Cheerleading Away The Gloom

An Ode to The Cheerleaders

CHEERIO! (top row, from left to right) Rajah Perrenoud-Moore ’27, Ali Luetje ’27, Lucy McEachen ’27, Mylie Cadwalader ’25, Josie O’Keefe ’25, Simone Huston ’24, Kyanne Carlgren ’24, Amara Patel ’24, (bottom row, left to right) Bibi Nin ’27, Avalee Flores ’27, Emily Nguyne ’27, Moira Fink ’25, Story Wright ’26, Hayley Greenwood ’24, Norah Culver ’27, and Ali Wood ’27. (Instagram/ barstowcheer)

Due to Misery-Leaders unpopularity

And Barstow’s wish to belong,

Cheerleaders swarm about sports games

And sing this mighty song.


Chorus (4x)

Though we’re crinkleroot-spectacled bums

with no definite objective, 

We spread the joy and cheer around

And are nothing short of effective.


Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy!

We love this ditty of joy,

We sing and we swim through the crests of the dark

And lives we try and destroy.


(chorus, over).


With “really cute, classically Barstow” uniforms,

As said by Miss Emily Smith,

The cheerleaders conquer our sadness

And the memories settled therewith.


As we start our season with a flourish of puffs,

Or as some would say, “pom-poms”,

We prance through the world with our overlarge bows

And give smiles to dads and moms.


Chorus (4x)


Though we’re crinkleroot-spectacled bums

with no definite objective, 

We spread the joy and cheer around

And are nothing short of effective.


Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy!

We love this ditty of joy,

We sing and we swim through the crests of the dark

And lives we try and destroy.


(chorus, over).


Per Lucy McEachen we “dance on the sidelines”,

And brighten the horrid and gloom,

And remove the sense from all of our watchers,

The imminent feeling of doom.


We cheerleaders, lovely and fair, are we,

Are absent of grouches and sneerits,

For who are we really, you know, 

Do you know? A spirited bunch of a spirits!


As our season begins, do make sure, 

Please, my dear, to come see us a leap through the air,

For happiness comes at a price, do you know,

For us it is naught but our hair.


When removing our bows “Lots of hair gets pulled out”,

Said Freshman, The Avalee Flores,

So do recompense our gloomy alosses 

The benefit, being, my dear, yours!


Cheerleading profounditities our lives, our lives,

It gives us no reason to dread,

And it even awards as a “sports credit”,

As cheerleader Ali Wood said. 


Conclude, to conclude, support our cheerleaders,

And give them all of your all,

Go watch us, go watch them, go on, please, go watch them,

As we must not let society fall.


Chorus (4x)


Though we’re crinkleroot-spectacled bums

with no definite objective, 

We spread the joy and cheer around

And are nothing short of effective.


Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy!

We love this ditty of joy,

We sing and we swim through the crests of the dark

And lives we try and destroy.

Cheerleaders (top row, left to right) Miley Cadwalader ’25, Ali Luetje ’27, Rajah Perrenoud-Moore ’27, Norah Culver ’27, Moira Fink ’25, Josie O’Keefe ’25, Bibi Nin ’25, Avalee Flores ’26, Lucy McEachen ’27, Emily Nguyen ’27, (bottom row, left to right) Story Wright ’26, Amara Patel ’24, Kyanne Carlgren ’24, Simone Huston ’24, Hayley Greenwood ’24, and Ali Wood ’27 (Instagram/ barstowcheer)

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  • Rachel Jacobs '26

    Rachel I. Jacobs resides as the official scumdiddling troucher of Kansas City. She is a solemn professional who is so well-known that she doesn’t even have to wear a name tag. Rachel’s favourite letter combinations are either WR, SN, or GR, and she loves them so much that she finds herself routinely cramming them into sentences (she also likes the letter M). Charle Scabjo (as she anagramically named herself)’s noblest aspiration in life is to empty out the Costco warehouse and slide about the building in her socks. She enjoys sliding about warehouses in her socks (not that she’s ever done so), although she is rather prone to toppling over and wounding the floor (sorry, mate). She hopes to one day become a space pirate (her vicious gurgling-noises are steadily improving) for the insurance-benefits and inclusive work environment, and takes delight in eating egg salad. Rachel’s cats, Agent Sparkles and Edward Zamboni, have, depressingly, never eaten egg salad.

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