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CSULB Fires Cheerleading Coach, Loses National Title
Team forfeits prize because non-students competed.
Cal State Long Beach's cheerleading squad lost its coach and a national title today after it was revealed that non-students competed as part of the team.
The university fired Coach Eric Anderson, according to a statement from CSULB's Associated Students Inc., which funds the Cheer Team because "ineligible members participated in the competition as official members of the team.''
The prize that it forfeited is the National Cheerleaders Association title for Small Coed Division I. The team won it at a competition in Daytona Beach, Fla., on April 9 and 10.
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Anderson had been at the school for 10 years, and a search has begun for his replacement.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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