine.  


2011 Lindenwood Coed National Cheer Champions

Lindenwood All Girl Cheer Squad Second Place

Photo & Video Highlights:  Daytona Beach, Florida-April, 2011

2015
































For the first time since 2011, the cheerleading team captured a national title at the NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships in Daytona Beach, Fla. 

Lindenwood won the Large Coed Cheer Division II crown with a score of 91.73, edging Columbus State by just 0.38.  After advancing through the preliminaries in first place, the team performed a solid routine, earning the highest marks for baskets, pyramids, and tumbling.  Mistakes were minimized with less than a point of deductions.   

For the second year in a row, Lindenwood qualified three different squads into final rounds.  The Small Coed team ultimately finished in fifth while the All Girl team took seventh. 

	2015 NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and
	Dance Championships Results
	Finals
	Large Coed Division II
1	Lindenwood University	91.73
2	Columbus State	91.35
3	Shorter University	90.45
4	Young Harris College	89.48
5	Universite du Quebec a Montreal	87.63
6	Grand Valley State University	83.23

2016



















Cheerleading won the 2016 Intermediate Small Coed Division II national title April 8 at the NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships in Daytona Beach, Fla. 

The Lions finished with a score of 83.28 in the finals for a 0.43 margin over second place Long Island University.  Lindenwood received the top marks in five different categories including tumbling, pyramids, jumps, degree of difficulty, and overall effect. 

The Lions became one of seven teams to advance to the finals on Thursday by placing second in the first day of competition, just 0.07 behind Valdosta State University, ironically with the same 83.28 score that ultimately was enough to win in the finals. 

It was the third national title overall and second in a row for Lindenwood after capturing the Large Coed Cheer Division II crown in 2015, the first championship for the program in four years.

2016 NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and
	Dance Championships Results
	Finals
	Intermediate Small Coed Division II
1	Lindenwood University	83.28
2	Long Island University	82.85
3	McKendree University	82.50
4	Valdosta State University	80.93
5	Gannon University	80.68
6	Newberry College	80.43
7	University of the Ozarks	79.30

2017



























The Lindenwood competitive cheerleading team won its fourth national title in program history with a victory in Large Coed Division II April 7 at the NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships at the Band Shell and Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Lions were one of four teams to advance out of the preliminaries on Thursday and did so with the highest score in the field.  They performed beautifully in the finals and emerged with the top score once again at 95.80 to take the crown.  It was the highest score ever for the squad, which went both days without receiving any deductions, a first for the team.  Grand Valley State took second with 95.57, followed by Young Harris College in third with 92.83, and Columbus State University in fourth with 89.23.

Lindenwood also had squads competing in All-Girl Cheer Division II and Intermediate Small Coed II at the championship.  The All-Girl team took fourth while the Small Coed team finished fifth.





 

	2017 Collegiate Cheer and
	Dance Championships Results
	Coed Cheer Division II Finals
1	Lindenwood University
2	Grand Valley State University
3	Young Harris College
4	Columbus State

2018
































For the fourth consecutive year, Lindenwood cheerleading won a national title at the NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Team Championships in Daytona Beach, Florida, but never before had the program won two titles the same year, until this season.  The Lions repeated as Large Coed Division II champions April 6, having won the same title in 2017, but they also hoisted the trophy in Small Coed Intermediate Division II on the same day, and even added a second place finish in Small Coed D2.

The Large Coed squad was solid in preliminary competition, earning a score of 93.58, despite suffering a deduction.  That advanced the team in second place behind Grand Valley State University.  Lindenwood performed beautifully in the finals to earn a score of 94.58, topping the Lakers by 0.63 points, to take the championship.

The Small Coed squad took a similar road, having to overcome deductions in the preliminary round.  The Lions had the top raw score, but settled for 91.78 and third place as one of seven teams to advance.  In the finals, Lindenwood improved its raw score and cleaned up the routine to finish with 94.80 and jump to the top spot with a 1.77 point margin over second place Shorter University (Ga.) and a 3.27 point margin over third place Bellarmine University (Ky.). 

The Lions competed in Small Coed D2 for the first time and they made an immediate impact in the preliminaries with a score of 92.12 for second place as one of seven teams to advance, just over two points behind Brinn College (Texas), but only 0.15 ahead of third place McKendree.  Lindenwood increased its score to 93.50 in the finals and closed the gap, but not enough to overtake the Buccaneers, however the Lions solidified second place by over a point ahead of Central Oklahoma in third.

The two national titles became the fifth and sixth in program history. 
   

	2018 Collegiate Cheer and
	Dance Team Championships
	Coed Cheer Division II	Score
1	Lindenwood University	94.58
2	Grand Valley State University	93.95
3	Young Harris College	90.63
4	Columbus State University	87.35
	Small Coed Intermediate D2
1	Lindenwood University	94.80
2	Shorter University	93.03
3	Bellarmine University	91.53
4	Carson Newman University	91.33
5	University of Texas at Dallas	90.77
6	Southern Arkansas University	90.70
7	Wayne State University	90.37