You know you're a cheerleader when...

*you're completely comfortable in your spankies/bloomers

*You've agrued about how cheerleading is SUCH a sport, and made a bet on what someone couldn't do, that you could!

*You've been through the team drama that almost killed you, and looked back on it as the best time of your life

*you've been to camp and don't know how you EVER worked that hard!

*You hate to see someone off beat, can't they count in their head??

*you know what "PINCH YOUR PENNY" means!

*you have no problem with your back spot putting her hand all up in ur butt.

*You've posed in so many "team photos" that your wall is basically a play by play for each year!

*You've had to wash ALL the hair spray out of your hair after competitions- and you had to rinse and repeat!

*you know that there is no such thing as TOO MANY bobby pins... they make life better!

*you find yourself making up cheers to things people say

* you know ur a cheerleader when the only way u can fall asleep at night is knowing u did ur best in practice♥

*you know ur a cheerleader when ur in class u think up new cheers, chants, and formations

*you know what real pain is

*you have caught yourself saying "omg she would be a GREAT flyer"

*you think getting new uniforms is like christmas

*you feel like your casual wardrobe consists of team shirts

*you see a random girl and you think.."i could totally base her"

*you think 5, 6, 7, 8 comes before 1, 2, 3,4

*touchdown, daggers, and buckets are motions.

*one more time actually means until you hit it perfectly.

*tight isn't a slang term.

*you cant spell out defense, score, offense, aggressive, ect. with out saying it in cheer

*you cant have a pony tail with out a bow

2008-09 Yearbook needs YOUR pictures

You can participate in making this the best yearbook ever

August 08, 2008

Dear Parent or Student,

Get your pictures in the yearbook! The Yearbook Staff invites students and parents to submit photos for the yearbook. If you've got great photos of school and community events or you and your friends just having fun, we'd like to see them. Our photographers can't be everywhere. Help us get as many photos as possible to create a terrific book everyone will want to have.

Read more/print out the directions.

We really need 2008 summer boy's baseball pictures! Can you help?

Here is how you can submit photos online:
• Go to: https://images.jostens.com
• If it does not automatically log you into the site, enter username:1171192 and password:bigdog
• Browse to select the photo(s) you wish to upload.
• Enter information about the photo and provide contact information in case the staff needs additional information.
• Click "Save Details".

It's that easy! Submit your photos today! The last day to submit photos is 5/20/2009.

Thank you, and enjoy the rest of the school year!

Sincerely,
Yearbook Adviser and the 2009 Yearbook Staff.

The Yearbook Staff will review all photos and determine final yearbook content. We cannot guarantee that all submissions can be used in the book.

Related Sites

• Click here to upload pictures for the yearbook

2008 Football Schedule

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION
Aug. 29 Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Dunlap
Sept. 5 River Valley Correctionville (7PM)
Sept. 12 West Harrison Mondamin
Sept. 19 AHST Dunlap
Sept. 26 Corning Corning
Oct. 3 Fremont-Mills Dunlap (Homecoming)
Oct. 10 Treynor Treynor
Oct. 17 Bedford Dunlap
Oct. 24 Colo-Nesco Dunlap

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UCA Camp at West Harrison; Jun 20-21

91 girls, 6 area schools- and it only promises to get bigger next year. The central location may draw kids from both Omaha/Council Bluffs and Sioux City. Last year Iowa Western hosted a cheer camp, this year it held a Drill camp instead. June 21 was the same day as Morningside College's cheer clinic... West Harrison may just be onto something. Denison, Benson, Maple Valley, Lawton Bronson, and Boyer Valley made this camp a lot of fun.

Sam, Christine, and Kassi work on learning a new floor cheer Friday.

We had instructor two instructors from Iowa State, one from UNI and one from Iowa Western.

Don't be afraid of heights. West Harrison girls give Kassi a lift into a full-extension.

Denison girls put Sam up in a double thigh stand as part of the floor routine that the Monarchs and Bulldogs did together. Long live the "Mon-Dogs!"

See Coach's Facebook page for more UCA Camp pictures.

Here's the story I submitted to the Missouri valley Times, the Mapleton PRESS, the Dunlap Reporter, the Denison Bulletin-Review, and Harrison County Ambition- We'll see if any of them run it and how soon and with which pictures-

Loud and Proud;
Area Cheerleaders
Work to Get Ready for Seasons Ahead

Muscles strained, nerves may have too. Sweat poured from the hard work and repetitive motion. At times the shouting was deafening. But some of them hadn’t had so much fun all summer.

91 girls representing six high schools from around western Iowa and Omaha attended the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) camp at West Harrison High School in Mondamin June 20 and 21. Cheerleaders from Boyer Valley, Denison, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto (MVAO) and West Harrison were among those at the camp. Some were bussed, others drove, some even spent the night in Missouri Valley.

Instructors from Iowa State University and Northern Iowa University put the girls through a grueling but fun regiment of cheering, dancing, stunt building and tumbling.

West Harrison Coach Gina Felton decided to organize the camp after seeing a need in the region that wasn’t being filled.

MVAO Coach, Laura Holst hoped the camp would provide her squads skills they will need for the state cheerleading competition this fall. The Rams sent 18 girls to the camp; basketball and football cheerleaders, both Varsity and JV.

Boyer Valley Coach Ted Mallory was impressed with the superior level of instruction, especially for the reasonable cost.

“$60 per cheerleader for a two-day camp is great when many three day camps can cost as much as two to three hundred dollars,” said Mallory.

Felton hopes the camp will become an annual event that more schools from the newly formed Western Valley Conference will consider attending in the future.

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Yeah, it's that time of year again- school's out and I need something to do besides painting parts of my house and reorganizing my basement.

If you have any story ideas, or events for me to cover for the Mapleton PRESS this summer, please let me know. Send me names, phone numbers, or email addresses of people I should contact.

I'm especially interested in covering Charter Oak and Ricketts, but will be glad to write about Soldier and Ute too. For that matter, if you have ideas for Schleswig, Castana, Mapleton and Danbury I will be glad to pass them along to the PRESS office.

I am also looking for great ideas for Charter Oak Achievement Days AND anyone from the Missouri Valley area who has any story ideas about RAGBRAI.

Just look for the "Contact Me" button on the right side and it should automatically open your email program. Thanks and see you at Achievement Days!

Congratulations Class of 2008!

Everybody loves cholcolate

One day, Kensie wondered how much chocolate cake she could eat in one bite. Christine decided to help her find out. It didn't go so well.