Cheer Camp Rah Rah Rah

"Let's go, let's go" is the start of a cheer for twenty-four girls attending Cheer Camp on April 23 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. Alex Gilbert has been putting on the camp for six years. She started because she wanted a cheer daughter. Instead of one of her own she ended up with 24 others.

Gilbert does the basics for younger kids and a little more for the older girls. The girls work on stretching muscles, moving to jump positions on the floor, of which pike and split was the main ones. The girls then choose other moves such as somersaults, cartwheels, to do in their performance. When the girls figure ou...