Herriman High Cheerleading

Winter Mini Cheer 2012

Come support Your Herriman High Cheerleaders!!!

Their Annual Mini Cheer Clinic will be held Saturday December 8, 2012 @ HHS in the Big Gym. Time 12-4pm, registration @ 11:45am.

We will split up the clinic into two different grade groups, K-5th and 6th-9th.

Cost is $35, includes a T shirt.

Mini Cheerleaders will perform halftime at the boys varsity basketball game on Tuesday December 11, 2012.

We hope to see you there!!

Cheerleading Nationals 2011... Walt DisneyWorld

HHS Cheer had the opportunity attend the UCA National Cheerleading Competition in Orlando, FL this February.

The cheerleaders competed against 30 teams at the Indiana Jones Theatre in Hollywood Studios. This was a great experience for our HHS cheer program to attend. Not only did we make a name for ourselves (being the only team from Utah to attend) but we learned a lot from other cheer programs who have been around for years. We were able to tour each park in DisneyWorld and grow stronger as a team. We are proud to be Mustangs!

Thousand of Cheerleaders waiting for Hollywood studios to open. They closed the park down just for us!!

Splash Mountain

OOPS!

Space Mountain

EPCOT

It's a Small World

Magic Kingdom

Animal Kingdom Safari Ride

Team Dinner at Planet Hollywood

It began at an NCA Cheer camp back in 1954 where one team stood out among the rest. It wasn't for their talents, rather for their attitudes. They couldn't keep up with the others. They weren't coordinated or technically skilled. But they were the backbone of the camp; they were always the first to arrive in the morning to class and the last to leave, they were always cheering everyone else one, they always had the best attitude and they worked great as a team.

What they symbolized was far more than any display of technical skill or talent. They represented the pure essence at the very core of cheerleading; they stood for spirit in every sense of the word. However, their spirited performance wasn't the kind the NCA scoring process recognized with a ribbon of excellence, a praise every other team would receive.

Yet it was this team's vibrant, positive energy that bolstered the camp, a creed Lawerence "Herkie" Herkimer wanted to instill in the NCA. Knowing he couldn't just up and change the scoring and award process, "Herkie" was in a quandary. He quickly needed something to acknowledge the impact the team had on the others. In expressing his desire to the other instructors, "Herkie" spontaneously reached for a twig off a tree and declared it the official "Spirit Stick". He knew that as awesome as the team was, they wouldn't care if they were handed a simple stick.

The NCA "Spirit Stick" has evolved, from a simple tree limb, being cut, painted and dried in Herkimer's garage....to a red, white, and blue wooden dowel, now manufactured by the thousands. It's now an integral part of summer camp honors given to teams that exemplify the Spirit as defined by NCA. A first place ribbon isn't complete without a "Spirit Stick".

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