{"id":414837,"date":"2026-01-18T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414837\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:51:12","slug":"ohio-states-spirit-squad-earns-third-consecutive-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414837\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State\u2019s Spirit Squad Earns Third Consecutive National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   For the third straight year, Ohio State\u2019s spirit squad stood above the rest as the D1A Spirit Program Game Day National Champions.                 <\/p>\n<p>\n\tOhio State\u2019s spirit squad made the trek to Orlando, Florida, for the yearly UCA &amp; UDA National Champions and continued its stretch of dominance during the weekend. The Buckeyes\u2019 Spirit Squad wowed the fans at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort en route to the title, scoring a 188.5333 out of the maximum 200 to earn the national championship.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tBACK 2 BACK 2 BACK<\/p>\n<p>Your spirit squad is the D1A Spirit Program Game Day NATIONAL CHAMPIONSMore from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhioStateDT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@OhioStateDT<\/a> to come <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoBucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GoBucks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cy9Cykg9ZC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Cy9Cykg9ZC<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 Ohio State Buckeyes (@OhioStAthletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhioStAthletics\/status\/2012539177678549100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Buckeyes\u2019 stretch of dominance is unprecedented. Prior to 2024, the spirit program had not won a national championship since 1993.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOhio State held off Oklahoma and Washington for the title, as the Sooners mustered a 182.6333 and the Huskies produced a 180.2667 raw score, falling well behind the Buckeyes\u2019 188.5333.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 2026 UCA &amp; UDA National Championship College Cheerleading and Dance National Championship continue throughout the weekend and are streaming live on Varsity TV and the FloSports App.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the third straight year, Ohio State\u2019s spirit squad stood above the rest as the D1A Spirit Program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-414837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}