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Freshman Cheer
Freshman Cheer Team prepares our athletes for higher levels of sideline performance and competition. At the freshman level, we want to emphasize the proper technique in all aspects of cheerleading: motions, faces, voice, jumps, skills, tumbling, and stunting. Our freshman team is taught not just do skills but taught to do them RIGHT. Freshman cheerleading is about learning the basics and setting the foundation for a fabulous and fun cheerleading career.
Freshman cheer is about preparation, laying the foundation, and falling in love with cheerleading.
Freshman Team Requirements:
Positive Attitude
Ability to think about the Team, not only yourself
No “I can’t”s; no negative talk of any kind
Must be able to believe in yourself and your abilities
Exceptional Work Ethic
An unending desire to learn every aspect of cheerleading
Actively working on learning new skills.
Dedication
The ability and willingness to give Cheer the time it demands.
Learning Ability
The ability to learn all of the different aspects of cheerleading including motions, faces, voices, jumps,
flexibility skills, stunting, and tumbling.
A Freshman Cheerleader should possess most if not all of the following skills:
Coordination & Body Awareness.
Reasonable hamstring and back flexibility.
Stength in line with basic stunting and tumbling skills
HHS Freshman Team Goals
I. Game Material
a. Precision
i. Emphasis should be on correcting individual form errors (arm motions) by the end of the football season.
ii. Stress group coordination and tightness
iii. Use precision drills, mirrors, buddies
iv. Use chants used at camp
b. Jumps
i. Emphasize (Toetouch, Rt. Herkie, Pike, and Rt. Hurdler)
ii. Practice jumps daily (as a group and individually)
iii. Condition – Sprints, plyo’s, etc.
iv. Timing of prep and ending should be perfected
c. Stunts
i. Beginning level stunts should be reviewed and perfected before advancing to more difficult stunts.
ii. The athletes must have knowledge of spotting requirements
iii. Incorporate stunts into crowdlines to make them more exciting to watch.
iv. Be creative and use variations of beginning level stunts
v. Dismounts: Step off, straight arch cradle, twist, d. twist
vi. Extensions required, move to braced one leg extensions and extended one leg stunts, near end of competitive season.
d. Tumbling
i. Teach in progressions from rolls to runs
ii. Incorporate tumbling into cheers and crowdlines
iii. Have cheerleaders tumble after exciting plays or touchdowns
iv. Team Goal: BWO’s and work toward BHSP’s – practice skills everyday
e. Crowd response, facial and voice
i. Facial and full voice practiced during all chant and cheer reviews so that it becomes automatic
ii. Spontaneous and genuine enthusiasm emphasized
iii. Most material should include crowd response
f. Creativity
i. Make cheers and chants visual and clean
ii. Change material weekly (change a jump, add a stunt)
iii. Give cheerleaders a chance to create material
g. Competitive Cheer
i. Freshman level will compete between 10-12 times
ii. Coaches make up material
iii. Make material challenging for the athletes
iv. Emphasize teamwork and goal setting
v. Stunt cheer difficulty – shoot for a 20
vi. Stunt cheer variety – 15
vii. Good Sportsmanship
h. Team Unity
i. Buddies
ii. Team Goals
iii. Positive Circles
iv. Closure to practice
v. After practice get togethers, tail gators, team bonding, etc..
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