We've wrapped up our last "offical" day of cheer camp. The only thing that's left are final evaluations and camp champs tomorrow.
The day started with the Hero's Pep Rally. Both squads from Williamsburg won the "most spirited" award, which means we now have a red, white, and blue beach ball to add to the trophy case at school when we get home!
The girls learned ANOTHER dance today, to use during timeouts at football and basketball games. Right now, I think this will be the dance the freshman do during some of their timeouts on Friday nights. We also jump conditioned, learned a band dance, and got ready to be evaluated on the Game Day Routine and the Xtreme Routine.
I'm pretty sure I already filled you in on the Game Day Routine and the Xtreme Routine; the freshman squad earned red Excellent ribbons in both evaluations and the varsity squad earned blue Superior ribbons in both evaluations. This officially extends the varsity squad's blue ribbon streak to four years! During our last four years at cheerleading camp, our varsity squads have only taken home blue ribbons!
Probably the biggest news of the day are the results of the All-American tryouts. Williamsburg had five girls try out for All-American and three got invitations to perform in London. A big congratulations to Samara Schmidt, Caitlin Capper, and Caitlin Osweiler!
We will end tonight saying good-bye to our only senior (Alisha Rowe) and painting all of our run-through signs for the up-coming football and basketball seasons. Although we've had our high points and low points at camp, I can honestly say this is the hardest working, most talented group of young women I have ever had the privilege of coaching. This week has been so much fun; much of it is thanks to the great leadership of Alisha and the willingness to work and to not settle for anything less than the best by your daughters and friends!
If you have the chance to come see us tomorrow at camp, I hope you will take advantage of the opprotunity! These girls have a lot to be proud of, and I know they will be excited to show you all they've learned this week.
Finally, I sent you an invitation to view my snapfish photo album of all the pictures I took at camp this week. I'll start a new album tomorrow for the final and email the invitation Wednesday or Thursday. I'm not planning to post tomorrow morning, its really hectic in the morning, and by the time I get the chance to post most of you will be on your way to Des Moines anyway. I will post one more time after we get home and upload video from camp champs and final evals. Thanks for following along with us at camp this week. I hope you've enjoyed it!
Offical (and final) ribbon count:
White: 0 Red: 4 Blue: 4 Banana: 1
