The Cheer Gang: The Hottest College Cheerleading Squads

#1 University Of Central Florida

One of the hardest working cheer squads in the country, the UCF Knights placed third in ESPN's Wide World Of Sports competition earlier this year and the same type of success goes into their affiliate dance programs that put an effort into visual aesthetics (i.e. appearances aren't meant to be natural, not deceiving).

#2 University Of Utah

Cheerleaders do get a lot of heat for their stereotypical personalities that often derive from films like "Bring It On" but University of Utah cheerleaders are the complete opposite. Their squad puts a tremendous amount of effort in community service, helping out fans, local residents and even the elderly

#3 Louisiana State University

Jocks will always be jocks but LSU's cheerleading squad is notoriously short in terms of stature. They don't seem to mind though as they're still one of the loudest squads in the country!

#4 Virginia Tech University

The Virginia Tech squad pride themselves in a tremendous amount of school spirit and the love and enthusiasm behind Hokies Sports and it's evidently shown; their attractive squad is noted for being involved in national competitions as they're willing to "yell and kick butt" any time necessary.

#5 Texas Tech University

Texas Tech may have their Masked Rider, Raider Red mascot and a commendable college football program, but their cheerleading squad will melt your heart. That is if it isn't stolen first by the exquisite taste or smell of traditional Texan barbecue!

#6 Baylor University

A nationally ranked top Christian university that's located in Waco, Texas, Baylor is the home of Robert Griffin III and of course, the Baylor Bears cheerleading squad. Although they aren't a competitive team, perform at special events such as Homecoming and community gatherings

#7 Texas Christian University

With Texas and Texas Tech being popularized by national media, Fort Worth's TCU is often forgotten about. In this case, we'll quickly point the finger at the school's name (the Horned Frogs) because it definitely can't be the TCU CHEER squad

#8 University Of Texas

Landing at #5 on this list, it's easy to see why celebs such as Matthew McConaughey are so eager to attend home games. The Longhorns are always caught at the center of attention in the big state of Texas and so are their dames in their UT Spirit Program

#9 University Of Alabama

As Alabama takes their football program seriously, it's only fitting that their cheer squads take cheerleading seriously. Divided up into two groups - the White Squad and the Crimson Squad - the school's cheerleaders put a major focus on fitness as all members are required to attend on-call weight lifting/workout sessions!

#10 University Of Southern California

USC Trojans sports pride themselves in class which is why the school took a personal hit when their team was cuffed with mandatory rules this past offseason. The USC Song Girls however haven't lost a step as their authentic outfits based on vintage traditions still shimmer, shine and pop!

#11 University Of Oregon

If you ask anyone who watches pigskin on the college level, they'll tell you that the top cheerleaders in the country are "The Amabassadors Of The University Of Oregon". Year in and year out, they always seem to find the most attractive cheerleaders in the country and in a way, that's an understatement!

#12 University Of California, Los Angeles

Competitive and enthusiastic, the UCLA Spirit Squad is a prized cheerleading squad that's known around the country for placing high in professional competitions and for their well designed uniforms that uphold the Bruins name.

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Meet next queen of women tennis - Petra Kvitová

Petra Kvitová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpɛtra ˈkvɪtovaː]; born 8 March 1990) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has won seven WTA singles titles. As of 31 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 2.

Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships singles title and the 2011 WTA Tour Championships. By winning Wimbledon, she became the first Grand Slam event winner born in the 1990s.

Kvitová is known for her fast left-handed serve. At the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, she had 36 aces, the third-most of any woman. She is also noted for her very heavy and booming forehand, backhand, and timing, and is known to make up for her lack of speed by playing close to the baseline.

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100 meter Sprint Queens

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Ivet Lalova (Bulgarian: Ивет Лалова, born 18 May 1984 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career was interrupted for two years between June 2005 and May 2007 due to a leg injury. She is engaged to the Italian sprinter Simone Collio.

Irina Anatoljewna Privalova (Russian: Ирина Анатольевна Привалова; née Sergeyeva on 22 November 1968 in Malakhovka) is a Russian athlete.
She first competed in the sprint events, winning two Olympic medals in the 100 m and 200 m in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team. Irina Privalova had been a formidable competitor during most of the 1990s but had not yet won an outdoor world championship gold medal. In 2000, she gambled successfully and switched to the 400 m hurdles discipline winning the Olympic title in Sydney 2000 in 53.02 s and a bronze in the 4 x 400 m relay team for Russia. It has been suggested that this change at the late age of 31 was because her chances of defeating Marion Jones (the overwhelming favourite for the 100 m/200 m double) was slim and the 400 m also being a repeat showdown between Marie-José Pérec and Cathy Freeman from the 1996 Atlanta Games. (That repeat showdown would not happen after Pérec left the Sydney games.)
Irina Privalova is currently the world indoor record holder in the 50 m (5.96 s), 60 m (6.92 s) sprints. She has also been the world indoor champion at the 60 m (7.02 s in 1991), 200 m (22.15 s in 1993), and 400 m (50.23 s in 1995) events.
Privalova is still running, achieving her best time in the 100 m for nine years in 2008.

