THE SIDELINES : ‘She’ Cheerleader Was a He
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Some of the students at Coronado High School thought the new cheerleader looked a little large.
Members of the football team joked they would never go out with a girl who could lift more weight than they could.
No wonder, because the high school cheerleader was a 26-year-old man.
For nearly two weeks, Charles James Daugherty convinced the 1,500 students and teachers at Coronado that he was an 11th-grade girl, police said today.
Daughtery, using the name Cheyen Weatherly, showed up at the school Sept. 6 purporting to be a transfer student from Greece and offering a high school transcript.
School officials did some checking on the transcript and discovered it was phony. Police arrested Daugherty on suspicion of felony impersonation and third-degree forgery.
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