BLAST FROM THE PAST CHEERLEADERS IN SECOND YEAR

Former cheerleaders from as far back as 1965 will be entertaining local basketball fans TONIGHT!

After seeing the recent movie “Poms” with Diane Keaton, Prairie Heights 1972 graduate Rainelle (Gordon) Silver, was inspired to get some of her former classmates together for a reboot of their high school cheerleading days.

Silver said “I couldn’t sleep thinking about it”. Silver reached out to Joyce (Sassanella) Harris from the class of 1973, and the cheerleading team “Panthers Blast From The Past” was born.

The group spans cheerleaders from the Prairie Heights graduating classes from 1965-1985.

They have been directed and choreographed by Becky Harris, retired cheerleading coach from Angola High School.

Group member Mary Ellen (Grabill) Zeiger, class of 1974, says she has enjoyed all of the “reconnecting feelings”.

Zeiger says “it was easy to pick right back up where we left off all those years ago”.

Pam (Huges) Kain said she is “proud to be the oldest member” representing the Class of 1965.

After three months of rehearsals, their big performance for 2024 is on Wednesday, January 24th at the Prairie Heights Boys home basketball game.

The performance will mark their second year of performing as a group.
They have been performing since 2023.

The group has just been made up of women in the 20 year time span from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s.