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Jammy has scheduled the 2009 JAM U Coaches Conference. The event will take place in Louisville, KY, June 26th & 27th. An “Extra Credit Day” will be held on June 28th. JAM U

Elite Cheer (Small Senior) earned UPA’s Paid Bid. Complete results can be found by following the link below. UPA Results

We’ve been told COA’s Paid Bids have been awarded to Basic Superstart (Small Senior) and Step 1 (Large Coed). I haven’t seen anything from COA confirming this.

Congratulations to all the teams earning NCA jackets this weekend. Top Gun Large Coed completed the JAMfest, Cheersport, NCA trifecta by building a 1 point lead on Saturday and having a better performance on Sunday. Cheer Athletic Panthers (Large Senior) may have established themselves as the favorites for Worlds by beating Cheer Extreme and Maryland…

Cheersport’s competition dates for the 2009-10 season are available online. Cheersport Nationals will be February 5-7. Cheersport Dates

Following Varsity’s lead, the JAM Brands have announced their dates for the 2009-10 season. Dates can be found on the JAM Brands website. JAM Brands

USASF has confirmed the date change for the upcoming season. The new date will be August 31, except for the age 18 limit for seniors which will remain at May 31 only for this year. This was originally presented at NACCC in January and voted on by the members. USASF Article

We are playing with a new look for Spirit Post. Over the next few days or weeks you may see Spirit Post being published with different looks as we decide which one to go with. Please be patient with us as we explore our options. Spirit Post is now on Twitter. We have also added…

Judy from UPA let us know we initially posted to last year’s results. We’ll try again once we get last weekend’s results. Thanks Judy.

NCA, the event some refer to as the SuperBowl of Cheerleading, is this weekend. Will there be any controversy?  A better question may be what will the controversy be. Will there be numerous complaints about judging, ala Cheersport? Will Top Gun pull off the JAMfest, Cheersport, NCA triple crown? Will anyone spit on an opposing…

Our friends at Varsity sent us a list of all of their 2009-2010 competitions. We decided to share. Varsity Brands Competition List 2009-2010

JAMZ and United Performing Association (UPA) will be hosting their Worlds qualifiers this weekend in Las Vegas and Minneapolis, respectively. Good luck to all the teams competing.

NCA & NDA recently posted their performance orders (Cheer & Dance). While I was browsing the information for this year’s championship I noticed something in the Worlds Declaration that stood out: Once these divisions have been extended their bids, any extra INTERNATIONAL bids will then be moved to the Junior category and awarded to the…

CheerSport and Cheer America have posted results from last weekend’s events. Cheer America awarded Cheer Athletics Panthers (Large Senior) and Spirit of Texas (International Open Coed) paid bids to Worlds, despite Woodlands Elite Generals and Cheer Athletics Wildcats winning those divisions. Cheer Athletics Jags earned a paid bid to the IALC and Trilogy All-Pro and…

There are all sorts of stories and complaints coming from Atlanta about this weekend. Many center around people being unhappy with the scoring and the live webcast. The scoring complaints range from the normal “My Team was Screwed” type complaints to questions about how a team could make up so much ground on day 2,…

The USASF has been looking for a way to breathe some life back into the shrinking Unlimited Coed division, aka Large Coed. Rumor is their solution will be to limit the number of guys allowed and eliminate Semi Limited, aka Medium Coed. We’ve heard 15, 16, and 18 thrown around as the number of guys…

Cheersport Nationals and JAMfest Super Dance Nationals are this weekend. Cheer America will also be awarding Worlds bids this weekend. Good luck to all the teams competing in Atlanta, Cincy, and Houston.

The 2009 Worlds Score Sheets were released recently. You can find them on the USASF Website.

American Cheerleader has put up it’s ballot for the 2008 Cheerleader of the Year. Be sure to cast your vote. American Cheerleader Magazine

UCA High School Nationals were held this weekend in Florida. The news of the weekend was Houston High School (TN) taking the Large Varsity crown from powerhouse P. L. Dunbar (KY). Complete results are on Varsity.com.

Long time advisor Debbie Greenwell is no longer with the University of Alabama. Inappropriate conduct is the alleged reason why, with some going as far as saying she is out due to illegal activity.

The USASF has extended the scholarship application deadline to March 1st. More information can be found on USASF.net.

The USASF is having a dance meeting at the JAMfest office in Louisville on February 25-26. Dance Meeting Info

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Varsity.com is down right now. We got the following error trying to post a link to their High School Nationals page. “Server Error in ‘/’ Application. Could not load file or assembly ‘AjaxControlToolkit’ or one of its dependencies. There is not enough space on the disk. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070070)”