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A RESOLUTION saluting Greenup County cheer coach Candy Berry on her storied 1
career and congratulating her upon the occasion of her enshrinement into the KHSAA 2
Dawahares Hall of Fame. 3
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." 4
-- Will Durant 5
WHEREAS, on April 30, 2023, Candace (Candy) Sue Berry, longtime cheer coach 6
at Greenup County High School, will be inducted into the Kentucky High School Athletic 7
Association (KHSAA) Dawahares Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2023; and 8
WHEREAS, Candy Berry's long association with the world of cheer began as a 9
freshman at Russell High School in the 1960s, a time when cheerleading wasn’t 10
considered a competitive sport, and most people didn’t view cheerleaders as athletes; and 11
WHEREAS, over the ensuing 50 years, as cheer finally achieved its rightful place 12
as a sport, it would be Candy Berry that would be one of the key agents responsible for 13
revolutionizing the world of cheer forever; and 14
WHEREAS, after school, Candy Berry began her coaching career at Russell High 15
School, where she coached for five years before becoming head cheer coach at Greenup 16
County High School in 1976; and 17
WHEREAS, in 1980, Candy Berry took Greenup County to the inaugural National 18
High School Cheerleading Championship, which, for the first time, provided cheerleaders 19
the opportunity to compete as athletes; and 20
WHEREAS, for 43 straight years, Candy Berry’s squad has returned to the National 21
Championship, not just to compete, but to dominate, with Greenup County winning 16 22
national championships, its first in 1981, and the most recent in 2017; and 23
WHEREAS, Candy Berry possesses the uncanny ability not only to successfully 24
engage with her athletes, but also to inspire them to bring out their full potential, summed 25
up by the coach herself, "Stumbles and falls are inevitable. You never want to quit before 26
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is what makes it all worth it."; and 1
WHEREAS, in 46 years of coaching, Candy Berry has touched the lives of 2
hundreds of young people, and she has received numerous awards and recognitions, 3
including the 2000 American Cheer Magazine Coach of the Year, the 1988 Kentucky 4
Association of Pep Organization Sponsors Coach of the Year, the 1999 Universal 5
Cheerleaders Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 University of 6
Kentucky Cheer Alumni Award, the American Spirit Award, and 2017 inductee to the 7
Greenup County High School Hall of Fame, among many others; and 8
WHEREAS, Candy Berry's upcoming enshrinement into the KHSAA Dawahares 9
Hall of Fame represents a capstone to a remarkable career in which she was not only a 10
great coach, but, in many ways, one of the founding mothers of a sport; 11
NOW, THEREFORE, 12
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the 13
Commonwealth of Kentucky: 14
Section 1. The members of the House of Representatives join Representative 15
Danny Bentley in saluting Greenup County cheer coach Candy Berry on her storied 16
career, congratulating her upon the occasion of her enshrinement into the KHSAA 17
Dawahares Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2023, and wishing her good fortune in all 18
future endeavors. 19
Section 2. The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit a copy of 20
this Resolution to Representative Danny Bentley for presentation to coach Candy Berry. 21