For the first time, PCA cheer will be attending cheer camp! Even though it's not the glorious sleep-away camp that every cheerleader loves, we won't be going it alone! This summer, we will be bonding, learning, training, eating and having fun with our cheer sisters over at Lane Tech high school. The best part about camp is all of the friendships and memories that are made. Yeah, we're going to grow athletically, but building that bond that leads into the fall semester...you can't beat that.  

Spending 5 days surrounded by people who love their sport and love being happy is the best way to kick off summer. There's this constant flow of support and sportsmanship that we just don't get anywhere else. The worst part about cheer camp is leaving cheer camp. Going back into this gloomy world where no one cares for a smile or a pat on the back or a friendly, "you can do this!" we trying a new skill. But, that's what I love so much about cheer. No matter the school, we are all here for each other (with a smile).

It seems so unreal that last year we were building a team from nothing and attended our first competition. Mainly because, this time last year, we were designing a new uniform, learning to tumble, planning a fundraiser for our choreography fee and now we literally have nothing. 

While I'm trying to figure out the future of Prosser Cheer (number of athletes, what summer conditioning will look like, cheering at football games for the first time in who knows how long,) I wondered about the teams that came before us. Who were they? What was the team's culture? Were they important to the school? How did they represent Prosser? Where are they now?

With the help of Principal Shimon, I started looking through the old yearbooks for good ol' fashioned research and here's a journey into what I've found.