Car Sick?

I know it's not a fair picture to post, but Kensie wasn't really sick, she was just horsing around, so here it is. Be embarassed, deal with it.

Manning 3

Going over the chant list- "what haven't we done yet?

Is that Rena....actually SMILING? Gotha!

We had a lot of injury time outs this game.

Manning 2

See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil

Aww.... "Pound Puppies"

Manning Sep 9

Moon over Manning

Lunatics (get it? full-moon) Lunatics in a van

Purple People

They made me take it- then it turned out kinda blurry, so I monkeyed with it to make it psychedelic. Great kids that I really love. If only we could get Chrstine un grounded and get Megan to be LOUDER...

So Varsity is stabalizing. "New Christine" opted out, and Susan has been out of school. On the other hand, Cassie's Doctor told her, no more Cross Country, so she definitely wants to cheer at the next home game- I'd rather just get her on board all the time. Tomorrow night is our first away game in Manning.

Junior High, is another story. Seems my ploy to be a big mean drill sergeant to shake out the riff-raff worked a little too well. We went from 12 to 4, and 2 of those 4 have been sick the last couple of practices. Bummer. I'd like to try to get a couple of them back and I'm having the remnant 2 work on regaining or recruiting 2 more.

First time in a prep

Now, before you criticize our form and balance and technique and all that- keep in mind that Sasha, Megan and Kensie have never done this before. The most any of them have done is a double thigh stand. So all things considered, I'm pretty proud that they learned this in just one practice. NOW we need to get it down pat, cleaner, firmer, quicker, sharper...then we'll talk about cradles!

"Air Kensie!" You go girls, loud-and-proud!

A Couple of more

Rena and Cujo do their push-ups durring the Treynor game
Kensie and her pal Kelsey asked me to do this "buddy picture" for them where I make a black and white, but leave their eyes color: Here she be:

Treynor Pics

Here's some shotws from our first home game vs. Treynor- which we won 39-0!

Kensie tries to hear what Rena is saying.

Aww... Megan spies her beau and his bro in the stands


Rena revs up the crowd.

Megan makes sure she's on top of what's going on.

Sasha, Kensie, and Megan crank out the push-ups after a TD.


Sasha watches the crowd over her poms.

Great Job!!!

What a terriffic first game! You got better second half too! And you always looked like you were having fun. AND... you all got along!

 

I hope you fell in love with cheerleading and got it under your skin now. It's infectious. Now while you have the fever, go be contagious. That's your job, to spread school spirit & fun.

 

Be cheerleading biohazzards!

 

The fact that we beat Treynor 39-0 helps too.

 

Have a great weekend! see ya'all Tuesday- lets plan on learning how to put Kensie way up high in the air.

 

Love,

Coach

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Daily Cheer Agenda

Daily Cheer Practice Routine

Stretching (2-3 minutes for abs, 2-3 for arms, 2-3 for legs)

Running

20 Crunches

7 Push-Ups

26 Cross-Crawls/ Cross-Crawl Crunches/ Standing Cross-Crawls

8-Count Drill/Technique

Chants

Cheers/8-Count Dances

Stunts/Mounts

"Ziggalo"

Do the "Ziggalo!" Back in LA they called this silly-fun warm-up the "Giggalo," and we coaches put the kibosh on it because of the sexually suggestive name. I figure, fine at practice/just not at games. Megan, Sasha, Kensie, and Rena are in uniform and Kensie's best friend Kelsey is the one in the football jersey (front-left). What a wild way to get psyched-up for the first home game!

So Far, SO Good

Kens shows off her great guns

"Old Christine" stole Coach's hat

Freshman! Kens and Megan try to see/hear what Rena, Sasha, & Christine are doing on the other side of the volleyball net in the gym during our very first pep-rally this year.

Megan pulls off the fight-song dance without looking too nervous.

It's still kind of a rocky road, but I'm still managing to stay positive.

Sasha decided she wanted to cheer after all. Wish she'd made that decision last May so I could order a new uniform that would fit her. Fortunately she is an awesome good sport about wearing an old one!

Our Spanish teacher took me aside toward the end of our first pep rally today and asked me if any of our Freshmen cheerleaders (4 out of 5) had cheered in junior high. I asked why she wanted to know, she said because they were SO GOOD for Freshmen!

They did do a REALLY good job for their very first. Whew! I think we were all nervous.

Imediately afterward, Susan, a Junior who transfered to BV this year from Charter Oak asked if she could join next week. Maybe we'll be 6 strong after all. Cassie, a Senior who was on basketball cheer last winter told me that she really missed cheer after the pep rally- I told her the door's always open.

Rena's frustrated that the new Band Director wouldn't let her do the fight-song dance with us. The band is pretty tiny and she's done a super job of teaching it to the dance Freshman, so I'm okay with her playing instead of dancing. It's more important to me that she doesn't get a big head or too bossy just because she's the one Junior among all these Freshman. I want her to remember that true leadership is servant-leadership. I also don't want her to get too territorial if "New Christine," Susan, or even (that'll be the day) Cassie join the squad.

So tonight's the first game. I'm taking a major risk, Megan and Kensie don't have their physicals into the office yet, but I'm planning on letting them cheer. They tried to get into the doctor this afternoon after school but couldn't get appointments till Tuesday.

The grapevine rumors are that there are a ton of people who want to try out for basketball. I'll believe it when I see it. Rena says she's not planning on coming out in the winter. I'd love to get all 5 of last year's basketball squad back plus one. If the competition is too steep for this football season's Freshmen, I sure hope they come back next Fall for football again. We haven't even gotten started yet, but I know they're going to ROCK!

So it's still a bit of a rocky-road, so rock on!