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***Sunday, March 1st.
Spirit Club Int'l, California Cheer & Dance State Championship. Esperanza HS Varsity Song /Pom, Varsity Jazz, Varsity Cheer, JV Cheer, and JV Song /Pom, all defended their Advanced division Championship titles.
For the second year, Varsity Pom was named Grand Champions
at this Cal. State Championship for the highest score of any of the Dance categories during
the event and were awarded an iPod. They won them last year and many mothers got those Nanos. There are several
new members on the squad this year and I'm sure the new iPods will be used by the family. This year they also had a
Grand Champion for the Cheer categories which was won by the Co-ed Mater Dei large cheer team. Congratulations to all
our squads for an outstanding event. Lots of good video from this "stage" theater venue.
Spirit Club Int'l, Inc. President, Carlos Onofre introduced a special
recognition award this year in the spirit of the founder who keyed in on the "LEADER" in Cheerleader, "supporting each other
as friends" (and helping others get through a difficult time) when he founded the company 16 years ago..
All the Advisors /Head Coaches were asked to nominate any girls in their program who met the criteria set forth
in the guidelines by Spirit Club Int'l for this award. In part "to recognize cheerleaders who have been influenced
by their participation on cheer." The award is not awarded annually. It is only given when there is a worthy
nominee who deserves recognition.
Stacy nominated Julia Yamaguchi, Varsity Cheer
squad Co-Captain, who was the recipient of this special award for
her perseverance in working through the pain from Feb. 15, 2006 when we lost Shauna Stuewe
and all through the following 2006-07 season and to the present. More importantly, Stacy noted that Julia
provided much needed support for her fellow cheerleaders who were on JV Cheer with Shauna as well. Stacy's
nomination of Julia "represented not only how cheer helped and is helping her get through a very difficult situation,
but also how she has inspired and influenced others."
Julia also pushed through her ACL knee injury last season - but it was nothing in
comparison to her personal loss of her friend, Shauna as she continued to pursue cheerleading with a passion and a purpose. The
teddy bear who sat by the ''X" on the competition mat with Julia's squad, moved up to Varsity with those
JV girls from Shauna's 2005-06 squad and became their remembrance of her last season when they were competing.
Our Treasurer last year made a remark that Teddy had more winning medals than your average bear.
"Bring it On 4 (In it to Win it)" star, Jennifer Tisdale, herself a cheerleader
from age 5 y.o. through her college career, presented the award to Julia. Since Julia stays in touch with Lori,
Kirk and Melanie Stuewe, she was a natural agent of change in September / October 2007, when Head Coach Stacy decided to promote
the Jump-a-thon, that soon became known as Jump Start My Heart.
Julia asked another C & S team member, Sarah Chapman to design the logo for the teal T-shirts.
Julia had them silk screened for sale to all the team members to wear for the event and sold the balance to
donors who attended the Jump-a-thon on October 12, 2007. Stacy was constantly surprised by the amount of money that
Julia was personally bringing in from her pledges for the jump-a-thon. As reported previously the combined team efforts raised
$16,056 which, along with the $12,500 YL Sunrise Rotary Club matching funds, solicited by Doug
Domene, Assistant Superintendent at the School District, allowed the PYLUSD to purchase 12 Automated External Defibrillators
for our four District high schools. The AEDs were in place in January 2008,and training of staff
has been completed. See the last webpage on this site for more details and photos - please click on Jump Start My Heart. Julia is quoted in the OC Register articles and is interviewed by the CBS reporter
on the Ch. 2 and 9 local evening news which played on October 12, 2007.
Taylor Hess, Varsity Song, won the pirouette contest on stage
and Esperanza Varsity Songleaders were well represented by 6 girls (Sarah Child, Katie Withrow, Sarah Chapman, Taylor Hess,
Kylie Place, and Nicole Warner) along with two Fountain Valley dancers / songleaders. That was an excellent opportunity
to video tape our girls in solo demonstrations and we capitalized on it. Congratulations to Taylor and all the songleaders
who competed.
