Greatmats $1,000 Prize Giveaway: Cheerleading Edition
Vote for your favorite high school cheerleading program for a chance to win new Greatmats Cheer Mats
Voting runs May 9-23, 2019
Alma High School
09/27/18
Alma, Michigan
The cheer team posing for a photo after doing their final practice for the homecoming routine.
12 Votes
Amity high school
10/5/18
Amity high school
Here we are practicing a basket toss. But new matts would make it so in the summer time when we have practice and there is tons of smoke we could practice inside. Our school doesn't help fund our cheer program! So we have one tiny mat for assemblys.
6 Votes
Beal City High School
February 2019
3117 Elias Rd Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
This photo was taken during a basketball game, where the cheer team performed their round three after competition season was done. The girls had just competed at districts, and had received 5th. So close to moving on to regionals. They decided to perform it at the school to redeem themselves. They sure did wow the crowd, whom they received a new sense of respect from. And they did this all on only 4 wrestling mats and one cheer mat that are all around 10 years old. It was their first year as a MHSAA recognized sport, and they amazed everyone by taking home a trophy at every invitational they went to. As a mom of a girl on this team, I personally know that this money would mean so much to these hardworking, extremely great full group of girls.
1 Vote
Bloomfield High School
November 17, 2018
500 West South Street, Bloomfield, Indiana
Bloomfield Varsity Cheerleaders perform at a home basketball game. This cheer team is in desperate need of new mats! The ones they currently have are only two panels wide and do not have a Velcro strip to attach them! The mats have multiple holes, gum, rips and tears. The cheerleaders are forced to share these mats with all other sports teams for their conditioning purposes so they aren't always treated well. These mats have also been around for over 20 years, and are in desperate need on an update that the team does not have the funding for.
4 Votes
Bonner’s ferry High School cheer
2/2/19
Lakeland High School
This is our team after winning stunt group and show at the prairie classic.
1 Vote
Cedar Valley High School
04-12-19
1389 East Aviator Ave, Eagle Mountain, Utah
We are a Brand new high school just barely being finished (it will be up in August of 2019) We recently had cheer tryouts. Our school could really use these mats to help us improve our skills and make our new school thrive!:)
10 Votes
Chapel Hill High School
November 11, 2017
Douglasville, Georgia
This picture is from our State Ring ceremony after we became the 2017 Georgia 4A State Champions. The next season we become region champions. We wish to get new mats as we are beginning a new season, striving for another successful season. Thank you.
787 Votes
Charlestown high school
November 12
240 Medford street
We won first place for the 3rd time in a row!
1 Vote
Concord High School
Fall 2018
Wilmington, DE
Hello ! I am a sophomore, junior next cheer season, cheerleader at my high school. This is my high school cheer team. Our school system is so terrible that the cheer team gets no money for new equipment. we don't even have mats to stunt on. we have to practice in the grass which is extremely dangerous. with newbies on the team and stunts falling of course it just wasn't safe. All i want is to see my school cheer program be able to blossom. If i were to win this give away, i'm not sure what i would do. I know i would make my team proud. I think that my school really deserves this. Please and thank you ????
282 Votes
Cordova highschool
july 17, 2018
UC Santa Cruz
We went to a NCA cheer camp at santa cruz with the tram and learned new stunts cheers and dances
1 Vote
Eagle Point High School
February 11th 2019
Oregon Dream Team association
A little warm up before we hit the mat for state!
18 Votes
East Henderson High School Cheerleading
november 3rd 2018
Hibriten High School
This was our very first playoff game in many many years. My team has grown so much in the past year that we are stronger than ever. The amazingly beautiful woman behind this photo is the hardest working, most kind hearted woman in the world. Tammy Askew, our cheer coach has given us the past 6 years of her life to teach us to be strong, young women who believe in ourselves. We have become such an amazing group, but we have one dilemma. We have zero school funding. We have had the same pompoms since 2001. 18 years of blood, sweat and tears. Our mats have been abused by other school teams such as wrestling, and also by the weightlifting team. They are torn, stained, ripped, and smell so terribly that its hard to breathe around them. This money would allow us to be the best team we could be.
