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Region 4 Remains Dominant, Tug Valley and Man place first, second in Class A State Cheer Competition

  • Writer: Bill Lusk
    Bill Lusk
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Tug Valley, the Class A Region 4 champion, rebounded from missing last year’s state tournament to capture the 2025 Class A state championship.
Tug Valley, the Class A Region 4 champion, rebounded from missing last year’s state tournament to capture the 2025 Class A state championship.

Bill Lusk | WVOW Sports

 

CHARLESTON   Region 4 has been the dominant cheer programs and its continued dominance over the small school division continued Wednesday afternoon.


Both, Tug Valley and Man High School continued to reinforce their standing as two of the best cheer programs in the state Wednesday in the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission State Cheerleading Championship at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center.


Tug Valley, the Class A Region 4 champion, who missed out on the state tournament a year before, bounced back to claim the 2025 Class A state championship.


The Panthers narrowly edged Class A Region 4 runner-up Man by 0.74 points to claim its 11th state championship in school history and won the small school state title for the seventh time in the past nine years.


The Hillbillies, looking for a Class A repeat, finished as runner-up for the fifth time in school history.


Man High School finished as the Class A runner-up Wednesday afternoon in the  2025 WVSSAC Cheer State Championships at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center
Man High School finished as the Class A runner-up Wednesday afternoon in the  2025 WVSSAC Cheer State Championships at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center

Man, the third team to take to the mat in the competition, left no doubt that they were one of the schools to beat. The Hillbillies routine garnered them a score of 87.73 and it would appear that they would be the ones lifting the championship trophy at days end.


After missing out on the state tournament the previous year, Tug Valley was sixth of eight teams to compete, and scored an 88.47 for the win.


It was the third consecutive year that Region 4 has swept the top two spots in the Class A cheer competition. Man won last year while Wahama placed second while Tug Valley won in 2023 and Man was the runner-up.


Tug Valley’s 11 state championships ranks second behind Brooke High School, who won its 15th state championship Wednesday evening in Class AAA.


Tug Valley has won nine Class A state championships and two as a Class AA program.


Man has finished runner-up in three of the last five Class A state cheer championships.


Wheeling Central finished third followed by Pendleton County, Clay-Battelle, Richwood, Tucker County and Mt. View.

PHOTO | WVSSAC, Teran Malone

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