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posted 04/11/2009 INFORMATION FOR THE 2009 SEASON
The following is information regarding the 2009 BBC Season. Please note there are a lot of changes this year – Please read carefully. We believe these are all positive changes and hope everyone will be happy with the changes we are putting into place this year.
1) Cheer Squads. The choreographers will have all competition routines finished by end of June. The routines will be recorded and burned to DVDs. Each cheerleader will receive a DVD at the beginning of July and will have six weeks to learn her cheers and dances. When practice begins in August, each girl is expected to know the cheer and dances. Further information to follow.
2) We will not be doing UCA cheer camps this year. Instead, we will be working with the Bridgewater State College Cheer team to provide our squads with hands-on training in stunting/building, tumbling, critiquing competition routines, learning safety techniques and rehearsing new sidelines. The cost will be $50 for each girl on cheer and $25 for each girl on pep. Cheer teams will do 2 days (12 hours) and Pep teams will do 1 day (6 hours). These clinic fees are due on the day of fittings (April 28th or April 29th) – please see note in #3 regarding payment.
3) We have been notified that the recreation department is increasing the town user fee from $25 to $50 per child this year. This fee is also due on the day of the fittings. We realize between the money for apparel, registration fee ($50), town fee $50), and cheer clinic fee, that this is a lot of money. If you need to defer the payment for the Town User Fee and the Cheer Clinic fee, you may pay these fees on June 6th (Car Wash date – see #12 below for information).
4) Practice Schedule is very different this year. Below are the actual dates and times as we know of them right now. We are hoping this is the final schedule and that we will not have to make any changes. WE WILL NOT START PRACTICE THIS YEAR UNTIL THE WEEK OF AUGUST 17th. We will drop to a 2-day practice for cheer squads and a 1-day practice for pep squads starting September 8th. Cheer squads will begin practicing 3 days per week from October 20th - November 14th (competition date). Pep Squads will finish weekday practices on October 14th.
5) Mandatory practices for cheer squads will be held on Columbus Day, Veterans Day, and one additional weekday (if there is a professional day at the schools) during October or before November 14th competition.
6) Pep will end weekday practices on October 14th. Advisors will determine practice times before the games on Sunday.
7) Football playoffs and the Super Bowl will be held the first two weekends in November (a week later than last year).
8) Football Schedule has yet to be finalized and is subject to change throughout the season. Cheerleaders need to be flexible with the changes and are expected to be at all games.
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We have set up a new website – same address –
www.badgerscheer.com. This is the same website that is used for Bridgewater Girls Basketball, Bridgewater Little League and Bridgewater Girls Softball. We are still learning how it works but we will need everyone to register once the tryouts are over and the teams have been selected. PARENTS ARE ADVISED TO CHECK THRE SITE ON A WEEKLY BASIS.
10)PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ the Rules and Regulations posted on the website.
11)Prior to the season, we will be making renovations to the “football house”. We will be putting a big window in the building, extending the deck and roofline, and building shelving in the cheer room. This will allow us to sell apparel out of the building and not have to set up the tent each week. This is our biggest fundraiser and is always at the mercy of the weather. With these changes, we will be able to be open rain or shine. We will need parent volunteers to help with the selling of apparel during all Varsity games (Sunday) and JV games (Saturday). We will be using fundraising money to make these changes. We will need everyone’s help with fundraising this year. If you have any fundraising ideas, please let us know.
12)Second Annual Car Wash/Bake Sale/Cook out is set for June 6th with rain date of June 13th. We will be looking for volunteers to work the carwash (fathers would be great) and provide donations of food (hotdogs, hamburgers, rolls, baked goods, water). Further information to follow from Sue Colby.
