LMYFA CHEER INFORMATION

Welcome to Lake Mary Pop Warner Cheerleading. If your home is zoned in our area, we invite you to join our award winning cheerleading squads! No prior experience is necessary. Our squads consist of up to 35 cheerleaders. Our purpose is to provide our participants with a fun season filled with cheerleading instruction where, at the season end, the squad presents a 2 1/2 minute routine at our Mid Florida Cheer Championship.

We have squads for children ages 5-14. Teams are divided based on age and grade. The Cheer Coordinator has final decision on squad assignments.

We begin with our fittings and a parent meeting in May. Our practices begin August 1, where teams will practice up to 10 hours per week. Beginning in September and through the season end, practices will be 6 hours per week. All competition teams can expect to practice on Sundays after 12:30 p.m. Tiny Mites and Mitey Mites end their season in late October. Competition teams cheer - Jr. Pee Wee through Midget - through the 2nd week in December. The Southeast Regional Competition is Thanksgiving weekend and all team members are expected to participate.

Coaches are volunteers that are carefully selected based on cheerleading knowledge, background and experience. We also use Jr. Coaches which consist of high school cheerleaders and alumni from our program.

Our focus is on fun and physical fitness as we develop skills that will allow many to continue cheering in high school. We begin our season with cheering for our respective football teams. Games are held on Saturday's and we do travel locally. As we move into September we begin to work on competition routines where the focus is on tumbling, stunting and dance. Our teams compete at the Mid Florida Cheer Championship held at the end of October. Teams placing in the top 2 advance to Regionals which is held over Thanksgiving weekend. This competition is held at various locations throughout Florida and may require travel. Those advancing to Nationals will compete the 2nd week in December at Disney's Wide World of Sports.