The sports banquet was are last real event together as cheerleaders.The sports banquet was when all the teams come together and get honored.Cheerleading was invited to the sports banquet even though we are not considered a team at Eastern. The Sports banquet was great we had alot of fun and many of my teamates got honored. They especially honored the senoirs who are going to be leaving; it was sad but we will never forget all the great memories we had with them. Are team was great we were a close knit team and we had a alot of good times together! I am looking forward to another great year of cheerleading and all the memories that come along with it.
It is always fun to fundraise when you are with your team. Are team did a fundraiser to help us with funds for cheerleading. Many of us on the team have to pay money for are cheer gear used throughout the season; so this was a good way to help with the cost. Are fundraiser was a car wash. We had such a fun time working at the car wash. Many people came out to supposrt us. There was no charge for getting your car washed but we did offer people to support us through donations. We ended up making alot of money through donations. People rinsed scrubbed dryed and held up signs this all was apart of working at the car wash. It was a beautiful day also the sun was shining and and are team was bonding. It was a successful day of fun and work.
Alumni stunt day is a day when the Alumni come to stunt with are team.Its a ton of fun!We all stunt together as if we are a big team. We put up a ton of stunts together and we show them off to each other. Its alot of fun to watch the alumni put up stunts they are very strong and very good. They also enjoy watching us put up stunts. We stunt with them and they also stunt with us. During alumni stunt we also had a ton of recruits come who are thinking about cheering with us next year. The girls were alot of fun and they fit right in with all of us. We all enjoy Alumni stunt day its so cool learning from the alumni and watching them stunt. They are the history of eastern cheerleading without them are team would not be where we are today.
After gaining a whole new squad after the christmas break it was exciting to put up new stunts!Our first new set of stunts was for our new halftime we were going to perform at a game. The new stunts were very difficult to perform. They requried alot of strentgh and endurance. Together as a squad we worked hard and we got all the new stunts down and we performed them to the best of our ability. They took us a while to learn and they did not go up up perfect at first and after we practiced for a while they eventually went up smooth and easy.This gave us confidence to perform during half time. Our half time came out great and all of the stunts hit. The crowd was amazed and they also enjoyed all of our new stunts along with our new squad.
Before Christmas break at school are coach wanted to add new girls to the squad for the next semester. I was really excited that we were going to be getting new girls but i was also a little nervous because we were going to have a new squad. After christmas we had practice and we also had a game the following day with the new squad. This was very exciting but i was also a little un easy about the situtation because the new girls did not know all of the cheers and chants that we did at games.We were going to have to teach them everything. Are first practice after break turned out great the new girls caught on quickly and I felt as though even with the new girls we still performed great as a team. We were nice to the new girls and we were also very welcome and they were very nice and they listened to instruction well! We were all very excited and pleased with are new squad. The first game after break turned out very well we all did a great job and the crowd was very excited to see a whole new squad!
Are next big endeavor as cheerleaders was are stunt clinic. Stunt Clinic was when a whole group of younger girls came to eastern to learn cheers and stunts. These young girls learned the cheers and stunts and then performed them at half during the basketball game that day.There was a ton of young girls they were very cute and fun but they were also alot to handle. They had alot of energy but they were still alot of fun to work with. When the girls arrived to eastern we taught them cheers, stunts, and a whole half time routine the girls really enjoyed it! They got to know us cheerleaders and we also got to know and learn alot about them.Some of the girls were already cheerleaders who cheered for there schools and others were girls just interested in cheering. This was a great opportunity for us to teach and young girls cheerleading! We all enjoyed it and the young girls enjoyed it also. We made alot of new friends that day and the girls half time turned out great and the crowd loved it!
After our first week of practice i was confident that our first game was going to be great! I was right our first game was awesome. Our hard work in practice paid off we did a great job. I was very nervous because it was my first time cheering in college. I was scared that i was going to forget the cheers or forget my spot when we did cheers for 30 second time outs and full time outs. I was wrong though i remembered everything and so did everyone else we did great! The second game was even better we were more on point and together than the first game and we had a half time performane I was very excited! Our half time looked great, we were all a little nervous but we worked hard and it turned out great! We cheered the boys on and gave them the support they needed to win there first two home games! Here is a video of some of the old eastern cheerleaders at a competition. Some of the cheerleaders in this video still cheer with us today!