Friday October 20, the West Sioux Football Cheerleaders held their annual little Falcon Cheer Camp during halftime of the football game. There were girls in kindergarten through middle school who were encouraged to participate in the camp. The girls met after school on Wednesday and Friday till 5:15 learning all different kinds of cheers. It was a great way for the campers to interact with the football cheerleaders, and to learn many of the cheers that are done every Friday night. Kindergarten and First grade had participants. They were coached by Gracie Rens and Shayden Blankenship. The little girls were taught Jump Shake Your Booty, Who Rocks The House, and B-E-A-T. Rens said “I enjoyed watching all the little cheerleaders try the cheers, and seeing all the different ways they did them.” Her favorite cheer she taught was Jump Shake Your Booty. There were campers in Second and Third grade. Grace Schuller, Breanna Klocke, and Emily Klocke taught the girls Knock Em Down, L-E-T-S-G-O, and Don’t Wait Don’t Hesitate this week. Grace Schuller said “Knock Em Down was her favorite cheer to teach, because it was cute when the little girls tried it.” Schuller also stated that she enjoyed watching all the …show more content…
She was a main part in putting on the cheer camp. Melinda has been the cheer coach for four years. Her favorite part of cheer camp is getting to see all the girls go out in front of the home crowd with smiles on their faces, excited to cheer. Melinda said, “We put on cheer camp because we want to get the girls interested in cheer, and try to help prepare if they want to be on the squad in the future.” When asked if all the hard work put into cheer camp was worth it, she simply stated, “Yes, in future years you’ll see some of these girls cheering, because they had that spark from cheer camp in elementary and middle school.” Coach Bak was a key part on making this camp happen, and run
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader’s reputation was compromised from the beginning due to their skimpy uniforms and proactive dance moves. When the cheerleaders first came out, many people found them as a sexy tease. As the cheerleaders gained popularity, they became flooded with publicity deals and contracts. According to Mary Hanson (1995), many of the cheerleaders modeled for Playboy Bunny and other modeling agencies (p. 64). If the team was sexy as a whole it would be better publicity than if it were individuals creating media attention as sexy (p. 64).
To a lot of people, mostly boys’ cheerleading isn’t considered a sport. But did you know that cheerleading was originally meant for boys? I bet you didn’t, the first cheerleader’s name was Johnny Campbell; he decided that one day that he wanted to lead chants at the University of Minnesota’s football game. He then created a whole team that would help him lead the crowd at different University of Minnesota sports games. Then, on November 2, 1898, Johnny Campbell was recognized to be the world’s first official cheerleader.
In the beginning the cheerleaders stretch out before doing anything else. After stretching they do a couple of jumps that are in their routine to warm up their bodies. After practicing their jumps, they go over their cheer routine for basketball games. They went over this routine for about an hour and half until they perfected it. They had two water breaks and did the same thing for a day until it was the basketball game.
The Baltimore Ravens are the only NFL team, with a coed cheerleading squad. Which is suprising. Even though that ever since the 1920’s, cheerleading have become more of a feminine sport. More boys, as young as 7 years old are joining the sport. Male cheerleaders are becoming less and less rarer.
On March 11, 2017 the world’s best all-star cheerleading teams will be at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in DisneyWorld for the most prestigious cheer competition of the year. The teams there have qualified by getting bids from regional and national competitions, similar to how gymnasts qualify for large meets by competing well in smaller meets. Throughout the competition hundreds of teams will perform their routine filled with the most elite tumbling and stunting sequences ever performed. The tosses and baskets will be so high that if they were performed in a smaller building the flyers, or girls in the air, would hit the ceiling. The tumbling will be so fast and so powerful that if someone was to radar gun the pass, they would be going over
Being a cheerleader I know how hard it is to prepare for a cheer competition mentally and physically. But what about the parents or first time cheerleaders? They do not know how hard it is to prepare and they do not know what to prepare for. When I started a competitive cheer team, a year ago, I did not know what to expect when it came to preparing for a cheer competition. To prepare for the first competition of the year, I asked my sister what she did to prepare because she had been a cheerleader for several years and now a cheer coach.
