What an AMAZING trip!!
We had fun, we performed SO WELL! I am so very proud of this team and what we've accomplished! What a great way to wrap up our comp season!
A few announcements/reminders -
1 - please be respectful when interacting with your teachers regarding make-up work. Attending Nationals is a privilege - NOT a right. You've been out for three days, your grades are going to drop if your teacher puts assignments in. Get your make-up assignments in quickly, and if your teacher doesn't grade them right away politely ask if they can help you out with updating grades. I have heard from a few teachers that upon our return, cheers have been rude to teachers regarding grades and make-up work. That is unacceptable and we will not act this way. We are athletes, and this week we've been compared to other athlete groups who don't confront teachers in an inappropriate way regarding grades. It may feel unfair to you, but you are never in the right when back-chatting to a teacher. No ifs, ands, or buts. Your behavior reflects on the whole team, for better or worse.
2 - Scrapbooking is tomorrow!!! Bring $5 for paper and stickers and other supplies. Please upload all of your pictures so Mazzy's mom can get them printed for our scrapbooking party! 4pm-6pm at Michaels. Each pair of cheers will get two pages to scrapbook for.
3 - Games this week: All of the free game slots have been taken for this week. Make alternate arrangements if you were planning to take a free game and haven't discussed it with me.
4 - Friday is the pep assembly! It is a FULL ATTENDANCE DAY. You MUST be in 100% of your classes to perform in the pep assembly or I will PULL you from the pep assembly. This is our last chance to perform as a full team - let's make sure that happens! You will be excused from 4th to prep for pep assembly. Get to the gym as soon as fourth starts so we can run through and warm up.
5 - Banquet RSVPs are due no later than Feb 20th!
6 - Playoffs - please check the handbook regarding playoffs. We all cheer all playoff games. There are no free games awarded during playoffs unless you are at a wedding, funeral, or some other major issue. If we have playoffs past the banquet, I will hold letters until the last game is played and pass them out at the conclusion of basketball games. You will get a certificate at the banquet as a placeholder until basketball finishes. I get the playoff schedule on shorter notice for Basketball than I do for football. I will pass along the information to you as soon as I get it, likely via Remind101.
7 - Uniform return: Uniform return will be on Monday, March 2. Any uniform pieces not returned will be charged to your cheer account.
8 - Open Gym Clinics: Our open gyms will be held March 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, and 26th from 4 until 6 pm each day. Cost for the clinics is $5/open gym. (This makes it officially a clinic so there is no conflict of interest or CHSAA violations and we can invite incoming 9th graders to join us). Most sport teams have nominal fees associated with off season workouts for this reason. We WILL split out into ability groups - the vast majority of the time for Varsity and returning athletes will be spent stunting. The coaching staff wants to get a closer look at stunting abilities with both new and returning members, ideally before tryouts. After seeing teams at nationals, we need to start spinning. If that can happen in March rather than June, that's a good thing! If you are doing a spring sport or working, please let me know.
9 - we will do end-of-year evals the first week in March to let you know what you need to improve on before next season. We will pass out eval sheets soon. Same process as last year.
Week upcoming:
Today, UE, then Game. Arrive at 6:45pm
Thursday: Scrapbooks! 4 - 6 pm Michaels in southlands. Bring $5
Friday: PEP ASSEMBLY! FULL ATTENDANCE DAY!!! Then double header game - follow the A/B grouping schedule. First game arrive at 5:15pm, Second Game arrive at 6:45pm
Saturday - Tuesday: Post Nationals Break (First weekend off in a while!)
Wed, Feb 18: UE
Thu, Feb 19: Post Nationals Break
Fri, Feb 20: GBall - arrive at 6:45pm
Sat, Feb 21 and Sun, Feb 22: NO contact
Mon, Feb 23: UE
Tue, Feb 24th: Playoff Schedule Begins. Standby for information
Wed, Feb 25: Final UE class.
Thur, Feb 26 - Sat Feb 28: Playoffs. Standby for information. I will probably send a Remind101 on a Sunday when ey do the seeding forplayoffs with information regarding our first playoff game.
