BIG NEWS!!!

Congratulations Football on a 34-28 victory over Earlham Wed (10/29) in overtime!
The Bulldogs now play Madrid away on Monday night (11/3)...

And congratulations VB girls- won, 3 out of 4 games against Woodbine Mon (10/28)
Good luck against Kingsley-Pearson on Friday night (10/31) in Holstein at 7 PM

Substate Sensations!

How does that one go again?

Bad call, Refs, bad call.


She's goofy (no, YOU are! NO, YOU ARE!)

Don't worry, I don't eat little kids, just Cardinals

Good quote for all of you

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." ~Oprah Winfrey

Love you girls,
Coach ________________________________________________
Boyer Valley Community Schools
Challenging all students to meet their full potential
http://www.boyer-valley.k12.ia.us

Breath from your diaphram

I'm always preaching that cheerleaders should yell from their diaphrams, not scream from their larnyxes. They end up being able to be louder longer, have deeper, richer pitch, and most importantly protect your larnyx from injury- so you don't sound like you've been smoking for 40 years when you're 20. Here's more reasons- it can help you focus (like if you have ADD) and can help you deal with stress and anxiety- especially things like, say... stage fright!

This is from the book "Change your Brain, Change your Life" by psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

TRY DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING

Breath deeply and slowly from your belly. This is one of the main exercises I teach my patients have panic disorders. I actually write out a panic plan for them to carry with them. On the prescription it says: "Whenever you feel anxious or panicky, do the following:

• Breath deeply and slowly from your belly.
• Kill self-fulfilling prophecy forming negative thoughts
• Distract yourself from the anxiety

Breathing is a very important part of the prescription. The purpose of breathing is to get oxygen from the air into your body and to blow off waste products such as carbon dioxide. Every cell in your body need oxygen in order to function. Brain cells are particularly' sensitive to oxygen, as they start to die within four minutes when they arc deprived of it. Slight changes in oxygen content in the brain can alter the way n person feels and behaves. When a person gets angry, his or her breathing pattern changes almost immediately. Breathing becomes shallower and significantly faster. This breathing pattern is inefficient, and the oxygen content in the angry person's blood is lowered. Subsequently there is less oxygen available to the person’s brain and he or she may become more irritable, impulsive, confused, and prone to negative behavior (such as yelling, threatening, or hitting another person)

Learn to breathe properly
Try this exercise:
Sit in a chair. Get comfortable. Close your eyes. Put one hand on your chest and one hand on your belly. Then, for several minutes, feel the rhythm of your breathing. Do you breathe mostly with your chest? Mostly with your belly? Or with both your chest and belly? The way you breathe has a huge impact on how you feel moment by moment. Have you ever watched a baby breathe? Or a puppy? They breathe almost exclusively with their bellies. They move their upper chest very little in breathing. Yet most adults breathe almost totally from the upper part of their chest.

To correct this negative breathing pattern, I teach my patients to become experts at breathing slowly and deeply, mostly with their bellies. In my office, I have some very sophisticated biofeedback equipment that uses strain gauges to measure breathing activity. I place one gauge around a person's chest and a second one around his or her belly. The biofeedback equipment measures the movement of the chest and belly as the person breathes in and out. If you expand your belly (using the diaphragm muscles there) when you breathe in, it allows room for your lungs to inflate downward, increasing the amount of air available to your body. I teach my patients to breathe with their bellies by watching their pattern on the computer screen. In about a half hour's time, most people can learn how to change their breathing patterns, which relaxes them and gives them better control over how they feel and behave.

If you do not have access to sophisticated biofeedback equipment, lie on your back and place a small book on your belly. When you breathe in, make the book go up, and when you breathe out, make the book go down. Shifting the center o f breathing lower in your body will help you feel more relaxed and in better control of yourself. Practice this diaphragmatic breathing for five or ten minutes a day to settle down your basal ganglia (the portion of your brain responsible for anxiety and for being able to settle down and focus/concentrate- like ADD).

