HOUSTON - The Texas Southern University Cheerleaders won the 2023 National Cheerleaders Association Cheer Spirit Rally Division I Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Thursday, April 6. The Lady Tigers cheer team scored a 96.1 performance score and a 95.5875 event score over Niagara University's 85.2 performance score.
TSU became the first HBCU cheer team to win at the NCA National Championships in the organization's 75 years of existence.
Other HBCU Cheer teams participated and placed in the Top-20 at the NCA Championship events. Here are the teams and their performance scores:
Last season, Xavier University of Louisiana's cheer team won the 2022 NAIA Competitive Cheer National Championship, the first ever for an HBCU school.
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