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School using ringer stripped of crown
©Associated Press
May 6, 2002
KISSIMMEE -- The Osceola High School cheerleading squad was stripped of its national championship for using a ringer from Mississippi during competition.
The World Cheerleading Association on Friday forced the Osceola team to forfeit its coed championship to Bowling Green High School in Kentucky, formerly the runner-up for the national title.
The Osceola County school district also is investigating coach Kerri Collins for allowing Adrian Free, a senior at Ocean Springs High School in Ocean Springs, Miss., to join the team, practice with it and compete in the championship in late December.
Collins said she told Free to enroll at Osceola High School before the squad left for the national competition in Nashville, but he didn't.
It was the first time in the national competition's 17-year history that a squad was disqualified from competition.
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