--- title: Girl With Down Syndrome Finds Out She Made the Cheer Squad: Video description: She's going to follow in the footsteps of her sisters canonical: https://time.com/3852764/down-syndrome-girl-cheer-squad/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-09T15:32:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:37.662Z og:title: Watch a 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Find Out She's Going to Be a Cheerleader og:description: The video has racked up more than 3.8 million views in a week og:url: https://time.com/3852764/down-syndrome-girl-cheer-squad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Find Out She's Going to Be a Cheerleader twitter:description: The video has racked up more than 3.8 million views in a week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Find Out She's Going to Be a Cheerleader  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 9, 2015 3:32 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 9, 2015 3:32 PM UTC In a heartwarming video going viral this week, Lacey Parker, a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome, finds out she nabbed a spot on the cheerleading team at North DeSoto Middle School in Stonewall, La.—following in the footsteps of her sisters. [The 40-second video](https://www.facebook.com/renee.parker.56829/videos/10152903749853099/) of the youngster reading the roster on an iPad at home and shouting “I made it!” as family members embrace her has been viewed more than 3.8 million times and shared more than 50,000 times since it was uploaded to Facebook on May 1 by her mom Renee Parker. (h/t [Today.com](http://www.today.com/parents/girl-down-syndrome-makes-cheer-squad-response-goes-viral-t20196)) ### See 11 Adorable Babies Swimming Underwater  Zoe, 5 months Seth Casteel  Michael G., 12 months Seth Casteel  Zelda Mae, 7 months Seth Casteel  Emerson, 7 months Seth Casteel  Adeline, 10 months Seth Casteel  Bailey, 14 months Seth Casteel  Colton, 11 months Seth Casteel  Warren M., 11 months Seth Casteel  Khyleigh, 9 months Seth Casteel  Michael R., 4.5 months Seth Casteel  Valentina, 9 months Seth Casteel ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3852764/down-syndrome-girl-cheer-squad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3852764/down-syndrome-girl-cheer-squad/"},"headline":"Watch a 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Find Out She's Going to Be a Cheerleader","datePublished":"2015-05-09T15:32:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:37.662Z","description":"A Facebook video of the emotional moment has racked up more than 3.8 million views in a week","url":"https://time.com/3852764/down-syndrome-girl-cheer-squad/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3852764/down-syndrome-girl-cheer-squad/","name":"Watch a 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Find Out She's Going to Be a Cheerleader"}}]}] ```