HENRY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Susan Burton
Communications Director
Paris, TN – Senior Kenna Dyche is looking forward to continuing her cheer career at the University of Tennessee at Martin this fall where she will attend as a pre-vet major. She has been cheering for six years and will be in STUNT and Cheer along with eleven other students from across Tennessee and other states.
“I’ve cheered since 6th grade at Lakewood, then Grove, now HCHS,” says Dyche, daughter of Chris Dyche and Heather Dyche. She explains her favorite parts of cheerleading are how everyone comes together as a team and how easy it is to make new friends.
Instead of tryouts, Dyche interviewed with the coach and participated in cheer clinics at UTM and was asked to stay for the next clinics until she had made the final cut. Dyche explains that she would never have attended had it not been for her cheer coach, Melissa King, giving her the confidence she needed to go to the first clinic.
Dyche will be a part of the STUNT and cheer programs, where according to USA Cheer, “is one of the fastest growing female sports in the country, removes the crowd-leading element and focuses on the technical and athletic components of cheer, including partner stunts, pyramids, basket tosses, group jumps and tumbling.”