 Coaches Corner If you've been a coach for years, or you're getting ready for your first year of coaching, here's some great ideas for you to use with your squad. 
Like most schools, we have a night set aside every year to honor our seniors. It's always our last home game. We try to make this a
special night for the seniors and their families. Here's some ideas for you to use.
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We recently had our senior night for the class of 2004. We recognized our boys basketball, swimming, and cheerleading teams. It was a really
memorable night thanks to a bunch of parents, friends, our high school principal and our athletic director. We have tons of pictures for you
and a lot of great ideas you can use for your senior night.
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Every year for senior night, we put posters up for each senior athlete in front of the gym. Usually most schools just use a basketball
and a megaphone. We wanted to do something different. We decided to make posters that looked like the uniforms. They looked amazing
when we were finished!
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Everyone loves our posters that we make for senior night. This year we added a new design for our team manager.
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We took a lot of pictures of our seniors on senior night. Many of our parents have asked to see them. We thought it might be nice to put all
of them on our web site for the family and friends of our seniors to see. We will continue to add new photos as we get copies of every one's
pictures. There are a lot of pictures, so it might take a while to load!(click the picture to see more) 
At our school we always try to celebrate all of our players accomplishments. Here is what we did when one of the guys broke an 11 year old
assist record.
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We have mini Halloween cards to give to all of your friends. These can go on cardstock or magnet sheets and can be put
up inside of lockers. These use the same instructions as the valentine cards.(Click the picture to see more) 
This year for Valentine's Day we have a set of cheerleading valentines that you can
print out on cardstock or magnet sheets and give to your friends. We have instructions included.(Click the picture to see more) 
In October we made some cute little pumpkins for our team using old tennis balls. This month we have found something else to do with the tennis
balls. Here are quick and easy instructions to make little santa basketballs for your team.
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We wanted to make an ornament that would remind the girls of the real reason for Christmas. We have step by step directions so you can make
these in your school colors for your squad. (click the picture to see more) 
For the holiday season two of our cheer moms got together and made these cute ornaments. They had leaves with the bible verse
Galatians 5:22, "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self-control." printed on them along with the girls name and the year. Every year, the girls can put these on their Christmas
tree and be reminded of this year.
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We have another winter craft that uses old tennis balls. We've turned them into little
snowmen ornaments. They can be easily personalized for each player or cheerleader. And just like the Halloween pumpkins you can cut a hole in
the back and fill them with candy. (Click the picture to see more) 
Last week our squad wanted to learn another cheer for our home game. We didn't have time to learn a completely new one. We took an old cheer
and added a unique beginning to it. Instead of having all 19 girls start out spread across the gym, we started down on our knees in a small
circle/bunch. During the first few motions we moved to our spread-out formation. (Click the picture to see more) 
If you want to improve your jumps then you need to practice them every day.
Practicing our jumps always helps us increase our height on jumps. It also helps us improve our timing.
We always get a lot of great comments about how high and together our jumps are.
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We have some cute mini tombstones you can make for your teams lockers this month. We have several different variations on this, depending on
how much work you'd like to put into each one.(click the picture to see more) 
October is such a fun month for everyone. Many schools have their homecoming during this time. This is the
time we cheerleaders can really go all out with our spirit ideas. We have cute customized flowers pots that your team/squad
will love.(click the picture to see more) 
One of the things we always hear from people who visit this site is how much they like our craft/gift ideas. We think you will like what we've
come up with for October.(click the picture to see more) 
As the football season is quickly coming to an end and all the state playoff games are beginning, we think these flour filled balloons might
help stressed out players, parents and cheerleaders.(click the picture to see more) 
If you'd like to brighten up your cheerleader's lockers this month, we have a cute wintery decoration.
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We wanted to do something special for our basketball team parents, so we decided they might like a decal with their son's name & number,
and the new mascot on it. While we were making these, we decided we'd make decals for all of our cheerleaders too.
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For Christmas two of our cheer moms got together to give us these cute little snowmen ornaments. On the snowman there was a bible verse
that went with the theme of the gift. We used Psalm 51:6-7, "Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost
place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow."
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When we competed in the Eureka competition, two of our cheer moms made these gifts for us. This verse was attached to each angel:
"Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint." --- Isaiah 40:31. They wanted to remind us that God would be with us.
We felt He was with us, because we took home the 3rd place trophy.
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Just in time for the holidays, we have a cute step-by-step on how to make these beautiful, personalized ornaments for
your squad.
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If you want a neat way to say thank you, you can make a greeting card with a photo of your squad. All you need is camera, a good
background, and some Avery Photopaper Cards (click the picture to see more)  Around Easter time, Mrs. Perron was still thinking of all of us. She gave us this cute little bunny with this note in our lockers for a sweet surprise.  At our end of the year cheerleading party, Mrs. Perron gave us our school letters and athletic awards. The neatest thing was the minature trophies made to look like the first place trophy we won from our Eureka competition. It was very thoughtful and something we can all keep to remember our great year of cheering.  Once our cheerleading season ended, Mrs. Perron put neat candy roses in our lockers with a special note; "It's been fun watching you grow." It was so sweet, and has made me really appreciate this year of cheering.  Mrs. Perron always thinks of others. During our middle school's Regional Tournament, she had a basket set out that was full of toiletries for the visiting cheerleaders to use.  At the Tri-County tournament, our Varsity cheerleaders worked very hard because there was a cheerleading competition during the game. They were discouraged because they thought they didn't do very well. Mrs. Perron put the fans and the note in their lockers to let them know she was her biggest fan.  Mrs. Perron made a wonderful Cheer Consitution for us that she gave to us before tryouts. This is so that we are familiar with her rules and what she's going to want out of us a cheerleaders.
That way, there won't be any suprises or disagreements with her rules in the middle of the year.
It is very detailed and if your squad needs a constitution, you can use this to get a general idea of what you want to put on yours.
One of the requirements for cheerleading tryouts at our school is that we have to make a poster for one of the games.
This is a really good idea, because we don't have to worry about making them before each game. Mrs. Perron laminates most of these after she gets them,
and then she can reuse them each year. She has a huge collection of posters now, from previous years of coaching, so decorating the hallways is a much easier task.
We have a lot of our more unique posters on our Posters page.
At one of our practices, Mrs Perron gave us some star-shaped slinkys. The point is that together we can be a superstar squad, but when one of us are missing, we can't work. She did this becasue we've been having problems with people missing practices, and she's showing how it hurts the whole squad to not have everybody there. Anyways, I thought it meant a lot. (It glows in the dark too!)
The night before we competed, we were very nervous, so Mrs. Perron gave us uplifting notebooks to inspire us.
She reminded us that it didn't matter if we got first, just that we would do our best for God. (I still have mine on my desk to remind me
to try my best in everything)
With Christmas coming, Mrs. Perron has been doing a lot for us as a squad, and she put in our locker a small snowglobe/flashlight.
The Bible verse she left with it was Matthew 5:16, "...let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."   One of the things Mrs. Perron does for senior night is make a poster for all the seniors. These are put on a wall in the front hall way, and they are great for the seniors to keep. For more cheerleading stuff, visit PCS Cheerleading Website
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