Tryout Dates

• Tryout Practices Mon & Tue May 17&18, immediately after school
• Tryout Thursday, May 20, 3:30-5:00 pm

Click here to fill out a cheer-candidate's form if you are interested in cheering at Boyer Valley in 2010-11
Or... Fill out the form below:

Already got next year's shirt designed

I've already got next year's tee shirt designed. Part of me is hoping this will make more people want to come out for football cheer. Another part of me is hoping that alumni and non-cheerleaders, and maybe even parents will like these enough to buy some and help make money for us. Like it? Let me know your size and if you want me to plan on ordering one for you. I'll take orders officially next August.

Track schedule

Apr 8- BV Lady Bulldog Invite
Apr 22- BV JrHi Invite
May 3- Girls Western Valley Conference Meet
May 11- BV (Co-Ed) Bulldog Invite

Cheer & Drill Track Concessions 2010 Thurs. Apr 8

Cammey Hast, Christian Leisinger, Sasha Meggers, Rachel Coenen, Natalie Lapke

We MUST be there IMMEDIATELY after school because the meets start at either 4 or 4:30

Click here for a full schedule of all 4 meets. If you have a conflict, it is your responsibility to work it out with your track or golf coaches, parents or employers. Please make sure that you inform Mr. Mallory of any trades or substitutions. Thank you. If absolutely necessary, your parents or an NHS member can work for you.

Please forward this to any Drill/Cheer members not included in this email. I will try to post it on facebook as soon as I can, meanwhile it will also run in the daily announcements and I will post a copy on my classroom door. Thanks.


Here is a To-Do list of what needs to be done at any given track meet.

Check out BV Cheer in the Yearbook

Click here to preview the Cheerleading pages in the 2009-2010 Boyer Valley Yearbook!

Click here to order a yearbook online now!

Happy Gnimocemoh!

2010 Seniors Sasha and Kensie with their buddy, Freshman cheerleader, Quincy.

Time to start thinking about next year. Let Coach Mallory know if you're interested in cheering for football, basketball, or both next year. He needs to schedule tryouts and sign up for camp this summer.

Cheer and Drill Announcement

All Drill Team members, Cheerleaders, and Mascots help with track concessions. Please sign up by the Art room. Anyone not signed up by April 1 will be assigned days by Mr. Mallory. If you have a conflict, it is your responsibility to work it out with your track or golf coaches, parents or employers. If absolutely necessary, your parents or an NHS member can work for you. Please make sure that you inform Mr. Mallory of any trades or substitutions. Thank you.

Pictures & other stuff

• Let's TRY to take some team, buddy, & individual pictures Monday before track practice
• I have 2 small and 4 medium t-shirts left if you know anyone who wants them (or hasn't gotten their's yet)
• Plan to sign up for track concessions outside my room beginning Monday
• Remember to return your uniform ASAP after we get pictures taken
• Let me know if you're interested in cheering again next year and for which season or both.

Thanks! Have a great weekend.

PS: I'll try to remember to post this soon on facebook because I realize that not everybody checks they're email all that often.

Cheer News

TRACK CONCESSIONS
Cheerleaders (and Mascot), and Drill Team members, (and Coaches Mahoney and Heese)-

Please put on your calendars the following dates. Cheer and Drill host concessions at home track meets. If you are in Track, you still need to work at least one meet. You can get NHS members or your parents to work for you, but I'm sure you can work something out with Coach Heese, we have been doing this for at least a decade now. She will let you out of this one meet, so don't freak out.

Below are the dates. In the next week or two I will put up a sign up sheet for which meet you'd prefer to work, and then posting a schedule after that.If things come up you can make substitutions (again, squadmates, NHS members, or family) but your slot has to be covered and it's your responsibility to let either Coach Mahoney or Coach Mallory know about it.

