Month: June 2009

The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research has released their annual Injury Report. The report can be downloaded here. The NCSF, Varsity, and AACCA have responded to the report. There has also been some general media coverage surrounding the report. NCSF Press Release & Varsity Press Release & AACCA

The International All-Levels Championship changed the 2010 dates for the Atlanta site to April 10-11.

The IASF sent an email letting everyone know the selection process for Junior Dance teams at Worlds will mirror the selection process for Junior Cheer teams. After the announcement of the new selection process for awarding At Large bids to US Junior Cheer teams, was announced, many of our event producers and gym members felt…

This email was forwarded to us this afternoon: Greetings, I hope this email reaches everyone in great health and wellness. I wanted to email everyone and inform you all that the FIU Athletics Dept has cut the cheerleading program and kept the dance team program for what they say were budget cut issues. We really…

USASF’s website has listed the dates for Worlds 2010 as April 25-26, which is a Sunday and Monday. Update – The dates on the USASF website were a typo. The correct dates for Worlds are April 24-25 with the ICU Championship on Friday, April 23rd.

Additional meetings have been added in Kansas City, Columbus, Chicago, Lexington, Pittsburgh and TBA in Michigan. Please see here for additional details

Sports Illustrated published “Role of college cheerleading becoming controversial issue” on Saturday. Sports Illustrated

According to Gena Evans, the USASF regional meeting origianally scheduled for Charlotte, NC on June 22-23 has been cancelled.  The registration numbers weren’t enough to warrant the costs involved.

Dear USASF, Please consider splitting Worlds into multiple events. One event will be the USASF Championship and the other remains the World Championship. The USASF Championship event would take place on Friday and Saturday and be limited to American teams. The World Championship would take place on Sunday and have the American medalists compete against…

Dear USASF, Concerning American Junior team qualifying for Worlds via videotape, we suggest adding a requirement. Please make the tapes be from a competition and have them submitted to the USASF directly from the event producer upon request of the team. We ask you to implement this for a few reasons. The first reason is…

The Confident Cheerleading Blog published a post about the difference between “I Can’t” and “I Won’t” about a week ago. Confident Cheerleading

USASF’s Steve Peterson sent the following email: As most of you know, there has been much debate about whether the IASF / USASF should continue to offer the International Junior Level 5 Divisions at The Cheerleading Worlds. The decision to keep the International Junior Divisions came after hearing input at various international meetings and our…

We’ve heard plenty of rumors about Juniors being at Worlds in 2010 and figured we’d share some of what we’ve heard: USASF has announced the divisions for Worlds 2010 and it includes Junior divisions. This is the only official announcement concerning Juniors at Worlds. Rumor: USASF is reconsidering keeping Juniors at Worlds and has a…

JAMfest and NCA have both adopted the phrase “Game Day” for events for school teams. JAMfest started the Game Day Spirit Championships last season with an event in Louisville and appear to have plans to make a significant expansion this season. NCA announced their new Game Day Grand Championship recently. NCA’s event will be held…

US Finals has announced dates and locations for 5 of their 6 championship sites in 2010. Kansas City and Orlando have joined Cincinnati, Las Vegas, and Virginia. The South Central site, formerly Oklahoma City, has yet to be announced. April 16-17 – Kansas City, MO, Las Vegas, NV, and Orlando, FL April 23-25 – Cincinnati,…