Title: Women’s XC Cheer
General Information About Item:
- verbal/customary folklore
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States
- Informant: AJ
- Date Collected: 10/21/21
Informant Data:
- Female, 19 years old, born in Boston, MA, currently living in Hanover, NH
- AJ is a mid distance and cross country (XC) runner at Dartmouth
Contextual Data:
- Cultural Context: Cross country races are both a team and individual sport. While individual performance is important, so is the team’s as a whole. These races also take place outdoors with hundreds of competitors from different schools all starting on the same start line.
- Social Context: Since Cross country is a team sport, making sure that the team is bonded and eager to help each other is essential to placing well in a meet.
Item:
- AJ described a team cheer which the cross country team chants before every meet. The whole women’s team gathers in a huddle to perform the chant. She described two parts, person A (usually the team captain) leads the chant while the other lines are shouted by the whole team in response.
Informant Comments/Quotes:
“We do a certain cheer before every race at Dartmouth.”
Person A: “Run”
All: “Fast”
Person A: “Run”
All: “Relentless”
Person A: “Run”
All: “Ugly”
Person A: “Lone pine pride on three”
Person A: “1 2 3”
All: “Lone pine pride”
Collector Comments:
- The team cheer seems like it really gets the whole team excited and ready to work together in the coming race. I can see how it’s extremely important to have the team get together for one final chant before it’s time to compete.
Collected By: Chloe Taylor