- Jan 29, 2011
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Who is letting cheerleaders make these types of decisions? It perplexes me greatly when I hear people saying that the cheerleaders are telling other cheerleaders what to wear, where to stand, etc (captain or not.) Is this typical for captains?
Full-disclosure: I have not had captains in quite some time, and even when I did, they certainly did not have the authority to bench anyone.
Picking out attire for game days and what uniform were the captains/seniors choice. My senior year was the year that the captains were more cohesive as the core 3 were on Varsity all four years, and were friends outside of cheer. We were also not dictators. We didn't wear uniforms to school because...some people struggled with the concepts of bathing.
So during football season we would have spirit fridays like the other girl sports teams, and during basketball we wore normal clothes with random days if it was a special game. Like for a rival game during basketball we wore black shirts and 2 gold chains (school's golden anniversary year, All Gold Everything was the song of the season) but it was decided the night before and we all pitched in to go to party city that night and get the cheap mardi gras necklaces. All approved by coach, and agreed on with the team. We would suggest wearing one uniform if we knew the fans were planning a blackout or something, and our coach normal ok'd it.