Veronica Campbell-Brown C.D  (born 15 May 1982) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. A five-time Olympic medallist, she is the reigning World and Olympic 200 metres champion. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she ran the 200 m in 21.74 seconds (the fastest time in a decade) and became the second woman in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events, after Bärbel Wöckel of Germany did so at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. Brown is ranked the second fastest Jamaican woman over 60 metres (after Merlene Ottey), fourth fastest over 100 metres (after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Ottey and Kerron Stewart) and third fastest fastest over 200 metres (after Ottey and Grace Jackson.

Evelyn Ashford (born April 15, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a retired American athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m. She has run under the 11 second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games.

As a 19-year-old, Ashford finished 5th in the 100 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. After beating the World Record holders in the 100 m and 200 m in 1979, Ashford was one of the potential medalists for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but these Games were boycotted by the United States.

Ashford was ranked #1 in the world by Track & Field News over 100 metres in 1979 and 1981,and over 200 metres in 1981. She also was named Track and Field News "Athlete of the Year" twice, in 1981 and 1984

On July 3, 1983, she set her first World Record (be it at altitude) for the 100 metres, running 10.79 seconds at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was one of the favourites to win the 100 metre title at the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki. In the final, however, she pulled a hamstring muscle and fell. The other main favourite, Marlies Göhr of East Germany (who had already beaten Ashford earlier that year) went on to win.

Kerron Stewart (born 16 April 1984) is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 m clocking 10.80s. She defeated World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in the process and now is the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist after she tied with Sherone Simpson in a time of 10.98s. She also earned a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a time of 22.00s. She was born in Kingston.

Stewart holds the fastest non-winning time for the women's 100 metres. In the 2009 World Athletics Championships from Berlin, she ran 10.75 seconds only to finish second to campatriot, Shelly-Ann Fraser who ran a 10.73 race. Stewart eventually anchored the Jamaican 4x100 m relay team to victory in a time of 42.06, in a great anchor-leg run along side familiar rival, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas, who eventually claimed the silver medal

Merlene Joyce Ottey (born May 10, 1960), is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides. She is ranked fourth on the all-time list over 60 metres (indoor), sixth on the all-time list over 100 metres and third on the all-time list over 200 metres.

Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France. She is the fourth fastest woman ever over 100 metres, and holds the European record of 10.73 seconds.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, OD (born December 27, 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 m. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser is the reigning Olympic champion over 100 m, clocking a time of 10.78. The 2009 World 100 m champion, she is only the second female sprinter to hold both World and Olympic 100 m titles simultaneously (after Gail Devers), and is tied with Christine Arron as the fourth fastest woman in history over 100 m. She attended the Wolmer's High School for Girls and represented her school in many athletic occasions.

Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but forfeited all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after her October 2007 admission that she took performance-enhancing drugs as far back as the 2000 Summer Olympics, and that she had lied about it to a grand jury investigating performance-enhancer creations by Victor Conte and the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (a.k.a. BALCO).

Carmelita Jeter (born November 24, 1979) is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.
She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze. However, greater performances followed, winning her second gold of the World Athletics Final in 10.67 seconds and winning the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix in 10.64 seconds after that. This made her the second fastest woman ever in the 100 m, beating Marion Jones's best and bringing her closer to Florence Griffith-Joyner's long standing world record. Currently she holds three of the top ten times ever run.

Florence Griffith-Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith), also known as Flo-Jo (December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998) was an American track and field athlete. She is considered the "fastest woman of all time" based on the fact that she still holds the world record for both the 100 metres and 200 metres, both set in 1988 and never seriously challenged. She died of epilepsy in 1998 at the age of 38.


Women Sprint Queens

Updated 31 May 2011

Rank	Fastest time	Wind (m/s)	Athlete	Nation	Date	Location
1	10.49	0.0	Florence Griffith-Joyner	United States	16 July 1988	Indianapolis
2	10.64	+1.2	Carmelita Jeter	United States	20 September 2009	Shanghai
3	10.65	+1.1	Marion Jones	United States	12 September 1998	Johannesburg
4	10.73	+0.1	Shelly-Ann Fraser	Jamaica	17 August 2009	Berlin
		+2.0	Christine Arron	France	19 August 1998	Budapest
6	10.74	+1.3	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	7 September 1996	Milan
7	10.75	+0.4	Kerron Stewart	Jamaica	10 July 2009	Rome
8	10.76	+1.7	Evelyn Ashford	United States	22 August 1984	Zürich
		+1.1	Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	31 May 2011	Ostrava
10	10.77	+0.9	Irina Privalova	Russia	6 July 1994	Lausanne
		+0.7	Ivet Lalova	Bulgaria	19 June 2004	Plovdiv

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