{"id":15820,"date":"2024-12-10T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=15820"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:23:13","slug":"elmira-cheerleaders-prepare-for-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/elmira-cheerleaders-prepare-for-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmira Cheerleaders Prepare for Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The cheer team performs stunts during assembly. (Photo by Naomi Pew \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Elmira high school cheer team is working hard to prepare for competitions this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s team consists of 12 girls: senior Alexis Keeney, juniors Abby Taubr and Annalyse Gilliam, and sophomores Teardyn Bell, Shavelle Cook, Elleana Galaviz, Johanna Larsen, Parker Lusk, Emiree Marhenke, Kadence Marvin, Aubree Rogers and Kylee Young-Villa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team is led by cheer captains Keeney and Cook, and is coached by Mandy Storey and Rebecca Dube, with assistant coach Bailey Wilkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storey is proud of the team and the season they have had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has been a great season so far,” Storey told Falcon News. “These cheerleaders have stepped up their game and are taking this year more seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole team has been very positive about the season.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The cheer team with senior Alexis Keeney celebrating senior night. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually going really well,\u201d Cook said. \u201cWe\u2019re closer as a team than we were last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her fellow captain agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe season is going pretty good,\u201d Keeney said. “It’s just harder now since we’re going into competitions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This season the team primarily cheered at home football games, traveling to one away game at Harrisburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the winter sports season, the team will be cheering at basketball games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will be cheering for as many Varsity home games as we can,\u201d Storey said. \u201cHowever, we are also preparing for competitions and that is our priority.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storey hopes that the student section will be there cheering on the basketball teams when the cheerleaders are unable to due to competitions or practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being in conversation for a couple of years, the team will do competitions this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cheerleaders were able to connect with an Oregon Cheerleading Coaches Association coach and choreographer at a cheerleading camp they attended during the summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe brought her in to teach a 2 day clinic on stunting and another 2 day intensive session to learn a competition routine,\u201d Storey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team captains are feeling a lot of emotions now that they are finally going into competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[I’m] feeling like, really nervous,” Keeney told Falcon News, “but I know we’re gonna get it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m really excited to do it and that I think we’re gonna do great,” Cook said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the team also have no doubt in the team’s ability to perform well at competitions this coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The season is definitely harder than last year now that we are heading into competitions,” Galaviz said. \u201c[But] everyone is getting along with each other and happy to be on the Elmira cheer team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cheerleaders are continuing to work hard to ensure a great performance when competitions come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are all working very hard to nail down our routine both at practice and at home,” Larsen told Falcon News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first competition will be Jan. 4 at the Springfield Invitational at Springfield High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will have one more in January before going on to have two more in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheerleaders with their float for the Homecoming parade. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Elmira cheerleaders do stunts at a football game. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team will attend basketball games for the winter season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":16070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sports","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15820"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16432,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions\/16432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}