


Interestingly, Lanouette is nonchalant about the fact that the team went from having zero male cheerleaders between the Panthers’ inception in 19, to adding three in one fell swoop. In the end, the trio also managed to make history by becoming the first men, ever, to earn spots on the Panthers’ cheer squad. But over and over again, Booker, Crawford and Sutton managed to avoid getting the axe from first-year TopCats coach Chandalae Lanouette. All three - and Sutton especially, given his unfortunately timed injury - expected to hear them at some point over the course of the audition process, which spanned several weeks from early May deep into June.
