GPAC Cheer and Dance Championships, Hosted by Doane
(Crete, Nebraska) - The 2024 Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Cheer and Dance Championships will be Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9, in Crete, Nebraska, hosted by Doane University. The 2024 GPAC CCD Championships will be held inside the George and Sally Haddix Recreation & Athletic Center.
The Dance Championship will be on Friday, March 8, with the Cheer Championship on Saturday, March 9.
The cheer competition will begin on Friday with preliminaries at 3pm, the dance competition will begin with preliminaries at 10am on Saturday.
The GPAC Dance Champion is the Region Champion, with the highest GPAC team being named conference champion.
The GPAC Cheer Champion is an automatic NAIA Qualifier along with conference champion.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
GPAC Dance Championship and NAIA Northwest Group Qualifier
Dance Prelims – Friday Afternoon Session – March 8, 2024
3:00 pm – Viterbo University
3:11 pm – Doane University
3:22 pm – Morningside University
3:33 pm – Hastings College
3:44 pm – Dordt University
3:55 pm – Concordia University
4:06 pm – Northwestern College
4:17 pm – Midland University
4:28 pm – College of Saint Mary
Finals start at 5:59 pm and will be ordered based on preliminary scores
GPAC All-Conference Auditions – 7:40 pm
Awards Ceremony – 8:20 pm
GPAC Cheer Championship
Cheer Prelims – Saturday Morning Session – March 9, 2024
10:00 am – Northwestern College
10:11 am – Midland University
10:22 am – Concordia University
10:33 am – Mount Marty University
10:44 am – Hastings College
10:55 am – Morningside University
11:06 am – Doane University
11:17 am – Dordt University
Finals start at 12:39 pm and will be ordered based on preliminary scores
GPAC All-Conference Auditions – 2:30 pm
Awards Ceremony – 3:05 pm
In 2023 Midland won the GPAC Cheer Championship, while Doane won the GPAC Dance Championship.
The NAIA National Championships will be in Ypsilanti, Michigan, hosted by the Ann Arbor Sports Commission & Concordia University Ann Arbor on March 29 -30, 2024.