Brooke Dupre recently helped lead the Sickles High cheerleading squad to its first-ever championship.

Dupre can cheer and tumble as well as every other girl on her squad, but there's one big difference - the 18-year-old senior is hearing impaired.

Dupre discovered she had permanent hearing loss when she was 5 years old. She can hear with the help of her hearing aids, but said they get in the way when she performs different types of physical activities.

But that hasn't stopped her. Dupre and her team recently took home the state title for the first time in the school's history.

"I started crying and freaking out and hugging all of my teammates, my coach," she said. "It was great."

Dupre said her team spent countless hours trying to perfect the performance. She put in the work as well, even though she was barely able to hear. Her coach found a way to work around that, though.

”Our coach started using a white board and would write down the cheers so I would be able to know which cheer it is,” she said.

Dupre doesn’t wear her hearing aids when she cheers, so she’s trained herself to read lips and count the beats of the music in her head. She also relies on the close-knit relationship with her team.

“If you can’t trust your teammates, you aren’t going to be able to hit your stunts and do your tumbling," she said. "And if you don’t put in the effort you won’t succeed."

Brooke’s mom, Michelle, couldn’t be prouder of her daughter.

"We’ve just always been very supportive of her," she said. "She’s always held her head up high and been very thankful that she is able to function and be successful."

Dupre said she’s still deciding which college she’ll attend next year but wherever she goes, she hopes to continue cheering.