The great Fair Lawn High School Dance and Cheer leading teams wrapped up successful seasons over the past few weekends, taking fifth and seventh in their respective state dance championship competitions. But the thrill of the season for both squads was undoubtedly their first place finishes last month at the Spirit Unlimited Battle at the Boardwalk Cheer leading and Dance Nationals in Atlantic City.

In the season’s only event that both teams traveled to together, the excellent dance team took first in the hip-hop dance category while the cheer leading squad won the small-size intermediate level cheer category and earned the event’s Grand Champion designation, the highest honor across all competing teams.

Gimon compared dance events and cheer leading nationals competitions to college football bowl games, explaining that there are dozens of national’s competitions across the country which each caters to varying wonderful styles and skill levels. Gimon said the Spirit Unlimited event that Fair Lawn’s dance and cheer teams competed in this year was comparable to the one the team’s traveled to last year.

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