What to do about the Cheer Block?
By: Kali Loehmer
Being in a small school that not many people know about is hard when people want a large cheer block. Not very many students in the school corporation participate in the Culver football cheer block, so what can the students that go to Culver do to help make the cheer block more involved? The cheer block the past couple years has not been the best it has been in previous years. With no one showing up, it is very hard to have a good cheer block.
“I think our cheer block is good but could be better, and could be way more spirited and have more involvement than what it does currently,” said cheer coach Hanna Croy.
With having more involvement, we can have a bigger cheer block.
“When I was in high school, there wasn’t an official cheer block. There was a student section, and we all sat in the first few rows by the cheerleaders. Most people didn’t do so many chants but just cheered for the plays in the game,” says former graduate Cassie Hart says.
Seeing what the cheer block used to be like a while ago can show the school corporation what they could do to fix the cheer block now.
“Because a lot of us are in a fall sport like the football players and the soccer boys and some of the soccer girls, it’s kind of hard to balance a good cheer block when everybody is involved in other things,” said senior Reese Herrell.
Although students may be in a fall sport, students see opportunities to help grow the cheer section.
“Having callouts like we did a couple of years ago so students would be more involved,” said senior Reese Herrell.
Having callouts would bring lots of people out for the cheer block, and perhaps incentives could be a way to get more people involved.
“Maybe there might be incentives or maybe more fun dress up days,” said senior Neomiah Haschel.
Having a winning season most definitely can affect a school’s cheer block. If the school isn’t winning many games, people may not want to come out and support.
“It’s very hard to be motivated to get out and do what you do everyday if it’s not worth watching. I mean there’s not much we can do if our team is not very good. We practice but if there’s not much want to come to the games then no one’s going to want to cheer for a losing team,” said senior Neomiah Haschel.
At least a decade ago the cheer block wasn’t very much more popular than what it is now. With ideas from former students maybe the current and future cheer block could be better.
“I think the atmosphere of the games could be improved by the cheer block mirroring/ participating with the cheerleaders, rather than working separately and sometimes against them. It would be really cool to see some call and response cheers that were relevant to the action of the game.” former graduate Hart stated.
