High School Sidelines Without The Cheat Sheet?

Welcome to our Cheerleading Community

Members see FEWER ads... join today!

Cheat Sheets?
We had to memorize all cheers and motions our rookie year otherwise we didn't cheer at football games. We were a coed team so our boys (who typically knew more about football) would call the cheer based on what is happening during the game, and we would have to know the motions/stunts to go along with it. Vets made it a big deal for the rookies to learn cheers in summer training camps. Videos also get posted on team pages during summer training, so by the start of the season there should be no excuses.

Good luck!

Same here! We never had cheat sheets or a whiteboard. There was a “quiz” two weeks before the first game of the season, and if you didn’t know the cheers, you sat out of the game. We had quite a few cheers/chants but if you cheered in junior high (at the time for us that was 8th/9th grade) you knew probably half of the cheers going in (sometimes the words/motions were slightly different, but were pretty darn close).


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Same here! We never had cheat sheets or a whiteboard. There was a “quiz” two weeks before the first game of the season, and if you didn’t know the cheers, you sat out of the game. We had quite a few cheers/chants but if you cheered in junior high (at the time for us that was 8th/9th grade) you knew probably half of the cheers going in (sometimes the words/motions were slightly different, but were pretty darn close).


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We had to memorize all ours too (30 or so) but let me be frank: I went to a private school where academics were rigorous and everyone was going to college. Consequently, we were good at memorizing stuff because we were well-trained at absorbing and retaining information.

This is not that school. Some of the girls aren’t interested in grades and cheer is the only reason they keep them hovering above the bare minimum. And to be honest, I’m not sure all of them are up for it and I don’t want anyone feeling stupid. I might be coddling them a bit, but for right now this is was what it is.
 
I hate the cheat sheet. Looks terrible. Does anyone have a way to work around it? I've come up with a plan for this year that has the girls call cheers from memory, but it's complicated.

1. Strip down all our cheers to "general" ones (no offense/defense).

2. Have all the seniors (we have eight who are positioned in the center of the line) memorize three different cheers each (for a total of 24 cheers).

3. Let each senior call her three cheers when appropriate and then go down the line until everyone's done. If we finish before the quarter/half is over, we just start over again with the first girl.

4. Have every third cheer incorporate stunts (so each girl's "last" cheer would include stunting).

I'm thinking of explaining it to them as such:

Ashton: cheer #1 (Let's Go); cheer #2 (Do it Again); cheer #3 (Fire It Up w/ tosses)

Tiana: cheer #1 (Come On Come On); cheer #2 (Put Up a Fight); cheer #3 (SCORE w/ extensions)

Etc.

Or does anyone have a slightly simpler way to avoid the cheat sheet?


My captains wear playbook wristbands (like football players do) but instead of football plays its the list of all their cheers. This way they can look to see what hasn't been called yet. I also bought these for them in the color that matches the sleeves on their uniform so it blends in.

Playbook Wristband Wrist Coach Youth at FlagFootballPlans.com
 
Back