By AMY RICKER
Great Bend Post
The Kansas Shrine Bowl has announced a partnership with Laura Klima-Fehr, owner of Danceography in Great Bend and DeSoto, to lead the KSB Cheer Camp.
Klima-Fehr says she attended KSB Cheer Camp when she was in high school and has volunteered for the last five years doing everything from ticket sales to help set up for the banquets. She explains that the cheer camp will be a four-day camp held June 23 – 26, 2021, in Hutchinson.
“Most high school campers will enroll online, and we will do everything from cheers, chants, learning a routine that they will perform at game day as well as doing an elite routine. They will learn all of that the first three days at the camp and the fourth day they will perform at the Shrine Bowl,” explained Klima-Fehr.
New this year to the camp is the addition of tumbling skills along with cheers, chants, and learning routines that can be taken back and performed at their hometown sporting events.
Klima-Fehr says that many of them, including cheerleading, are not often thought of as challenging or even a sport when it comes to extra-curricular activities.
“I think there is definitely a stigma for dancers, cheerleaders, and even activities like band that it’s something that’s not difficult and it’s something that just anybody can do. Yes, anyone should try it, but it is more difficult than people realize. When you are constantly moving and hitting these sharp moves, and then you’re flipping your head over your feet, then going right back into yelling at the top of your lungs, and then moving into a stunt for a solid 2:30 routine, it’s hard stuff.”
The KSB Cheer camp is for beginner to advanced and is open to all high school students and will have a full staff to accommodate freshmen, JV, and varsity squads. Campers can register as a team or as an individual.
KSB Cheer Camp will be held at Hutchinson Community College at the newly renovated activity center. For more information or to register, go to Kansashrinebowl.com/cheer.