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Health & Fitness

From the Sidelines......Do You Believe in Magic?

What happens when the DSHS cheer team hosted their first ever cheer clinic?

On Friday night Nov. 4 the DSHS Cheerleading Team held its first ever cheer clinic for girls in grades 3-5 from both Chickering and Pine Hill Schools. This was both a spirit building and FUNdraising event with hopes of gaining a pipeline for future team growth.

Although about 25 signed up in advance the clinic hosted closer to 30 participants when a few signed up as walk-ins. All were eager to learn about cheerleading and were hoping this was an introduction to a weekly program. The high school girls were excited to mentor the future cheerleaders and had spent the past few weeks practicing and preparing a dance they would be able to teach and have the younger girls master in a two hour clinic.  

All the girls worked very hard and by the end of the clinic the high school team of 16 now looked like it tripled in size. After over an hour of fun filled cheering the girls gobbled down eleven pizzas, salad and chocolate chip cookies. As the clinic ended one third of the girls went home to their warm homes while eighteen stayed to help cheer on the Raiders vs Westwood for the 6:00 p.m. home game. The remaining girls dressed up in blue , black and white clothing topped of hair ribbons and matching warm up jackets borrowed from the high school cheerleaders. The enthusiastic young cheerleaders eagerly yelled "go Raiders" and stomped their feet when prompted by the high school cheer team while they sat in the "fanzone". Their young voices were heard throughout the stadium especially once they got a hold of the cheer team megaphones.

As the game progressed and the temperatures dropped to about thirty degrees with sharp winds the girls could be seen practicing what they learned that day on the sidelines. The most exciting part of the night took place as halftime approached and the young rookies joined the high school cheerleaders in their half time cheer routine to the music of "Do You Believe in Magic". Hearing over thirty girls cheer for the Dover-Sherborn Raiders made the frozen fans in the bleachers answer yes to that question. Most of the younger girls went home after halftime but not without first hugging and thanking their new big sisters and asking when the cheer clinic would be held again.

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