I am a Varsity Cheerleader on this team!
Our address is :
150 Eagle Pride Drive
East Flat Rock, NC
28726
11542 Votes
First Coast Highschool Cheerleading Squad
December 2018
590 Duval Station Rd. Jacksonville, Florida
Hello, This is the First Coast Highschool cheerleading team. We just got down with our tryouts and now have a varsity and junior varsity. This means we have a lot more girls. This was a picture taken at one of our last basketball games for the season. We did a half time show for audience with stunts and no mats. We strive to grow and learn new things. Receiving these mats will absolutely help us venture out to knew discoveries with our tumbling, stunts and jumps.
1 Vote
Fred T. Foard High School
november 20, 2018
3407 Plateau Rd, Newton NC
Competing at our Cheer Ltd. competition!! We got 3rd place, and we also HIT 0!!! We could very much so use these mats because the only mats we have are about 4ft long & 2 ft wide. They have very little cushion in them. We also have another long black mat we use for comp, but it's extremely heavy and hard to carry when we roll it up. We have been talking about new mats for a while, but our school won't pay for new ones. This would be an amazing gift and would help our cheerleading program out a TON!!!
2 Votes
Fremont High School
10/13/18
575 W Fremont Ave., Sunnyvale, California
The reason why our school needs the new cheer mats is because currently we don't have enough for both our jv and varsity teams to practice. We are a competition team along with sideline, so when we practice our competition routines the teams have to take turns using the mats which divides up our practice time. We also don't have enough mats to make up the full 9 panels so our full outs aren't really full outs. Since we don't have the mats, we have to sometimes practice at an open gym just so we can do full outs which cost money. That is why Fremont High School needs the new cheer mats.
2 Votes
Garrett High School
2/22:19
Garrett, Indiana
Male bases were new to the team this basketball season, by the end of the season we accomplished this lib!
1 Vote
Geneva high School
08/18/18
Leroy Oakes Forest Preserve
Our high school would use the mats so that our JV program has somewhere to practice. Right now, we only have one set of mats and it is very difficult for both our our teams to practice. Currently, we have to share the mat space with both levels, which makes it difficult for the teams to effectively practice and prepare routines
Taylor Lehmann
Head Cheer Coach
Geneva High School
416 McKinley Ave.
Geneva, IL 60134
3 Votes
Hamilton High School
03-02-2019
Sussex, WI
This team has gone through so much over the past 4 years that I've been a part of it. We've gone through 2 coaches before our new coach this year, and Coach Liz has been such a blessing to us. She had brought the team so incredibly far and showed us that with 110% effort and focus, we could be an amazing team. Because of her and because of the team's talent, passion, and dedication, we took first place at WACPC State not only in our division, but overall as well (our day 2 score was 112.2/120). Even though we've done amazing things this year, we've had to do it on some not-so-great mats. We practice in our school's fieldhouse which has turf in it. The bottom part of the mats has a lot of spots where the foam is torn and ripped up which makes it difficult to pull them across the turf when moving them together to tape. On top of that, most of them are not even straight because of them being carelessly rolled up in past years. This causes cracks to constantly be between mats; even when we try our best to push them together and tape them, they separate. It seems like people are always worried about stepping in the cracks, as one girl had even tripped in it just running through our competition dance and even sprained her ankle from it. The layer of blue on top has also been getting extremely fuzzy on the edges where we usually put the velcro tape, so in addition to the cracks, we deal with the issue of the tape coming up because it won't stick well enough (yet another risk of injury). We would get new mats ourselves, but unfortunately, our school's athletic funding goes primarily to other sports, especially football. We fundraise most of the cheerleading funds ourselves, but it usually goes to paying for competitions so it lowers the individual cost for us. It was hard enough to get funding for our new uniforms this year (we needed an upgrade from the old, faded, and even pit-stained ones). If we had new mats, the team wouldn't need to constantly worry about the risk of injury and we wouldn't spend as much time at the beginning of practice trying to push the crooked mats together and taping them, only for them to immediately separate again. We would take care of them so that for future years, they wouldn't have to deal with the same struggles as we did. Finally, I know the coach has been discussing hosting a competition and having new mats would not only be visually better, but it would also lower the risk of injury for other teams!
