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Spirit Squad Coaching Staff

Meet Head Coach Mirt

Theresa graduated from Hillsdale high in 2014 and earned a cheerleading scholarship to Menlo College where she cheered for three years. She received a coaches award freshmen year, Division II First Team All American sophomore year, and MVP and captain junior year. She competed at USA Collegiate Nationals junior year and earned a 2nd place in the All Girl Four Year College Division. Theresa also competed on Menlo's STUNT team freshmen and sophomore years when the team was ranked in 5th place on a National scale.

In addition to cheer, Theresa was a member of the Menlo Dance Team for three years. She was the captain of the dance team her junior and senior year. As a Senior, Theresa competed and helped choreograph Menlo's National dance routine and earned a 3rd place finish at USA Collegiate Nationals in Dance.

Theresa has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Resources from Menlo College and currently works full time at Twitter. In her free time she is continuing to choreograph for Menlo's dance team along with spending time with family and friends.

Meet JV Coach Braccini-Lopez

Coach Savina is the JV cheer coach. She is an Alumni of Hillsdale High School from the class 2017 and was a proud member of Hillsadale's cheerleading squad for 4 years! As of this year, Savina is a graduate of SDSU and is currently at USF pursuing a masters in MFT. She has been fortunate enough to have made such wonderful memories during her time on Hillsdale's cheer team and looks forward to helping the current team create their own.

Theresa Mirt

Head Coach

Savina Braccini-Lopez

JV Head Coach