ROTTERDAM — The Rotterdam Raider Pop Warner Tiny Mite cheerleading squad stunned the competitors, themselves and particularly their mother and father once they captured two straight cheerleading competitions to advance to the 2022 Pop Warner Nationwide Cheer and Dance Championships in Orlando Dec. 4 to eight.
Now the group of six cheerleaders, ages five-, six- and seven-years outdated are shouting and cheering in makes an attempt to boost $10,000 to assist defray the prices related to the journey.
“That can cowl the ladies’ room prices at Common Studios together with the 2 coaches,” Coach Courtney Sebring mentioned at a latest follow at Draper Center Faculty on the Mohonasen campus in Rotterdam.
That giant quantity nonetheless doesn’t cowl the price of the journey.
“My mother and father are protecting airfare, automotive rental and meals,” Sebring mentioned. “We’re simply attempting to fundraise to no less than cowl the price of the resort rooms.”
The group has a Go Fund Me account arrange as Rotterdam Pop Warner Cheer amongst different fundraisers deliberate.
In accordance with Sebring, the Rotterdam Pop Warner Soccer program has 20 cheerleaders collaborating cheering on simply 4 groups throughout the fall season.
Every thing this 12 months for the Raider Tiny Mites has been a shock.
Sebring signed up her daughter, Alivia, for Pop Warner cheerleading final 12 months. When she arrived together with her daughter — they wanted assist.
“There was a bunch of women and one coach,” Sebring mentioned. “I mentioned I haven’t cheered in a very long time, however they’re five-year-olds. We’re not doing basket tosses, it’s the fundamentals so I mentioned I might coach my daughter’s cheer crew.”
Final 12 months was a conventional sideline cheer season for the Tiny Mites.
Then Sebring reached into her pom-pom previous for this soccer season.
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The Rotterdam Pop Warner Tiny Mites with their regional championship trophy are Avaliesse Steele, Juliana Hill, Adream Hill, Linden Fikes, Abigail O’Keefe, Alivia Sebring, Vivienne Collins at a latest follow at Draper Center Faculty. STAN HUDY/THE DAILY GAZETTE
Rotterdam Pop Warner Tiny Mite coach Courtney Sebring works with a cheerleader exhibiting the correct grip on a stunt STAN HUDY/THE DAILY GAZETTE
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Practising are: Avaliesse Steele, Juliana Hill, Adream Hill, Linden Fikes, Abigail O’Keefe, Alivia Sebring, Vivienne Collins at a latest follow at Draper Center Faculty. STAN HUDY/THE DAILY GAZETTE
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Avaliesse Steele, Juliana Hill, Adream Hill, Linden Fikes, Abigail O’Keefe, Alivia Sebring, Vivienne Collins at a latest follow at Draper Center Faculty. STAN HUDY/THE DAILY GAZETTE
A number of of the Rotterdam Pop Warner Tiny Mites follow their jumps, backing onto stacked mats in entrance of coach Courtney Sebring STAN HUDY/THE DAILY GAZETTE
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The Rotterdam Pop Warner Tiny Mites STAN HUDY/THE DAILY GAZETTE
“I needed to dip my toes into doing a contest with them,” Sebring mentioned. “I began engaged on a routine with my daughter in my yard. We discovered some music that five-, six- and seven-year-olds appreciated from Disney’s Descendants.”
The pure expertise of the children — flexibility, cartwheeling and extra — allowed their routine to shine.
The Raider Tiny Mites received its native competitors and superior to the regionals in New Jersey on Halloween weekend.
“There was an indoor pool, the ladies frolicked, they went trick or treating by the resort, the competitors was sort of behind my thoughts,” Sebring mentioned. “When it got here to competitors time, the Raiders shined as soon as once more.”
Stunning everybody.
“After they introduced first place and mentioned Rotterdan Raiders, my jaw dropped,” Sebring mentioned. “Are you certain? There have been the Colonie Raiders, the Northtown Raiders, I stored saying “Are you certain?”
Instantly after the win got here the request for room assignments, together with a room deposit adopted by fundraising discussions.”
The group has 5 fundraisers deliberate to assist offset the prices related to the journeys together with a raffle for tickets to the NFL Jaguars on the NY Jets Dec. 22, Sundaes with Santa on Dec. 18 at Draper Center Faculty, Dine and Donate at Tops American Grill on Dec. 21 from 4 to eight p.m., can/bottle drive at Inexperienced Redemption Heart in Altamont (point out the Rotterdam Pop Warner account) and a portion of the Rockstar Raider T drink from Rise Up Vitamin on Hamburg Road in Rotterdam.
It will likely be a visit of a lifetime.
“Most of them haven’t been on an airplane earlier than, most haven’t been to Common Studios or Disney, so this would be the first huge journey for a lot of of them,” Sebring mentioned. “However you understand, we’re down there additionally to work.”
Whereas the follow time was crammed with squeals, yells, quite a lot of working sound and Sebring instructing the cheerleaders with ‘women, women, focus, do it once more,’ the group has proven they know when it’s present time.”
“It have to be my voice of their head as a result of once they go on the market for competitors they hit these heel stretches, hit these jumps and level their toes out once they leap,” Sebring mentioned. “We need to do properly down there.”
To contribute go to to the cheerleaders Go Fund Me account, go to https://gofund.me/674fb669
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