Wrestling is underway at DMS, and it’s season is overlapping with another sporting activity . . . cheerleading.
The cheer team is cheering for the boys and girls wresting teams this year, similarly to how the team cheered for football and is cheering for basketball this year.
The wrestling team has already had meets and tournaments, including the Ring of Fire Tournament at the Hoover Center in Duncan.
“I think us cheering for them affects them positively because we’re cheering for them and building them up,” Emma Lopez, eighth-grade cheerleader, said.
Lopez has been cheering since she was 5 years old, and she has been cheering at DMS for the last two years. She said that cheering for the wrestlers not only gives the wrestlers a boost of confidence, but it also gives the cheerleaders extra time cheering.
Zella Marks, another eighth-grade cheerleader, said cheering might make an impact on the wrestlers.
“I think us cheering will affect the wrestlers by helping them because it makes it more intense and it helps them,” Marks said. “Another reason I like cheering for wrestling is because we get to hit the mats.”
Marks has also been cheering at DMS for two years. The cheer team is made up of seventh and eighth-graders, giving students two years to participate in the sports organization at DMS.
For Isla Martin, another eighth-grade cheerleader, wrestling is among the best times for the cheerleaders to cheer.
Martin said she likes all of the wrestling cheers and hopes that the cheers will positively affect the wrestlers.
“I think cheering for the wrestling team is something fun and something new,” Martin said.
Unlike most of the sporting groups at DMS, who stick to a season, cheerleading goes all year long. Wrestling, on the other hand, is a winter sport and will wrap up before the start of the spring sports, around February.
