Bryan College Triangle

by Sebastian Fischer
Staff Writer

Bryan cheerleaders supporting one of the men's basketball games this season / Triangle photo by Catherine Rogers

Summers Gymnasium, Wednesday night, 8 pm—Basketball-time at Bryan College. The Bryan Lions men’s team is performing, supported passionately by fans who are led by the chants of Bryan College’s cheerleading squad.

Same location, two hours earlier—the girl’s team is playing. What will later be a basketball-madhouse is now a silent gym. The cheerleaders are sitting on the bleachers, watching the game.

Head Cheerleading coach, Janice Perron, successfully restarted the Bryan College cheerleading program for the 2010-2011 season and her team stepped up the support of the Bryan Lions men’s basketball team to another level. During women’s basketball games however, their support is missing.

“I’m not really sure why we don’t cheer for the girl’s games,” says Amy Newport, freshman for the Bryan College cheer squad. “I think it’s because we’re a new squad and just getting started.” Read full story »

by Anna Kat Thomas
Staff Writer

While many students sat in their dorm rooms, on Wednesday night at 6 p.m., others began to line up for Midnight Madness, which began, ironically, at 10 p.m.

By 8:30, at least 37 people could be seen waiting outside the gym in hopes of being one of the first 200 attendees to receive a free “Lion Pride” T-shirt.

Seniors Elise Bacon and Erika Gebel arrived at 6 p.m. claiming their traditional place at the front of the line.

“We have done this every year since freshman year,” said Bacon.

According to Gebel, 6 is actually late,—usually people begin to show up around 3.

Midnight Madness is an annual tradition, but this year something was added. The Bryan College cheerleaders made their debut. Read full story »

by Ericka Simpson and Tim Baldi
Staff Writers

Bryan College’s new cheerleading team has signed its first recruits, Courtney Knowles from Ocala, Fla., and Amy Newport from Spring City, Tenn.

Knowles signs for Bryan

Knowles, the first to officially sign on March 10, cheered since seventh grade and graduated from St. John Lutheran High School in Ocala. She will be transferring as a junior in the fall from Central Florida Community College also in Ocala.

She said she chose to attend Bryan because it is small and has a Christian atmosphere.

“I just really enjoyed it when I came and visited,” Knowles said.

Read full story »

by Catherine Rogers
Staff Writer

Cheerleading returns to Bryan College next semester under the leadership of Coach Janice Perron after a five-year absence from basketball games and pep rallies. Read full story »