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Anoka High's Sparkles as good as gold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Girls in gym shorts, white sneakers, ponytails and buns jumped,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], spun,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], clapped and shouted during one of the last cheerleading practices before Anoka High School's homecoming festivities.
A close observer might notice some kicks a beat or two off,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but there was little difference in the smiles on their faces or the energy in their moves.
For a handful of routines during a football or soccer game, or during big events like the Homecoming pep fest, the varsity girls open their ranks to the Sparkles, seven girls with special needs.
Coach Kim Heckmann said she first learned of the idea while at a national cheerleading tournament last year. A young woman named Sarah Cronk had started the first Sparkle team at Pleasant Valley High School in Betttendorf, Iowa, in 2008.
"I wanted to do that," Heckmann recalled.
The district works hard to maintain an adapted sports program for kids with disabilities, but that model didn't seem to work for cheerleading. "Who are they cheering for?" Heckmann asked. "It seemed crazy to put them on the bus to have them cheer for other schools."
She announced the start of the program with the opening of the 2010 school year, after having a frank conversation with the girls who already had been tapped for the varsity squad.
Heckmann had no experience or training with special needs students. But each Sparkle has a buddy; Heckmann and the varsity girls also worked with the Sparkles' families and helpers to learn each girl's needs, and how to soothe her and get her on track.
"I don't really have to do much anymore," Heckmann said. "I used to worry a lot,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but now I know there are 20 girls who are going to grab these girls and take care of them."
The success of their program has spread,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]; squads have been started at Jackson Middle School in Champlin and at Centennial High School in Circle Pines,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
During practice last week,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Heckmann worked out a strategy to incorporate the Sparkles into a routine the varsity team already had been rehearsing. DaLeasha Maki and Rachel Palm, both juniors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], got to do their first stunts. Rachel's teammates held her on their bent legs; DaLeasha was hoisted by the ankles above her squad's heads.
The first couple of times up, the girls wobbled uncertainly. By the third time through,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they stood taller. Their hand gestures became stronger and more confident.
Senior Cassie Thompson is in her second year as a Sparkle,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"It's really neat because the cheerleaders help us out a lot, and they inspire us to do more than we think we can," she said. "A lot of people are encouraging us and saying, 'You did a good job,' and they also said, 'You did good as a cheerleader.'"
The captains say this year has gone more smoothly than last year did.
"It's rewarding to see the smiles on their faces," said sophomore Jorie Fulton.
"When Kiili smiles, it makes me smile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," added Victoria Collins,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a senior. "Like we're doing something right."
The experience has taught them patience and acceptance, and has added to their list of friends; the Sparkles now are as apt as any of their friends to stop and talk in the hallways or at their lockers.
"They're not that different from us," said Meahneh Korti, a senior. "People really accept them; they don't think of them as outsiders."
"When fans see them in the hallway," Jorie went on, "they don't call them the Sparkles, they call them cheerleaders."
"I've watched these Sparkle girls become typical cheerleaders,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she said. "They're louder, they're smilier,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they're flirtier, they've grasped that whole cheerleader spirit. They have more friends and I think they like that.
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