Continuing Saga of the Cheer Coach

[DianaB]

For those of you who haven't read about our Cheer Coach problems here's a link to my other discussion about our problems.

http://www.4womentalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2528

I have absolutely had it with our Cheer Coach! She is nothing but a trouble-maker. Thursday afternoon and evening our high school had a volleyball and football scrimmage (which is where we have a game but we just play ourself. No other teams.) So the cheerleaders were divided in half so each side would have it's own cheerleaders. (Now, let me explain a little bit about our cheerleading squad, we have 6 cheerleaders who were on the squad last year and 6 cheerleaders who are new to the squad.) The cheerleading squad was divided up with the experienced cheerleaders on one side (and it was where most of the crowd and pep club sat) and the new cheerleaders on the other side (where hardly anyone sat).

Before the game started the captain and co-captain of the team switched back and forth between the squads but when the game actually started they were both on the same side. The new cheerleaders were left with no leader, even the coach sat with the experienced cheerleaders. The girls really struggled with doing the cheers, since they don't have them memorized as well as the other girls, but they did the best they could. My daughter and a friend of hers took over as leaders, but still they didn't look as good doing their cheers as the more experienced girls.

The coach's reasoning for dividing them up this way was because "you never know when the captain, co-captain, and the more experienced girls will be gone and you'll have to cheer without them." The girls were really embarassed at being out there with no leader and the coach did it to them on purpose!! I've already talked to the athletic director and he says that the girls need to talk to her on their own, but she has threatened and intimidated them until they're scared of her. If there's any more stuff like this that goes on I'm going to pull her out of cheer. It has been a whole summer of stuff like this and I'm tired of it. Thanks for letting me vent!!!!