A former Daviess County High School and Western Kentucky University Cheerleader, Beth Boarmann has been named the assistant head coach for the Youth All-Girls USA Cheer team, alongside her long-term coaching partner Jay Kirk.
“It is an amazing opportunity and a privilege,” Boarmann said. It is an honor to be chosen. It’s not something that I really planned for as far as accomplishing that during my career of coaching, but when the opportunity presents itself and we have the talent to do it this year in our community and area. I am very thankful and excited for the opportunity.”
Applications to try out for the team recently closed, and the process has moved on to the tryout stage. Still in the early phase of planning the season, the International Cheer Union Championship will be held in Orlando, Florida, at the ESPN Sports Complex from April 22-24. Once the team is formed, practices will be held in Shepherdsville, Kentucky and kids needed to be between 12-14 by the start of the 2026 calendar year.
Boarmann and Kirk met at Bullitt Central Middle School and the two have been coaching together for over seven years now.
“He’s great. He’s coached the US national team before, so there’s a lot of experience there with him,” Boarmann said. “The relationship we have and how well we bounce off of each other, the kids see that. They respond well to that, and the culture of our program is very positive in the sense of we are a community, and we are one family.”
Boarmann’s cheer background dates back to Pop Warner as a kid in the Daviess County area before later competing in high school for Daviess County from 2004-2008 and WKU for college from 2008-2012.
After graduating from graduate school, she dove into the coaching world, joining Noe Middle School as an assistant coach in 2017. A year later, she became their Head Coach, winning a state title in 2019.
“Noe was where I got my first title, which is what sparked the fire to keep going for more,” Boarmann said.
She spent time as an assistant coach at Bullitt Central High School, winning Nationals in 2021. Currently, she is the head coach of East Side Middle School and an assistant coach at Bullitt East High School.
Outside of coaching, she is a physical education teacher at Noe, and also spends time as a routine choreographer – currently helping out College View Middle School, where she used to attend.
“Our community knows the commitment and dedication that it takes to represent our country, and I think we all look forward to competing for the gold against the rest of the world,” Boarmann said. “Ultimately, of course, they could have chosen any coaches in the country, but part of the reason I think they chose us is also because of how incredibly talented and dedicated the kids in our area are.”
