For two days next week, Bowling Green High School will be filled with dancing, tumbling, cheers and stunts – all to benefit a special cause.

The Bowling Green High School cheerleaders, with the help of Western Kentucky University cheerleading coach Tom Jones, are set to host a cheer clinic July 21 and 22 at the high school.

The two-day event, deemed “Cheer for Courage” and open to girls and boys 3 years old through eighth grade, will be used to help raise funds to offset the medical expenses for BT Webb and Kent Madison – both WKU cheerleaders – who were injured in a car accident in Bowling Green last spring. The two are now at a rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta, learning to function in wheelchairs before coming home.

Webb is paralyzed from the neck down and Madison is paralyzed from the waist down.

Registration for the clinic will be at 5:30 p.m. July 21, and will cost $30 per participant. To preregister, call 791-1751 or e-mail robinjloid@gmail.com.

Webb and Madison, “really good friends,” according to Jones, made the cheerleading team this year, each doing upper-level gymnastics skills. They also had done some teaching with Bowling Green High cheerleaders.

“So our kids know them very well,” said Dana Emberton-Tinius, the interim BGHS cheerleading coach. “It was a very unfortunate accident, and it’s important that our cheerleaders understand the importance of helping others. And any chance to give back is important”

About 25 of the 29 members of the Bowling Green cheerleading team will be on deck to help with the cheer clinic, Emberton-Tinius said.

Participants will be grouped by age, and will rotate through centers where they will learn a dance, cheers and do tumbling and stunts, said Robin Loid, BGHS Cheer Boosters president. Loid said the participants will also receive a green ribbon signifying Webb’s and Madison’s courage and a T-shirt that carries the same theme.

Loid said fliers and mailings have been sent to participants who’ve taken part in cheer clinics before. She said Jones has also helped promote the clinic through his Bowling Green Cheernastics facility.

“We hope to have a high turnout,” she said.

Jones said shortly after the accident, he started doing one-day clinics at Cheernastics and accepting donations. He said he has raised between $5,000 to $6,000.

The money already raised and slated to be raised will be split between Webb and Madison, Jones said.

The WKU cheerleading team is a valuable resource throughout southcentral Kentucky, Loid said. The team works privately with other teams, which benefits both high school and middle school cheerleading teams.

“We’re like a family, and we felt like this is something we should do,” Loid said. “Traditionally that’s what this community does – when pieces need to be picked up – that’s what we do.”

Loid said there isn’t a goal amount they are shooting for – anything would be a benefit to the families.

“We just want them to know we’re here to support them,” she said, “letting them know they have full support from Bowling Green.”