Sideline Cheer Coach: Dawn Bonham 

Dawn Bonham has coached for 21 years both competitive and sideline. She spent two years at Bonesteel,-Fairfax, SD, 6 years at Scotland, SD,  and ten years in Pierre before coaching the competitive team at LHS for three years. While in Pierre, her boys basketball cheer team won Spirit of Six in 2001. In 2008 she took her first competitive team to the state tournament and won first in small group stunting/tumbling division and first in small group stunting/non tumbling division. In 2009 in her second year of competition, her small group stunting/tumbling team was champion in that respective division. Bonham served on the Competitive Cheer/Sideline Cheer Advisory Committee for the South Dakota High School Activities Association. She was a rules interpreter and conducted numerous AACCA and Spirit Program Management courses for the SDHSAA. In 2007 she was named the head coach of the All Star Cheer Squad. Bonham  served as both the vice-president and president of the SD Cheer Coaches Association. 

After a 10 year break, Dawn is excited to coach sideline cheer at JHS! 

SIDELINE CHEER HANDBOOK 

2025-26 Sideline cheer tryouts

FOOTBALL-BOYS BASKETBALL-GIRLS BASKETBALL

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.gle/f5vTWkN4vqh8kuPB6

TUESDAY, APRIL 29 and WED, APRIL 30  3:30-5:30 PM  MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

PRACTICE

***You must attend one day***

THURSDAY, MAY 1    3:30 PM MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

TRYOUTS

*If you can not attend tryouts, you need to schedule an individual tryout with Coach Bonham for a before school time.

TRYOUT MATERIAL

For Tryouts you will be asked to perform three different chants out of the five listed (asked by the judge), the school song, a band cheer, and three jumps.

CHANTS TO LEARN:

CAVS UNITE

LET'S GET LOUD

YELL GREEN, WHITE

LOUD AND PROUD

GREEN AND GOLD