What Are the Best Cheerleading Cheers?
By: Courtney Ramirez The best cheerleading cheers are those that are easy to hear and can get the crowd excited about the event taking place. Cheers, often called chants or yells, are used to show school spirit, encourage the team and unify the cheerleading squad. Along with the words of the cheer, the squad uses cheerleading pom poms, arm movements and stomps to show their spirit. Basic Cheerleading Cheers Cheerleading chants can go for at least a minute, or they can be as short as a few seconds. Cheerleaders use a variety of different lengths so that they have an appropriate cheer no matter what is going on in the game. Longer chants are used for halftime shows or competitions. A cheer that is used to display school spirit is as follows. It uses the school colors, so the colors of the school in question should replace blue and gold: “Fight” Fight, fight tonight Fight blue, fight gold Fight, fight tonight Another motivating basic cheer uses the mascot of the team. Replace bears with t