Help - Cheerleaders at a Cross Country Meet!!

Our XC course went past our soccer fields... A few times, an XC meet would be the same time as a soccer game, and obviously the cheerleaders had no idea, because nobody cared about XC. So we'd be running by and then they would start cheering for us through the 10m stretch where they were standing, which was funny considering they probably didn't even know our names or how far we ran or anything...

But I think it would be awesome for a school to actually have cheerleaders "assigned" to XC, and actually get to know the sport and the team a little bit. Nothing wrong with that!

Be serious, I've seen this before and it works. You will possibly set an example for future meets. Think about a school band playing music, too!

I'll be hosting a meet this year and I'm requesting the cheerleaders be on hand to hand out awards. I'm also having a percussion group from the band be on hand before and during the race. They did this at last fall's Big XII meet and even as a spectator, I wanted to get out there and race....

You should host your home invitational the same day as your homecoming football game. See if you can get all the kids to come to the cc meet after the pep-rally and before the football game. Then you could have a whole crowd of people.

How about an eveing CC meet where the finish is on the football field right before the game.

We used to have the JV cheerleaders come to home cross country meets. It was nice to have someone at least acknowledge that the meet was going on, but at the same time there wasn't much they could do at a cross country meet.

My senior year, for the first time cross country runners were included as homecoming queen candidate escorts at halftime during the football game, something they still do today.

We had them for all of our home meets during junior and senior year of high school...the varisty football cheerleaders (girls).

It was great....totally psyched out the other teams..we were undefeated both years. 5 of us ended up dating cheerleaders.

They thought the fast skinny guys were so much cooler than the bucket head football dopes. (damn,,then it was on to college track and cross and a return to anonymity....been there ever since).

The dozen times that I have been to the Illinois state meet in Peoria, I have seen many teams with cheerleaders present. Illinois's most winning high school team, York, always had their cheerleaders at the meet. Joe Newton must have felt that it was beneficial for the team.

I thought about doing this. We even have a parade and it could be before the meet.

But, we once had about 300 spectators and TV at a HS XC dual meet. Two State ranked teams and two of the best individual runners in the state. Our AD showed up and was shocked because he couldn't find a parking apsce at the park we run in.

This was once in a lifetime, but sooooooooo freaking cool. My team won both races (b & g) and the individual races as well!

We used to have cheerleaders come out to support us. It was awesome. I liked it and personally cared less what other people thought. Hot girls watching us race was cool.

the band would be awesome! I coach track at a high school that has a very competitive swim team. They had this huge invitational meet where there are some serious spirit antics that occur. Skits, costumes, you name it. Teams vie for the most spirited award as much as they try to win the meet. Well, this past season in addition to the football cheerleaders, they brought the marching band. THe other teams were beside themselves with jealousy! The paper took pictures, which ended up on the front page....it was excellent. By all means, get those cheerleaders out there and see if you can get the band as well. The more the merrier!

We had cheerleaders at our home meets in high school. I don't remember them actually cheering or anything like that but they were used to hand out the medals at the end. They would hand out the medal and shake the guys hand but if the runner was from our school they would give a little cheer and give us a hug.

It was a nice touch.

Coach Mexico wrote:

The head coach was out of town, so I tried to politely explain that XC really isn't the type of sport cheerleading would work well at.

Good work, Coach Buzzkill.

Anything that GIVES XC exposure and fans cannot be a bad thing. We need to think outside the box when trying to promote out sport to the mainstream.