IMPORTANT NOTICES

Junior High football Cheerleaders who need to return uniforms: Samantham Bonham and Josi Herman. Please return them to the Art Room as soon as possible.

Varsity football Cheerleaders who need to return uniforms: Rena Hayden, Kensie Jensen, Sasha Meggers, Megan Neilsen. Please return uniforms, bags, warm-ups, and poms to the Art Room as soon as possible. Thank you.

The following basketball cheerleading candidates need to turn in paperwork before the season's roster can be finalized:
Kassi Hamer and Gilda Lopez each need one more teacher reccomendation. Kassi Hamer, Angie Kirk, and Kim Wood still need to turn in parental release forms. Once all five of these items are submitted, a decision can be made. Whew! It will be difficult to decide- you all performed outstandingly! Thank you.

And thank you judges for your help at tryouts Wednesday.

Mascot Candidates, please get your paperwork in to Mr. Mallory This MOnday, Nov. 13

ATTITUDE

ATTITUDE-

Three people were crushing rocks side by side on a construction job.

When they were asked, “What is your job?” the first person answered,
“my job is to do what I am told for eight hours a day so I can get a check.”

The second person replied,
“My job is to crush rocks.”


The third person said,
“My job is to build a cathedral.”


“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”
~ Seneca

Emoticons

    Emoticon (noun). A figure created with the symbols on
  the keyboard. Read with the head tilted to the left.
  Used to convey the spirit in which a line of text is
  typed.

  :-i Semi-Smiley,          :-]  Smiley blockhead,
  :-% has beard,            :-o  singing national anthem,
  :-t is cross,             :-:  mutant,
  :-( Drama,                :-)  Comedy,
  :-  male,                 :-?  smoking a pipe,
  :-\ Undecided,            :-p) sticking tongue out,
  :-)'tends to drool,       :-'| has a cold,
  :-)8 well dressed,        :-D  talks too much,
  :-# lips are sealed,      :-o  shocked
  :-{ a mustache,             :-% has beard,
  :-& tongue-tied,        :-9 licking lips,
  :-( Sad,                :-> Hey hey,
  :-X Wearing a bow tie,  :-0 an orator,
  :-#| bushy mustache,    :-@ User face screaming,
  :-% a banker,           :-} wearing lipstick,
  :-) Humor (or smiley),  :-v Talking head Smiley,
  :-c Bummed out Smiley,  :-e Disappointed Smiley,
  :-< Real sad Smiley,    :-I Hmm,
  :-( Boo hoo,            :-8 ( Condescending stare,
  :-# My lips are sealed, :-O Uh oh,
  :-Q Smoker,             ::-) wearing glasses,
  :ÿUser has two noses,  :>  Midget Smiley ,
  :>) User has a big nose, :%)% User has acne, ;-)
  Winking Smiley, (-: user is left-handed, (-) needing a
  haircut, (:-) Smiley big-face, (:-( unSmiley frowning,
  (:)-) scuba diver, (:I Egghead, ):-( UnSmiley big-face
  {(:-) wearing toupee,     +-(:-)  the pope, +:-)
  Smiley priest, ,-} Wry and winking, *:o) User is a
  Bozo, *<|:-) User is Santa Claus, <:I Dunce,

Junior High PURPLE dayze

Here's the Middle School basketball cheer squad: Ali (in front), Elsa, Rachael (hiding), Natalie, Holly (on top), and Tiffany. I gotta tell you, they're fast learners, they get along great, they have tons of energy, they have tons of fun and are fun to coach! Ya gotta luv 'em to pieces! And ALL 7th graders! No Eighthies at all. What up with that? This season, we're gonna ROCK the Dow City gym!

Parting is sweet sorrow.

I couldn't let the season end without telling you kids how great you were. You really made me proud. I know I whined alot in the beginning about not having a lot of people want to tryout last Spring for this Fall and about how Christine & Jessica couldn't cheer etc. etc. But I couldn't have been luckier to get the 4 we got. Seldom have I cared about 4 kids so much in 13 years of coaching. I'm only sorry if I failed to make you feel valued. It's a shame that football season is only 9 games long, because you really got awesome your last 3 games. Sure, I can wish your knees and backs would've let us stunt, but you got SO good at getting the crowd excited I could hardly believe it.

Rena- Your dedication, your work ethic and drive and your memorized catalog of chants are all incredible. And you're jumps aren't too shabby either. Your greatest strength, your leadership also happens to be your Achilles' Heel (you're such a perfectionist and it's so important to you to have a grip on things and have them the way they're supposed to be- that I think its hard for you to be flexible or not be in the driver's seat.) You've come so far and achieved so much since junior high, can you believe it? Maybe you'll come back next Fall- I know that cheer is in your system like a desease and how important it is to you- or maybe you'll grow out of it and move on to other things. Either way, hold on to the good memories and the important lessons that cheer has given you.

