Fresno Pacific University launches STUNT team, competition begins in February

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Pacific has a marque caller women's athletics connected campus.

The STUNT team is preparing to footwear disconnected its archetypal play successful the spring.

More than 2 twelve young ladies are flipping and flying.

Alyssa Troutt is the caput manager of the brand-new STUNT squad connected campus.

"I've been coaching for similar a truly agelong time, for similar 20-plus years," Troutt said.

For the past 8 years, she taught skills and choreography for the Sunbirds cheer team.

It was a earthy modulation erstwhile the presumption for caput manager of the STUNT squad opened up.

STUNT is simply a athletics focused connected the method and diversion components of cheer.

There are a assortment of skills involved, including spouse stunts, pyramids, radical jumps and tumbling.

Every squad successful the league learns the aforesaid routines and past goes head-to-head connected the mat.

"So it's 4 quarters. There are 4 rounds per quarter. Each 4th has antithetic elements," Troutt said.

Since it's the archetypal twelvemonth of the program, galore squad members are freshmen. That includes Briseida Cano.

She archetypal joined STUNT arsenic a freshman successful precocious schoolhouse astatine Matilda Torres successful Madera.

"I got to beryllium portion of the archetypal squad astatine Torres High. Now I get to beryllium archetypal squad again backmost present astatine FPU, and I'm conscionable gladsome we get to commencement this legacy," Briseida said.

Briseida, similar galore of the young women connected the team, is connected a scholarship, making their dreams of higher acquisition and being a collegiate jock possible.

"The scholarships truly helped due to the fact that I besides got a batch of scholarships from precocious school, and past the assistance here. I conscionable knew it was not going to beryllium a fiscal occupation for me, and I knew that I could bash it," Briseida said.

Competition gets underway successful February, truthful they're utilizing this clip to larn the choreography and cleanable their stunts.

Coach Troutt says she's anxious to ticker these young women compete.

"We're going to get immoderate truly pugnacious teams that person been astir for 8 positive years. We person a batch to larn and a batch to drawback up on. I conscionable privation to people immoderate points, past person a bully play and marque definite that this is simply a clip for them to remember," Troutt said.

You tin cheque retired the Sunbirds STUNT squad erstwhile they big the PacWest title April 2-4, 2026.

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