Before traveling to Nashville, Tenn., last May, Ashley Hemenway took a crash course in stunting with the Southern Regional High School cheerleaders.
“I was going for my visit to Vanderbilt University, and it was the same time as cheer tryouts,” she said. “But before I left, I had to learn how to stunt. So I spent a day with the Southern cheerleaders and they taught me about stunting. It was hard to get the hang of it at first, but I figured it out pretty quick.”
To that point in her life, Hemenway had never been a cheerleader.
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