Plenty of cheer to go around
Photo by MANDI BATEMAN After spending a day in cheerleading camp, the young cheerleaders had the opportunity to perform during the football halftime show.
Photo by MANDI BATEMAN There were 68 enthusiastic young cheerleaders at the football game.
Photo by MANDI BATEMAN One of the positive aspects of the cheer camp was the opportunity to make new friends.
Photo by MANDI BATEMAN The future cheerleaders learned how to do cartwheels.
Photo by MANDI BATEMAN Young cheerleaders join with the BFHS cheer squad to fire up the crowd at Friday’s football game.
Photo by MANDI BATEMAN The cheerleaders hosted the camp and helped the youngsters learn.
The track in front of the grandstand was filled with many excited, young cheerleaders during last Friday’s football game. For the youngsters, this was the culmination of a fun-packed day at Cheer Camp. Eighty-one children participated in the program, and 68 of them performed at the halftime show.
BFHS Cheerleaders Ember Allred, Bella Sims, Carrie Runyan, Shaylynn Richards, Nevaeh Elliston and Hailey Kelsey all hosted the camp, with assistance from the BCMS cheerleaders.
Six young boys were part of the program as well.
“The team is striving to increase the male to female ratio in cheer so the team can advance as a co-ed cheer team in future events,” said Cheerleading coach Andria Hedrick.
During the camp, the Future Badger Cheerleaders learned a performance routine and three cheers — Badger Power, Go Big Blue, and Victory.
“They also learned how to stunt and tumble — several of them were excited to tell me that before cheer camp they didn’t know how to cartwheel and now they can cartwheel and do a round off,” said Hedrick.
The future cheerleaders had the opportunity to play games and dance to favorite songs. They were provided a healthy snack and above all — got to meet many new friends.
“Thanks to our amazing sponsors, 98 Mechanical and Peaches & Bows, we were able to give each participant a T-shirt and sparkly bow or badger blue headband for the boys,” said Hedrick.
There was plenty of cheer to go around as the future Badger cheerleaders performed to the packed grandstand during the game.
“This camp was a huge success with almost double the amount of participants from last year,” said Hedrick. “We are currently planning another Future Badger Cheer Camp for the winter sports season (basketball/wrestling). More information will be released as soon as we have dates available.”