HAMPTON — Iyanna Powell enjoyed her time as a cheerleader at Woodside High School so much that it led to her becoming a cheer coach.

“I started coaching just so I could pour back into the kids my craft,” said Powell, who recently was named the cheerleading coach at Virginia Peninsula Community College.

Powell graduated from Woodside in 2016 and Old Dominion University in 2020, earning a bachelor’s degree in Human Services. She’s working on a master’s in business from Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts and is slated to earn her degree next year. She works for the City of Newport News as a family services specialist. Before that, she taught for about four years at Heritage High School, where she worked in Special Education.

She began her coaching journey n 2021 in a rec league. S

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