• Apr 8- BV Lady Bulldog Invite
• Apr 22- BV JrHi Invite
• May 3- Girls Western Valley Conference Meet
• May 11- BV (Co-Ed) Bulldog Invite

TEAM PICTURES
2010 Cheerleaders, If you woulld like to get "semi-professional" team pictures done, bring your uniforms and hair supplies to school Monday, March 3. I will be glad to take some group pictures, buddy pictures and individual pictures. We can work in the commons or the gym depending on if/where track & golf is practicing. Who knows, if the weather's nice, maybe we can even take some outside. I will upload the pictures to share at either Wal-Mart (Rachel's Mom) or PhotoBucket, burn them to a CD, or save them to a flash drive for you, but it's up to you or your parents to order prints. That way you only get the shots you like but can get as many or as few copies as you want.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO CLEAN AND RETURN YOUR UNIFORMS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER MARCH 3.

SUMMER CAMP
Cheerleaders, and potential cheerleaders, Do you want to learn how to stunt for next year? Wanna learn some new cheers, chants, and dances? Do you want to improve all your other skills with the help of NCAA university cheerleaders and highly specialized professionals? Do you want to meet other cheerleaders from all over Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska? Then whether you want to cheer for football, basketball, or both you need to get to camp!

UCA will be putting on a camp at West Harrison HS this July. I'm checking to finalize the dates, I know it's either July 23-24 or 30-31. I will let you know as soon as I fond out. I'll get the final price too. I know it's really cheap compared to other UCA and NCA camps. If it doesn't work out fo you, Morningside University also offers a 2 day camp, usually in late June and the Iowa Cheer Coaches' Association also offers one day clinics in August about the time that school gets started.

Please let me know ASAP if you're interested.

MAKING PLANS
Cheerleaders, and potential cheerleaders, two people have asked me about football cheer. Please let me know ASAP if you're interested in cheering for football, basketball, both, or neither next year. I need to know if we need to hold tryouts or not and when. It would also be good to know for ordering poms, warm-ups, tee-shirts, or shoes.

I will be posting this information on facebook soon too. There are a few 8th graders who I'd love to have come out. Volleyball, Cross Country, Drill, Basketball, jobs, poor grades, family obligations and boyfriends all have a way of siphoning off great cheer candidates. We want to build the best program we can. Come join the fun, help fire up that Bulldog spirit, and make 2010/2011 the greatest BV year ever!

 

_______________________________________________________


Boyer Valley Cheerleading: Positive, Committed Leaders
Stirring-up spirit, building excellence & character
Visit Coach's Cheer Blog

 

Cujo for Kenny

I think I've finished up. It may or may not seem a little "cartoony," but that's okay, after all it's a school mascot costume for cripe's sake! If anything, I think it really has a Wayne Thiebaud Pop-Art feel to it, which is what I was going for. Thiebaud is one of my favorite painters and I've always wanted to do something like he would. Thiebaud was born in Arizona, like me, only 50 years before me. Unlike Roy Lichtenstein, Thiebaud actually started out as a cartoonist, working for Disney for a while.

The Pop-Art thing is perfect because it should be upbeat and fun, and the decorating style of the recipient is pretty clean and contemporary. This is a house-warming gift for Kenny Kahl (Class of 2001). Kenny was not only the first mascot here at Boyer Valley (purple), but he also mascotted at Concordia University in Nebraska (blue), which is also my alma mater. Both schools are the Bulldogs. My only hope is that a bright purple painting doesn't clash too much with whatever neutrals and earth tones Kenny used for his home. But then again it's a gift, he can hang it in his john or in his basement where no one else will see it if he wants to. I am seriously considering the poster thing. If not for a fundraiser, at least so that I can give the same image as a gift to a few other people- not to mention being able to keep a copy for myself- maybe in my classroom. NOW the only problem is waiting for it to dry, since it's in oil.

Rules Clarification

I think that I, sent everyone into a tizzy about substate & state tourneys in regards to who can come or not come, etc. etc.
I believe we're good to have all 6 of you come to any substate/state games. So please don't worry about it or become competitive/snippy with each other about who'll get to go or not.

"Six cheerleaders (all in uniform), which includes the mascot, may cheer at girls' basketball sectionals, districts, regionals, and state.  These cheerleaders must cheer the entire game/meet without substitutions.  Cheerleaders are not allowed at girls' state swimming because of the lack of space."

