Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD Athletes N Action, 2 Dec 2014

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From YouTube: "Athletes N Action" featuring the Northeast High School Cheerleading Team Winter 2014-15

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Host Wiley Baker highlights student athletes, coaches and various sports programs from county high schools. This month, the Northeast High School Cheerleading team is featured.

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History is being made in pasadena hi everyone, I'm wiley baker with another edition of athletes in action where I'm checking out the pyramids. Well, not exactly those pyramids, but the pyramids and routines being done by the up and coming northeast high school cheerleading squad. Hey, let's tumble in with the eagle cheerleaders and head coach, dana jefferson ready.

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The captains and team have been through the thick and thin to get to the top, and togetherness has moved them forward. We.

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Started out rough and just like any other team, we had to build each other up. We came together with a new coach and it came a long way. Thanks to her, we got a lot of new skills, new girls who are all coming in and she's transforming us into a good cheerleaders.

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They've come a long way in the past year and a half their skills have tripled from what they had. We work pretty much out all season all year long. So once season ends, we start in conditioning right off the bat they get like a week's break and we go right into that which all helps them.

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Our team has gotten really close and once you're close with your team, it's a lot easier to connect on the map, because you not only want to win for yourself, but you want to win for the girl standing next to you. We work.

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Very hard we practice every day. Everything is about, like being close as a team working together just to reach the final goal, which is to win states. Captains.

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Coaches and the team all have specific roles to make northeast cheerleading the best it can be as.

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Competition captain, like I'm supposed to like, be the motivator and like give them like encouraging words like when they're down or like, if we're on the practice mat before we get ready to go out like a girl like maybe she didn't hit her tumbling or like she's, not confident in it. I'm just like you, just gotta be able to hit it. You can't think like that. You can't put negative things in your head head cats and basically.

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Just make sure the whole team's spirit stays up, make sure everything stays kind of strict so that we can be a positive role model for the school to represent northeast.

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She's, unlike any other coach we've ever had, she pushes us hard. She believes in us, she's taking us farther than we've ever been, and we all love her. Everyone.

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Has to give 110 percent all the time and working out during the off season and during non-practice time is essential to rising in the ranks a.

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Lot of body control and power, like we all go to special places and people teach us how to do these things that way it's safe, and you just have to trust your body that you know what you're doing it's.

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A lot of hard work because, like you never know like cheerleadings, it's not like you can go out on the court and or on the field, and you get a lot of time and you get like two hours to do something. You get two minutes and 30 seconds and that's it like you, don't have all the time in the world just to waste if you're.

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Looking at a routine and cheerleading, the judges want to see everybody in sync: they want to be synchronized if you're, not, then it just throws everybody off and with having 22 girls on a mat. If one girl is off, the judges see that.

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Staying focused off the mat and getting academically to the next level means a lot to the northeast cheerleaders.

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We constantly talk about college and grades like coach, dana stresses all the time like school comes. First grades come first and we always have to have like an above average gpa to stay on the team and we tutor each other and help each other to pass our classes.

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We do a lot of helping each other with homework and keeping up with each other, knowing that, if someone's struggling, if someone else is really good in that topic, like math they'll, come they'll stay after on mondays and help them. We.

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Also do a lot of community service. I used to coach at the u.s naval academy, so the soldiers and stuff that's important to us. Like this past halloween, we collected a bunch of stuff for um candy and stuff like that for halloween, and we shipped it overseas. We do christmas cards and stuff like that for them overseas. We do toy for tots and we do a lot of community service as well. So these girls are busy.

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They have a full schedule with school all day, practicing two hours a day homework and then all the community service that we try to implement as well watching.

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What you eat is mandatory.

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We always ate apples before our competitions, because we always said that it helped us get like more energy. We eat a lot of fruit.

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We basically just make sure we get breakfast. We basically remind each other the day of competitions, every competition, everybody make sure you're eating breakfast eat something healthy.

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We preach fitness, we preach, making sure that they eat well, especially prior going into a competition like the week four. We make sure that they have a lot of protein during the week.

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We're making sure that, like the night before that we're kind of a little higher on carbs, and then we go back to the protein, we make sure that you know we're preaching constantly about body awareness and what they're putting in their bodies and exercising and trying to stay away from some of the junk food and make sure that they're drinking plenty of water, the eagles.

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Fans have flocked around their cheer squad.

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Throughout the years, we've gained a lot of support, especially this past, like year and a half our wrestlers and our football players, especially they come out to all our competitions support us. Our parents are amazing, and everyone just hopes for the best for us.

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My freshman year, we didn't really have like a big fan base or anything but like throughout the season. More people have been like wow they're, getting better they're, getting stronger, let's come and watch them and support them and be a part of it.

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To have a season that soars sky high.

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Definitely winning states dream of mine since freshman year wanted so bad.

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I want to make it to regionals, and once we make the regionals wednesday winning states at.

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Winter, I want to win so bad.

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I look forward like even being here before, when I run into this, to the kids that I've coached throughout the years and see that they're succeeding. You know in their work they're succeeding in their marriages they're having children of their own. That is my goal for all of them. I mean it really is and then, like I said, winning the state title would be awesome. One two three.

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Thanks for tuning in I'm wiley baker, I'll talk to you on the court on the field or on the air with another edition of anne arundel county public schools, athletes in action.