Good morning, cheer families!
Two changes to the calendar - add the Fitness Festival to your calendar for September 7th - we have a football game that afternoon, so it will be a busy day for us cheers. The Fitness Festival is our opportunity to introduce ourselves to all of Cherry Creek Schools - every cheer and pom program will be there to support the runners, and we certainly want to be the team to watch! Wear your burgundy/silver/white CT uniform, girl cheers wear hair in a full pony with solid navy game bow ribbon to Fitness Festival. We will wear Trail unis to the game and reverse our bows.
I also added a run-through making event on Saturday, August 31st from 9 - 12. What we will do instead is have a short practice on Friday August 23 (currently scheduled as a ?) and then spend the remainder of the time putting together all run-throughs for our home football games. Our Saturdays are pretty full in September. It would be nice for all of us to get a Saturday off, especially because the competition season is looming. :)
Sell, sell, sell! Applebee's tickets! Sell to everyone! Sell! Sell! If you need more, I have enough tickets to feed an army! Remind your guests that the event ends AT 10am, so come with enough time to eat breakfast. If you haven't picked up your tickets yet, please see me Monday to do so. Remember to bring your ticket $ to the event on Saturday. Write on the outside of the envelope the number of adult tickets sold and the number of child tickets sold so that we can match up. Remember, we get $7 for every adult and $3 for every child. Do not exchange tickets with any other cheer - we have the tickets numbered for each athlete.
There is a CU Cheer camp on Saturday, August 24th from 9 - 5pm. Kelsey Rauh, former CT Cheer and current CU cheer, is helping to host the event. If you are interested in attending, I will have flyers available on Monday. You can work early shift at Applebee's and then head up to the camp.
Events for this week and reminders:
Monday: burgundy/silver/white unis to school. See notes from last week. Peak practice. LEAVE the parking lot ASAP! Change clothes at Peak. Traffic getting out of the school will be, as always, a nightmare. Once you are past that obstacle, you can arrive on time. Let's look forward to taking this as a challenge to stay ahead of the game! Please drive safely above all other goals. See info from captains on practicewear.
Tuesday: Practice immediately after school in cafeteria: 2 hrs, 15 mins from the time stretching begins. It's up to you to determine our final end time. Time is the great equalizer. Let's use it. See info from captains on practicewear. We will sign up for time slots for the Applebee's fundraiser on Tuesday and also have an all-team meeting. Practice outcome: finish comp cheer.
Wednesday: Peak practice. (See Monday's notes).
Thursday: Practice after school (See Tues notes). Practice outcome: clean comp cheer.
Friday: Short practice and run-through making. Practice outcome: Stunt progression, make all run throughs, goal end time: 4:30pm.
Saturday: Applebee's fundraiser!!!! I'm excited! CU Cheer camp after - see me if you're interested in attending.
Sunday: As always, NO contact between coaches and athletes.
**EVERYONE must match at practice. Conditioning opportunities exist!
You all are great! Have an awesome first week of school and represent us well!
Coach
