Scott Swanson
Karly Newport was getting ready to perform at the Oregon Elite Classics cheer competition in Salem late last month when she noticed something strange.
“I was on deck, the next to compete,” said Newport, a junior at Sweet Home High School. “I competed against several other girls on Individual Day. When I get nervous, I don’t usually watch the girls.”
She said she’d heard about one particular competitor, Jessie Hammond, an eighth-grader from…