Middle school basketball players walked off court to defend bullied cheerleader with Downs Syndrome

KENOSHA, Wis. - An eighth-grade cheerleader from Wisconsin has become a national treasure after a group of basketball players stood up for her when she was being bullied during a game.

During a Lincoln Middle School boy’s basketball game last year, a group of people in the crowd began making fun of Desiree “Dee” Andrews, a cheerleader with Down syndrome. Three Lincoln players heard the jeers and decided to do something about it.

“One of the kids stepped up and said, ‘Don’t mess with her.’ Then all of the guys got together to show her support,” Brandon Morris, the team’s coach, told the Kenosha News this week.

“The kids in the audience were picking on Dee, so we all stepped forward,” Chase Vazquez, one of the players, told local television station WTMJ-TV.

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