1 Vote
Illini West High School
october 2018
Carthage Illinois
Our small team of 14 cheered our football team through the season with a record of 10-1 and all the boys said our cheering was what pushed them through. Our program is small and overlooked by many school officials but is starting to grow in popularity within the student body. We are trying to improve our skill level in stunts and tumbling more and more each year. We would use this new matts to have a bigger practice area so we can start doing more elaborate routines or we would use the prize money to purchase new warm ups for our team. Our current warm ups are close to 10 years old.
2 Votes
Indian Trail Cheer
10/2019
Indian Trail High School 6600 60th St. Kenosha, WI 53142
This was our JV and varsity cheerleaders at our 2019 homecoming game.
We would definitely use the mats to have extra space for our coed stunting, as we are a newly coed program!! We would also utilize the mats so we can hold JV and Varsity practice at the same time as we are a program where some coaches have to do double duty, and we just don't have enough mat space! If we received the cash, we'd invest in new game day Poms.
Katrina Jackson - 2018/19 Varsity Coach
1904 Votes
KDS DAR High School
8. 20. 18
Grant, Alabama
This is a picture of me doing a toe touch basket at a football game.
0 Votes
Kanab High School
August 18, 2018
Kanab, Utah
This is our cheer team. We are from a small town called Kanab. This upcoming year we have a team of 15 girls! We love to stunt and try new things but there are so many laws in Utah about stunting, and one that always seems to get in the way is stunting without a mat. At our school, almost every other sport gets a fund at the beginning of the year, but cheer here is not looked at as a sport, so we don't get a fund, everything comes out of our own money. So winning these mats would be so amazing, and it would help us to get better at what we love to do.
0 Votes
La Sierra High School
October 5, 2018
4145 La Sierra Ave, Riverside, CA 92505
Homecoming assembly
1 Vote
Mesquite High School
10-19-18
Gilbert, Az
Breast cancer awareness game! We wore breast cancer socks w pink poms to show that we think breast cancer survivors and fighters are such strong women!
2 Votes
Millard High School
September 16, 2018
200w Eagle Avenue, Fillmore, Utah 84631
This photo was taken the night our football team played our rivals, the Delta Rabbits. In this photo we are taking a picture above an elavator stunt with our whole team below before the game. I hope this picture will be able to win us new mats because our team could really use some considering we don't have any right now!
1 Vote
Mission Early College Highschool
April 15 2019
10700 Gateway Blvd E, El Paso, TX 79927
We are a Early College Highschool who aims for success in academic aspects. Latley, we saught to encourage students to reach that same success, using team effort. Though our campus has no sports, we started a cheer squad;named Phoenix Cheerleading. Our goal is to compete against local highschools and simply enjoy everything cheerleading has to offer. We are trying our best to start from the ground up. Our Campus has a scarcity of money,therefore our administration can not pay for our equipment. The cheerleaders would have to pay out of pocket the full price of mats from another facility in order to practice safley. Mission Early College Highschool' Phoenix Cheerleading would truley appreciate an opportunity to win $1000 to buy mats and equipment from your facilty. If we win this opportunity, we would stick to your buissness for future purchases.
Phoenix Cheer hopes you consider our squad.
Thank you,
0 Votes
Mission San Jose Highschool
June 2018
Fremont, CA 94539
This photo was our first time together at cheer camp. We received awards and the spirit stick. Our bond with each other has kept growing since then. It has been almost a year since then and we are throwing up stunts we never thought we could. We are not funded for equipment so its a little difficult to keep advancing as a team, but we do out best!
