The Flower Mound High School Cheerleaders will be serving for tips Saturday at the Sonic Drive-In 2925 Cross Timbers Rd., Saturday, November 7th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come support the team’s last fundraiser of the year!

Calling all kids in kindergarten through 5^th grade: if you’re ready to get your rah-rah on, come out for a fun-filled morning learning to cheer with the FlowerMoundHigh School cheerleaders! The Junior Jag Clinic is set for Saturday, October 17^th from 9 a.m. until noon, at the FlowerMoundHigh School gymnasium. The cost is $35 per child and includes a mid-morning snack with water and a parent show-off at 11:40 a.m.

Participants will also be featured in a performance for family and friends at an FMHS football game on Thursday, October 22^nd.

Junior jags get in free but an adult will need to accompany them and purchase a ticket to the game. All other details will be announced at the clinic.

For more information, e-mail: fmhsjuniorjags@ymail.com, or go to the web site at www.jaguarspirit.org.

FlowerMoundHigh School is Pinking Out for breast cancer awareness as the Jaguar cheerleaders Pink Out the (Fossil Ridge) Panthers at their first home game and pep rally on Friday, September 4^th.

“We’re always here to support the Flower Mound Jaguars, but we’re also raising funds for something near and dear to our hearts—as cheerleaders and as members of the Flower Mound High School community—in support of breast cancer awareness through the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation,” said varsity cheerleader coach, Shonna Chaney.

Cheerleaders will be selling pink t-shirts, pink tattoos and asking everyone at the game to fill up their pink megaphones with donations to aid the Komen foundation. Educational materials will be available as well.

“There are many families in our school that have been affected by breast cancer. We have two girls on our cheer squad right now whose mothers are battling the disease, so it really hits close to home,” Chaney said. “We want to do what we can to help find a cure starting with the Pink Out. Next, we’ll focus on plans for October, which is breast cancer awareness month, and throughout the year to follow."   

Varsity squad member Kala Copeland knows personally the impact breast cancer has on a family. She explained how it has changed her family’s past, present and future:

“My sister and I have never had a grandmother because of this disease,” said Kala. “My mom lost her mother to breast cancer when she was only nine years old and my dad lost his mother when he was just fifteen. I’m sure it was devastating to my parents to grow up without mothers.”

We’re all aware of the economics times we live in so remember, if you can’t buy pink, just wear pink in support of a special evening to honor those who are fighting breast cancer now, those who have struggled and won and for those whose memory we honor. Invite all your friends and neighbors to come out for a great night of football and a truly worthy cause.

For more information please contact Shonna Chaney at 469-948-3497. Also, check the school web site at www.fmhs.lisd.net.

Nancy Fuller handles publicity for the Jaguar Spirit Booster Club. You can contact her at 817-368-4337 or refer to the FMHS Jaguar Cheer blog at www.neighborsgo.com.

If you’ve never been pom-pommed before, your chance may be coming soon! The FlowerMoundHigh School cheerleaders will begin their pom-pom fundraiser at the start of school. Pom-poms will be placed in the yard of football and volleyball players--along with a cheerleader yard sign--announcing they’ve been pommed. Envelopes will be situated at the door asking for fundraiser donations (of any amount) to have the pom-poms picked up. The players can then suggest another player or person to be pommed next.

Get in the game and pass the poms on until everyone in the Flower Mound High School community has been perfectly, painstakingly and prettily pommed. Look out for the FMHS cheerleaders coming soon to your neighborhood.

For more information, please contact Shannan Copeland at 469-233-7255.