Competitive cheerleading has been my passion ever since I was six years old, but not until I became an athlete at Kansas City Athletic Cheer did I fall in love with it. Being a part of the highest level team at Kansas City Athletic Cheer, Platinum, meant that cheer would become my entire life. I lived for the hard practices, competing in front of thousands of spectators around the country, and most importantly being a part of something that was bigger than myself. This place was filled with coaches and teammates that unfailingly brightened my day. Whenever I had a bad day or just felt down, it was always my place to go to escape reality and release stress.
As soon as I found out that I made cheer I instantaneously felt a connection to high school. I discovered a newfound obligation to do well in school, and It started to seem like less of a chore and more of something that was important to my squad so was therefore important to me. The minute that I put on anything that says “Parkway South cheer” on it I signed a contract. As soon as I signed it, I no longer just represented myself or even just the freshman class; I represented the entire high school.
Cheerleaders do perform but professor of kinesiology which incase you don't know is the study of the acquisition of motor skills, the mechanical aspects of movement, and the bodies responses to physical activity), Marc Lochbaun notes that the amount of time cheerleaders spend in moderate to vigorous physical activity during football games is the cardiovascular equivalent to running a marathon or more. Cheerleading is very physically demanding and time-consuming. Cheerleaders must practice for hours to be able to perfect their dangerous and intense routines safely. They work on their strength, jumps, balance, flexibility, as well as their mental strength and cardiorespiratory endurance, just because of how risky a sport cheerleading is. The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research (NCCSIR) conducted a survey of high school and college catastrophic injuries from Fall 1982 to Spring 2018.
Throughout my Life and high school career I have spent many hours with teachers and coaches. I have had many experiences, but the one that stands out most to me is my former cheerleading coach and gym teacher, Ms. Traska. She coached our team with no background in cheerleading. She brought us closer as a team and being part of this team has made a difference in my life. The two years that Ms. Traska coached were the most fun, productive, and memorable years that I have been on the team.
What is Cheerleading? Many may think it’s a sport that you dress up, apply makeup, slick your hair with a bow, and simply put on a smile, and yell as loud as you can to keep the crowd pumped. Cheerleading includes all those easy and pretty factors, but it is also a sport that you stunt, tumble, and jump. Jumps and tumbling may seem really easy to many people, but there’s more work done than most might think is possible. Stunting is also a major element in cheer, and that’s what really pleases the crowd, but stunting takes tons of work.
Although the set up of a cheerleading competition may seem a little difficult and unusual; the same concepts of other sports apply to cheerleading as well. The USASF Cheerleading World Championships is one of the most prestigious competitions competitive cheerleaders have to the opportunity to complete in. Teams travel from all over the world in order to get a chance to become the worlds greatest. The all time cheerleading brand, Varsity Spirit, is one of the top cheerleading associations that holds competitions that house thousands of athletes and spectators in one large arena. Even though meets every criteria of a sport, skeptics still continue to argue that cheerleading does not qualify as a sport.
The vast majority think about cheerleading as a feeble action that requires young ladies sprucing up in charming garbs and waving around tufts. On the other hand, cheerleading is an exceptional game that requires practice, devotion, and learning of abilities. Much the same as some other game, material science is included in cheerleading 100%. Material science is found in each and every movement and trick. Cheerleading depends on tricks, tumbling, and bounced and since material science is so included in this game it makes this game really exist.
Crowd cheers are the first known organized cheers that began what we know as cheerleading all started at Ivy League college sporting events in the 1860s The first “cheer” in the US was shouted from the crowd at Princeton University in the year 1884. The first cheerleader, Johnny Campbell, came from the University of Minnesota when he got up from the seats and took the field in order to lead peers in a chant. Later in the years more and more students joined Johnny on the field, and as soon as the opposing fans saw the effectiveness of Johnny and his friends firing up the crowd, they wanted it. Those who started the chants were soon called “Yell Leaders,” they also started to different things that we still have today; including megaphones, arm motions, signs, poms, and even some basic jumps, tumbling, and lifts (also known as “stunts” today.) Females were permitted to be on the cheerleading teams, however, yell leaders were still predominantly male up until World War II.
Cheerleading goes through a lot more than what is shown. Workouts are mandatory at least 2-3 times a week. It is required so stunts can be hit and tumbling fall through. Practice happens every week and if one is missed, you miss new stunts or formations. Cheerleading teams can compete nationally with other cheerleading teams around the world.