Clip of Utah State cheerleader CRYING at team’s loss to Missouri goes viral
Utah State Aggies fans were overwhelmed to see their team defeated by the Missouri Tigers in their final game of the season on Thursday.
But perhaps no one was more devastated by the loss than team cheerleader Ashlyn Whimpey, 20, whose heartbroken reaction to the final result has now made her a viral star.
The cheerleader, who is the girlfriend of Utah State basketball star Sean Bairstow, let her emotions get the better of her as the game wound down to the final minutes, tears in her eyes and lip quivering as she watched her team. she trying to rally from 12 points behind her opposition with less than two minutes left in the second half.
The blonde’s tearful moment during the March Madness game against Missouri was caught on TNT camera, and the clip of her is quickly circulating on social media.
Utah State cheerleader Ashlyn Whimpey let her emotions get the better of her Thursday when her team was defeated in the championships, leaving the 20-year-old in tears.
The tearful moment of the blonde was captured by TNT and went viral
A clip uploaded to Twitter has been viewed more than eight million times, with many commenters leaving tongue-in-cheek comments.
A clip uploaded to Twitter has been viewed more than eight million times, with many commenters leaving tongue-in-cheek comments.
One viewer tweeted: “He finally made it out of Utah and now he has to go back.”
While another commenter came to a similar conclusion writing: ‘That’s the look of someone who realizes they have to go back to Utah. He wanted a few more days in Cali.
After the clip of her took the internet by storm, Ashlyn took to TikTok to defend her ‘March sadness’ meme.
She wrote in an overlay caption: “That time I was sad to cheer at my last game.”
TikTok then shows a montage of his face in various articles online.
She captioned the clip “and now I’m a meme” and put it on AJR’s World’s Smallest Violin soundtrack.
However, while Ashlyn faced ridicule from some, other viewers offered words of support for the cheerleader.
One TikToker said: “Literally the prettiest crybaby I’ve ever seen.”
Overall, Utah State was defeated by Missouri with a final score of 76-65.
It is later revealed that Ashlyn is the girlfriend of Utah State basketball player Sean Bairstow.
The athlete, pictured with her fellow cheerleaders, is currently studying marketing at Utah State University and will graduate next year.
While another wrote: ‘Some people don’t understand the real feeling of that last game. You will always remember it.
And a fellow sports fan commented, “My last high school football game, I played the entire 4th quarter crying knowing I would never set foot on that field again.”
Some directed their anger at broadcaster TNT and questioned why the network had chosen to show so many clips of Ashlyn’s emotional reaction.
‘Bruh, why does TNT keep showing the crying cheerleader from Utah State? Relax,’ wrote one person.
Another quipped: ‘Really, TNT? Feature a crying cheerleader?
And one commenter criticized the network for interrupting her after she was initially caught crying on camera.
‘Let the girl be sad,’ he said.
Ashlyn’s other TikToks show her in a more upbeat spirit, with her most viewed clip showing her performing a dance routine on Christmas Eve with her sister.
The athlete is currently studying marketing at Utah State University and will graduate next year.
Overall, Utah State was defeated by Missouri with a final score of 76-65.
Kobe Brown hit three 3-pointers in a span of just over three minutes to fuel a 13-2 run that turned a two-point deficit into a 62-53 lead.
‘He is our MVP. I can tell you that,’ coach Dennis Gates said after Missouri’s win.
āFinally, when he started taking some shots in the second half, he immediately made eye contact. He said that he is here. I said, ‘Yes, you are. We can see.”
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