Born after Launceston College's performance of Bring It On: The Musical in 2015, Allstar Cheer and Dance Tasmania's rise has been award-winning and rapid.
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And it's their all-girls team Aphrodite that have been nominated for Team of the Year in The Examiner's Junior Sports Awards after a fantastic 2018-19 season.
Formed by production choreographers Tanya Lanham and Dearbhla Gillen, the team has dominated Tasmanian competition for the last two years and been rewarded with international experiences.
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"We had lots of students begging us to keep doing cheer because they became so addicted to the sport [after Bring It On]," Lanham said.
"It took us a little while but we finally created a school and got a few of our students who had done some cheerleading with us already together and we started teaching and moved to our first competition that year in Hobart.
"We won everything we entered really unexpectedly as we didn't really know much about the sport. We knew everything about cheer but didn't know much about things like scorecards and the sports side of it so we did really well and it's grown from there."
Full of eager senior level one students ranging from 11-18 years of age, Aphrodite was named after the Greek god of love, beauty, pleasure and passion due to it being an all-girl troupe.
"It's a little harder doing cheerleading as a sport as it's all weightlifting and really good for boys and it's harder for girls but we have these boss girls that lift and kill it."
And those girls have certainly stepped up.
Competing in New Zealand at the Ministry of Cheer competition, Aphrodite represented Australia and finished second, only 0.4 points off the pace of first, beating a world-championship calibre team in the process, something Gillen said meant a lot.
"They have this uncanny ability to not stress out in the warm-up room," she said.
"We'll be four minutes until we are about to go onto the floor and things go wrong, people fall and they get quite nervous, then the moment they hit the cheer floor, they have the ability as a team to fight and to want it. They come together and they are so relaxed and calm with no nerves in them whatsoever.
"They don't fear anything as they are quite young and that helps with no fear but to hit the floor and compete in every competition, they are a really strong unit and quite cohesive in how they think."
Next on Aphrodite's list is Pinnacle, an invite-only competition against Australia's best in December after winning an invite to Hawaii in their last Tasmanian event.
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