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Iowa Western Reivers
Cheer team in white-and-blue uniforms celebrates onstage with a trophy, medals, and a “2025 National Champions” banner, with confetti streamers falling beneath a large 2025 championship backdrop.
Team celebrates winning the 2025 national championship with trophy, medals, and banner onstage.
January 22, 2025

Reivers Win 2nd UCA National Title; 4th World Championship

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - For just the 2nd time in program history, Iowa Western Competitive Cheerleading brought home a UCA College National Championship. 

After three days of competition at Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex the Reivers finished at the top of the standings in Open Small Coed.  The team started off strong in the semi-finals with a score of 85.9 after just one deduction to lead the nine-team standings, qualifying for the finals.  The finals came down to just a 0.9 point difference with the Reivers ending with a score of 86.4 to defeat Itawamba (MS) and Northwest (MS) who tied for 2nd with 85.5 points.

Iowa Western also placed 2nd in Open Coed with a score of 86.4 and 9th out of 19 teams in Open All Girl - Game Day. 

For Head Coach Raven Gau, this is her 2nd UCA National Championship during her seven-year tenure at the program's helm.  

The teams rounded out the three-day competition with the World University Cup on Sunday evening.  Once again, the Small Coed Team finished at the top of the Premier Small Coed division, defeating four 4-year universities to claim the program's 4th world title.  Premier Large Coed would add a 3rd place showing to cap off the trophies.