Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Our Cheerleaders Give a HO OT! w vT jJ ' TiaS»rTP i Keisha Poindexter stands tall in a liberty, one ot the toughest stunts to perfect photo by A. Smyers • • • • • • • • • Kim Hoffert sits pretty with her partner, Marc McTague, in a stunt called the chair photo by J Altman The Varsity Cheeileadiny squad was led by captains Marc McTague and Kim Hoffert The cheerleaders perloimed stunts like the pyramid, flips, and basket tosses thai ically gave the ciowd something to cheer about To peilect their technique, the cheerleaders practiced approximately 12 hours a week During the football and basketball seasons, the cheerleaders had periect attendance records at each home game. In addition, the varsity squad travelled with the men ' s basketball team lo the Atlantic 10 Tournament In the summer, the varsity and junior varsity squads went to the University Cheeileadmy Association Camp at Rutgers to hone their cheerleading skills. I he cheerleaders also hosted a clinic and a competition lor local middle schools and high schools. -Nakia Howell The varsity squad psychs up the tootball fans at Veterans Stadium photo by A. S myers 218

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f 1 ? i ' 1 I ' l ' Drum Major JENNIFER ABLES Jennifer Abies was in the Temple University Diamond Marching Band for four years She will have graduated with a dual degree in International Business and Risk Management and Insurance. Before Temple, she was the drum major of her high school marching band for two years. Jennifer was also the drum major of her junior high school band. In addition to marching band, Jennifer participated in: the Collegiate Band, the Dance Team, Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, Golden Key National Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, and the Society of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science. People always ask me why I am in the band. It ' s not the money (scholarships) that keeps me in band, it ' s the people. -Jennifer Abies Diamond Girl MICHELE R MEYERS Michele Meyers was also in the Temple University Diamond Marching Band for four years She will have graduated from Temple with a degree in Civil Construction Engineering Technology. Michele is from Waterloo, New York and was in marching band there in high school and junior high school Baton twirling was very popular in Michele ' s hometown and she has been twirling since she was four years old While keeping up with the classes of her very busy major, Michele also participated in the Dance Team and worked a co-op job in her major. Band is for special people, we have a special thing I feel special and important when I twirl. I can ' t get that feeling anywhere else -Michele Meyers The band stands at attention after perform- ing in the halftime show at the Penn State game, photo by A. Smyers 217

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The junior varsity wows the crowd at the wom- en ' s basketball game versus St. Joseph ' s, pho- to by J. Altman The 1994-95 Varsity Cheerleaders . . . FRONT ROW: Michelle Pace, Dani Klein, Corey Hudak, Kim Hoffert, Lisa Rios, Kristyn Laganella. Keisha Poindexter BACK ROW: Mark McTague, David Robinson. Chris Pittman, Glenn Kingsbury, Pat Lippo, Rene Perez. Senior Corey Hudak is thrown up in the basket toss, photo by C Shipley 219