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CHS Weekly Sports Calendar-All Sports
Weekly CHS Sports Calendar
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Try-Out Words, Cheer & Chant
CHANT
Knights, On The Floor
Shoot for 2
Hey, Let's Score.
CHEER
Century Knights are Here
Green Gold White
We're ready to cheer
We're headed for the top
#1, Non-Stop!
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Service-Learning Form Info
Following is information you will need to complete your Service-Learning Reflection Form.
1) You can pick up a form at the Guidance Office
2) The "Dates of Service" is: 10/3/2005
3) The "Hours Earned" is: 1:30 - 4:00 = 2.5 Hours
4) The Activity was: Maryland Charities Campaign
5) The Sponsoring Organization was: MD State Police Training Academy
6) Their phone number is: 410-875-3402
For your additional information, the adults you were working with are employees of the MD State Police Training Academy. These employees can choose to donate money to charity through payroll deduction. This was a kick-off event to raise some funds (they had to buy the tickets to play the games), and to try to get the employees to donate some of their paycheck to charity.
You can use this information to help you complete the "Reflection" part of your form, but don't just copy it word-for-word. USE YOUR OWN WORDS!
Give your completed forms to Ms. Laura or Ms. Darby BEFORE next Monday, 10/10/05, and we will get them signed and returned to you.
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SPORTS Face-Off: Should Cheerleading Be Considered a Sport?
REPRINTED FROM THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES, SPORTS SECTION Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Competition, teamwork plus athleticism = sport By Bob Blubaugh, Times Sports Editor
Let's get something perfectly straight right away. The half-dressed, jiggling cheerleaders you see on NFL and NBA telecasts may be athletically inclined, but what they do isn't a sport.Nor is it a sport when high school or college cheerleaders jump around on the sidelines, clapping and shaking their pom-poms in an effort to motivate spectators. Lifting school spirit is an endeavor that enhances the atmosphere at any sporting event and it's a worthwhile pursuit, but it's not a sport.What went on at last weekend's Carroll County High School Cheerleading Competition, however, is a sport.Competitive cheer is all about being judged while performing intensely athletic stunts during meticulously honed routines. The cheerleaders use strength, agility, dexterity, endurance, timing, leaping ability, and, most of all, teamwork to try to beat other teams.Competitive cheer is akin to gymnastics or figure skating or diving. All of those activities are considered sports. And competitive cheer is recognized as a sport by the Carroll County Board of Education as well as by many NCAA schools, such as the University of Maryland.While those institutions aren't right about everything, they're right on this issue.Cheerleading is a sport - at least it is when the teams are trying to beat others in actual competition.
Reach sports editor Bob Blubaugh at 410-857-7895 or blubaugh@lcniofmd.com.
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Gimme an 'N,' gimme an 'O,' what's that spell By Aaron Wilson, Times Staff Writer Cheerleaders, bring it on.Many of your enthusiastic brethren are athletes, I'm not discounting that. Many of you are talented and worthy of attention.What you do is an admirable, popular pursuit. No one is saying that it's not a worthy, challenging ... activity.No offense, though, but all your flipping, stunting, training and go-team chants doesn't qualify cheerleading to meet the formal definition of a sport.Here's the dictionary entry for sport: "A physical activity governed by a set of rules or customs, often engaged in competitively."Here's the thumb-nail criteria of the Women's Sports Foundation: "A physical activity which involves propelling a mass through space; A competition against an opponent governed by rules which explicitly define the purpose and conditions to declare a winner; The acknowledged primary purpose of the competition is a comparison of the skills of the participants."Cheerleading is defined as "leading organized cheering, as at school events."I'm aware of the competition aspect. Been to them before, seen a few on television, too. Great stuff, obviously.However, the majority of cheerleading squads don't participate in competitions. And their major, stated purpose is to entertain, motivate and unite spectators for athletic teams.Until cheerleading competitions move to the forefront and cheering at games becomes a secondary function, cheerleading isn't a sport in my book.
Reach staff writer Aaron Wilson at 410-857-7896 or sports@lcniofmd.com.
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CLICK on the picture for more information about the raincoat.
Contact Bryanna W. by Friday, 8/26/05, if you want to order one of these. Cost is $10.00.
This is not mandatory equipment. However, this will be the only Rain Jacket allowed on the field during games.
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