Recently in Cheerleading Category

You probably don't have to look any further than Libertyville High, where the dynamic duo coaching team of Tiffany Taylor (head) and Laura Allen (assistant) has recently taken over.
The two have spent the last couple of years coaching cheerleading at Round Lake High, where they've been fighting a losing battle on a couple of fronts.
The change to Libertyville should energize them as well, plus they will now have the numbers to work with that they couldn't get at Round Lake.
Also, with Stevenson's longtime coach now retired, there is an opportunity for Libertyville to step up and join the ranks of the elite cheer programs in the North Suburban Conference.
The guess is that is exactly what will happen.

There are no finer coaches and no finer people in charge of our young people around here than the cheerleading coaches at Stevenson (Jill Freitag) and Antioch (Robin Gwinn) high schools.

Apparently, we have armies of cheerleader types out there upset with a recent article that appeared in The News-Sun about cheerleading, claiming that the cheer judges were being bashed. Nowhere in that article was anything said that was critical of how the judges scored the meet. If fact, quite the opposite was true!

Something was missing from Sunday morning’s North Suburban Conference Cheerleading Championships. And we’re not talking about Round Lake High’s squad, which forfeited its right to compete when half the squad quit during the holiday break. No, what was missing was the energy.

It is the ultimate team sport. It basically is the only sport around in which all team members are created equal. There is no “right field” in cheerleading and nobody to lead the team in scoring.

Saw this at a prep cheerleading competition, and it happened TWICE, so let’s assume it’s true. When a team is performing on the mat and one of the team members falls from the top of the pyramid and gets hurt, not only does the performance stop, but, -- now get this – the team gets to come back later in the day and finish its performance.