Why did Southern Marin Youth Football suspend its Cheer program in 2006?
There were several factors that led to the suspension of the Cheer program: • Southern Marin had only 2 cheer athletes signed up after 6 weeks of our 2006 registration drive . (We had 140 football player sign-ups in that same 6 weeks.) • Sign-ups for Cheer have been dwindling for years. • Southern Marin did not have the personnel (coaches, board-level administrators, and other volunteers) to manage a Cheer program. • The Board of Directors for Southern Marin Youth Football lacked a successful plan for recruiting Cheer athletes in Southern Marin. • In lieu of an organized, thriving cheer program, the Board of Directors decided that athletes interested in Cheer would be best served by joining Central Marin Cheer.