{"id":297806,"date":"2026-05-18T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297806\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:50:08","slug":"lubbock-cheer-and-dance-team-raising-money-for-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297806\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock cheer and dance team raising money for national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock cheer and dance team is asking for the community\u2019s support as its dancers head to Dallas next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Elevate Cheer and Dance just celebrated the one year anniversary of opening its doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/05\/08\/elevate-cheer-dance-team-hosting-car-wash-saturday-raise-money-nationals-dallas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2026\/05\/08\/elevate-cheer-dance-team-hosting-car-wash-saturday-raise-money-nationals-dallas\/\">Elevate Cheer and Dance holds car wash fundraiser<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cElevate is really special to me because my team and I, we\u2019ve elevated from another place and now we\u2019re here,\u201d Ebony Holloman, Elevate\u2019s owner and head coach, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holloman says qualifying for the national stage in her studio\u2019s first year is a testament to her team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team had more than a dozen dances qualify for nationals last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOut of our 14 entries we have 11 first place, two second, and one third. All of our entries qualified for nationals,\u201d Holloman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The national competition is also a chance for the girls to see their hard work pay off. Holloman says some of the dances were choreographed by her girls, some as young as third grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI learn so much from them every day, they inspire me every day,\u201d Holloman said. \u201cThey get out there and win and place and work really hard to do what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team has worked to raise money for the national competition through fundraisers and car washes. Now, they\u2019re asking for the community\u2019s help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holloman says it will cost about $5,000 for the team to travel to Dallas. That includes their travel, stay, and food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe main goal is to open them up to new experiences and provide them with the resources they need and want,\u201d Holloman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you would like to donate, you can do so here: <a href=\"https:\/\/giveahand.com\/fundraiser\/elevate-cheer-and-dance-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/giveahand.com\/fundraiser\/elevate-cheer-and-dance-team\" target=\"_blank\">giveahand.com\/fundraiser\/elevate-cheer-and-dance-team<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock cheer and dance team is asking for the community\u2019s support as its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-297806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}