Windermere High cheer claims program's 2nd state title

With a final score of 88.90, the Lime Ladies won the FHSAA Class 2A Small Varsity State Championship — Windermere High's second-ever team state title.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 12:00 a.m. February 6, 2025

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The Windermere High competitive cheerleading team won the FHSAA Class 2A Small Varsity State Championship — the second state title in the program’s history and the second overall team state championship in school history.

The Lime Ladies’ final score was 88.90, after a one-point deduction — beating out second-place Tate High’s score of 87.60 and defending state champions West Orange High, which finished third with a final score of 86.10.

Despite having a lower score in the cheer category than Tate Aggies and a lower overall category score than the Warriors, Windermere’s score of 36.2 in the building category — which judges the execution of stunt sequences, pyramids and tosses within a routine — proved to be the difference, giving the Lime Ladies of Windermere a 2.4 point gap over Tate and a 3.2 point gap over West Orange.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.