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Cheerleading

When your team is introduced or comes out on the court or field. You should also clap when your opponents team is introduced. **When Not to Cheer** History Timeline of Cheerleading || Punch Motion || Low Touchdown || Touchdown || Lunge || High V || Half High V || Low V || Right and Left "K" || Right and Left "L" || Right and Left Diagonal || "T" Motion || Half "T" || Bow and Arrow || Table tops ||  ||
 * As a cheerleader, you are a representative of your squad as well as your school and community. You are looked upon by many people. It is important that you are a good leader. Leadership is not just about being a team captain but rather it is a set of qualities that one has that set a good example to others. You can be a leader with out the title "captin." You and your team members must closey pay attention to your actions as they reflect not only on yourselves as individuals and the team, but also on your school. It is important to always strive to be your best and be a great role model. //There are times when one should cheer and one should not...// **When to Cheer **
 * When time-outs are called, during half-times, quarters, or periods.
 * When your team has made an exceptional play or drive.
 * When a player is leaving or coming into the game.
 * When an injured player gets up.
 * When your team is on offense or defense, do an appropriate cheer.
 * When the game is close.
 * When your team scores.
 * When a player is injured.
 * When your team commits a foul against the other team.
 * When either team is in huddle.
 * When a team makes a mistake or is penalized.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">When the opposing team's band is playing.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">When signals are being called.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">When you hear negative or insulting chants from the crowd or fans.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica;">During important announcements.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While the other squad is cheering.
 * * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/school1.jpg width="213" height="312" align="center" caption="Guy cheerleader!(not only for girls)"]]
 * 1883- Great Britain: students began cheering their favorite athletes on at sporting events
 * 1884- Princeton: Thomas Peebles started a yell of "Sis Boom Rah!"
 * 1889- University of Minnesota: Johnny Campbell was the first cheerleader. Campbell started yelling with a megaphone "Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-U-Mah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Minn-e-so-tah!" After that people started calling him a yell leader
 * 1899- University of Minnesota: Johnny and five guy friends organized cheers, fight songs, and raised school pride. This was the first cheerleading squad.
 * 1903- Gamma Sigma is named the first cheerleading fraternity
 * 1910- University of Illinois: held the first Homecoming Week
 * 1923- University of Minnesota: Female students are allowed to cheer, they bring tumbling and gymnastics to the routines
 * 1949- Dallas: Herkimer has the first workshop under the NCA name
 * 1950- Santa Cruz, Ca: Herkimer develops the Herkie jump and NCA in incorporated
 * 1953- Herkimer founds the Cheerleading Supply Company
 * 1956- Herkimer invents the first pompom
 * 1960- Baltimore: the Colts add the first professional cheerleading squad in history
 * 1967- Pop Warners cheerleaders are added to pee wee football
 * 1968- Fred Gasthoff makes the first vinyl pompom
 * 1972- Title IX was passed. Varsity is founded, so was the famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
 * 1973- Cheerleaders start cheering for women's sports
 * 1974- Jeff Webb quits his job with NCA and starts up UCA
 * 1976- UCA shows their first liberty (stunt) at summer camp
 * 1979- UCA shows their first basket toss at a summer camp
 * 1980- All Star squads start forming everywhere
 * 1995- American Cheerleader Magazine make its debut
 * 1997- 15 states say that cheerleading is a sport
 * 1998- Minnesota: The Cheerleading Alliance is founded
 * 1999- ESPN on the record says that cheerleading is a sport ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #f014c7; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Jumps in action- where both feet leave the ground. A coordinated placement of the arms and legs while the feet are off the ground. [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/garrigantoetouch.jpg width="234" height="179" align="center" caption="Toe touch!"]] ||
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/fronthurdler.jpg width="160" height="199" align="center" caption="Front Hurdler!"]] ||
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/A-G-Pike-Jumps.jpg width="346" height="163" align="center" caption="Pike!"]] ||
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/Video3.jpg width="220" height="360" align="center" caption="Right Herkie!"]] ||
 * <span style="color: #f014c7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Motions <span style="color: #f014c7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A set position of a Cheerleader's arms.  ||
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/go.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/lowtdown.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/tdown.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/lunge.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/highv.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/hiphighv.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/lowv.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/rightk.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/rightl.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/rdiag.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/t.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/halft.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/bownarrow.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/daggers.gif width="84" height="89" align="center"]]

This is the person/persons who remain in contact with the floor lifting the flyer into a stunt. Person/persons on the bottom of a stunt or pyramid.
 * <span style="color: #f014c7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Positions <span style="color: #f014c7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There are three main positions in a cheerleading stunt  ||
 * # Base:

The person that is elevated into the air by the bases; the person that is on top of a pyramid/stunt.
 * 1)  Flyer:

A person that stays in contact with the performing surface and watches for any hazards in the stunt or mount. The spotter is responsible for watching the flyer and to be prepared to catch her if she falls. || []
 * 1)  Spotter:
 * [[image:http://lshs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/studentprojects/0506/fall05/3rdproject/tbcheer/images/stunt.png width="180" height="245" align="center"]] ||