Cheerleading started Friday July 18, 2008.
Practices will be held on Wednesday and Friday at 6pm to 7:30pm at Cedar Rd Park for the remainder of the summer. Park is located on Cedar Rd, 1 block north of Commack HS make a left on Cedar Rd then to the park which is on the left side.
For practices note the following:
Use bathrooms prior to arriving, bathrooms may not be available at the park.
Drink some water prior to practice
Bring to practice a water bottle, sneakers and wear hair in a high ponytail
Sign in sheets will be used at practice
For the first bunch of practices the girls will be practicing as a group together, learning cheers and cheer positions. The girls will be breaking into teams formed by ages as the summer continues.
Once School starts practices will only be 1 night per week and will be inside a school. When we here from the School District which Building we get it will be posted on the website. The nights will also be posted then.
Games will start in September and will last into November, the games are on Sundays in Commack. We may add some other events which will be posted and communicated via coaches.
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Game teams are formed by grade all girls will be placed on a team by their grade, if you need to be placed with another cheerleader for "carpool" reasons the older child will be placed wit the younger child and NOT the other way around,
We will begin practicing in july, wed and friday evenings. Last game ends mid November- when we end our season with an ice cream party. For the first 2 months we are outside, appropriate dress is shorts (not jean shorts) T-shirt or tank top- form fitting, hair in a ponytail and until cheerleading sneakers have been ordered thru the league gym sneakers. Please bring a water bottle and use the bathroom before practice. Due to the facilities parents may stay but is not recommended. Once we get into the schools parents may NOT stay at practices, get in the habit of your child not counting on you at practices.
We cheer for the boys tackle football teams on sundays beging in sept, games may range from 9am -4pm and are mainly played at the high school middle school or on our new football field located behind sawmill, some teams may be required to travel, but it does not happen often. These games may conflict if you have a child playing football, no request for specific times or games are granted.
Uniforms belong to the league- we loan them to you , you must take care of them. Additional parts of the uniform must be purchased by you and are required at a nominal fee, each cheerleader will purchase thru the league, bow, crop top, briefs, socks and sneakers. Additionally, in cold weather cheerleaders may want the sweatsuit offered or they may wear plain red sweatshirt and pants, if not supplied from the league there may be no writing on the sweatsuit at all, no abercrombie, or hollister.
Parents MUST participate this year, if you do not participate you will not get your participation check back. Some jobs needed for the league-
COACHES- We are short ob coaches this year and will be needed everyone to help out- if you feel that you dont know how to cheer - dont worry we will teach you along with the children- you must commit to being at all practices and games Can be split with more than 1 parent- If we do not get coaches 1 of 2 things may happen- 1. we wont have a team or 2. every parent will be forced to coach at least 1 game
Participation parent- confirms parents have indeed done their required participation and assists in issueing refunds.
Uniforms- distribution and collection of unifomrs
optional clothing- ordering, collecting and distributing of additional clothing.
website- updating the website as needed.
team parent- assist the coaches in any fashion needed - dealing with the parents while the coaches coach. Take children to the nathroom, take attendance etc.
