Category: Spirit

An end of the year event we haven’t given much attention is Grand Finale. Grand Finale 2010 will be held in Charleston, SC on May 1st. Grand Finale

We’ve received multiple notes letting us know Les Stella, USASF’s Rules Coordinator, will be sending clarifications via Twitter throughout the season. Follow @lesstella to get the updates.

The USA Federation for Sport Cheering has posted the requirements for selecting three national teams to represent the United States of America in the 2010 International Cheer Union World Cup April 23, 2010. The requirements and applications can be found here.

ESPN Rise published and article titled “Cheerleading is more than pompoms, pep” earlier today. ESPN Rise

Congratulations to Debbie Bracewell and Lynn Singer on being the 2009 class of the Spirit Industry Hall of Fame. SITA Hall of Fame

The USASF has published the initial general information for the 2010 Cheerleading Worlds. Full information and pdf’s for Cheerleading Worlds and Dance Worlds is available here.

The mission of the U.S. All Star Federation is to maximize the number of participants benefiting from the positive life experiences of all star cheerleading and dance by developing competition rules and all star gym training guidelines consistent with the latest best known safety, educational, and ethical practices. How have they done? Has the number…

UCA has added Coed Junior Varsity to High School Nationals and split Large and Super Varsity divisions. Large and Super have been split into Divisions I and II with Division I being for schools with 1800 students or more and Division II being for schools with less than 1800 students. UCA had previously split Small…

The “Varsity Standard of Scoring” has been released. Varsity Score Sheet

The IALC recently donated $3000 to the USASF Scholarship Fund. All Levels Press Release

The JAM Brands announced today that every JAM Brand event will use the same score sheet. JAM Brands Scoring Website & Email

This link was anonymously sent to us recently. After a little hesitation we decided to post it  since we encourage people to express their feelings about the industry. The recording was published sometime no later than November of 2008. Underground Cheer Recording

What do you think of spirit industry message boards? What do each of them offer and what problems do they have? We ask because we are considering bringing back the Spirit Post Forum. We are currently testing the software we would use if we decide to proceed, but wanted to get thoughts about the current…

Varsity sent a letter today: Dear Coach, As I’m sure many of you are aware by now, cheerleading and cheerleading safety have been getting a lot of attention in the media this week.  Much of the attention is due to the release of the 26th annual study by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury…

The US Finals announced all levels of cheer and dance will be able to compete at any US Finals location in 2010. As a reminder the 2009 US Finals restricted some divisions to the Virginia Beach location. US Finals Email

The Double A Zone, the official blog of the NCAA posted an article discussing cheerleading as a sport. Double A Zone

The National Cheer Safety Foundation (NCSF) released the PSA “Our Fallen Angels” on YouTube early this summer. (We thought we posted about it then, but couldn’t find a post mentioning it.) Our Fallen Angels

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.