This past summer, the 2010 football cheerleading squad was sent to the Pocono Mountains to train with UCA cheerleaders from the across the country.

The basis of this trip was to sharpen up the veterans and to enlighten the rookies on what Middletown Cheerleading is all about.

During those four days our squad learned cheers, dances, and new stunts as well as techniques to follow. The team’s goal was to receive top banana; the most spirited each day, and to perform well enough to receive a blue ribbon, meaning that as a team, they performed at a superior level.

 The Middletown Cheerleading squad won a spirit stick every day for excellent performance and behaving with the best attitude on campus. The squad also received blue ribbons for each evaluation which judged us on new material taught from UCA as well as our own.

The last day of the trip was designated to the final competition, a complete routine including the extreme routine dance, the UCA cheer, and a series of stunts throughout. They were competing against approximately 15 teams from around the East Coast.

Middletown proudly won second place for the UCA cheer, and extreme routine, and third place for home pom, which was constructed by former MHS cheerleaders. The superior trophy, which acknowledges that MHS was the overall top squad, was the icing on top of the cake.

This experience allowed veterans and rookies especially, to form friendships with the girls on the squad.

 “When we are all on the same page, we work together like magic. We had to look past all of the drama and focus on what we went there to do,” says MHS junior Desiree Remsburg.