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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — (March 5, 2012) — Senior Adrian Gibbs<\/strong> is the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s best cheerleader and helped the University of Maryland Eastern Shore squad win top Co-Ed Division honors Sunday in the 2012 MEAC Cheerleading Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those achievements propelled the Hawk cheerleaders into a second-place finish in the overall performance category behind Morgan State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cheerleading championship is the opening event at this week’s 2012 MEAC Basketball Tournament being held at the Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to MEAC championship organizers, the Lady Bears captured first-place “overall performance” honors for the second consecutive year. Howard University finished third in overall team performance. Morgan State, with 10 seniors, also won in the All-Girls Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n UMES’ win in the Co-Ed Division was a first for the university since the turn of the century. South Carolina State earned the silver and Florida A&M finished in third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gibbs, a 23-year-old exercise science major, won the individual gold in the All-Star Division, while Morgan State’s Amanda Ross was second and Carmen Blunt of Hampton was third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This team has come a long way” Gibbs said. “I’ve never been on a team that worked so hard and deserved this more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Information for this report was provided by the MEAC Media Relations office.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, March 5, 2012 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — (March 5, 2012) — Senior Adrian Gibbs is the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s best cheerleader and helped the University of Maryland Eastern Shore squad win top Co-Ed Division honors Sunday in the 2012 MEAC Cheerleading Championship. Those achievements propelled the Hawk cheerleaders into a second-place finish in the overall performance category behind Morgan State University….Read more UMES cheer squad earns MEAC honors<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-2.30.20-PM.png\")
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