By John Davis
OPC Community Relations Director

For Kristi Yancy coaching the youth cheerleading participants at the Oxford Park Commission was an opportunity that was too much to pass up.

Yancy knows what it’s like to prepare a routine, a performance and master cheers for an audience. She amassed countless hours as a cheerleader, dance performer and vocalist growing up. She attended cheer camps hosted at Lafayette when she was in elementary school and continued that role through middle school and the early parts of high school.

Her jump into coaching OPC participants first started in softball this past fall with her 9-year-old daughter. When a volunteer was needed to lead the cheer squad that her 7-year-old signed up for, Yancy stepped up to the plate and assumed that leadership role.

“Coaching is something I love to do,” said Yancy, who balanced fall softball games and practices and the cheer that was paired with the flag football season. “I had no problem doing cheer as long as I could do both sports.”

Her role as cheer coach not only continued through the current youth basketball season, but it spawned a new Fundamental Sideline Cheer class that will be hosted inside the Coach Howell Center starting on Feb. 5.

Registration for Fundamental Sideline Cheer is now open. The cost for the class is $300 for the entire season which runs from Feb. 5 to April 30.

Sign up through the OPC website, oxfordparkcommission.com, or sign up in person at both centers Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.