Cheer 23-2024.

SKY HIGH Soaring into position, Lauren Quinney (10), does a right herkie during the football game on Oct. 27. Quinney joined cheer along with her friends last year, and this year made varsity. Quinney found it to be incredibly welcoming, despite how exhausting it can get. "My favorite thing about cheer is how we all get along.  Everyone is so happy and we all talk about our days and how life is going," Quinney said. "I feel a lot of my teammates get tired in the second half of the game so I smile a lot because if you look like you're having fun, then you are having fun."

HOLDING ON While hugging Bailey Brummer (12), Kaylynn Mohn (12) cries because this is her last year cheering with her friends as the season came to a close on Oct. 27. “I've been cheering with Bailey since seventh grade, so it being our last home game together was really sad,” Mohn said.  “The bonds that I made with people and friendships have grown over the past six years, and it's really fun watching everyone grow as a team.”

DANCING MOOD While swing dancing to keep the energy going for the team on Oct. 27, Hailey Heim (12) and Hailey Abreu (10) try to keep the energy going.  Heim had learned about swing dancing while at EVIT and Heim and a few of her teammates learned at practice. “We were swing dancing because it was giving us something to do instead of sitting around,” Heim said. “I feel like it hypes our team up more whenever we are more excited for a game.”

CHEERING WITH PRIDE As the first cheer of the game ends, Victoria Vargas (12) shakes her pom pom in the air and screams her support while waving to the crowd on Oct 27. Vargas' favorite part about cheer is the relationships and trust that grows while stunting,  “Stunting really forces a bond and a sense of trust between the bases and back spot, and I feel like that's a bond you are not able to make normally,” Vargas said.

GROWING UP While watching the seniors names be announced, Bryanna Gist (11)  cries as she sees her senior friends being acknowledged on Oct. 27, knowing this is her last year cheering with them. “It was not only emotional because it was senior night and they were leaving,” Gist said. “But it was also emotional because (their) season was coming to an end, and then it's my turn.”