Cheer Extreme Allstars

Cheer Extreme Allstars is a branch of cheerleading and competition dance gyms found throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, Florida and Virginia.^[1] Cheer Extreme is best known for its level six (or "Worlds") teams, which have won numerous titles at the Cheerleading Worlds. Cheer Extreme Senior Elite, of the Kernersville, NC, location, finished in first place at the Cheerleading Worlds in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2023, 2025, and 2026; Cheer Extreme SSX (also known as Small Senior X) of the Raleigh, NC, location finished in first place in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026; and Cheer Extreme Code Black, also of Raleigh, finished in first place in 2019, 2024, 2025, and 2026. As a franchise, Cheer Extreme has won over 850 National Champion titles.^[2]

SportCheerleading and competition dance

Founded1993

Based inNorth Carolina

Colors  Teal,   Black, and   White

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Cheer Extreme

Sport	Cheerleading and competition dance
Founded	1993
Based in	North Carolina
Colors	Teal,   Black, and   White
Owner	Courtney Smith Pope, Ben Pope
Head coaches	Courtney Smith-Pope
No. of teams	11 locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Illinois and Maryland with over 110 teams (2019-2020)

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In 2009, an owner and coach Courtney Smith-Pope, who was a cheerleader for Wake Forest University, won Coach of The Year sponsored by the USASF. In 2013, Cheer Extreme opened a location in Roanoke, Virginia. In 2015, Cheer Extreme opened a location in Waldorf, Maryland. In 2022, they opened a new location in Boynton Beach, Florida. The two most notable locations are in Kernersville, NC and Raleigh, NC. Courtney Smith-Pope is the owner of the Kernersville location and her sister Kelly Helton owns the Raleigh location. ^[3] CEA was originally opened by Betsy Smith before ownership was passed down to her daughters.^[4]