“You have to fall and fall and fall to figure it out.
“It's not something that you just attempt and boom, you hit on the first try,” she explains. Making the moves look effortless takes time and trust. Recognized and respected for her flexibility, Butler’s favorite stunts are a handski, where she balances upside down on one hand while someone holds her in the air, and a backhandspring with a double twist. She is so positive and roots for everyone and is really good at lifting people up and giving them confidence, and I really love that about her.”īutler is a flyer, one of the cheerleaders on the top of any stunt. “She doesn’t act like she’s super famous and stuff. She is so sweet, super, super humble, and she’s extremely talented - obviously - but to be honest, it’s just like having another teammate,” Hassett says. 1 in partner stunts at the 2021 national championship, says she thought the team was “ridiculously talented” last year, but this year it’s “10 times more talented” with the same intense work ethic. It's like the Avengers, literally.”īutler’s teammate, Elsa Hassett, who ranked No.
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“It's almost like you're watching an action movie and all these crazy things are happening. “The talent here is just like on another level of insane,” she said. The victory attracted recruits from all over the country, even internationally, to try out for the Spirit Squad, which includes both Weber State’s dance and cheer teams. But at the 2021 college nationals held each spring in Daytona Beach, Florida, it was the Wildcats, from Ogden, Utah, that came away with the Grand National Title, the highest score for the entire competition across all divisions. They had claimed national victories many times. The show’s tension came partly from the competition between two top Texas teams, Navarro and Trinity Valley College. “Half the time, on the show, I was either crying or I was hurt or I was, like, just going through a hard time, and people were like, ‘Wow, we have so much more respect for you now that you showed us that side of you.’ I think that's the best part of it, people got to see how I actually was, versus the social media aspect.” Sometimes she’s shocked to realize she now has 1.8 million Instagram followers and an equal number of TikTok subscribers. She thinks it was the vulnerability and authenticity that propelled the show’s popularity and helped build her social media brand. In the end, she trusted producer Greg Whiteley enough to allow crews to follow her constantly for weeks on end, capturing all the good and bad along the way. “I didn't know if I wanted to put my life out there like that because you have to be very vulnerable,” she admits. When first approached about the concept, Butler was reluctant to commit.
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While there, her reputation and recognition skyrocketed through the popular Netflix series “Cheer.” The six-part series, which aired January 2020, highlighted Butler as Navarro prepared for college nationals. In 2019, Butler was recruited to Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, a junior college recognized nationally for its cheer program. She was a star of the YouTube series “Cheerleaders,” and was profiled by ABC Nightline in a feature on the pressures of competitive cheerleading.
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Her combination of talent, hard work and charisma led to a number of social media and TV appearances, beginning at age 12 when she created instructional cheerleading videos for YouTube. Homeschooled through junior high and high school, she spent her life, “training, training, training.” She competed with All-Star teams in Florida and California, where she won several national and world cheerleading titles. “I was like, ‘Hmm, okay, that doesn't really look like the cheerleading I had thought about.’ So, I gave it a try, and a week later I quit gymnastics and moved straight into cheerleading, and I just fell in love with it from that very day.”įor Butler, cheerleading wasn’t an extracurricular activity. “I was like, ‘There's no way I would ever do cheerleading, it's just pom poms, and a bunch of cheers.’ That’s not for me,” she remembers thinking, until the day she watched a cheer team practice across the gym. OGDEN, Utah – Gabi Butler, one of the newest members of Weber State University’s nationally ranked cheer team, has a mantra that’s motivated her through life, “Hard work beats talent, when talent refuses to work.”īutler’s arrival at Weber State comes after a lifetime of hard work in a sport she didn’t have much respect for when she was an athletic young gymnast at age 8. Gabi Butler Cheers Her New Wildcat Community
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