I think that it's that word "substitutions" that I had remembered, which led me to say anything last night and I shouldn't have even said anything before I had looked it up and reviewed it first. It would have only been an issue if we were a big school with Frosh/JV/Var Cheer squads.

Obviously, as I said last night, the jewelry and gum rules have to be enforced now- I have been WAAAY too lax about that all season. But there's some more, which you probably won't like, so don't shoot the messenger, these are State rules, not just me being mean. Hair has to be up and pulled back. No bangs.

The way I figure it, as annoying as this will be for you, it's worth it. Coach Armstead was telling me how no Boyer Valley, Dunlap, Dunlap-Dow City-Arion boys basketball team has ever made it this far. So no other cheer squad has gotten to go along with them.

Here's what the rule book says:

"Pulling hair away from the face situations:

  1.   Hair in a ponytail and bangs (which would have been in the eyes) secured away from

        the face – legal

  2.   Hair in a high ponytail that is long and goes down the back – legal

  3.   Hair in pigtails or side ponytail that does NOT touch the shoulders – legal

  4.   Hair in a low back ponytail at the base of the nape of the neck – legal

  5.   Short hair with hair that could be in face secured away – legal

  6.   Hair in a side ponytail that goes onto or touches the shoulders – illegal

  7.   Hair in pigtails that touches the shoulders – illegal

 

 Bangs pulled across forehead, wispies, & chunks of hair beside face:

  1.  The above - out of eyes and if necessary soundly secured away from the face – legal

  2.   Hair that falls into the face while cheering, stunting, or tumbling – illegal

  3.   How do you know if it is legal? 

            If you have to: 

                        A.  Move your head to move it away from your face – illegal

                        B.  Use your hand to move it away from your face – illegal

                        C.  Tuck it behind your ears – illegal

NOTE:  "Bumpits" are illegal."

 

_______________________________________________________


Boyer Valley Cheerleading: Positive, Committed Leaders
Stirring-up spirit, building excellence & character
Visit Coach's Cheer Blog

 

What's left

GREAT job tonight, Ladies! Maybe your best ever. I'd rather you leave the gum behind, but hey, you maintained your poise and never responded to the poor sportsmanship of the COU students and that was way more important to me than gum. Kinda fun to actually have the crowd cheer with you, huh?

Rest your voices, the deeper into playoffs you make it, the crazier it gets.

• TUES FEB. 23 BV Boys v. TBD @ TBD (If I heard right tonight, I believe it will be ArWeVa)
• THURS FEB. 25 BV Boys v. TBD @ TBD

Miss you already, Nina- drive safe down to OK, ok?

Playoff Schedule

All games will be played at 7 PM. Whether or not games are played, who the opponents are and most locations are to be determined (TBD) by the results of each previous game played. The two games in bold are the first games to be played.

• THURS FEB. 11 BV Girls v. Charter Oak-Ute @ Charter Oak
• TUES FEB. 16 BV Girls v. TBD @ Charter Oak
• THURS FEB. 18 BV Boys v. Charter Oak-Ute @ Dunlap
• FRI FEB. 19 BV Girls v.TBD @ Harlan
• MON FEB. 22 Girls Regional Finals @ Atlantic
• TUES FEB. 23 BV Boys v. TBD @ TBD
• THURS FEB. 25 BV Boys v. TBD @ TBD

Think we play COU enough this year? Almost done. Tired yet?

This is always a hard time of year. Part of you wants to be done so bad you can almost taste it -but another part of you dreams of how amazing it would be to cheer in the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines if our school went all the way to the State Championship! Just hang tough, you've been doing great so far. Even if our teams are eliminated in the first or second rounds, I hope you have memories now to last you a life time.

By the end of this month I will be talking to you all about tryouts for football season, Cheer Camp this summer, running concessions for track meets (which Cheer and Drill share), and (sniff) having to return your uniforms.

You guys have turned out to be a fantastic bunch and you do a fantastic job. I'd love to have you all back for football season, next year's basketball season, or both. I really appreciate how hard you've worked and how far you've all come. You should be proud.