Butler graduate and Penn State senior Emily Huber cheers during a football game at Beaver Stadium this season.

STATE COLLEGE — The new year will begin a new life for Emily Huber.

One that won't involve cheerleading.

A 2015 Butler graduate, Huber is a senior cheerleader at Penn State University. She has been involved in the sport since second grade, when she cheered for the Center Township Rams of the Butler Area Midget Football League.

Huber will be on the sidelines Jan. 1 in Orlando, Fla., when the Nittany Lions take on Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl.

“I'll still do some basketball and hockey games, but that will be the last really big game I'll be a part of,” Huber said.

And she'll miss it.

“I can't begin to tell you what cheerleading's done for me,” Huber said.

Find out what Huber's favorite cheerleading memories are in Wednesday's Butler Eagle.