Sports

Cheerleaders, behind the scenes

There’s a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes every Friday night in your school’s athletic stadium. The smiling faces and cheery chants that ping-pong against both sides of the bleachers takes planning, skill and organization. Cheerleading is a sport and a performing art, but even more than that, it has something special behind it.…
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Isabella Balandran

December 1, 2015

There’s a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes every Friday night in your school’s athletic stadium. The smiling faces and cheery chants that ping-pong against both sides of the bleachers takes planning, skill and organization. Cheerleading is a sport and a performing art, but even more than that, it has something special behind it.

Underneath the singsongy voices is a lot of hard work and perseverance, but at the end of the work week, Mater Dei’s Varsity Cheer Team comes together as a family and finds fun on the field.

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Cody Going has been in Mission Viejo high school’s football program, a team ranked number four in California by MaxPreps, for five long years. From his time in eighth grade to now he’s been able to see the athletes at Mission Viejo High grow from teammates to a...