Football Season

Football Season

During this season you focus mostly on skills and preparing for football games. The season lasts from June all the way until the end of October. You practice all summer long coming up with skills and routines to perform at the games. You also learn all of the chants for during the games and the band dance.

In the summer you also go to cheer camp where you can learn many new skills. At camp it is a great time for the team to bond and get to know each other. Some camps are a weekend long, others only a day and some camps actually come to your school. Personally my favorite were the weekend long ones because you can learn a lot more since you have so much more time. Although camp is very exhausting it is extremely worth it with how much you will learn.

Cheer Camp

Two cheer camps that I have personally been to and have a great reputation are Champion and North American Spirit. Both of these camps are very good and you can learn a lot from them.

1. Champion Cheer Camp is usually help at Alma College and is a weekend long stay. This camp is all outdoors as long as there is no rain. They have very experienced staff and unique stunts. At Champion there are different camps you can attend there is the regular camp or the beast camp, which is when your team really wants to be pushed. All weekend you learn routines and new stunts, then on the final day you perform them for your parents and the other cheer teams. This is an awesome camp that really advances your skills.

2. North American Spirit is another great cheer camp. This camp is typically held at Echo Grove but they also have many other locations they go. North American Spirit also does camps at Saginaw Valley University, Great Wolf Lodge and at your school. This camp is great for learning new skills and team bonding. They also do a final day routine so you can show off what you and your team learned at camp. Camp with North American Spirit is a fun learning experience.

Homecoming Game

On homecoming game day the cheerleaders always wear their uniforms to school and go to a big tailgate before the game. At school there is a pep assembly to get everyone fired up for the game later on. During the pep assembly the cheer team puts on a performance for the school. After school there is a big tailgate before the game. Right before the game the cheer team does the same performance again for everyone. At this game the alumni cheer girls come back to cheer the game along with the freshmen and JV cheer teams. This game is a big event!