LJ Cheer: Advisor Mia Kelley

Mia Kelley, new LJHS Cheer Advisor

(photo used by permission from Facebook page)

 

 

Mia Kelley, newly hired LJHS Cheer Advisor, is already working with squad members and looks forward to the team performing at league basketball games after the turn of the new year.

 

"We'll definitely be stunting," said the 23-year-old resident of San Diego, in reference to the fact that in the absence of an advisor since week six of the football season, the cheerleaders were not allowed to form the "human pyramids" after touchdowns and do the flips on the track that you would traditionally see during games. Kelley made her comments in an interview by phone.

"I want them to have fun and be a real team," she said as far as her coaching philosophy. During basketball season, the team will focus on getting the spirit up at games. "Next year, we hope to be competing" in cheer events.

 

Kelley, from Breckenridge, Colorado, was a captain on Summit High School's cheer squad during her junior and senior years. "I danced competitively all through high school. I started dancing when I was four," she said. "I ski and snowboard."

 

Taking over a squad that went without an advisor during the second half of the fall football season, she said she is "just trying to go with the flow," not making any major changes, getting to know the squad members, and working with them in afternoon practice sessions after school.

 

Kelley manages a salon in Pacific Beach, which she says is called a "beauty bar".

 

Patty Belardes, a cheer mom, was pretty excited about the hiring of the new advisor and said in the fall, before Kelley was announced, that she will be an outstanding addition to the staff and committed to providing continuity in the cheer program beyond the 2014-15 school year.

 

 

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