The Winslow High School Spiritline traveled to Phoenix to compete in the Traditional Spiritline State Championship. Earlier this year the Winslow Spiritline became three-peat state champs for Gameday. This time they were competing in two separate categories Division 3 Pom and Small Hip-Hop.
Jan. 15 was qualification day, with the field narrowed down from 15 participants to eight for Division 3 Poms. Small Hip-Hop would start with nine all-division participants to five. Winslow would qualify to compete in the finals.
The Finals were held on Jan. 17, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. In the Division 3 Poms: First was ALA-Queen Creek with 91.3 points, second was Crimson with 87.1 points and Winslow would take third place with 84.95.
In Small Hip-Hop, first went to Millennium with 90.15 points, second to Sahuarita with 88.45, third to Liberty with 85.7, fourth to Desert Ridge with 83.35 and Winslow took fifth with 82.5 points. In this category they were the only 3A school in the finals with three 6A, one 5A and one 4A.
Winslow Spiritline members include Sydney Smith-Caldera, Leila Palfy, Ailis Corum, Grace Pollard, Riley Alexander, Reese Martinez, Hauleigh Barton, Zoey Jones, Ziva Johnson, Krystal Perez, Layla Lawrence and Paytyn Lyons under the direction of Coach Tamry Wright.
