By Taylor Batterton – Staff Reporter

Law’s Cheer team has been busy this past month working towards performing a Cheer Showcase that was held on January 20 for family and friends.

The Cheer team works hard during the football season to keep spirits high. Once football is over, Cheer takes on competitions, basketball, and the Cheer Showcase. 

“Their choreography is not for the Showcase, it’s for their competitions,” head coach Morgan Colombo said. “Their theme this year was ‘Back In Black,’ so their competition music is all about being back and competing again for the first time in a long time.” 

The practices leading up to the performance were all about gaining the confidence to perform in front of the big crowds.

“The most difficult part about preparing for the Showcase was probably gaining enough confidence as a team to perform in front of other people,” junior captain Alexa Rosati said. 

Team members agreed that having a good mindset about performing was the most difficult part to overcome.

“The hardest part of the Showcase was going into it thinking that we couldn’t hit our stunt and that we would soon perform in front of a lot of people,” sophomore Courtney Russo said. “But after hitting our stunt for the first time right before the Showcase it was a big relief.”

The showcase was a hit. The team hit all of their stunts and showed off their skills. 

“The Showcase went really well, we all had a great time and it was fun to show family and friends our routine,” Rosati said. 

This performance was just a preview of what was coming up for the team. On January 27, at North Haven High School, the team had its first competition. Law won first place in the Co-Ed Division and won the Spirit Award. 

“The Spirit Award we won was for the team that is enthusiastic, energetic, and positive even if they make a mistake,” Brienza said. “Also having good facial expressions, making eye contact with the judges, and which group the audiences were the loudest for.”

This is not the only competition cheer will attend in the coming month.

“We hope to bring home more trophies an titles and to keep building the JLHS Varsity Cheer program,” Colombo said.

The team ensures to stay connected with each other outside of practice to keep the team spirit.

“We have group chats we all text in about things that don’t involve cheer,” Brienza said. “We have pasta parties before events, we get ready together for hours before competitions.” 

The whole team was very excited about how the competition went and is excited for the upcoming competitions. In order to make memories together as a team. 

The next competition is February 3 at North Haven High School. States will be on March 2 at Shelton High School.