The other highlight of this very successful day for the Esperanza C &
S team was seeing our Booster Club president, Marsha Pace do a hyper-extended
toe touch, round off ending in a the splits on stage which put her on a whole different
level from the other contending 4 finalists who were shaking their booties, out of a starting group of about
24 cheer & dance mothers. Her first toe touch was as good as or better than many of the 51 girls on our
team. Quite amazing. If anyone caught Marsha's first toe touch on tape, please email roblee1@earthlink.net since he was so stunned he didn't recover soon enough but did manage to capture the
"finals". However, to see a frame grabbed off the video of Marsha's second toe touch, go to the
Picture Gallery.
Congratulations, Marsha. Varsity Songleader, daughter Patty and the team were
very proud of you! For her efforts, the mother of university football players, Marsha received, a T-Shirt.
We expect you to wear it to the Board Meeting March 4th. The bad part about having Marsha
edit the end of season video is that this footage will be left on the cutting room floor....
*** Sunday, February 24th. King
of the Bleachers National Championship for the US Spiritleaders - Esperanza HS named Varsity
Song /Pom, Varsity Jazz, Varsity Cheer and JV Song /Pom,
all defended their Advanced division Championship titles. JV Cheer took 2nd place in their Advanced division after regaining the title last season. The
winning squad routines were very clean and the entire team represented Esperanza well at UC Irvine's Bren Center.
Congratulations to the girls for their achievements. Varsity Song /Pom is now KOB National Champion
for the fourth consecutive year!
*** Sunday, February 3rd. Esperanza HS
named as X-Treme Games Grand Champions based on top scores by Varsity
Song /Pom (9.9), Varsity Jazz (9.8) and Varsity Cheer (9.75). Along
with a high score from JV Song
/Pom (9.8), all squads including JV Cheer (9.0) won
1st place in their Advanced divisions. The squad routines were very clean and
the entire team represented Esperanza well at the CSU Long Beach Pyramid.
*** Sunday, January 27th. Stacy
Shube named as CheerPros California State Advisor of the Year at the CSU Long Beach Pyramid.
This recognition follows Stacy's State Coach of the Year award last year at this time by the CheerPros
organization. The nomination letter this year was submitted by Marsha Pace, President of the EHS Cheer
& Song Booster Club. This well deserved recognition documents the work that Stacy does for our team and the community.
Not being privy to the nomination submission, Jump Start My Heart comes to
mind immediately as a project that demonstrated the leadership qualities that were apparent to the CheerPros organization
in last year's award as well. Multiple USA Spirit National titles and US Spiritleaders King of
the Bleacher's National Championships are the tangible results of her talent in recruiting and maintaining coaching
staff, as well as executing well.
All four squads competed at the CheerPros State Champions in the Advanced divisions..
JV Song /Pom, JV Cheer and Varsity Song /Pom successfully
defended their 1st place titles this weekend. Varsity Jazz and Varsity Cheer placed 2nd in their highly
competitive contests.
We took a page from another high school's event that we attend and as a result we posted an EZ-Up
at the Main parking lot entrance by the Band room and one at the North teacher's parking lot entrance It was staffed with
people to welcome visitors to our campus. They handed out the layout of the campus showing restrooms, where the gym
was located and where our food concessions were set up. On the other side, it was the menu price list of our offerings.
Since there were two other events running concurrently, the parking security people and the welcoming people directed the
visitors to the correct venue.
It was a busy day, with a water polo tournament in the pool adjacent to the gymnasium as well
as a Jazz band try-out event on West Campus. There were 70 cheer teams and 20 song teams here for
our event this year. Coupled with the water polo teams coming and going parking was challenging.
However, the additional visitors / supporters to our campus were looking for nourishment and beverages. The
Booster Club did well in that area and had to buy more water (sold about 100 more bottles after 3:30 pm.) We offered
great food value with high quality and lots of variety. Teryaki rice bowls, and waffles were a first for us, while the
fresh chocolate dipped strawberries and apple slices for caramel dipping brought us lots of praise for tasty food
from morning through lunch. Eight dozen donuts from World Donuts (in the Ice Palace plaza) with coffee or Sunny D. were
gobbled up by hungry teams and their supporters.
