Increasing Competition – Part 5 – Recommendations

This is the final piece of a 5 part series on increasing competition in All*Star Cheerleading. This one will focus on my recommendations and suggestions that were sent to the USASF as part of the Rules Process for 2013-15 seasons.

Move Coed Divisions on the Age Grid

My first suggestion is to move Coed divisions from the top of the Age Grid and list them in the When to Split Divisions section similar to how Small and Large splits are listed. This would make it so every Junior Level 3 team is competing against each other, regardless of large, small, coed, or all girl, until there are enough Junior Level 3 teams to warrant splitting Junior Level 3.

I intentionally avoided stating how many teams should remain on each side of a split in the official suggestion to avoid clouding the issue with a specific number, but I think it should be raised to 5.

Move Coed Divisions on the Age Grid

Remove Size Based Division Splits in Favor of a Single Team Size

My second suggestion is to remove Small, Medium, and Large divisions in favor of a single division size. Once again I intentionally did not state what size teams should be in the official suggestion to avoid clouding the issue of if there should be a single division size with what size it should be. If it were up to me I would go with 24, but I’ve heard some decent logic behind using 25 instead.

Remove Size Based Division Splits in Favor of a Single Team Size

Increasing Competition Series

• Part 1 – Introduction
• Part 2 – Ages & Levels
• Part 3 – Small, Medium, & Large
• Part 4 – All Girl & Coed