Hello, cheer families!
Lots of information for this week.
Friday is our first Parent's Night Out Kid Clinic. We've already had a few phone calls of kiddos who are coming. Cheers: wear comfortable clothes, but make sure you have on some sort of CT cheer gear. Wear your hair up (half up is fine) with any bow. I think the little girls will want to see that. Here's what we need:
*Cheers arrive no later than 5:30 pm for set up - parents dropping off kids will need to fill out a waiver, so we need everyone helping either sit with kids as parents drop off OR collecting money/waivers from parents who are dropping off.
*Each cheer Bring something with you for the kids to do - either a puzzle or a game or some storybooks, maybe if you have a brother or a sister and they have toys you can borrow, SOMETHING. We don't have a set schedule laid out just yet, but part of the evening will be spent teaching an easy CT chant, playing ships and sailors or other games, eating pizza, possibly showing off some very simple stunts, and watching a movie. The rest of the time will be free "ish" time, but remember that idle hands make mischief, so we have to keep the kiddos occupied. The event is in the lower lecture center, so we need cheers positioned in places around the school to direct families where to go.
*We need a parent who can go out and pick up some $5 hot-n-readys and some paper plates and water cups (we can fill our jug and bring it down) once we know how many we need to feed. Cheers, please plan to eat on your own - we can get pizzas for ourselves, but that comes out of our overall profits for the night.
We passed out a TON of flyers last friday, so we could have 20 or we could have 200. If there are parents who are willing to help out with this night and lend a hand, I would greatly appreciate it. Mostly just for guidance for our cheers to run the night. Our cheers will keep the little ones occupied.
PARENTS: UCA has a cancellation policy that MUST be signed and returned to UCA no later than December 4th. If you are planning to attend nationals as part of the group package, you have to sign the cancellation policy, as well. Our cancellation policy for CT is much tighter than UCA's for a number of reasons, so please disregard the dates on the UCA cancellation policy. I will pass out parent package information and the cancellation policy today at UE. I need them returned no later than MONDAY so I can get them mailed off in time for the deadline. (I just got this packet on Saturday at our competition - it didn't come with our bid at Pueblo - sorry for the quick turnaround).
PARENTS who would like to attend Nationals with the team - get your registrations in FAST so that you can guarantee you will be with the cheerleaders at Caribbean Beach. Basically, if you sign up on our package, you pay individually but you register under our registration number, which I will give to you in the parent package. As a parent, your cancellation policy follows the same policy as UCA delineates since our program isn't affected by a parent or spectator cancellation. I am not able to manage parent registrations/group disputes/rooming arrangements/etc.
I passed out Nationals balance sheets and cheer balance sheets last Thursday to your cheers. Our first $267 payment for Nationals was scheduled for November 17th, but I will push it back to December 1st so that we have time to input Yankee Candles and Parent's Night out Discounts. November cheer payments will remain for Nov 20th. Any payment toward your final balance is sufficient. Butterbraids have been added to your cheer balance, but they were added right after I passed out balance sheets since totals were finalized right after they were passed out.
Many have asked what happens if you "over fundraise" for Nationals. If this does happen, the best I can do is one of two options - I can give you a credit balance for next season, or I can get most of your balance placed on a WDW gift card for you to spend at Disney. That will work for pretty much any counter service meal location, gift shoppe, or what have you. The remaining that can't be placed on a card (cards only go in certain increments) will go to next season's account if your daughter is offered a spot on the team.
We have sold at least one website ad, with more in the works! If you know of anyone who may be interested in advertising with us on our website, please let me know!
Still no word on Concessions for JV State...
State - we go EARLY for state this year. We are exactly halfway through the 5A teams, but that still leaves us leaving pretty early in the morning. Your cheer will have transportation TO the Coliseum, but not HOME from the Coliseum. Please arrange your rides for a ride HOME after the conclusion of 5A finals. Whether we make finals or not, we will stay through to the finish of our division. The full schedule is up on www2.chsaa.org. We will meet in the morning at one cheer's home to do hair and such. It will be very early, so we may just meet at that home as a jumping off point, or just meet at the school. I'm going to let the team decide this week on that. Our ride will arrive to take us to the Coliseum at 7am for an 8am arrival. So we need to be READY to load on to the transportation no later than 7am on the morning of State.
Here is the week upcoming:
Wed, Nov 19: UE 3:30
Thu, Nov 20: 3:15-5:30 in cafeteria
Fri, Nov 21: Parent's Night Out 5:30-9pm
Sat, Nov 22: Practice 7:00-9:45am
Sun, Nov 23: NO CONTACT
Mon, Nov 24: Cancellation forms DUE, UE 3:30
Tue, Nov 25 - Sunday Nov 30: NO CONTACT
Mon, Dec 1: UE 3:30
Tue, Dec 2: Practice LATE 7-9pm Gym
Wed, Dec 3: UE 3:30
Thu, Dec 4: Candlelight 5:30pm, Final Run throughs 7-8:30pm Gym
Fri, Dec 5: STATE!!!!!!!
Sat, Dec 6: Post State Break
Sun, Dec 7: NO CONTACT
Mon, Dec 8: UE 3:30 (Cheers can miss one or zero UE time slots this week without penalty)
Tue, Dec 9: First bball game arrive at 6:15pm
Wed, Dec 10: UE 3:30 (Cheers can miss one or zero UE time slots this week without penalty)
Thu, Dec 11: Post State Break no practice
Fri, Dec 12: Fundraiser Friday Parent Night Out # 2 - each cheer will cheer half the game and work PNO for the other half of the game.
Sat, Dec 13: JV STATE - We work concessions!
Sun, Dec 14: NO CONTACT
We're almost there! Hang tight!
