“Celebrating 26 years as owner and manager at CHEER IT UP! Vickie has 40 years of cheerleading coaching experience, including 25 years as head coach of the 14- time UCA National Finalist Tahlequah High School cheerleaders and 25 years as the Senior AllStar coach at CHEER IT UP!. Vickie has over 100 National Championship squads in the AllStar Divisions. She coached the Tahlequah High School cheerleaders to two State Championship titles (Co-Ed Division and Class 4A) and two state runner-up title (Class 5A) in 2007 and 2018. She started the first-ever STUNT team at THS and won the first State Championship in that newly added NCAA sport. She was named Regional Coach of the Year three times and OK State coach of the year twice by the OSSAA and OCA. She was selected by the OCA to coach the East AllState cheerleaders in 1995. Vickie was selected to the THS Coaches Hall of Fame in 2023 and is the first female coach of any sport inducted. Vickie has been voted as one of the top ten coaches in America by American Cheerleader Magazine eight times, is certified as a National Qualifying Judge, Level 1-4 USASF, and AACCA certified to coach cheerleading. Vickie is a certified member of the US Elite Coaches Association for Women’s Gymnastics, (USECA), the US All-Star Coaches Association (USASF) and served on the OSSAA Cheer Rules Committee for five years. Vickie opened CIU with Kevin Burgess in June of 1997."