Mr. Jump was a history teacher and an advisor, and now, along with this, he has become a weightlifting coach and cheer coach at Bolles. Jump, who has taught at Bolles for two years, aims to give more to Bolles than a teacher and advisor can give.
Previous to Bolles, Jump was a cheerleader in high school and college.
“I was a cheerleader in high school for all four years,” Jump said. “My previous cheerleading experience is from the University of Florida, where I was a cheerleader there for four years, and I went all throughout the country cheering at Elite Eight basketball games in Madison Square Garden to cheering as far away as Missouri and Kentucky and even Louisiana.”
Jump’s experience in the cheer world gives Bolles hope to continue to grow the cheer community at Bolles, and he is excited for cheer’s brand new uniforms. These new uniforms are all orange much like the orange jerseys the football team wears for special games.
Being a male cheerleader is quite uncommon at Bolles, but Jump wants to encourage men to join. “We’re just trying to break into the culture at Bolles and kind of reintroduce male cheerleading to this school, because we have had male cheerleaders before.”
This year, Jaice Wilkins ‘25 is the only male cheerleader on the team. Jump looks to expand this number and in general looks to turn the high school cheer team closer to that of a college team.
“We’re just gonna make small, incremental improvements for the future, such as improvements in how we are on the sidelines.”
Jump looks to improve the cheer team as a whole with new routines and other traditions like flying the flag across the field after all of our touchdowns.
“We’re ordering some new flags. They’ll be here by the playoff games because they’re hand stitched, and they take a very long time for a couple of people to hand sew them, but they’re high quality. They’ll last for about 10 to 15 years. And so we’re going to start that tradition at Bolles, similar to what you would see on a collegiate sideline.”
Overall, Jump looks forward to what the future of Bolles cheer holds. He is also excited to continue new traditions such as running the flags across the endzone after we score and other things you would see at a college level. 
