Celtic Cheer Teams
Michael McMahon
Mike has travelled all over the world cheerleading. His most recent trips have taken him as far as the USA and Japan where he was the captain of the UK National team at the ICF World Championships. Mike was one half of the first British co-ed partner stunt which took place at Future Cheer last February. Since then, him and his stunt partner Rachel have gone on to claim National partner stunt championships at FC, UKCA, BCA and ICC. He also has several national championships already under his belt in both group stunt and co-ed routines. Before he came to university to study sports science, he cheered for the Blackpool Scorpions and Chorley Warriors. Now at Leeds, he is part of their extremely successful stunt group who are not only FC, ICC, BCA and UKCA national champions but also European champions too. He spent 3 weeks last summer training in Texas and attending a UCA American College camp. Mike’s vision is to see the UK cheerleading reach the same standard as US Colligate cheer and hopes to achieve this through improving the level of co-ed stunting in the country.
Profile
Name- Mike McMahon
Age- 19
Hometown- Chorley (Home of Chorley FM)
Cheering Since- 2003
Teams- Allstars co-ed, Partner stunt with Rach, Group Stunt, Team UK co-ed 05, Stunt and Cheer allstars 06 and staff. Formally Chorley Warriors (at school) and Blackpool Scorpions (at college)
Signature Skills- Unassisted Co-ed stunts – Cupies Libs etc
Awards- I won cheerleaders cheerleader at Blackpool scorpions.
Fav music- Anything I can dance to. Big on hip hop and Oasis rock!
Fav TV show- Smallville & Lost!
Fav Films- Rocky 1 – 4 (5 doesn’t count it was rubbish)
Fav thing in the world- Chorley Fried Chicken
Quote- “Pain is temporary pride is forever”
The Best thing about cheerleading- Either stunting in public so everyone stops and goes “wow!” or going on weekends away for comps with millions of cheerleaders! ;)
Interesting Fact- Since coming to uni 4 weeks ago I have done no work and spent most of my time cheerleading...I blame Rachel!
