FEU Cheering Squad
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The FEU Cheering Squad consists of three major groups, that either performs during halftime performances in major games or events in the UAAP or other sport competitions participated by the university athletes (FEU Cheerdancers) or lifts the spirits of the FEU crowd when watching the said events though the university chants or cheers (FEU Boosters), and loud drum beats (FEU Green Bisons).
[edit] The FEU Cheerdancers
The FEU Cheer Dancers are one of the members of the FEU Cheering Squad. Consists of gymnasts and dancers, they've been regarded as one of the top favorites due to artistic, synchronized, and unique routines, in the UAAP Cheer Dance Competition (CDC). Recently won 1st runner up in the last UAAP CDC in its 69th season with a rating of 93.2, a few points short to the 6-time cheer dance champion the UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe of the University of Santo Tomas with 94.96 last September 10, 2006.
Awards and other achievements
| 2007 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 2nd runner up | 2004 Axe Ultimate Dance Showdown - Champion |
| 2006 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 1st runner up | 2006 Samsung Cheering Competition - Champion |
| 2005 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 2nd runner up | 2004 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 2nd runner up |
| 2003 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 2nd runner up | 1996 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 1st runner up[citation needed] |
| First Manila Youth Games Cheering Competition (2003) - CHAMPION | 2002 Star Olympics Cheering Competition - 2nd runner up |
| 1999 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 2nd runner up | 1998 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - CHAMPION |
| 1997 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 1st runner up[citation needed] | 1995 UAAP Cheerdance Competition - 2nd runner up[citation needed] |
[edit] FEU Green Bisons
Formerly known as FEU CHEERING SQUAD DRUMMERS, the FEU Green Bisons are in charge of starting the energetic and uplifting beats in every UAAP tournament and other sport competitions joined by FEU. The Bisons got their name from the animal Bison, which looks a lot like a Tamaraw. The “green” that comes with their name is from the university’s color. The Bisons are considered as the sixth men of the game, together with the boosters and cheer dancers.[1]
[edit] FEU Boosters
The FEU Boosters is another element in UAAP games. They’re the group with exceptionally loud voices and willing to yell to lift the players and FEU’s crowd morale in every sporting event.[1]
The FEU boosters, implement strict selection on their members. FEU students who wish to join the boosters must have the following: good schedule, high adherence rate, able to adapt to training, soft skills, voice loudness and quality. Those who wish wanted to join the squad will have to undergo training for a month then selective retention will follow.
The FEU Booosters history can be traced back as early as the 1970s. It was then that FEU is suffering from a series of Slum Games where three men including Mr. Ronald Yu, started to watch all FEU games and cheered for the TAMARAWS.
They recruited boy scouts of from the FEU high school department (now FEU-FERN in Fairview) and soon afterwards, all students in the boys high school wanted to participate in cheering for the team. Back then they were called as the FEU Cheerers.
Then on 2002 a major revamp happened to the FEU Cheering Squad. The FEU Cheerers, from an all male group started accepting females. From Cheerers their title was changed to PEP SQUAD to make it more modern. The Pep Squad President was Mr. Jerome Daza. It was then that the FEU Pep Squad was recognized by the University and was made the official Pep Squad of the FEU Tamaraws together with the FEU Cheer Drummers (now Green Bisons) and Cheer Dancers under the banner FEU Cheering Squad.
On 2005 under the presidency of Mr. Marlon Sanchez with Mark Enriquez as the Vice President, they put the FEU boosters to a major overhaul. The suqad's name was again changed. From PEP Squad they renamed it to FEU boosters to give the group the identity they needed (PEP SQUAD members back then were mistaken for the Cheer Dancers). The squad also returned to their all male tradition. It was this time when the boosters for the very first time had organization and was organized completely, in fact every single thing was organized. FEU cheers, chants and yells were also re-composed, to fit the modern cheer wars of the UAAP. New cheers were composed as well (Rage Full, FEU's hiphop cheer, new Defense and Offense cheer were also created). The boosters action and movements also went to a major overhaul and the routines were changed from simple to more complex to be at par with the UAAP equivalent squads. On that same year the boosters focused more on leadership and training skills and had their own form of government established.
By 2007, Mark Enriquez and Marlon Sanchez, started the Far Eastern University Booster Alumni Asscociation or simply FEUbAA. initial Members were five, namely: Mark Enriquez, Marlon Sanchez, Jerome Daza, Abigail Nuñez and Aivy Li
By 2008 graduating boosters joined the association. Membership of the Alumni Association is now at 12.
