Cheerleading for Basketball- Winter 2009/2010
(to be updated for 2010/2011 soon)

Due to demand we will be making an introduction into the competitive world of cheerleading this winter season along with cheering basketball! This is how it will work:

1. You sign up your daughter online to cheer basketball at www.luyaa.org .
2. We will start practices in the beginning of December; any 7th and 8th graders who are interested in participating in our competition team will be given numbers to wear for a week. At this time we are not opening a competition team up to 5th and 6th graders.
3. Four of us will collectively assess the girls (interested 7th and 8th graders) and will choose 20-25 (joint combination from both Hawks and Lancers teams) to make up the LUYAA rec. competition squad. Our colors will be LUYAA's colors of red, white and blue.
4. The girls who are on the LUYAA competition team will also cheer normal basketball games on their individual teams, but will compete as well.

Schedule for Basketball Cheerleading ONLY:
Hawks: will be one day a week, normally Tuesdays unless school is closed, then we will arrange it for another day. For the first two weeks of practice we may practice two or three times to get a jump start on cheers.
Lancers: will be one day a week, normally Mondays unless school is closed, then we will arrange it for another day. For the first two weeks of practice we may practice two or three times a week to get a jump start on cheers.

Schedule for girls who will additionally be doing competitions:
Hawks: practice with the basketball cheer girls on Tuesday and also practice on Thursday at NMMS.
Lancers: practice with the basketball cheer girls on Monday and also practice on Thursday at NMMS.
**When we get closer to competition dates we may practice Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of that week just to prepare. This is not set in stone, but may be an option if we feel they need that extra time**

Fees:
-LUYAA family fee of $20 (unless already paid)
-Cheerleading fee of $65
-Competition girls will be responsible for paying their entry fees for the competitions we will attend. Right now we are looking at local competitions (within MD and PA), so hotels should not be needed. We plan on doing about 4 competitions with our finale possibly being reach the beach in OC (which would require hotel rooms and chaperones). Competition fees are about $40-$50 per competition.

Items needed:
Basketball cheer:
-navy bloomers for hawks, black bloomers for lancers (boy cut recommended but not required).
-Any white CHEER shoe (must be a cheer shoe, but we are not requiring a certain type).

 Basketball/Rec. Competitive team:
-red crop top ($14)
-red boy cut bloomer ($7)
-Converse Chant Shoe ($35)

Exact practice dates will be posted online soon!

Krystel Williams
Cheer Commissioner
cheerleading@luyaa.org