Torrance Shipman is an all-American high school student and as captain of her school's championship-winning cheerleading squad, she finds herself faced with stiff competition for the national title from an inner-city, hip-hop squad. Wanting to deliver a win proves difficult when Torrance learns that her predecessor stole cheer routines from the other squad, who are more eager than ever to even the score. With cheer victory on the line, the squads battle it out to see who is best.
When new students can't get onto their college cheerleading team, they form their own squad and prepare for a cheer off.
A teenager transfers to a rough high school and tries to join the cheerleading squad, but faces stiff competition in the process and must prepare to face off against her past.
Californian cheer queen Carson leads her team's cheerleading squad to a prestigious cheer camp, where they face off with their elite New York rivals.
Lina Cruz is a tough, sharp-witted Latina cheerleader from East L.A. who transfers to a posh, West Los Angeles high school after her widowed mother remarries a wealthy man and Lina not only finds herself a fish-out-of-her-environment at her new high school but she faces off against Avery, the snobbish and ultra-competitive all-star cheer-leading captain to qualify for a spot on her new school's cheer-leading team with the help of her new sheltered stepsister, Skylar, and her former teammates whom she calls up to help her.
In an attempt to take down rival cheer squad The Truth, cheer captain Destiny decides that she will bring Blake and his male street dancers onto her squad, The Rebels. Despite best intentions, the two groups do not mesh well together initially.
When a cheer squad practices their routines on Halloween weekend in an abandoned school, they are picked off one by one by an unknown killer.