CHEER This Week! Please Read

• TUES 12/10- Home game vs. CAM/Anita
• Either dress-up like the BB players, or show your spirit w/ BV swag!
  ANYONE WANNA BRING HOSPITALITY?
• THURS 12/12- Practice for everyone but Lara & Jennifer. It would be great to stunt again.
• FRI 12/13- Away at Coon Rapids (Bus Time TBA- expect by/before 4:00pm)
• This is AWAY, so still no pep-rally, but wear uniform at school!
• SAT 12/14- HOME vs. West Harrison
• Please be there by/before 6:30pm for National Anthem
  AGAIN- GOT A HOSPITALITY VOLUNTEER?

EXTRA UNIFORM COMPONENTS

Hey everyone- I almost forgot to remind you about this.

Please check to see if ANY of you who have more than one skirt, warm-up, shell or whatever. Keep the one that you were originally issued, it should be what fits best, and please return any extras which you've borrowed. 

This isn't just about Jade still needing her skirt that Mali has, a number of you have doubles or extras. I need to keep all of our inventory here in my room. We don't want any of them to get lost.

Please return them to me this Fri or as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Coach

FRI BUS TIME 4:15PM

If you're coming to the ArWeVa game on Friday, please be inn the North hall by the Gym by 4:15pm

No pep rally this day because it's not a home game, but please DO wear your uniforms to school (even if you aren't cheering that night).

Great job last night by the way.

GOOD LUCK AT STATE DRILL MADDIE!

Support your local Cheer Squad

Congratulations Jennifer

Congratulations Jenn Zehner on your induction into the National Honor Society (NHS) this morning!
Keep working on demonstrating those NHS principles of Scholarship, Leadership, Character, and Service.

Everybody knows your grades are stellar.Keep it up.

You may have 7 other girls competing for who gets to be boss sometimes, but I for one appreciate your memory of cheers, patience teaching them and initiative and creativity. Keep it up.

Nobody's perfect, not even you. We all get impatient and irritable sometimes. Teens will be teens and sometimes we all get a little wrapped up in ourselves (not criticizing, just sayin') but as your coach I've always been touched by the dignity and kindness you offer to kids with special needs like Quincy and Scotty and to little kids (not just your own cousin). We should all treat each other the way you treat these "special" people. Keep it up.

You could've quit cheer a dozen times and just played basketball, but you kept coming out. You helped make sure that locker-decs go up and posters get made and nag me until t-shirts get ordered. You're not the only one- I totally appreciate how much everyone on this squad serves too, I'm just saying, you're smart enough and pretty enough that you could pretty easily become completely self-serving, but you know the importance of community. Your family has done a great job of impressing that on you and I appreciate it in you. Keep it up.

And to all the rest of you- she's not my favorite, I just want to congratulate her on this honor today. I'm really looking forward to seeing SIX of you inducted NEXT year. You've got the grades and you've got the hearts. All eight of you demonstrate Scholarship, BIG TIME LEADERSHIP, Character and Service. Please Keep it up!

Practice TUES 11/12

• Practice Tuesday Nov 12 for those who can make it.
• Otherwise, please plan on practicing Tues-Thurs Nov.19 & 21 Next week
• First BB game; Mon Nov 25, 6:00 pm JV/V Girls v. MV/AO

Pep Rally Monday

Just got this email from Mr. Straight-

"We will have a short pep rally at 3 p.m. Monday.  Hopefully we will have some hardware from state CC to show off after Saturday.  

Have a great weekend, everyone.  Go Bulldogs!"

Monday's Game

Okay- first of all, I feel bad that I won't be there with you, as most of you know, my dad has cancer and I'm flying back to Phoenix this weekend to see him after the surgery he had last week.

But I'm with you in spirit. Playoff are always amazing, even at "Sub-State" like this second round of districts against Glidden-Ralston. These are memories that you'll get to keep with you your whole lives.  My wife was on a cheer squad when CO-U's basketball team played in THE DOME (or maybe it was HyVee Hall) back in the 80's and she says it was one of the best parts of high school for her.

Here's what you need to know (I know, I never shut up, right?)

• Back to the original Varsity Squad (unless one of you is sick).
  
• However, Catherine & Lara are welcome to come (and I want you to), but be prepared to have to pay admission (sorry).
  
• Mr. Straight says you'll ride the pep-bus and do not have to pay for the pep-bus- However, you must remember to sign-up for pep-bus!
• No fighting.
• Please represent, stay positive, follow rules, hair up, not jewelry, etc.
• If you have any issues there, talk to Lisa, Ernie, or Mr. Straight. If she's there, and they're cheer or stunt issues, maybe look for Spenser Miller's mom.
• I'd really like it if you'd wear your uniform or warm-ups and not t-shirts, jerseys etc. This is State. This is YOUR uniform. FB boys don't get to wear cheer shells. Be proud, be united, wear the "little black dress." Black is da bombshizzle!
• Get along, you're a unit, you're sisters. Sisters may fight but they forgive & stay sisters.
• SMILE, this is State for cripe's sake (I'm looking at you Maddie!)

I guess that's more than you need to know (typical Mal, sorry)

OH- as of this morning when I asked him, Mr. Straight hadn't made up his mind about a pep-rally yet. I say, be prepared just in case, but don't have a cow if there isn't one. Stay positive. 

I guess that's it. I'll be prayin' for ya. You know what you're doing, so do it LOUD & proud so that those boys & those crowds get fired UP.

Cheer so loud that Kaitlyn can hear you all the way in Montana.

Okay, that's it.

Maybe one last thing.

Imagine one of those helmets out there Monday night is #69 and cheer for him. Cheer so he could hear you even with his "beats" on. Do that and you'll be on fire.

WED Transportation

Sounds like Ernie & Mr. Straight would like us on the pep-bus.

It leaves at 4:30pm. I do not know (or expect) that it will stop for supper like I would've, so I suggest you eat before you we leave.

T-Shirt Idea

If you're all on-board with this, I'll run it by Something Unique and make up order forms that you can use to try to sell & put in the office.

Please tell me what you think ASAP

TEAM PICTURES

TUES Oct 22 After School

PRACTICE THURS OCT 10 AFTER SCHOOL!

Anyone who can make it-

• We need to make a run thru for the COU game
• Jenn has an outline for Friday's pep rally for us to review
• We should decide who's bringing hospitality
• And... SU tells me that they've got the warm-ups done. If anyone other than Liberty & Madison would like to buy theirs, I really need you to bring a check for that as soon as you can.