All week, the fall cheerleading team has been preparing for it’s competition on Aug. 27. The students will be competing on the mat at 9:45 a.m, and awards are scheduled to start at 11 a.m.

Before the team competes, it will do it’s specific warm up. Cheerleader and sophomore Taylor Gallagher said, “We do our stunting warm up, then we warm up with stunts, including pyramids, stunt sequences, and anything in between. We also do our motions, we do tumbles, and tumbling routines.”

In preparation for the competition, Gallagher said “We have been doing our assessments, we’ve been doing stunting routines, tumbling routines, lots of tumble prep, and step prep.”

Lisa Knipp, fall cheerleading coach, said “Our focus (for the past few weeks) has been basically on game cheering, so just this week did we start even thinking about the competition.”