The BBQ squad fired up the grill at 9:30 am to tease the crowds and Todd gave a shout out when
the first burger was sold minutes later. Darren, Todd, Jim, with prep work by David hung in there all day
and did an outstanding job on the Placentia city grilling rig that Mike & Heidi Burns trailered over to the
quad on Friday night. Thank you to Rubio's Meat Market for donating 250 hamburger patties and GEM Meats for donating
200 hamburger patties. Albertson's at New River donated all the hot dogs and condiments.
The food warmer was an excellent way to improve efficiency during busy times since the men were
able to just keep on grilling all day long until they had no more meat. They placed the bugers and hot dogs in
their buns, then wrapped them in aluminum foil and stored them in the food warmer. We sold out of hamburgers, and only
had a few hot dogs left due to unavailability of buns at the time. Coach Kerry and her boyfriend scored the last 2
hamburgers and hot dog from the food warmer.
Linda Harrison had rave reviews over her waffles, which are a novelty at cheer events and were well received
by the hungry public who still were eating them at 2:30 pm. We sold all 500 bags of Classic Lays potato chips from Albertson's
and could have sold 900. All the nachos were sold (ran out of tortilla chips.) The last 3 donuts sold
after 2 pm to a man looking for something without meat to eat. Over 1880 drinks were consumed.
Thank you to all the Booster Club parents for pulling together to host a very successful competition.
Marsha, Lori, Gwenn, et al did a great job of harnessing our resources since October 23rd to make this happen again.
It is an important event for Head Coach Stacy who was there to the end getting a status from Donna Chapman
& Co. in the kitchen at 6:30 pm after the team had picked up all the paper cans and other garbage that may have
been discarded on campus.
Once again the EHS custodial staff did a terrific job. One of them said it was busier than
a school day!
What a great sunny day and our Quad is so well set up for all the visiting teams to relax or
practice, eat at the tables in the shade. (Click here to read OC Register article. Also on this page is a photo of an OC cheer squad with hands up. If you click on the words
below that, you will get to a short slide show by Christina House, OC Register -- or click on this hyperlink
to see her video: http://media2.ocregister.com/slideshow/cheer012008/ Our JV Cheer Coach Margaret R. voice over and 3 or 4 candid photos of the Varsity Cheer and
JV Cheer teams are among the pictures of OC high school teams in the slide show enjoying themselves at our USA Regional
competition. Our girls in the photos are Chelsea, Taryn, Brianne, Amie, Bianca, and lots of songleaders who are sitting
down in front cheering on their team mates when they are competing. There is a good shot of the JV Cheerleaders coming
into the warm up room
The OC Register has started a new website for OC high schools. www.myochigh.com One can navigate to the same slide show by selecting Videos on the top buttons, (you can see the
5 photos of OC high schools at our January 19th USA Regional featured down the right side of that page. If you click
on the name Esperanza beside our HS logo, it opens a page where any OC Register stories about Esperanza HS
are posted on hyperlinks. The first story in the headline on that page is our USA Regional competition hosted by EHS
on January 19th and takes you to the OC Register article above.
Most of the school sports links on the Esperaza HS myochigh.com page are shells waiting for a student
correspondent to take up that assignment.
***January 18, 2008 USA Spriit Regional qualifier for the USA Nationals in March.
We will host the 10th annual USA Spirit Regional here at EHS January
19th, 2008. We have a reputation of running an efficient day for the USA Spirit group and it is our
#1 fund raiser for the season. Marsha Pace is the chair and has delegated some important committees for our
January 19th USA Regional competition. Gwenn Withrow will manage the volunteers. We discussed the various
jobs that need to be filled by the parent boosters. We need at least one parent from each family and Dads
to work this event where we feed 1500 participants and their supporters. This fund raiser
is part of our budget and we have a bogey.
There is a Waterpolo meet on that same day so parking will be tight -- but we
may sell more food as a result!. John Child will manage the parking group and we will need more Dads to work that
area so we have all entrances covered to make sure the traffic moves and we keep the end aisles clear. Buses
need to park at the back near the baseball diamonds.
We ask our Booster Club parents to park in the West Campus or North Teacher's
lot to free up spaces in the main parking lot. Bring your equipment, coolers, electrical appliances,
etc. in on Friday after school 3 - 4:30 PM and store it in the cafeteria kitchen overnight.