Sasha- Especially for someone who didn't want to come out at first, you have become one awesome cheerleader, girl. Louder, sharper, sure of yourself. I bet that if Rena had graduated already or hadn't come out this season, you would've stepped up to become a real leader. You're creative, you take initiative and you know how to get CRAZY girl! Don't become all of those negative cheerleading stereotypes, don't be snippy or gossipy or power-hungry or popular. Stay positive and upbeat, outgoing and funny and you will go far. If you tryout for basketball and don't make it, please don't let it be the end of the world or the end of your cheerleading career- tryout again next fall. You're too talented and have too much school spirit to turn negative. If you go out and DO make it, don't get a big head and don't get bossy or snotty. Keep working and getting even louder and sharper.

Kensie- WOW! What a difference from the ADHD poster child you were in junior high. I am SO proud of you when I see you teach those 7th graders. You're so funny, and smart and capable of having such a stage presence if you'd let it out, but you either get self-consious or shy or are too afraid of stepping on Rena or Sasha's toes or something because we don't necissarily see the spirit and energy we see at practice at games and we don't necissarily see the leadership and strength that we see when you help at junior high practices at games either. Don't "hide it under a bushell, let your light SHINE and you won't believe how far you'll go! I am SO sorry about your knee- your jumps had been great and you could've benn a terrific flier. You're so much sharper and more coordinated than in junior high. Anytime you're open to helping with Jr Hi, I'll have you- you do such a good job of encouraging them.

Megan- Don't ever fit anyone's stereotype, cheerleader, "Goth" or "Emo" or "Scream-o" or any stereotype. What a stupid mess with all that dumb Chad/Holi crap has been. Don't let Nate lead you on! Sure, I STILL wish you were louder, but I can't believe how far you've come since junior high either. I'm so proud of you. You're really getting good at drawing too! I frankly don't know what to say about you. I probably feel closest to you because you never stop e-mailing me all summer. I hope I've been able to be the ear you needed or to offer the advice you wanted when times have been bumpy. Keep positive (even when your little brother is a pain or when parents are hard to understand) and you will exceed your dreams. Same as I said to Sasha about trying out for basketball Cheer and/or mascot (especially if you have to compete with Brett)- if you make it, don't get complacent or stuck up, keep working at becoming better. If you DON'T make it, for God sake, don't let it be the end of the world, or of your cheerleading career and please don't hate me and hold it against me. Stay positive and (like I told Rena) take the good memories and the lessons that you got from cheer and make them a part of you.

Brett- I guess you'll keep me hanging for at least another week or two to see if this was your last season or if Basketball will be. It really is a shame either way, because you really were phenomenal this season. High energy, careful and patient with kids, creative and silly. College caliber stuff. But more than your performance as Cujo, I'll miss your sanity in the shotgun seat on van rides. It has been great to get to know you and a joy to have someone to talk about theology and complain about the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod with. Good luck in college and life and please don't be a stranger.

If they told me that we could only have 4 cheerleaders and one mascot for the next 4 years and you'd be it- I'd be happy to be stuck with you. Thank your parents for loaning you to me for a few months. I care about each one of you as if you were my godchildren or nieces and nephew. Thank you for a wonderfull season. I'm very proud of you and won't ever forget you.

Love and Prayers,
Coach Mallory

More scary Halloween pictures

Kensie thinks she's Super Girl- she can leap over big rolls of paper in 2 or 3 bounds.

Whereas, Sasha is going trick-or-treating dressed as... as... uh... some really STRONG muscle bound hero type...person...deal...thingy

Aren't they scary?! Oooh, eek, they give me the heebeejeebees!

Sahsa

Boo! Trick-or-Treat!
Awww... I'm so sad that football cheer season is over. :(

jumparama

Rena did more than 26 jumps just herself at our last game. Her goal was 5 per cheerleader and she surpassed it. Way to Go- Awesome.

Capital One Bowl: 2006 Mascot Challenge

Capital One Bowl: 2006 Mascot Challenge
See how college mascots do what they do and get some ideas. THen vote for who you think is the best.

Three of Rena

These are from a couple of weeks ago at Homecoming, but I've meant to get them posted and hadn't yet- so here they are. Above, a classic cheerleading pose.

Hammering out "the Bulldog Beat."

Battling with "Cujo" the Bulldog over the megaphone dry-erase board.

Just in time for Halloween

Gotta love the orange nail polish

So above is a tough girl picture of Rena and Megan...
But below, thanks to a little time in PhotoShop, is a creepy, Halloween-appropriate picture of Rena and Megan "all gothed out," as they call it. They're really not dark, spooky people, but they like music that's a lot louder and depressing than anything I like to listen to. Whatchyagonna do?
Hire me for your next Metal album cover. Happy Halloween.

SUCCESS:

SUCCESS:

At age 4 success is . . not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is... having friends.
At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 35 success is ... having money.
At age 50 success is . . . having money.
At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is . having friends.
At age 80 success is . not peeing in your pants.