Category: Spirit

UCA has posted results from taping. Congratulations and Good Luck to all the teams. UCA College Nationals

Media coverage for the week of October 25th: Bay Windows – Gay cheerleading squad forming in Boston Confident Cheerleading – Multitasking might hurt cheerleading ability Injury Board – Let’s work to keep Cheerleading Safe The Daily Journal – Protect all the athletes Wavy.com Article – Scholarship honors loss of brothers WSBTV.com Article – 64 Cheerleading…

Twitter has enabled the new Lists feature for Spirit Post so we’ve decided to create a few. We’ve created one for Event Producers, and another for industry Media outlets. If you are an event producer or media outlet, or know of an event producer or media outlet we missed, please email us or send a…

Contest of Champions has become the 22nd member of the Independent Event Producers (IEP). More on the IEP will be coming soon. Contest of Champions Joins the IEP

WSF announced Friday Night Prep which will give teams a chance to go through the warm up and performance process before their 2 day competitions. I didn’t see the press release on their website yet, but assume it will be up soon. WSF Press Releases

Media coverage for the week of October 18th: AACCA’s Cheerleading Safety Blog Post – There’s Nothing “Routine” About Safety ABC News Segment – Cheering for Acceptance ESPN Rise Article – Toughest high school sports: fall season Illinois Business Law Journal – Should Cheerleading be a Sport? Inquirer Sports Article – Perpetual seizes the NCAA Cheerleading…

Jammy recently sent information about their new Score More service. In short, the service is a 1 on 1 session by a scoring expert to help a team maximize their score in each area of the score sheet. The service costs $99, which Jammy states is less than the cost of 1 participant registering for…

From Justin Carrier: Coaches, We’ve created a fantastic tool to use as you prepare for your first Varsity All Star event! Varsity’s Predict-A-Score is an on-line score sheet and calculator for coaches. CLICK HERE to visit Predict-A-Score. Once on the site, fill in the mock score sheet with the Varsity Brand you are competing with…

Justin Carrier sent Varsity Scoring Lesson #4 about 2 weeks ago: Applying the Varsity Standard with Each Varsity Brand In true Varsity fashion, our All Star brands will maintain the creativity and diversity that have always placed Varsity at the top of the All Star industry. Even though most of the brands are adopting the…

We’re going to try to publish a round up of cheerleading and dance media coverage each week. Here is the media coverage for the week of October 11th. LA Times Article – Cheerleaders take high-flying risks under untrained eyes Morning Show Segment – Cheerleading evolves but injury fears persist News Channel 9 Article – Catoosa…

The JAM Brands have created the “Your Partner in Spirit” website as a resource for Gym Owners, Directors, and Coaches. Your Partner in Spirit

The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators (AACCA) Spirit Safety blog has announced the release of a Sports Injury Study. AACCA’s Spirit Safety Blog & Sports Injury Study

The LA Times has published an article touching on cheerleading safety. LA Times Article

The JAM Brands have dedicated October to raising breast cancer awareness. JAM Brands See Pink

The Spirit Industry Trade Association (SITA) has announced the recipients of the 2009 Spirit Industry Awards. SITA Award Winners

Rumor is WCA will not offer Worlds bids this year due to a disagreement with the USASF. This rumor is not verified, but very credible.

Justin Carrier sent Varsity Scoring Lesson #2: SCORING JUMPS Your JUMP score on the Varsity All Star score sheet will be broken into two sections. DIFFICULTY SCORE The first will be your Difficulty/Variety score. Assuming your routine includes an “*advanced jump combination”, your Difficulty/Variety range will be as follows for each level: Level 1: 3.0…

The Independent Event Producers (IEP) and The1Form have announced a new Universal Waiver partnership. The partnership will make is so a waiver only needs to be completed once in order to compete at any of over 150 IEP events. IEP & The1Form Press Release

PacWest Spirit Groups is going to start choosing a Facebook Fan Cheerleader, Dancer and Coach of the week. The Fans will be selected each Friday and announced on the following Monday via Facebook & Twitter. PacWest Facebook Fans of the Week.

Dear USASF, Please consider redesigning the Worlds Bid process. Right now there is 1 major problem, which is too many bids being given to an event that is supposed to be reserved for the best of the best. We believe the event needs to be more exclusive and the bid process could be setup in…

Justin Carrier sent Varsity Scoring Lesson #2: Lesson #2 Understanding the Execution/Technique Bonus All of the Varsity Brands that are adopting the new Varsity Standard of Scoring will be implementing the new “Technique/Execution” bonus in all skills categories. Technique/Execution was broken out in hopes of making all star teams focus on incredible technique and precision. …

NCSSE and Cheer Channel, a soon to launch cheerleading and dance website, announced a media “partnership to promote and develop programming around comprehensive safety and training education within the cheerleading and dance communities” today. NCSSE & Cheer Channel Press Release

The Independent Event Producers (IEP) have announce an international membership package. IEP International Press Release

The USASF Parent Action Committee (PAC) released a guide for cheer parents titled Cheer Parents 101. The guide has been posted on ACE Cheer Company’s website for over a week, but is not yet on the USASF PAC page. Parent Action Committee & ACE Cheer Company

The USASF issued a rules clarification. The following skill restrictions apply for Senior Open Level 5: In tumbling, only single twisting skills are allowed. During a full-twisting tumbling skill, no trick other than the twist is allowed (i.e. including but not limited to:  split fulls, hitch kick fulls, X-Fulls, Full-Xouts,  etc) and both feet must…