Cheerleading

Levels: Varsity/ Middle School
Home Court: Calvary Day School

MS Tryouts- TBD

Head Coach - Jami Veler

Jami Veler joined the CDS coaching staff in the fall of 2019 as assistant coach and is currently the head coach for the Varsity cheerleaders.

Jami began cheering at 8 years old and developed a lifelong love of the sport. She cheered for 9 years and was a member of an accomplished competitive cheer team at Greater Beckley Christian School. Her high school team won several conference, regional, and state first place titles, as well as an invitational national champion title. Jami was head cheerleader her junior and senior years, all-conference her freshman, junior, and senior years, and captain of the all-conference team her junior and senior years. Jami coached the Varsity cheerleaders at Greater Beckley Christian School while she was in college. She served as a coach and President of Jr. Elk Cheerleaders from 2010 – 2018. She founded and coached a competitive rec division of Jr. Elk Cheerleaders. The competitive team won several titles including National Champion and School and Rec Grand Champion.    

Jami has a wealth of experience coaching both competitive and school cheerleading. She has a passion for the sport and a love for the girls she works with. Her life verse is Proverbs 21:21 “Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity, and honor.”

Assistant Coach- 

MS Head Coach - Christy Creson

Creson comes to Wake Forest after a successful 10-plus year tenure at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C. (March 2010 -- July 2020). While at Lenoir-Rhyne, she served as the coordinator for the cheer and dance programs and handled the mascots, Joe and Josie Bear. Creson led the Bears to the 2019 National Cheerleaders Association Division II Gameday National Championship where the spirit team took home the title.

Additionally, she served as the co-head coach of the Gardner-Webb University dance team from April 2007-August 2009.

Creson has professional experience as a dancer for the Charlotte Bobcats and a cheerleader for the Carolina Panthers. She was named Mrs. North Carolina America in 2014. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Communications from Lenoir-Rhyne in 2006.

MS Assistant Coach - Cachet Nelson