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Kids and teens ages 5-18 experienced a week of cheer-leading as some of them were being thrown in the air and doing flips all over the grass at the Eleanor Roosevelt’s football stadium as part of the school’s annual cheer clinic.

They will soon be practicing hard from Sept. 5 through 7 at the ERHS football field as Sept. 8 is the first Friday Night Lights home football game where they will perform. All of the girls and boys will get the chance to show off their new skills during the first half of the game as well as during halftime with the Freshmen, JV and Varsity cheerleaders taking front and center.

At the clinic, crucial elements and skills of cheer leading were introduced: the cheers, dancing, tumbling and stunting.

A previous Cheerleader who has joined in her recent years shared her excitement of the clinic. “The clinic was so much fun with all my friends, and I learned so much!” 13-year-old Lindsay Currie said. “The amazing opportunity of cheering in the football field with all of the cheerleaders on their boxes and performing at halftime was so fun!”

A former Varsity Cheerleader at Eleanor Roosevelt High School who did the cheer clinic last year with enthusiasm said, “working with these girls and boys, little and big is so exciting from the experienced to the non-experienced and showing them new skills and being able to help them, to watch them show off on the Friday nights game is so rewarding.”

New dances are taught every year for a difference of age group for skill level purposes. All teams will be out there: JV and Varsity, with their boxes and uniforms cheering on the Varsity football team with the clinic girls. Every clinic girl gets their own game day T-shirt which they will wear the night of the game and potentially get to keep. So come out and support these girls and boys on the field!