How to Find School Cheers

Cheering your school team to victory may be assisted by the shouting of upbeat cheers. Whether you are trying out for your college cheer squad, planning and choreographing a cheerleading routine, looking for a crowd-initiated cheer or reminiscing about the cheers performed when you were in high school, there are a number of places to begin your search. With a little digging and a bunch of enthusiasm, you can soon begin to share that team spirit through school cheers.

Instructions

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      Contact the school's cheerleading coach and pep club adviser to ask for a list of school cheers. Copy them down onto another piece of paper or make a photocopy, but don't take the adviser's initial copy.

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      Leaf through previous school yearbooks. Sometimes yearbook writers include common school cheers in their captions or transitional pages.

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      Search the Internet for various cheerleading sites and forums that offer cheers that may be adapted to suit your school mascot, colors or sport teams. Ensure that the cheers selected are appropriate for the cheerleader's age level. Some cheers are too simple for high school cheerleaders and others are not suitable for youth cheerleaders.

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      Review former cheerleading competition videos and those taken from local cheerleader performances during games or half-time. Write down and adapt the cheers to suit your spirit needs.

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      Create your own cheers by using and rhyming common words with those that are school-specific. For example, if your school colors are blue and white, you might rhyme the words "fight" and "you." The cheer could be directed toward the opposing team while announcing that the school mascot is "coming after you."