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What started as a fill-in assignment ended in one of the state's top coaching awards for a Sidney High School teacher.

Due to a late staff resignation, Carrie Nesbitt was asked if she would coach the Sidney High School cheer squad this year. She didn't know a lot about cheer and its competitions, but Nesbitt said "yes" to the request so students could have a supervisor in their endeavour.

That "yes" resulted in a letter last week informing Nesbitt that she had been chosen as the 2019 Nebraska Coaches Association Varsity Cheer Coach of the Year.

According to Sidney's senior cheerleaders, who...