Cheerleaders
continue to improve, put forth solid effort

January 14,
2009 - By Andrew Moser

Oxford's Varsity
Cheer team keeps on improving at the season continues, even if the results do
not match the effort.

On Saturday, the girls finished fourth in their division with a score of
604.3596.

It is another solid effort for Oxford's first year
coach Sheri Russell.

Even though the team is young, they keep hanging with some of the older teams
said Russell.

"We improved our scores in all rounds, but we still have lots of work to
do," she said. "Our goal is to keep on improving."

Their next chance at improving is Wednesday, Jan. 14 at Holly.

The Varsity Cheer team rang in the New Year with a solid effort at the Brandon meet on Jan
8, finishing third in their division and fifth overall.

The cheer team was looking to improve on their score from the last
competition, and they did, compiling a total score of 583.898, up from
569.956 from their previous meet.

Coach Russell was happy with the results from the Jan 8 meet. "I think
that we are starting off very well for being such a young team and see a
bright future for us. We know that we still have a lot to work on, but it is
early in the season and are confident that we will get stronger with each competition,"
she said.

In their division, the Wildcats finished behind host school Brandon, who won
the meet, and Cilo, who finished third overall.