Cheerleading: January 2008 Archives

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.