Spirit Squad win streak continues

Patrick Carr, Marketing & Communications 

Spirit Squad members celebrate their victories at the NCA/NDA National Championships.

The Weber State Spirit Squad keeps adding trophies to its cabinet. In April 2025, WSU’s cheer and dance teams won a combined four national championships for the second straight year at the NCA/NDA National Championships in Florida.

Last spring’s haul ended up being the eighth straight national title, and third straight Grand National title, for WSU’s large coed cheer team. The small coed cheer team repeated as national champions, its third national title in four years, and has now won back-to-back Grand National titles.

The dance team repeated as Division I Hip Hop champions, its fifth hip hop national title and third in the last five years. Dance also won the Division I Jazz championship, and a Grand National in jazz.

The Spirit Squad has been a high mark of consistency. Spirit Squad director Summer Willis said the model of the program hasn’t changed in regard to working hard, staying disciplined, and things of that nature, but the technical aspect of cheerleading has changed tremendously.

“The talent out there, the training, what they’re doing, it’s just like any sport. It just keeps evolving; it keeps getting better and better. That’s the really fun thing about cheer … it just keeps leveling up,” Willis said.

Willis is optimistic about the 2025–26 Spirit Squad, as its competition schedule ramps up this spring.

“We did lose some good leaders and athletes, but we have a really awesome incoming class that’s just eager, excited, [and] very, very talented,” said Willis at the beginning of the 2025–26 academic year.