Haley Lomonaco '24 Recruiting Profile

Hi, my name is Haley Lomonaco, and I am the class of 2024 at Sabino High School. Growing up I always knew I wanted to be a college cheerleader, I admired everything about them, and have been waiting for the day that I could be just like them. I started cheerleading when I was 6 years old and it has been a huge part of my life ever since. Cheerleading has shaped me into the person I am today. My biggest goal in life is to be a strong leader, I know that I can do this because of the foundations that cheerleading has laid for me. Throughout my years, cheerleading has taught me teamwork, patience, hard work does really pay off, but most importantly leadership skills. I use these skills in cheerleading but also in the classroom, and throughout my whole life. Academics has always been something I have excelled in my whole life, and continue to work hard at. I have been able to maintain a 4.0 gpa with the hard work strategies that cheerleading instilled in me. Cheerleading started for me at the sideline/pop-warner level for a few seasons with All-Star prep teams in the off season, doing these teams I fell in love with Allstar cheerleading and decided to go to my current gym, Chaos Elite. I have grown up in this gym, and was coached by Luis Ortega, he started me on Youth level 2, and eventually had me competing at the International Open Coed level 4 division, and placing 8th at The Summit 2022, but this upcoming season I have the opportunity to compete on our Non-Tumbling level 6, which has been something I have been striving for, for many years. I have always been a strong leader on my teams and someone that I hope young athletes would look up to, during the 2021-22 season I helped coach the Junior 1 team at my gym, this helped me grow in all of the ways mentioned prior, but most of all this showed me that younger kids do look up to me, simply because of how they would cheer me on and look for me when my team was on the floor, and I knew that I succeeded in completing my goals. In college I hope to continue to grow not only as an athlete but as a student and a person, and become stronger in all aspects of life by continuing to put forth all of the things that cheerleading has taught me.