On the same year (2008), the Booster Constitution (the booster by laws) was signed, with the help of the FEUbAA as the governing law of the FEU boosters. And the Booster website will be launched on June 2008 by the Booster Alumni. The website will contain the detailed history of the FEU Boosters and will have the copy of cheers of all FEU cheers and Hymns (documented cheers only)and music file in MP3 format of the Cheers and Drum beats of the FEU Tamaraws. The website will also contain some photos and profiles of the past and current presidents and officials of the boosters and some gallery for public viewing. The Alumni aims to that with the launch of this website, the students and the alumnis as well as the fans of FEU will now have the access to the know better not just the booster history but as well as the cheers and hymns of FEU.
Back Then in the early years, FEU had no signature cheer, it was because The early Cheerers // Pep Squad is using all of the FEU cheers. The Boosters then selected TEN major cheers that FEU needed to make their own signature, a Staple Cheer.
1.Trasher (Lets go Tamaraws) <Staple cheer nos.1>
2. Go Fight (Go Fight Tamaraws) <Staple cheer nos.2>
3. Recca <Staple cheer nos.3>
4. Clapping Yell <Staple cheer nos.4>
5. Fight-Fight
6. Arise (G-R-double E-N; G-O-LD)
7. Tams Spelling
8. Rage Full
9. Modified Tsong-Tsong (for offense; Go FEU!)
10. De-Fense (for defense)
other cheers are:
Danger
Salikadu
Sa Bukid
Tip Tap
Ponky
Jam-Jam
GoldBerg
Wer' d' best
Shot gun
Across
Be Aggressive
Lets Go clap
Ala Vievo
Idea
We Gonna Win
Counter
FEU (Infinite)
FEU Go Fight
and other cheers that have no documents.
Hymn (also known to as OST of the Boosters):
The TAMARAW PEP SONG
Battle Shout:
Command: Boosters Ready!
All: Loud and Clear!
Boosters, Fight!
The boosters doesn't do traditional cheering, in fact FEU doesn't have any traditional cheers: that's what separates the boosters from the rest of the pack. While others have the same traditional routines with their same up and down movement, the FEU boosters have their own unique style.
The boosters are separated into two main groups;
1. The Booster core: these are the men 30 to 50 on the gallery together on command under the master to start the cheering, yelling and chanting.
2. The Cheerleaders: these are the select few. They're primary function is to lead the TAMARAW crowd to cheer in tune with the booster core. These 20 people are the ones responsible for lifting the morale of not just the Tamaraw players on the court and on the field but the Green and Gold Community as well. Also, when the boosters are to perform for the halftime it is the cheerleaders that does it.
The FEU Boosters is the First and the Original Booster Squad in the Philippines (booster main core style). Since the appearance of the boosters other schools in the UAAP and even in NCAA has copied the style of the boosters having a "main core" on the gallery.
The FEU boosters takes pride in being the Most Organized Cheerleading Squad not just in the UAAP but in the Philippines. Having their system work thru a Dynamic Leadership Program (DLP) with cheerleaders and boosters involved. Command in the gallery for chanting, yelling and cheering is done thru Boosters to Drummers, Drummers to Boosters Channel System (B2DD2B); and the Crowd Participation Control System (CPCS) of the boosters.
The Boosters also have the most number of cheers in the UAAP having more than 25 existing cheers and more than 30 undocumented cheers.
The Boosters were also the first (and the original) to introduce the Main Core Gallery Style of Cheering.
the Boosters created many creative innovations on the cheerleading style in the UAAP, the Boosters made the Green and Gold community in the UAAP cheerdance Competition not only sync in cheering but also had them do some hand movements which gave the FEU crowd total participation using FEU's own trademark in the CDC, the BANDANA.
The Boosters are one of the loudest if not the loudest squads in the UAAP owing also from the undying support of the Green and Gold Community.
1970-2002 FEU Cheerers (FEU BSP)
2002-2004 FEU PEP SQUAD
The FEU_boosters:
2005: LOUD>NOISE>CHEER : Warning FEU Boosters, Expect to be Loud
2006: FEU Boosters Original! : We don't just cheer... We inspire!
2007: NO ONE CAN OVERCHEER US!
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