Cheer the Brave
 

Carroll County will be the setting of a “tragedy to triumph” movie about the University of West Georgia cheerleading team and their rise to national champion status in the years following a van accident that killed two cheerleaders and their coach. (okay I just added that part..seems the website article left out the 3 words.)

The film, announced Monday by community and University of West Georgia officials, will be shot in the coming months.

“This is a ‘Rudy’ story about cheerleading,” said Daniel Jackson,
vice president of Carroll Tomorrow, a division of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce. He said the movie's working title is “Cheer the Brave."

Jackson said the idea for the project came when Carrollton resident Richard Mix, film producer and founder of Carrollton Film Partners, told him he was interested in making movies with a local setting.

Mix said when Jackson told him about basing a movie on the travails of the West Georgia cheerleading team, “I immediately responded to it. I thought it was a terrific idea.”
Carroll Tomorrow President and CEO Slater Barr also believed the story would make a good movie.

“It was a story that was utterly compelling,” Barr said. “It was a drama. It was inspirational.”

The movie likely would air on television in the spring or early summer of next year, Mix said. He said he didn’t know at this point which station would broadcast the movie but that he was talking with several networks.

www.times-georgian.com
Andy Nowicki
7/29/03

Sounds like it should be good.

OMG, I remember that. They were driving to cheer camp and were going too fast--seems like I heard that besides the 2 cheerleaders who were killed, the advisor was decapitated.

Gee, thanks, Carnation, lol.

The team has really bounced back (no pun intended) and have ranked #1 nationally for the last 2 years. And I'm proud to say that the All-Girls Cheerleading team has also placed near the top the last 2 years so hopefully both will be #1 next year!


It is always nice yet weird to see a place you know on the Big Screen. I lived near Covington so I knew some of the places where they filmed In the Heat of the Night. And Little Darlings (with Tatum and Kristie) was filmed where I went to camp....bet they didn't have the huge monster insects we did...and didn't have to bring their own t.p.!