0 Votes
Monadnock Middle High School Cheerleading
11/8/2015
Pinkerton Academy, Derry New Hampshire
2015 team picture of the last time the Monadnock Cheerleading team went to states. Hoping to get better equipment to train on to start training for this Fall's competition! (MHS cheerleading has 16 year old mats as of this time)
0 Votes
Natick high school
March 10, 2019
Natick
The Natick cheer program works so hard for everything. We fundraise for all of our money and there is no room in are budget for new mats. We have all been wishing if we could get new ones but we can't because of our budget.
3 Votes
Northwestern High School
02/12/19
Corder Gym (Northwestern Basketball Court)
I’m the head cheerleading coach at Northwestern - 100 Harthan Way Albion Pa, 16401 - for football, basketball and competitive spirit. Our cheer program could use a longer mat for tumbling or tumble assistant mats (cheese block). Being a small school with a small budget anything we could receive would be greatly appreciated.
Hitting a scorpion during a half-time routine!
0 Votes
Norwich technical high school
2-26-19
Norwich connecticut
We started our cheer team two years ago. We had no budget and our cheer coach who donates her time payed for our uniform out of pocket. We went to our first cheer competition and being out in the floor was our first time on cheer mats. We own one panel mat. Enough for one stunt group. We don't have mats for tumbling or practically anything else and can't afford them. We do fundraiser but that only covered our comp music and I believe that if we won these mats it could make a huge difference with the success of our team, so please vote for us!
0 Votes
Oakland High School Varsity Cheer
February 9, 2019
National High School Cheerleading Championship
The end of our routine after hitting all stunts at Nationals
0 Votes
Pewamo-Westphalia high school
March 2nd, 2019
Delta Plex
I am a cheerleader on the Pewamo-Westphalia cheer team - 5101 Clintonia Rd, Westphalia, MI 48879.
This is a photo of us winning state finals. We worked so hard but our mats are falling apart. Chunks keep falling out everyday! We want to go back and win again next year but our mats inhabit how much we actually can do.
If we were to win this contest we would use it to pay for new mats. Our mats are very old and they actually give many of the people on our team rashes and makes people's allergies flare up.
We would also use some of the money to pay for new uniforms that we would need to purchase in the future since we don't have enough for everyone on our team.
209 Votes
Portland High School
March 3rd 2019
Portland, connecticut
This is a photo of the Varsity CoEd Portland high School cheerleading team at States. We are known as a club at our school so all money put into the sport is fundraised by us personally and any money donated would help generously. Our team has improved immensely since last year going from last place to second. We as a team feel as though winning this grant could help us improve even more! We also have no matts and have to practice on the gym floor, anything could help!
2 Votes
President William Mckinley high school
09-29-18
1039 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96814
We had a competition and won 4th place in Jv category. we all worked really hard to get it.
0 Votes
Pájaro Valley High School
August 25, 2018
500 Harkins Slough Rd Watsonville, CA 95076 United States
Pajaro Valley High School
This picture was taken at one of the football games against our rival school. We are in desperate need of these mats because we don't have any mats at all. We don't have access to our gym because other sports practice there and we don't have a football field. We practice in a space outside that is filled up with gopher holes and in the past girls have gotten injured from stepping on the gopher holes. These mats would be very beneficial to us because we are a hardworking team who wants to reach various goals such as going to nationals and access to these mats will help us grow our skills safely.
0 Votes
RFK Community Schools
April 27, 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Our school can't afford proper cheer equipment we don't even have cheer mats at all. We practice our stunts with tiny gym class mats or sometimes no mats at all. We risk a lot by doing so. It's hard to go from nothing to performance on huge mats during comp season since we are not used to actual mats. Despite our situation, this is us at CIF- LAC City Championships after winning 2nd Place in our division. All because of our hard work. Winning this contest would be a blessing it would really help us up our game and overall performance. As well as our safety. We'd finally be able to get mats. We'd really put the mats to good use.
0 Votes
Riverdale High School
October 27 2018
E.J. High School
My high school cheer team is very dedicated and devoted to give it our all in everything we do! But we always have problems being able to afford extra things such as cheer practice uniforms:( this grant would help us improve our wonderful team and We would be eternally grateful for it.
