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Homewood Sports
Homewood Youth Cheer kicks off 2012 season
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Girls on the Run Back Row: Sarah Parker Lowery, Kelly Lowery (Coach), Seona Long, Dallie Kate Darnell, Sarah Beaube, Anna Stephens, Paige Willcutt (Assistant Coach), Rachel Mau, Catherine Owen (Coach). Not pictured: Emily Lambert (Assistant Coach). Front row: Sarah Jackson Rutledge, Mary Callen Darnell, Claire Lambert, Isabel David, Maggie Stana, Ellie Willcutt, Alyssa Elliot, Isabella Kirkpatrick, McKenzie Prim. Photo by Craig Kleimeyer.
By CRAIG KLEIMEYER
Homewood Youth Cheerleaders at clinic at HMS. Serena Hyde, Liza Spencer (HHS head varsity cheerleader), Isabella Kimbrell, Ginger Hyde (HYC fourth grade coach), Abby Hendon, Emma Standard, Donna Hendon (HYC fourth grade coach), Johnna Gray, and Megan McClung (HHS varsity cheerleader). Photo courtesy of Julie Foster.
Homewood Youth Cheerleading has kicked off the 2012 cheer season with the announcement of their 2012 HYC Board Members, Julie Foster (president), Gina Stokes (vice president), Sara Jennings (treasurer), Donna Hendon (secretary), Apryl Crosswy (6th grade team parent), Ginger Hyde (5th grade coach), Teresa
Wilson (4th grade coach), Danielle Decker (3rd grade coach), and Liz Studinka (1st/2nd grade coach). The 2012 cheer season registration starts April 9th and closes May 20th. Please go to www. homewoodyouthcheer.com for more information and to register online.
A team of third to fifth grade girls have been meeting at the Homewood Parks and Recreation Center on Mondays and Thursdays to run and learn about self-respect and making healthy choices. This team is part of the Girls on the Run of Birmingham program, which has 11 teams and 155 girls participating at different schools and community centers. A group of 15 meets for Girls on the Run at Shades Cahaba Elementary as well. This is the first year that GOTR has been in Birmingham, or anywhere in Alabama. “The program was started by Molly Barker in Charlotte, N.C.,” Executive Director for GOTR of Birmingham Catherine Gregory said. “She wrote the curriculum to keep girls out of the ‘girl box,’ a place where they start paying attention to messages around them from
media and peers instead of being true to their own creative and fabulous selves.” At a GOTR practice, the coaches circle up the team and let the girls know the topic of the day. “During the workout, the girls run laps in conjunction with an activity or game that is related to the topic that day,” Gregory said. “We then stretch and process what just happened, what they learned, noticed, and experienced.” At the end of the practices, Gregory said they stretch and close with “energy awards,” or cheers, for girls who displayed GOTR behaviors at practice. On Saturday, May 12, the girls will all participate in the Girls on the Run 5k race. Visit girlsontherunbham.org for more information about Girls on the Run of Birmingham.
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