On a usually game week for us it starts Thursday, We have Reading with the Eagles. This is where the cheerleaders and the football players visit different elementary schools to talk to the children about the game Friday night and read the younger grades stories! This is a major help in getting everyone to the games, also we pump our kids up with excitement wanting them to come and be involved. Friday, the squad is to be at the school by 7:45am full in uniform with our hair and makeup ready to go! At 8:15 our squad lines up down the hallway and marches with band through the halls and into the gym.
Read MoreEvery home game for the Panther football team draws sell-out crowds. And it’s amid these extraordinary conditions that the Permian cheerleaders flourish. Their skill level is incredible, and I can’t help but to compare their tumbling to the tumble-weeds you see in the fields out here: quick, lively, never losing momentum. Their pyramids and stunts are impressive, but not as impressive as their ability to excite and engage the crowd. Many of this year’s varsity squad members started their cheerleading careers wearing tiny black and white pleated skirts as they stood at the metal rails and mimicked the moves of the then varsity cheerleaders on the sidelines. They grew up always wanting to cheer for the Panthers and now it’s finally their time. “We love being part of a school and program that has as much tradition as Permian does,” says Amanda Stallcup.
Read MoreFriday night football games are a right of passage for America’s youth. A time where the children of today—the adults of tomorrow—take center stage in their community. A typical game day at Average Joe High School features a pep rally and send off for the football team – an entire community embracing its own. The game itself is attended by the whole student body, the whole community…the whole world seems within reach for the players, the cheerleaders, the band, and the students. Those fantastical moments in high school are the pillars of strength that young men and women draw upon when heading out into the world for themselves.
Read MoreBeautiful lights twinkling on the tree, mistletoe in the doorway, the smell of Gingerbread cookies coming from the kitchen, the fire crackling below the stockings on the mantle, ready to be filled with goodies… this is the picture perfect image of how most of us spend our Christmas holiday. With these sweet serenities that we often take for granted laid out in front of us so naturally each December, it’s easy to forget that not everyone is this fortunate during the holidays.
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