4 Votes
Rosati Kain High School
November 29, 2018
St. Louis, MO
I am the current captain of the Rosati-Kain cheer team- 4389 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108. The photo above is of our first game of the 2018-2019 season. While we are a relatively young team, comprised of freshmen and sophomores, we still have a ton spirit! New mats could really help us improve our tumbling, our stunting, and the overall safety of our team! New mats could also give us more opportunities for stunt advancement, allow us to have more fun during practice, and help build a foundation for the future of RK Cheer!
11407 Votes
Roy High School
January 2019
Roy, UT
The team was getting ready to head to State Competition in Salt Lake City. Roy High Cheer hadn't been to state in years and this team went and took 2nd! This was a huge accomplishment for our program and our school!
0 Votes
Saint Joseph High School
January 12th, 2019
Lakewood California
Saint Joseph High School is a Catholic all girl high school in Lakewood, California. Our cheerleading program has had a very successful past season with our varsity team being the first ever CIF Champions of cheerleading while our jv won multiple regional competitions. Both teams advanced to day two of USA Spirit Nationals where we all placed in the top five. Not only do we cheer competitively but because we are an all girl school we cheer for our local all boys Catholic high school who were named the #1 high school football team in the nation. Because of this, we travel across the country to cheer in the sidelines and preform half time routines. Currently we practice in our auditorium, outside, and in a local all star gym named Rise Up Athletics. However, throughout the season we are mostly outside for practice. Since we don�t have much of an off season, it is very hard to get out mats professionally cleaned. Because we�ve had the same mats since the cheerleading program started, it�s extremely hard to keep them clean especially when we practice outside. Through the many years they�ve been in use, they curl at the ends & sometimes won�t stay flat. With new mats we�d be able to practice safer, cleaner, and more efficient. We�d love a chance to represent GREATMATS with our following seasons to come. Thanks for the consideration!
1 Vote
San Marcos High School
9/28/18
4750 Hollister Ave. Santa Barbara CA
This is our showstopper stunt, big mount. We love to pull this off at football games to encourage and rally the crowd, and it always seems to work!
2 Votes
Santa Teresa High School
2/23/2019
San Jose, CA
Our Competition Cheer Team took 1st Place at JAMZ Nationals in Las Vegas, Earning a National title despite our mats that are mismatch. Some are too short and we only have minis, I'd love to get my team some new ones that actually are the length of an actual floor. I'm a senior graduating next month and i'd really love to help out my team in this way before I leave.
1 Vote
Scio High School
02/16/2019
28880 N Main St., Scio, Oregon
This is our cheer team right after our state routine!! We placed 5th but would be able to continue to practice harder if we had cheer mats!!
0 Votes
South Burlington High School
11/20/18
South Burlington High School
This was at our homecoming game, and we were just starting to hype up the crowd at the beginning and this i think just really captures the fun with our girls! I would love to have new mats to make sure the girls are safe and frankly our are just falling apart!
0 Votes
Thomas Jefferson High School
November 1, 2018
San Antonio Texas
This is at our halloween themed football game. We dress up in costumes every year and it's so fun. Last year we had day of the dead face paint. This Year we dressed up as angels.
5 Votes
Tolleson Union High School
February 2019
9419 W Van Buren St Tolleson, AZ 85353
Our 2018-2019 Varsity cheer team poses in front of Old Main on campus which was built in 1927. With our school being so old, we don't have enough facilities for our team to practice in the afternoons so these kids are at school at 5:30 am everyday during season working hard on mats that are almost ten years old. We would love the chance to get new mats so that we could continue to work on our tumbling skills on a floor that won't hurt us. If we were lucky enough to win money we could put it towards renting a space so that we might be able to practice after school so our kids can get the sleep they need to still be successful in school!
I am the head cheer coach at our school!
3 Votes
Tupelo High School
2018
4125 Golden Wave Drive, Tupelo, Mississippi 38801
I soon will be a senior for the Tupelo High School varsity coed team in north Mississippi.
