Nearly 8,000 people voted and Whitney McMillan of Old Dominion University has been named the 2008 Cheerleader Showdown Champion. Oregon’s Kelsi Metzler, who received 32% of the vote, jumped out to a quick lead but it was McMillan who secured the victory in the end with 42% of the fan vote.

Over the past eight months we’ve been featuring college cheerleaders from the SI On Campus Cheerleader of the Week Index in what has become known as our Cheerleader Showdown. To date eight cheerleaders have been named “Showdown” winners and today it is up to you to decide who is the overall winner in 2008.

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As you all know, we here at COED love these peppy ladies more than life itself (except the part of life that involves cheerleaders, of course). So get ready for our sixth installment of Cheerleader Showdown!
This time, we’ve got the lovely Lisa from UCLA. Next up is Washington StateR… Click to read more

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Welcome to our fourth installment of Cheerleader Showdown!
If you search “cheerleading” on COED you will see more than a few posts that prove there are some incredibly sexy cheerleaders out there—but now it’s time again for the public to decide what school has the hottest.
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