Every summer Iola High cheerleaders pack up and go to camp. And every summer they come back with plenty of camp awards.
The 2010 cheerleading squad from Iola High came back with their UCA Cheer Camp’s Leadership Award. The award is voted on by the entire camp and UCA staff.
“Each team is asked ‘if you had to be on another team other than the one you are one, which one would it be?’” said Penny Herder, Iola High cheerleader coach. “Our team won and that’s a testament to our girls and how they conduct themselves.”
So the IHS cheerleaders were given a plaque and a Gatorade jug.
The Iola team was awarded the Banana on the second night of camp. It earned blue superior ribbons all week for every evaluation plus the Spirit Stick each night.
Iola won first in the dance competition, called the “Extreme Routine.” And it won second in the cheer competition.
All Over Camp Champs — a new award in 2010 — was won by the Iola High varsity squad.
Another new award given by the staff is the “Pin-It Award.” Six staff members choose one cheerleader each to give the award to on the second night of camp.
“The give it to girls they though embodied the definition of a cheerleader. They looked at leadership qualities,” Herder said. “Then those six cheerleaders pass it on to other girls on a different squad.”
Iola had two cheerleaders — senior Kayla Callahan and sophomore Chanel Coyne — receive the Pin-It Award.
Iola seniors Kayla Callahan, Molly Maxwell and Reagan Webster, juniors Ashlyn Rowe and Celeste Ambrose and sophomore Tori Snavely went through the camp’s All-American Cheerleader tryouts. Callahan, Maxwell and Webster were chosen as All-Americans.
The three Iola cheerleaders are given an opportunity to each raise money to pay for a trip to London, England, to perform in a New Year’s Day parade.
IHS cheerleaders win awards
