Powell Middle School Cheerleading Coach 1
Appearances
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
Coach Courtney Groom says the weight of the tragedy has changed her team of middle schoolers.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
They were a lot stronger than I thought, but it was hard seeing how hurt they all were.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
Terry Shalander is not only a coach, but a mom.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
We love them like we love our own kids. So it was devastating for us. And then to have to go tell my daughter. that she's now missing a teammate and a friend.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
With an ongoing criminal investigation into Savannah's death, CHEER became a safe space for the girls to talk about their teammate and their friend.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
Parents volunteered their homes, and we could go and let the girls sit together and just be together. They could cry. They could tell stories and laugh.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
After devastation, the world keeps spinning, and two weeks after Savannah's death, Palmac CHEER team had to compete. The team honored Savannah in their clothes.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
Went out and bought blue Def Leppard t-shirts. She loved music and hair bands and her dad loves Def Leppard. But the girls also knew they wanted to leave space for her on the mat. They immediately, we don't want somebody to take her place. Nobody else wants to do the megaphone. Can we do a recording? Does anybody have it on video? After some searching, they found the audio.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
So she was still able to keep her place and her position in the program. And it all started out with her yelling out loud, it's touchdown time.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
Her spunky personality was the icing on the cake for our squad.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
The Powell Mac cheerleading coaches say Savannah Copeland was quiet until you gave her the megaphone. The girls were like, oh, no, I don't want that.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
And she was like, give it to me.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
She loved to tumble, never missed a practice and soon took on the role of a leader.
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Life360 App Helps Police Find Missing 13 Yr. Old: Justice for Savannah Copeland
She just had an aura, a presence about her that was a genuine and loving presence.