Jody Brill
Cheerleading Head CoachE-mail: jody.brill@wlc.edu
Office Phone: (414) 443-8961
Eleventh-year head coach Jody Brill started the cheerleading program at Wisconsin Lutheran College in 2000 in conjunction with the college’s first season of intercollegiate football. The cheerleading squad has performed at all home football games for the Warriors, and select away games, since 2001.
For more than 18 years, she has been involved with the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA). Brill has held classes across the state of Wisconsin for coaches at the junior level through college who wish to become safety certified.
Brill also conducts a youth cheerleading camp every summer for many of the area youth cheerleading programs. Cheerleaders in attendance learn new cheers, safe stunting, teambuilding, sportsmanship and many other elements to be a great cheerleader. Brill also works with many area cheer teams helping them learn the fundamentals of cheerleading and stunting.
Brill is an accomplished cheerleading judge, having judged both the state high school cheerleading championships and the national championships in Orlando, Fla. Brill began teaching a nine-week cheerleading coaching course at Wisconsin Lutheran in the spring of 2004 that focuses on all elements of being a cheer coach, including safety, holding tryouts and team building. Also, the Milwaukee Bucks tapped into Brill’s experience for their high school and junior high school cheerleading competitions by hiring her as competition director and consultant for each event. Brill has also been a speaker for the state cheerleaders association (WACPC) coaches’ conference.
Prior to her Wisconsin Lutheran appointment, Brill was the winningest coach of an all-girls cheerleading squad in the state of Wisconsin, with her unprecedented run at Eisenhower High School in New Berlin. During an 11-year stretch from 1990 to 2000, Brill’s cheerleading squads claimed five state championships (1993-94, 1997-99) and finished as runners-up the other six years. The 1999-00 school year marked her 16th and final year as Eisenhower’s cheerleading coach for football and basketball.
Although she relinquished her cheerleading duties at Eisenhower when she started the program for the Warriors, she continues there full-time as a special education instructor working with cognitively and physically disabled students. Her service includes time with students in the classroom and in the community where they can learn daily living skills.
Brill, who was born March 16, 1961 in Milwaukee, and her husband, John, who is a retired school teacher and football coach at Wauwatosa East High School, live in New Berlin, Wis., with their yellow lab, Emmett.
