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West High's cheer squad mixes it up to step up in a SoCal competition.

Members of the West High cheerleading squad, including four boys who joined in January, practice this week before their trip to compete in Los Angeles at the end of the month. Bob Brownne / Tracy Press

"It’s the first time that we’re going to do it," coach Michael Campos said.

The group usually enters some type of contest each year, he said, but this year participants decided to create the coed team so they could go up against more teams in a bigger venue.

"We’re hoping to have a little more competition at this one," he said.

The 23-member team includes the squad that cheered at West’s basketball games. The addition of the boys in January makes it the school’s first coed competition cheer squad.

"We’re just excited to be the first in Tracy to do anything like that," Campos said.

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