Bishop Ireton High School | Archive | August, 2010

Cheerleaders grab first place in UCA summer camp

Posted on 31 August 2010 by .

 It is a great start to a new season with 13 new cheerleaders on the Varsity squad and for the 3rd year in a row the Bishop Ireton Varsity Cheerleading Team has taken home the 1st Place trophy at the UCA Camp Competition. A very special congratulation is going out to our Varsity Cheerleading team for winning 2 of the 3 of the awards at the Universal Cheerleading Association Summer Camp Competition on August 16th -18th at George Mason University. The first two days of the camp the teams learn cheers, stunts and routines. On day three, all teams enter a competition to perform what they have learned and compete against the 12 other local high schools attending the camp. 
  
For the third year in a row the Bishop Ireton Cheerleading Team took home the 1st place trophy for the cheer and stunt competition! The Bishop Ireton Cheerleaders competed with 12 local teams such as Jeb Stuart, Freedom, and Wakefield High Schools, just to name a few. 
  
The Universal Cheerleading Association has a tradition that the best team over all wins the “Spirit Banana Award.” It is the most sought-after award and it is given to the team with the most team spirit! The very first day the Bishop Ireton Varsity Cheerleading team beat 12 other local teams and took home the Spirit Banana! 
  
UCA also presented the “Leadership Award”. All of the teams in the competition vote for the one team that is their favorite team to receive the “Leadership Award”. For the 2nd year in a row the Bishop Ireton Varsity Cheerleading Team received the Leadership Award. 
  
We also want to congratulate the 3 girls selected as UCA All-star Cheerleaders. The BI UCA All-stars are Whitney Cook, Gina Damond, Kelly Ross.
  
Again this year; the BI Varsity Cheerleading Team is starting out on top! Be sure to congratulate them on all of their continued success and making our school proud!

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Cardinal Summer Camps Wrap Up

Posted on 26 August 2010 by .

 Bishop Ireton completed the summer of 2010’s camp series with its largest offerings of camps and its biggest turnout of campers ever. From football and girls lacrosse to drama and music, Ireton stayed busy throughout the summer as hundreds of middle and high school students attended camp. 

“The food was great” exclaimed one happy camper while dining in the school’s cafeteria at noontime. “That was music to my ears” said Ireton’s director of operations and athletics, Bill Simmons.  “We had a great turnout this year, with a wide variety of activities. Certainly basketball is a popular camp, but our soccer camp was full, the drama program continues to be one of our fastest growing programs.” said the Ireton AD.  “When you add in the summer school, reading programs, SAT prep classes, three groups of young people totaling nearly 500 students camping out in the school while visiting Washington, I take my hat off to our maintenance and custodial staff to make the progress in fixing, cleaning, installing everything to be ready for another school year.”

Summer camp director, Pete Hamer, echoed Simmons’ comments and suggested preparations are already underway for next summer’s camps. As the school’s admissions director, Hamer emphasized the value of introducing the school to potential students in the middle school grades. “Marketing our School is a component of what we attempt to do. We certainly think our faculties and our staff are selling points for our School.  A large number of our current students were campers in our summer programs long before high school.”

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Kristen Kelleher Big South All-Conference Softball

Posted on 02 August 2010 by .

Kristin Kelleher, a 2008 Bishop Ireton graduate, who attends Charleston Southern University in Charleston, South Carolina was selected Division I, 2nd Team All-Big South Conference for the 2010 Softball season.  Kelleher suffered a shoulder injury in her sophomore campaign and was limited to playing as the designated hitter for the South Carolina school.

Kristin’s major is Criminal Justice with a minor in Computer Science.   An all-WCAC performer for the Cardinals as a 4-year varsity star, she is the daughter of Kevin and Priscilla Kelleher.

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