The GHS Cheerleaders are flipping into winter break with an end of the semester performance. 

The performance will take place tonight during halftime of the boys basketball game against Speedway.

“My expectations are to build a nice and performing routine that many of the fans and students are going to be able to enjoy,” freshman Amelia Brooks said.

The team puts a lot of effort, time, and skill into these types of performances to perform for GHS supporters. 

“Our coaches made the routine for us so we did not come up with it ourselves so I think it will be pretty solid because they are really good at making good routines,” senior Ryleigh Canfield said. 

The team had planned on doing a co-ed routine with select boys, however, it fell through due to not enough sign ups or time. 

“The co-ed routine would have been pretty fun to do I think but everyone was stressing about it, especially our coaches. It does take a lot of stress off of us because people kept asking about it but we had very little information and time to come up with a routine,” sophomore Colbie Jones said. 

Performances take time to practice and perfect and the date of the game they are performing during is coming up quicker than expected. 

“We have not practiced it much and from my understanding, it is going to be an advanced routine so I am hoping we do not have a lot of lengthy practed crammed days before we are supposed to perform,” senior Avery Guilfoy said. 

The team has some freshmen along with some other upperclassmen who have not cheered for winter, or at all, who will be going through this process for the first time. 

“Our freshmen are pretty good additions to our team with solid skills that they can contribute to this routine and make it better,” senior Abigail Brooks said.

It may be their first year but they got the hang of it pretty quickly. 

“I was not as nervous about basketball season and the winter performance because I have been cheering for a while now and I had so much fun cheering for football in the fall, I knew it was not going to be much different,” Amelia Brooks said.