Bucks cheerleaders look at season
as rebuilding year

December 6, 2007

Roscommon High School will field a varsity competitive
cheer team, but not a JV squad this season.

Coach Vickie Alexander
said one senior is returning to her 13- member crew, Autumn Smith. Joining
her is first-year senior Becka Meadows.

The rest of the Bucks
team is about as young as it can be, with only five juniors, one sophomore
and five freshmen cheerleaders. However, more than half of the team attended
Champion cheer camp.

"[We have to] start
from ground zero," Alexander said, adding, "they want to work
hard."

The team has had to cut
back on some tumbling skills in Round 2, she said, but hopes to reintroduce
skills near the end of the season.

"I always tell them
'look at what we do have, not at what we don't have,'" Alexander said.
"We just have to work hard and do the best we can possibly do."