March 20, 2025
Ferris State joins GLVC as associate member in STUNT, a sport based on competitive cheerleading skills
Ferris State University will join the Great Lakes Valley Conference as an associate member for the STUNT team, beginning with the inaugural 2025-26 season.
The Bulldogs will compete alongside six other institutions in the league, including full-time members Drury University, Lewis University, Maryville University, Quincy University, and Southwest Baptist University, as well as associate member East Stroudsburg University.
STUNT is one of the fastest growing female sports in the country, featuring head-to-head competition between teams that execute skills-based routines in categories including partner stunts, jumps and tumbling, pyramids and tosses along with team routines.
"We're pleased to welcome Ferris State University and their STUNT team as associate members to the GLVC for our inaugural year of competition in this exciting sport during the 2025-26 season." GLVC Commissioner Jim Naumovich said. "This is a wonderful opportunity to expand the sport and to provide regular season competition opportunities and a championship experience to their student-athletes."
Ferris State is a full-time member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference and announced that they will begin sponsoring a STUNT team starting in 2025.
The Bulldogs will be led by Perrmella Harris who was announced as the head Cheer and STUNT coach in September of 2024.
Harris previously owned and operated the Metro Cheer Training Center in Livonia Michigan for 25 years, where they won over 100 local, regional and national cheerleading and dance championships.
She has also coached Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) girls competitive cheer and most recently spent time as an associate head coach of a Division I acrobatics and tumbling program.
The STUNT program represents the first sport added by Ferris State since the introduction of Bulldog women's soccer, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this fall and was first added in 1999.
Additional information will be available online at GLVCsports.com and social media at @GLVCsports; #GLVCstunt.