Saturday, March 28, 2009

The New Stunt!

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.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Whole 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!

Stunt Clinic

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!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

The First Two Games

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!