Sunday, October 27, 2013 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 7 Climb From page 1 McCarroll. She said, “I had to plan. I had to coor- dinate. I had to buy gear.” She is now is one of the relatively small number of climbers who have achieved the of climbing all 58 the highest peaks in olorado. ‘And McCarroll contin- ues to make new goals. She’s going to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in February. At 19,000 feet, the moun- Cheerleader tain will be her highest climb ever. She’s going to Africa by herself but meeting up with a group from Seattle. The climb will take seven days and then she’ll go on a safari. McCarroll is amazed at the change in herself. “Five years ago, I would have never thought to get on a plane by myself or plan a trip,” she said. “Now, here I am going to a foreign country. These trips are life changing for me. I've become strong and independent.” McCarroll is a pres- ently an outpatient phar- macist for Denver Health but has another goal in mind. “I really want to do humanitarian work,” she said. She says she still miss- es Myers but that she has survived his loss. “All those good things are there,” she said. “It doesn’t mean his spirit is gone. His spirit is with me every day.” From page 1 and we have games. Now we're practicing five days a week, and some of that time is spent at Shooting Starz Gymnastics (in Wilkes-Barre).” Sorber said the girls are constantly learning new skills in preparation for the competition. For example, the team had only one member who could perform a back aa \dspring at the begin- ® of the season. Three eks later, nine more members had mastered the stunt. And the team already has an extensive reper- toire under its belt. “They do a lot. They have 40 cheers that they know,” said Sorber. Team captain Marissa Roberts, of Harveys Lake, enjoys the cheers involved in competing, especially the little flourishes that tend to count the most. “It can be very dramat- ic,” she said. “You have to stick the cheers and do the facial (expressions).” The team has been hold- ing fundraisers to ensure all the girls’ airfare, hotels and meals are paid for dur- ing the trip. “We need to raise $18,000 for the trip,” said Alves, whose daughter, Lauren, is a team captain. “We have been selling T-shirts, umbrellas, mums and now we are going to do poinsettias.” Lauren Alves, an eighth- grader at Dallas, has been cheering since she was 3 1/2 years old and even cheered on a national team when she and her family lived in California. “It’s really exciting, even though I've been there before,” she said. “It’s still scary, but it’s exciting.” Eighth-grader = Olivia Rinaldi, another team cap- tain, has also been cheer- ing since she was a tod- dler. The Dallas resident said the best past about cheering is being with her teammates. “I love competing and I love being with my team,” she said. Sorber said cheerlead- ing is all about teamwork. The girls need to work with and trust each other in order to function prop- erly as a unit, she said. “During practice we have sister circles and we all talk and say what's on our minds and nothing leaves the circle,” said Lauren Alves. “That’s part of team bonding.” Sorber, who was a cheerleader throughout her youth, said the Dallas team has surpassed her expectations each year she’s been a coach. “They just keep getting better and better every year,” she said. Charlotte Bartizek | The Dallas Post Team captain Lauren Alves helps Gabby Sweeney with a back flip. 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