Author: Andre
-
Not What, How
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” – Christopher Hitchens
-
USASF Updates – January 2015
Welcome, 2015! We’re mid way through competitions and nationals season is upon us! Best of luck to all teams as you prepare for it all! In this month’s update: USASF scholarship applications are due February 1; check out your NEW online resource pages for both cheer and dance programs.; Jr. Dance Worlds Bid Applications are…
-
New England & Seattle
Yesterday New England and Seattle advanced to the SuperBowl. Seattle had a memorable late game comeback to defeat the Packers in overtime while New England beat up Indy like a hazing incident gone wrong. The 2 teams will meet in Phoenix in just under 2 weeks and I’ll actually get to watch it this time.…
-
Live & Launch
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” – Henry D. Thoreau
-
Quick Trip to Lexington
I took a quick trip to Lexington this weekend due to unfortunate circumstances. While I was there I saw Kentucky perform.
-
Find Your Voice Against Gender Violence by Meera Vijayann
Meera Vijayann presented Find Your Voice Against Gender Violence as a TED Talk.
-
Varsity All Star Scoring Update – January 2015
We wanted to inform you of some changes that are taking place with the Varsity All Star Scoring System. Over the past several weeks we have received significant feedback from our customers in regards to scoring. The majority of this feedback has come from coaches and gym owners who participated in one of our 3…
-
Burying a Child
This weekend I went to a funeral. It’s the first I’ve been to in a while and I hope the last for even longer. The guy that passed was under 50. I worked with his wife at the gym, which is how I met and got to know him. Their daughter cheered for us and…
-
Roses & Roses
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” – George Eliot
-
Certainty
Many choose certainty over uncertainty, even if the known certainty is a bad situation. Often the certainty of a bad job or relationship, or the certainty of doing things the exact same way again and again is chosen over the uncertainty of changing it and opening the door to something else. There must be something…
-
Criticize, Condemn & Complain
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin
-
Broken to Whole
“Sometimes, our visions clear only after our eyes are washed with tears. Sometimes, we have to be broken so we can be whole again.”
-
Las Vegas Winter
This year started with a quick workshop in Vegas. It was much more work than play, but still had a night of play and a ride on a really big Ferris wheel.
-
Challenged & Defeated
“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford
-
Finished Man
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard M. Nixon
-
Why Lunch Ladies are Heroes by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Jarrett J. Krosoczka presented Why Lunch Ladies are Heroes as a TED Talk.
-
New Years Week
The last week of 2014 started with Kentucky beating Louisville. Nothing else mattered.
-
Happy New Year & Thank You
I’m writing today to say Spirit Post will be moving to the back row for a while as I focus my attention on a different aspect of our industry. Spirit Post’s first article was published on January 1, 2007, but it really started about 2 years before that with a couple other sites, and the…
-
In Review – December 2014
Here are some of the articles from December 2014 we found interesting. On December 9th Women’s eNews published NCAA Blocks Cheerleading Jump to Sports Status. On December 15th Mother Jones published A Not-So-Brief and Extremely Sordid History of Cheerleading and Philly.com published The “Split” Over Cheerleading: Is it an Activity or a Sport? On December…
-
What’s That You Say?
I heard something the other day that stuck with me: If you talked to me the way you talk to yourself, we probably wouldn’t be friends. How many people do you know, maybe even yourself, that talk down to themselves. Next time you hear them doing it, mention the line above to them.
Andre J. Carter 