This has been one of the most helpful exercises for me personally. When I first learned how to breathe properly. I discovered that my baseline breathing rate was twenty-four breaths a minute and I breathed mostly with my upper chest. I had spent ten years in the military, being taught to stick my chest out and suck my gut in (the opposite of what is good for breathing). Quickly I learned how to quiet my breathing and help it be more efficient. Not only did it help my feelings of anxiety, it also helped mc feel more settled overall. I still use it to calm my nerves before tough meetings, speaking engagements, and media appearances. I also use it, in conjunction with self-hypnosis, to help mc sleep when I feel stressed. My current baseline breathing rate is less than ten times a minute.

Hey ladies, SMILE! :)

“The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back”

~Dale Carnegie

Colo-Nesco, wherever THAT is...

Pictures from the 10/17 Bedford game

I was informed that I can't just post pictures on Facebook, but they have to keep being put up here too. So here you go. It was COLD. We won (so we have a substate game on Wed. 10/29- first time in years) Kensie was sick, decided to quit before the end of the season, and Christian was on some family trip to St. Louis or something- consequently Sasha and Christine cheered alone (in the cold). "Hustle Hustle" just usually works so much better with a whole big long line of people doing it together. Oh well, GREAT JOB S&C! Bedford, by the way, brought like 12 cheerleaders (could've swore the rule was only 8 for football), so we looked like the small squad that we are. Be that as it may, we had FUN and helped the crowd to have fun too, which is our job and guess what, thanks to us our team won! Way to go Squishy and Chief!
See, they're the Bedford Bulldogs, we're the Boyer Valley Bulldogs, it was a "dogfight," So Christine (our official Run-Thru goddess this season, Thanks, Chief) thought up the "this is OUR house" idea, pretty clever, eh?
Brrrrr

Tryouts November 13

VISIT THE SCHOOL WEBSITE
in order to download tryout forms
& samples of judge's forms

Mark your Calendars!

• Fri. Oct 24, 7:30 pm @ home- Parent/Senior Night (Last regular season game)
  
• Wed. Oct. 29, 7 pm @ home- First Round of Football Playoffs
  (this is a big deal Ladies, Boyer Valley hasn't made it to the playoffs at least since I've been here- 2001)
• Mon. Nov. 3, 7 pm (location TBA)- Second Round (If we win on the 29th)
• Mon. Nov. 10, 3:20-5 pm Tryout Practice
• Tues. Nov. 11, 3:20-5 pm Tryout Practice
• Thurs. Nov. 13, 3:20 pm Basketball Cheer Tryouts
  

2008 Middle School Football Cheer

Cheer this week

TUESDAY- PLEASE come to the JrHi Football game to support the MS Squad!!! PLEEEEASE!

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY- Come paint the run-thru, decorate hospitality bags and plan & rehearse the pep-rally
Hint: it will involve a song called "the Limbo Rock" by Chubby Checker

FRIDAY- second to the last homegame vs. the Bedford Bulldogs

NXT WK- Prepare for the last home game

OTHER NEWS

• I will schedule tryouts for basketball ASAP and let you all be the first to know
  
• Friday I have a doctor's appt. in Denison at 2 and won't be around after school, but I'll see you at the field by or before 6pm
  
• I can talk to Mr. Straight about a pep rally for the last game, but with no school that Friday, ITEDs on Tues & Thurs, and a 2pm early out on Wed, I'm not sure when/how it would even work- all the more reason to make this week's really ROCK!
• Sam seriously, genuinely, is having some weird medical stuff going on with her chest- she's on prescribed pain meds and everything. They're hoping she'll be ship shape by Friday.

This has been a really smooth, fun season, thanks to that fact that you've all done such a great job of getting along. I can't believe how fast it's gone by.Thank you all for doing such a great job. I hope you each know that I really care about you and hope you'll come back for another season!

Love,

Coach

________________________________________________
Boyer Valley Community Schools
Challenging all students to meet their full potential
http://www.boyer-valley.k12.ia.us

Homecoming 2008