The reason I am applying for this giveaway is that, our team has been through so much in the past couple of years. We have had 3 coaches quit, since I have been on the team. Our football team doesn't respect us or our mats, we have walked into the gym multiple times where they have rolled them our just to walk on them with their cleats so they don't walk on the gyms floor. A couple of the mats got water on them from a leak in the ceiling and have a touch of mold on the edges. and so much more. We are not in the booster club, so we have to raise our own money and pay out of pocket for anything that we want to do, and we just can't afford to do anything about the mats. We are not seen as a 'sport' in our school. Even though we just won the 6a Varsity game day championship in December.
Even though I will be leaving in a short year, this group of girls and guys deserve so much, so I am doing my best to leave them with the best. Thank you!
0 Votes
Valley Regional High School
9/8/2019
Deep River CT
A team photo of the girls showing of our brand new uniforms before the first game of the season
0 Votes
West Salem High School
January 13, 2019
Salem, Oregon
This photo was taken at one of our basketball games this season. Our cheerleaders have had a rough time with student involvement, but our hope is to change that. We have been working hard to show our team's spirit and spread it throughout our school. We have been working hard to improve our students and become a stronger team. We love our school, our students, our players, and our teamates as a whole. We would use new mats to work on our stunts and improving them, and we would be so thankful.
0 Votes
Westview
March 3 2019
Topeka, In
We were predicted to win state with our boys basketball until they all came over with food poisoning at Regionals and became runner up!
0 Votes
forest hill high school
October 19th 2018
6901 Parker avenue west palm beach FL 33405
JV and Varsity at our Homecoming game
0 Votes
What would your high school do with in new cheerleading mats? Tell Greatmats for a chance to put that plan into action. Greatmats is hosting its 2nd Cheerleading $1,000 Giveaway photo contest during the months of April and May 2019. The 2019 contest offers a total of up to $1,000 worth of cheerleading mats as prizes - or up to $500 in cash options - for U.S. high school cheerleading programs.
Here is how it works:
- Enter via one of the below methods
- Recruit friends and family to vote for your photo on Greatmats.com between May 9-13, 2019.
- Three winners will receive new Greatmats cheer mats (or cash options equal to 50% of the product prize value).
How to enter:
Email your photo to brett@greatmats.com. Information submitted related to the following requests will be used to determine which prizes the finalists will receive.- Outline how your school would use Greatmats Products (or cash) for your cheerleading program..
- Include your name and how you are associated with the high school
- Include the name and mailing address of the high school
- Include either a team photo or action photo of your team performing
Or
Submit the same information through contest page form.
Grand Prize
$500 in Greatmats products (or $250 cash option) for the high school cheerleading program2nd Prize
$300 in Greatmats products (or $150 cash option) for the high school cheerleading program3rd Prize
$200 in Greatmats products (or $100 cash option) for the high school cheerleading programProducts Eligible for 2019 Prize Discounts include:
- Discount Gym Mats 4x8 ft x 1.5 inch 4V 18 oz
- Gym Mats 4x10 ft x 2 inch V4 18 oz
- Gym Mats 4x8 ft x 2 inch 4V 18 oz
- Gym Mats 5x10 ft x 2 inch 4V 18 oz
- Cheerleading Mats 6x42 ft x 1-3/8 Inch Ply Flexible Roll
- Cheerleading Mats 6x42 ft x 2 inch Poly Flexible Roll
- Home Cheer Floors 4x6 ft 1-3/8 Inch
- Home Cheer Floors 4x6 ft x 2 Inch
How the winner is chosen:
(Winner must be located in the United States of America)
- Step 1. All qualifying entries will be posted on Greatmats' contest page for a two-week vote to determine the finalists.
- Step 2. The top three vote getters will be named finalists.
- Step 3. Greatmats will assign the Grand Prize, Second Prize and Third Prizes to finalists based on the creativity and professionalism of the entry.
Cheerleading Program Contest Timeline
- Submission Period: April 1 - 30, 2019
- Voting Period: May 9 - 23, 2019
- Winners Announced: May 30, 2019
2016 Winning Cheer Team - Denfeld High School - Duluth, Minn.
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