Thank you for your cooperation.
To see some of the activity and photos from last January's USA Regional,
click here. There you will find the current information on this event.
***We pre-load the ice chests on Friday afternoon, January 18th and
fill them with ice to cool the water bottles and cans overnight. We NEED the ICE CHESTS (13 for drinks) and tubs in the cafeteria kitchen between 3 - 3:30 PM on FRIDAY to load them
up. If you are donating ice chests and can not bring it over on Friday after the main school day is
over, please arrange to send it with your squad rep or friend. Thank you.
There is very little melting of the ice overnight and it saves us a lot of logistical hassles in the morning when time is
at a premium. (We also have commitments filled on the spreadsheet for an ice chest for candy, one for the BBQ area,
and one for the Waffles area.)
We have many other categories where we need donations (click to see spreadsheet) We have a lot of items still needed on the spreadsheet, that we NEED to BORROW from parents.
Most of the remaining food items will now be sourced from the stores that provided the gift cards. If you can source
the missing items that we need to borrow, please try. If you have baskets or electrical stirps with an ON light, etc
that are still needed, please send an email to roblee1@earthlink.net Thank you.
If you volunteered to bring things, and your name is on that line on the spreadsheet,
please make sure to bring them, walkie talkies, electrical cords and strips, baskets, crock pots, 50 cup coffee
pots, EZ ups, ice chests / ice tubs, etc. We are depending on the equipment you are loaning us. If
you can't, contact Marsha Pace or Bob Lee immediately. Thank you.
The left over drinks and frozen meat items will be given to the Four JV Squad Reps to keep for the "send
off party" or for the Best of the West season ending competition celebration.
Joyce Rich scored 15 cases of Gatorade from her neighbor who works for Quaker!
(360 bottles pushes our counts up to 1728 cans and bottles!!!!)
Thank you to SAM'S CLUB for their generous donation
of $400 prospected by and given to Lori DeNezzo over the holidays. Patrick
Petti donated 10 cases of Aquafina bottled water from his Bright Pharmacy.
Robin Ferguson and her son Justin for obtainng 96 frozen hamburger patties from COSTCO,
where EHS grad Justin works. Combined with the 460 patties thanks to last year JV Cheer
mom, Annmarie Hefner, who has commitments for from both GEM Meat and Rubio Meat markets to
supply us with 230 frozen hamburger atties EACH. When combined with the Costco donation brings us to 556 hamburgers received.
Well done! Now we just have to sell them. Vicki Uhlich and Marsha Pace have made Teriyaki rice bowls
this year. Yum! And Linda Harrison is making waffles from scratch on site. Can't wait for
breakfast!. Karen & Dave Stewart sourced 350 hot dogs and buns and all our condiments from Albertson's New River
again this year. We should have some gourmet pizzas from www.VicoloPizza.com to supplement feeding our C&S team and parents.
***December 15,
2007 USA Spriit Holiday Classic @ The Anaheim Convention Center. All
4 squads, Varsity Song, Varsity Cheer, JV Cheer and JV Song won 1st place at this qualifier for the USA Nationals
which will be held at this venue on March 15, 16, 2008. Congratulations to the team and the coaches for getting them
ready for this competition season.
It was the first time 3 of the squads competed this year and it was the first time many parents had
the opportunity to watch Varsity Cheer which debuted their routine at the US Spiritleader's Winter Classic at El Toro
HS on Dec. 8th. The next competition is the USA Regional qualifier that we host here at EHS on January 19th, 2008 for
the 10th time. It is a perfect opportunity for school friends, and family to come and watch the
team compete.
***December 11, 2007 Stacy addressed the PYLUSD school board
meeting on Tuesday, December 11th and presented Doug Domene, Assistant Superintentent, with a
check for $16,056.30 proceeds from the "Jump Start My Heart"
program fund raiser held.on Friday, October 12th to celebrate what would have been Shauna Stuewe's 16th birthday. Lori,
Kirk and Melanie Stuewe were in attendance alogn with our entire Cheer & Song team. Doug informed
the audience that the District had purchased twelve (12) Automated External Defibrillators
to place in the four high schools beginning in January, 2008.
