Help - Cheerleaders at a Cross Country Meet!!

yeah, that would be awful if some decent looking girls actually came to a cc meet to support people. just awful!

now if they're ugly cheerleaders, keep them the hell out of there.

Give 'em some uniforms like the Cheerleaders from Hell in the "Smells Like Teen Sprit" video.

laughing stock? everyone will be jealous! i want cheerleaders!

I have not seen cheeleaders, but do not think it would be a problem. I would actually aprreciate the cheering. Why turn down support. We usually hear about people bitching and moaning that running gets no support, well this will help and become a egula sport that is more accpected

when I ran in college, we had some crazy fans that would paint themselves, bring noise makers, and a few fraternities and sororities came out in support and got Really crazy

Because my team had three members of my fraternity on it, we had abouut 30 guys out there chearing for just us.

Other teams and coaches were suprised how much support we had.

Eastern Washington (I think that's who it was) brought some to a home meet in about 1996 or 1997. It was a little akward and strange. If the cheerleaders really want to come I would meet with their coach and explain that the best thing might be to split the cheerleading team into groups of 1-3 and place them at different locations around the course versus putting them in one location and trying to do coordinated cheers and dances like they would at a football or basketball game. It is definitely a little strange, but if they want to offer support I'd make the most of it and see if they can do similar cheering to what your JV runners might do during the varsity race.

My senior year in HS we had our cheerleaders at our home inv. Was kinda funny. I took fifth with what was a great time on that course, and was waiting my teammates at the finish line. One of our great and bainiac cheerleaders wondered out lod after 30 or so runners have finished : when are we going to have someone finish?" Damn I felt loved. Fortunately one of the cheerleaders was my partner in math class, and ripped this girl a new one. Kinda funny and all. Point I guess is, actually I dont think i had a point. Just wanted to show everyone that I am the invisible man(should have used that magical power to invade their locker room).

Heck.....when I was in school in the late 70's our cheer leaders used to give us "favors" before the meets. THis would consist of a poster where she would write our name on, write motivational stuff, and even tape a few candy bars on. In addition to this they would come to all of our meets and cheer us on, even at the invitationals. This was really cool.

In addition, cheer leaders would ALWAYS hand out all of the trophies at invitational and it was customary to kiss the cheerleader when they handed you the trophy. Since I was a decent runner I ALWAYS looked forward to the big meets!!

We had them at Regionals my senior year on our home course and then I think a few at state. Granted this is Boulder and people respect running a bit more but I thought it was pretty cool. They didnt do any bullshit cheers or dances, they just came out in uniform with their pom pom things and lined up on the course in a couple of spots and cheered. The way I see it is its a few more people wearing your colors cheering for you.

We had cheerleaders come out to our home invite my freshman year of high school. There were only like four of them, and they were probably only out there because their captain was dating a guy on the team. They just kind of hung out and chilled with the team, lying down with some of the guys (not dirty, just vaguely looked it). It was kinda like, "What are they here for?"

I've also seen cheerleaders hand out medals at meets. That's all right, I guess.

Had cheerleaders at a home meet in HS, but they weren't "cheering" as much as they were glorified volunteers, which was nice for the people organizing it.

its ok if done correctly.... we had cheerleaders and the band play at one of are invites... the band was pretty funny to have but i think it helped

The last time I saw cheerleaders at a xc meet was the nike commercial (i think it was nike anyway) where they were following all the runners.

During HS our cheerleaders helped direct runners along the course (it was a tri meet so the course wasn't well marked).

They were at my section meet the year before last(and maybe last year, don't remember), and they just kinda stood there in the crowed cheering people on. didn't seem like a big deal

Are you nuts? Why would you turn down the opportunity to have cheerleaders at a high school cross-country meet? I went to an all-boys prep school, but I would have loved to have a squad of cheerleaders at our meets. Sure, we distance runners may talk about how we're above that sort of stuff, and we may take a certain perverse pride in being lone wolves and not needing the whole rah-rah thing, but I think that most runners would actually be fired up about the idea.

That would be amazing. Seriously.

I've seem cheerleaders at lots of road races: Erie Marathon, parkersburg 1/2 marathon, etc. etc. I like 'em

Our JV cheerleaders always came to our HS XC home meets and usually to our district away meets as well. They did not come to any invitationals or out of town meets. There were no problems with it. I think as a team we enjoyed having them there. It isn't like we were over run with fans.

Now that you have the cheerleaders try for the band next.