2024 Concordia Competitive Cheer Schedule
SEWARD, Neb. – Concordia University Competitive Cheer hopes to continue the program’s upward trajectory as it looks forward to the 2024 competition season. Head Coach Mandi Maser’s program has announced a 2024 slate that features six regular season competition dates leading into the GPAC Championships in March (as of the release on June 12). The new campaign will officially get started with a home dual versus Hastings on Jan. 20, 2024.
Maser will be entering her eighth season leading both the Bulldog Cheer and Dance programs. The Concordia Cheer program placed third in the GPAC in 2023 while breaking school records for highest single competition scores. In addition, the Bulldogs averaged a score of 77.80 and ranked 26th nationally in 2023. Concordia will return Honorable Mention All-GPAC award winner Shelby Timmerman.
Following the season opener versus Hastings, the 2024 schedule will continue with the Concordia Invitational Tournament (Jan. 27), the York Dance & Cheer Invitational (Feb. 9), the Concordia Dance & Cheer Duals (Feb. 10), a GPAC dual at Northwestern (Feb. 16) and the Dordt Cheer & Dance Invitational (Feb. 17). This will mark the second year in a row that York University and Concordia have partnered to host a large-scale event on back-to-back days. This past season’s Concordia Duals featured 15 cheer and 15 dance teams. The Bulldogs also make a return to the Dordt Invite, which included six cheer and eight dance squads last season.
CIT will include cheer and dance competitions for the fifth time in the history of the event. This coming year’s CIT will be hosted by Concordia University Wisconsin. The defending CIT champions are CUNE in dance and CU-Ann Arbor in cheer. As the 2023 CIT cheer runner up, the Bulldogs were narrowly beaten out by CUAA for first place, 79.12 to 79.04.
As of this posting, the GPAC had not yet announced the location for the 2024 GPAC Cheer & Dance Championships/NAIA Regional Qualifier. The event is slated to take place on March 8 for dance and on March 9 for cheer. For those that qualify, the season will continue with the NAIA Competitive Cheer & Dance Championship March 29-30, hosted by Concordia University Ann Arbor in Ypsilanti, Mich.