The jump-a-thon proceeds, coupled with the $12,500 matching funds from the Yorba Linda
Sunrise Rotary Club, the total that the District received was $28,556.30
We made the 10 PM Channel 9 TV newscast and the exact package was repeated at 11:13 PM on the CBS
station that night. Watch it yourself -- If you go to http://cbs2.com/video/ and search down to Dec. 12, 2007 at 12:12 am Pacific Time the clip is posted
for you to view anytime. The trick is that you just have to find it. They are in
chronological order. (On Dec.13th it was on page #13 of 4432 video clips, and they add about 18 vided
files each day, 8 per page.) Although they mixed up a couple of facts (Oct versus Feb /06 and overstated the total by
about $4,444) it was excellent coverage of this successful program and the life that is remembered.
CBS reporter Suzie Suh interviewed Varsity
Cheer Co-Captain, Julie Yamaguchi who spoke about her best friend, Shauna; Lori Stuewe discussed the AEDs that were
demonstrated on the newscast, and Kirk Stuewe expressed his family's "calling" to help prevent sudden cardiac arrest
(SCA) from taking more young people. There are brief clips of the team doing toe touches in front of
the District offices, plus video of our girls shaking hands with the school board members. See
the CBS2 video hyperlink above.
*** All parents and siblings over 21 y.o. who drive team members to special
camps, games or competitions require a PYLUSD - DMV / Risk Management School Driver Form, on file. These forms were turned into the Finance office to the Athletic
Secretary Colleen Hayashi, with the new season packets in May/June. However, if you did not list all family drivers,
Dads, or siblings over 21 who may drive your daughter or other team members to away games or competitions, and you need
another form for any other drivers, please obtain one from the General Office on main campus. You may list multiple
family members on the same form, with their corresponding California driver's license numbers.
***October 23, 2007 Food Committee
meeting for the January 19th USA Regional that we host here at EHS. We had more than twice the turn out at our first
meeting than last year and had great ideas and input / feedback. The letter from Marsha Pace to the prospective
donors was emailed to all by Joyce Rich. Please print some and keep them handy in your car.
Print your name and tel. no. beside Marsha's so that the grocery store manager or other donors can contact you for
pick up of the items. Ask businesses if they would like to donate by check made out to EC&SBC and
we will buy what we need. We will update the spreadsheet as the parents
send emails to roblee1@earthlink.net with their donor updates. The spreadsheet will be posted on the Jan. 19th USA Regional webpage.
***September 27, 2007 Before the Sept. 27th JV football game, the Anaheim
Fire Department paid us a visit and the JV Cheer and Songleaders used the fire truck as a prop.
Thanks to proud JV Song Dad, Fire Fighter Bob Lundstedt and his Captain for arranging this fun diversion before
the squads had to warm up for the game. There is one of these photos posted on the JV Song Roster squad page.. There is one with both JV squads posted
on the top of the Picture Gallery. as a space keeper. The JV Songleaders are in
a photo with the Fire Engine crew on the LINKs page. If you click on these photos, they will enlarge
to fill your screen and you can view the girls a bit better.
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***September
11, 2007. Wanted Movie / Video person to do the end of year DVD. Please call Marsha Pace.
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for documenting their respective squad activities with photos and videography throughout the year. Selected pictures
need to be transferred to a Photo CD and videos submitted to the Video Editor to be compiled and developed into a comprehensive
DVD that captures the essence of our entire season. This is a fun hobby and if there are some interested
parties, perhaps we can have a workshop to demonstrate some of the skills that can be learned if you would like to pursue your
interest. In the past the DVD has been limited to a 35 - 40 minute video that is shown at the banquet as the
160+ diners are taking turns at the buffet. How does one reduce 12 months to 40 minutes? There is enough
material to make a two part DVD package with each DVD capable of holding 4.7 GB or 2 hours each.
By judiciously
providing your best work to the Video Editor (not just dumping all of your photo flash memory to a CD
for him / or her to sift through), it would save tremendous amount of time when reviewing the countless number of photo
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