Author: Andre

This email was anonymously sent to us this morning. We have no idea whether or not this is true, but Oregon, one of the leading NCSTA Universities, and Nike, based in Oregon and a major University of Oregon supporter, have very strong ties so it’s definitely believable. anonymous wrote: Getting announced this week Nike will…

Many of you have inquired about getting certified to judge, but we are not offering a Full Day course in your area. If that is you, we now have the answer – National Cheer Judging Course on-demand via the web! This online course offers everything the interactive Full Day Course offers except some of the…

Tonic published Cheerleading From Wheelchairs?. Last season, despite near-debilitating cerebral palsy, Gabby Conklin became the first honorary cheerleader at Wilson Central High School. The teen’s mom says she’s a trailblazer who won’t let her disability stand in her way.

Hellcats will premier on September 8th on CW. The new show, which premieres on September 8th, follows the college life of a pre-law student at Lancer University in Memphis, Tennessee. The student joins the University’s competitive cheerleading squad after she loses her academic scholarship. The show stars actresses Ashley Tisdale and Alyson Michalka.

Your Sewickley published Cheerleaders rooting for recognition, support as real athletes. “When I was in high school, cheerleading was just standing on the sidelines and clapping. Now, you need to be an athlete in order to cheer,” said Lori Brennan, the varsity cheerleading coach at Gateway.

The Tri-City Herald published Cheerleading: It’s a sport. U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill probably knows the law far better than most. He’s a Rhodes Scholar, with a law degree from Yale. But there’s one area where we doubt the judge’s expertise: Cheerleading.

Dear Event Producers, Our industry has come to a point where several people, including myself, are wondering if it’s time to change team sizes. So far we’ve been forming our opinions based on personal observations and the limited data made available to us, thanks NCA, but we don’t have enough data to really know whether…

“The Skill Sets of Cheerleading: Stunts & Tumbling Have Long Out Grown the Activity.” – Kimberly Archie When cheerleader Dale Baldwin was rendered a quadriplegic from a tumbling mini-tramp stunt gone wrong and Janis Thompson died from a head injury sustained while stunting all in the same week back in 1986; it should have been…

The Fierce Board has just launched the Fierce Board Network! In an effort to bridge cheerleading forums across the US and the World the Fierce Board will begin to catalog and list the most relevant cheerleading forums for each locality. These boards will carry a Fierce Board Network badge and domain name to help identify…

The NACCC Meeting will take place in Atlanta on January 3rd & 4th. Location Westin Atlanta Airport, 4736 Best Road, Atlanta, GA 30337, 404-762-7676 Registration Fees $100 (received on or before 12/10/10) $140 (received after on or after 12/11/10) Room Reservations $109 plus tax per night Each individual guest must make their own reservations by…

We are coming into football season soon and this is by far one of my favorite times of the year! I am from the south, so there is nothing quite like college football (sorry Pro). The fans for a college game in the south cannot be beat. The atmosphere! The band! (The drum line gets…

The New Haven Advocate published Should Cheerleading Be Considered a Sport?. Quinnipiac needed to cut something from its budget. Out went women’s volleyball and in came competitive cheerleading. But to stay within bounds of Title IX, the federal law requiring it to provide equal opportunity to men and women, the university had to make the…

The Women’s Sports Foundation published 25 Benefits of Girls Playing Sports. Courtesy of Joey Delaney

SPIRIT Roundtable Episode 2 is now available. Guest were Kimberly Archie of the National Cheer Safety Foundation (NCSF), John Blake of the National Collegiate Stunts and Tumbling Association (NCSTA), and Lindsay Kottmann of Cheer Cincy. Episode 3 will be recorded tonight.

Outsports’ Jock Talk Blog published Is cheerleading a sport?.

Progressions, or using progressions, is teaching skills in an order that the skills build upon each other. An example is teaching an extension, pop cradle before basket tosses because the motion of bases starting in the athletic stance, exploding through their legs, and taking to top person to an extended position is similar to the…

USA Cheer published 2011 Team USA Cheer Tryouts and 2011 Team USA Dance Application.

At the USASF Regional Meeting in Atlanta, Les Stella said the number one problem in the industry is the lack of competition. I agree with him, but state it a different way. I say the problem is the average number of teams per division is too low because that makes it quantifiable. Increasing the average…

Chicago Now published Connecticut Federal Court Rules Cheerleading Not A Sport – WHAT??? Part I and Part II.

The National Cheer Safety Foundation (NCSF) published Cheer is a Sport (PDF).

UPA announced what’s new for the 2011 AmeriCup Cheer & Dance Championship to be held February 24-27, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN. Cheer Team Competition takes place on Saturday & Sunday (rather than Friday & Saturday) Cheer Divisions for High School have been separated out by Small & Large Squad Sizes (only one division in the…

Jammy introduced The JAM Registration today. Benefits include being able to register for any JAM Brand event, a $1 per athlete discount for registering online, and eliminating the need to re-enter your athletes for each event.

School is beginning back up here in KY and with it each of OUR – if you are keeping up with these journals, then I will give you some ownership too – three teams is starting to return to some sense of practice normalcy. This summer has been a mixed bag for each of our…

The Associated Press published Quinnipiac adds women’s rugby under Title IX plan. During the trial, school officials hinted they might be forced to drop competitive cheerleading if it was not found to be a sport. Instead, the school plans to rename the squad the stunts and tumbling team and keep it as a varsity sport.…

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders announced today that GK Elite Sportswear, L.P. has been selected as the official provider of workout, rehearsal and appearance attire for the world famous squad. They will wear GK’s tops, shorts, warm-ups and jump suits for practices and personal appearances, including final auditions and rehearsals for the hit Country Music Television…