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Marti Perkins, a pre-law student at Lancer University, discovers that her scholarship has been canceled and her well-meaning but irresponsible mother, Wanda has neglected to inform her. Broke and out of options, Marti realizes the only way she can stay in school is to win a place on the Hellcats - Lancer's legendary cheer squad - and the scholarship that comes with it. Despite a confrontation with the Hellcats peppy team captain, Savannah, Marti wins over coach Vanessa Lodge, makes the squad and is thrust into a competitive world unlike anything she has ever known. With her best friend Dan by her side, Marti navigates her new world as a cheerleader and Savannah's new roommate, while trying to avoid any interaction with squad member Alice Verdura, who is instantly jealous when she realizes that Marti has caught the eye of Alice's ex-boyfriend Lewis Flynn.
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Marti is horrified when she discovers Wanda in the audience at qualifiers and banishes her from the stadium. After Charlotte, Savannah's sister and captain of the Hellcats' rival team from Memphis Christian college, falls and suffers a serious injury, Savannah is torn between going with her sister to the hospital and staying to compete. Savannah tells Marti her parents stopped talking to her when she decided to transfer from Memphis Christian to the secular Lancer University, forcing Marti to re-think her stance on Wanda attending qualifiers. Meanwhile, Lewis blasts Alice for putting all their scholarships at risk, and Dan takes an interest in Savannah.
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Savannah is nervous about her first date with Dan, so Marti and the rest of the Hellcats team accompany her on their date which ends in disaster. Meanwhile, Marti tries to impress her law professor Julian in the hopes of joining his legal team but he doubts she can balance both her studies and cheerleading. Desperate to get her spot back, Alice turns to pills to kill the pain so she can get medically approved to re-join the team. Vanessa decides to come clean with Derrick about her affair with Red.
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Lewis asks Marti out but she turns him down. Alice tells Lewis she will stop taking drugs if he helps her get back in shape as a flier, but then after a sweaty workout the two end up having sex. Meanwhile, Savannah takes Dan to her parents' house for dinner and a fight erupts after Savannah's mom demands that she stop seeing Dan. Wanda convinces Marti to give Lewis a chance so she tells him she's ready to date but he has second thoughts.
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When Dan suggests the demo video needs a visual make-over, captain Savannah takes his advice to shoot it outdoors, despite major opposition lead by rival Alice. Criminal law professor Julian Parrish is attempting to change a law which needlessly aggravates punishments. Marti however believes the claim of innocence of the grumpy convict whose case is to serve as precedent and promises to get him released, although Julian considers that beyond their means. Red Raymond surprises Derrick by first warning he plans to win Vanessa back and successfully triggering a bar brawl, then generously waving the option to file a complaint and have his rival fired, yet thus achieves a couple rift.
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The girls's volleyball team challenges the Hellcats to a flag-football game. Lewis coaches the Hellcats and Red is impressed by his plays. Marti pretends to be sick so she can skip the game and attend a conference with Julian. Alice wants to cheat to win but Savannah refuses, putting the girls at odds once again.
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Desperate to raise funds to get them to Nationals, the Hellcats plan a date auction. However, things take a unexpected turn after Savannah's old boyfriend Noah shows up and outbids Dan, Morgan wins a date with a horrified Marti and Vanessa is bid on by a mystery man whom she suspects is Red trying to win her back. Vanessa frets over whether to tell Derrick about the date as the money will cover the trip to Nationals for the Hellcats. Meanwhile, Lewis continues to keep a secret from the team.
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Dan has no problem sleeping over boxers-only on the rug between the girls' dorm beds while Marti shares her bed with Lewis, but his virgin girlfriend Savannah insists Dan takes her bed alone while she flees to a couch. Feeling she must 'eliminate' her virginity, Savannah books a luxury suite to share with pleasantly surprised Dan, only to change her mind and run home. Quarterback Jake Harrow is furious when girlfriend Alice refuses to play along at a Lancers PR party to coax the press but confronts team boss Bill Marsh and inspires the bored press to focus on the Hellcats instead. Marti's mother tells Dan, shamelessly disclosing her daughter's diary confidences, she considers them soul-mates. Dan claims not to lend credence but still asks Marti the truth before committing to Savannah.
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Tipped by Marti's mother about her first love diary notes, Dan goes to ask Marti if they still stand a chance as a couple before committing to his present, virginal partner, but is told to go ahead. Dan is surprised when shy Savannah rents a hotel suite to go all the way, only to sneak out last-minute while he's already stripping in bed. Savannah returns home for a while, where she learns her kid sister Charlotte is hiding a pregnancy and offers to help cover by standing in as a cheerleader star, albeit for the Hellcats' Memphis rival team. Using Dan as driver in a stakeout investigating the three-strikes-you're-out imprisonment case, Marti lets the suspect escape and has sex again with Dan in his car. Evidence is meanwhile stolen from her dorm.
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A compromising picture of Alice is sent around school, humiliating her. Lewis feels bad for Alice and agrees to help her find the culprit. The two discover Damian, a football player, is the culprit and she vows revenge and plans to out him after she finds out he is gay. Red and Vanessa hear of her plan and set out to stop her before she does something she will regret. Meanwhile, Julian discovers Marti and Morgan are investigating Travis's case behind his back and cuts them lose from the team. Dan continues to be conflicted about his feelings for Marti so he makes a harsh decision about Savannah. Derrick decides to ask Vanessa to marry him and enlists the Hellcats to help choreograph a dance number for the proposal.
