
The Southlake Carroll Dragon Cheer squad placed 12th at the University Interscholastic League 6A Division 1 state championships, held Jan 16-18 in Fort Worth. The Dragons finished with a score of 85.37.
Carroll scored 44.03 points in crowd-leading chants and 41.33 in its performance of the band chant and fight song.
Fellow Dallas-Fort Worth schools Lewisville Marcus (87.13) and Rockwall (86.07) finished ahead of Carroll in the standings. The three schools, only with Northwest Eaton (84.43) were the only representatives from the Metroplex to place in the top 20.
Mayde Creek High School was the overall winner with a score of 89.77, with the top three rounded out by fellow Katy ISD schools Seven Lakes (89.4) and Jordan (88.73). Katy Taylor (87.57) finished in seventh, and Katy Cinco Ranch finished in tenth (86.13).
Carroll scored an 89.90 in 2023-24, good enough for seventh. The Dragons placed eleventh in 2022-23 with a score of 80.97 on the heels of a second-place finish in 2021-22.