Welcome to the NAYFA Mavericks Cheer Program!!
Cheerleading is an athletic, highly coordinated, energetic, fun sport for all ages and skill levels. Any child age 4 to 13 is welcome to participate in the NAYFA cheer program.
Our goal is to provide a fun, positive learning environment and to inspire a love for cheerleading and team sports. Our cheerleaders work on strength, flexibility, basic cheer motions, sideline cheers and chants, jumps, stunting, dancing, and routine development. Cheer is also a great way to develop lasting friendships and wonderful memories they will cherish forever.
We focus on the fundamental skills of cheer. These fundamentals will prepare them for sideline and competition cheer. The cheer program is designed to teach the girls what to expect in middle school/sideline cheer, practice and promote team spirit in the fans and the football players. Cheerleaders learn basic techniques including motions, cheers/chants, dance, stunts and jumps. The sideline cheer skills they learn will provide them with a strong foundation upon which they can build more difficult and specialized techniques and build the confidence they need to try out for their school teams and to participate in higher cheer levels.
All NAYFA Cheerleaders will cheer on their Mavericks, pump up team spirit, and encourage crowd involvement at football games every Saturday. We ask that all cheerleaders attend all home games and away games. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please contact the coach with as much as notice as possible to allow time for them to make game day plan and squad formation adjustments.
Attendance:
Consistent practice attendance is important to you and your squad, when practices are missed, you may have difficulty keeping up with your squad.
Competition practice is mandatory and is addressed in competition form.
We do understand some situations cannot be avoided, all we ask is to contact one of the coaches, so we can plan practices accordingly and set aside time to go over anything that might have been missed.
Attire:
For practice please wear shorts, t-shirt or tank top and athletic or cheer shoes, sports crop type tops and stretchy sport shorts are also appropriate and preferred in general for safety during stunt training, please avoid overly loose clothing as this can cause issues during stunts, hands can get caught up in bulky clothing causing a stunt to fall.
Hair should be pulled up away from the face, jewelry should be removed prior to practice (stud style earrings are allowed).
PLEASE DO NOT WEAR GAME DAY CHEER UNIFORM TO PRACTICE.
It is the purpose of the NAYFA cheer program to promote and uphold team spirit, to develop good sportsmanship by example, and to support good relations in the community, between other teams, and cheer squads in the CTYFL.
It is the goal of the NAYFA Cheer program to help any child to learn fundamental cheer skills of sideline cheerleading.
We hope to develop a love of the sport of cheerleading and provide them with a foundation upon which they can build their skills, progress to higher levels of cheer, and become strong confident leaders in their communities.