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After the incident in the car, Dan issues Marti an ultimatum: either admit she has feelings for him or their friendship is over. Marti drags a depressed Savannah to a BBQ to help lift her spirits. Savannah drinks a little too much and decides to flirt with the DJ, which puts her in a compromising position later that night. Marti decides to tell Savannah the truth about what happened between her and Dan.
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Marti endures a tense ride to sectionals with the Hellcats on the heels of her admission that she hooked up with Dan. Alice's father surprises Alice when he shows up to watch her fly. Alice confides to Lewis that she hasn't told her father that they broke up or that she was replaced as a flier. Not wanting to disappoint her father, Alice blackmails Savannah into giving up her spot as a flier by threatening to tell the squad that Savannah helped get Memphis Christian a free ride to sectionals.
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While the Hellcats host a fund-raising party to sell cheerleading calendars, Marti and Alice break into Marsh's office, but what they find raises ethical dilemmas for both. Meanwhile, the Monroe clan has a family meeting; Vanessa gives Coach Raymond a lesson about fancy footwork.
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The search for truth has reached its goal: proof that Travis did not rob the pharmacy, quarterback Jake's hazing-task, robbing a shop, went out of hand and was covered up by Bill Marsh and probably other college brass. Dan remains out of state. Just now, Marti gets her own initiation into the Hellcats, who reminisce their own joining and consider their future afterward, but if Jake's exposed, they may disappear into obscurity without Lancer's football team to cheer for.
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Law professor Parish agrees to attempt freeing Travis with minimal scandal in order to limit damage to the Lancers team and hence the Hellcats, who risk loosing their funding, yet enjoy a silly toga party which may be their last. The prospect of prison horror scares Jake too much to just do the right thing for Travis and the team, but his ex soon drives home the message that coming clean is better for him too. after a brilliant public confession, he gets off with a minimal jail term in optimal conditions and retains his sports hero status. Travis goes free and schemer Bill Marsh is forced to resign without pension.
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Dan finally returns for his brother Jimmy's wedding. His father and Marti's mother trick Marti into attending as a singer, Savannah volunteers as a waitress just to be there. Both are stunned when Dan presents a new girlfriend he met in his new Louisiana job. Travis convinces Alice to stick to her word and at least visit Jake, who might not have taken his place in jail without her promise of support. The visit proves to be enjoyable for the separated couple.
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Hearing from Travis he's playing a song written by her late father, Marti confronts her mother for never having told her anything about her other parent. Red Raymond smooths some feather ruffled in the eventful previous episodes. Horrified, the Hellcats discover the sing they used for their national finals routine was promised exclusively to their captain, but also to the Memphis competitors, by a member each of the same obscure band. The boys make the teams woe them for binding exclusivity, but overplay their hand. Charlotte and her mother are shocked that her kid sister carries her ex Noah Cambell's baby, and he isn't even fully over her.
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Dan's bid for entry at Lancer's film school is a zombie movie, starring the Hellcats. Making it is fun. After hearing from fellow candidates it doesn't meet the jury's known criteria, he plans not to enter it, but Savannah makes him reconsider and forces his hand. A music shop puts Marti on he trail of her father, who she discovers may be alive, so mother has a lifetime of lies to explain. The school paper exposes massive essay papers selling.
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Marti convinces Julian to let her represent a Lancer University student at Honor Court, but she soon realizes the case is even more personal than she originally thought. Vanessa and Red are shocked to find out that Red's ex-wife, Emily, has been hired to dig up dirt on Lancer's athletic programs and staff.
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Julian, now on kissing terms with Marti, discovers that her elusive father remarried and has another daughter, half her age, which fits the description of music store clerk Deirdre Perkins, who tries hard to avoid contact. Having compromised and lost her scholarship in the papers fraud, Savannah asks her father for a loan and is assured full study financing, but shortly after he's arrested for fraud.
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Father Parker Monroe, accused of fraud, can't afford a lawyer, so Marti asks Julian Parrish to do it pro bono. He accepts, as 'consolation' after she discovers that he has a young daughter and is still divorcing her mother. Thanks to the church charity fund, Parker gets bail, but decides to run. Alice enters the 24 hours dance marathon where Lewis wants to win a car for his father to hook him up, so when his partner Nasty Kathy is foot-injured, she hastily dumps Morgan as partner.
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Illness prevents several cheer team members from partaking in the long-awaited national championship, so to avoid disqualification for failing to field 18, desperate measures are required, even faking health, which is found out. Dan rushes the Monroes to hospital as Savannah chooses to stand by brat sister Charlotte who delivers early, alas on final day. Lewis is locked in the bathroom by his crazily jealous ex Nasty Kathy. Deirdre rudely refuses to properly get to meet Marti's cheer-leading mates, but receiving a call on their switched cellphones puts Marti on the track of their elusive father Rex Perkins.
Marti Perkins
Savannah Monroe
Lewis Flynn
Alice Verdura
Darwin
Vanessa Lodge
Dan Patch
Wanda Perkins
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