Members of the association include cheerleading coaches involved with youth cheer, junior high cheer, high school cheer, college cheer, and all star cheer.
The concept of the organization is to create strong, safer athletes, giving cheerleaders confidence, coaches knowledge, and parents a peaceful state of mind. The Cheerleading and Dance Worlds is the highest level of competition for competitive cheerleaders and dancers.
The International Cheer Union The International Cheer Union currently encompasses over 70 member nations and continues to grow as a unified voice for all those who are dedicated to the positive advancement of cheerleading throughout the world. The ICU is a non-profit international governing entity, and it has been properly and legally registered as such. Its mission and purpose are strictly to advance the sport.
No corporations or individuals will benefit financially from it. The ICU is structured to provide balanced input and governance based on the various stages of development in which cheerleading finds itself across the globe.
It serves as a powerful advocate for those who are truly dedicated to the advancement of cheerleading, and especially for the young athletes who participate. USA Cheer exists to serve the cheer community including club cheering All Star and traditional school-based cheerleading programs.
USA cheer has three primary objectives: to help grow and develop interest in participation of cheer throughout the United States, promote safety and safety education for cheer in the United States, and represent the United States of America in the international cheerleading competitions.
Cheerleading Videos — Varsity TV. If you are one of the many cheerleaders and dancers who enjoy watching routine after routine on television, look no further than these top videos! From High School, to College, to All Star, to Dance — every cheerleading and dance video you want to see is right here!
Cheerleading Resources. Being a Cheerleader Captains and Officers Holding the title of captain or officer of your cheerleading squad or dance team is a huge honor — not to mention a huge responsibility.
You have to strive to become more responsible, be a leader, and act as a role model. This list will explain what is to be expected of you as captain or officer. Communicating with your Coach Most cheerleaders would agree that approaching your coach about a problem can sometimes be intimidating. Here are some great approaches to talking to your cheer coach. Fundraising Coaching fees, competitions, camp, uniforms, and camp wear can get expensive over a year of cheerleading.
Leadership Cheerleaders are more than just leaders on the football field. Practice Cheerleading practice is a time to learn cheers, perfect stunts, work on the pep rally you have coming up, and make that competition routine look effortless. Here are some tips on how to be practice-ready! Team Building For most cheerleading squads, a new year brings a new team.
Seniors graduate and a whole new group of freshmen make the team. To have a successful squad, your team has to not just get along but actually be friends and become a family.
Here are some team building tips that will have your squad bonding in no time! Will I learn the dance in time? Will I remember the cheer? Is my toe touch good enough? This guide to tryouts will have you ready for the big day with no more questions! Skills and Drills Jumps No matter how good your toe touch, pike, or herkie is, there is always a way to get it a little higher, a little more hyper extended, and a little better all around.
The answer is jump exercises. These tips will give you the best jump on your team! Once you have that — tumbling will be as easy as 5,6,7,8! Spirit Raising Cheering for Basketball Basketball is a game cheerleaders can take advantage of.
From time-outs to free throws, there is always an appropriate time to perform a unique cheer or tradition in basketball. Use these ideas and take over the court! Crowd Involvement Getting fans to yell with you may seem like one of the biggest challenges as a cheerleader, but believe it or not, there are ways to get the crowd to yell with you and not at you. Here are some tips to getting the crowd to their feet!
Games Your main goal as a cheerleader should be supporting your team and getting the crowd pumped up at games. Here are some guidelines on how to cheer at games and making your cheers crowd effective!
Homecoming Homecoming is a time of fun, school spirit, and to show appreciation to your school and the athletic teams. Make homecoming the best one yet with these Homecoming ideas for cheerleaders! Cheering for Non-Traditional Sports While cheering for football and basketball are most common among cheerleaders, more cheerleading teams now are starting to support all of their athletic teams. From volleyball, to tennis, to baseball — there are several sports that are sometimes left off your spirit roster.
This year, strive to support all teams! Pep Rallies Pep rallies are many students, teachers, and fans favorite way to get pumped up for a big game. As a cheerleader, you play a big role in pep rallies. Whether you organize them or just cheer at them, these fresh ideas will get your crowd rowdy!
Traditions Every school has them… traditions! Traditions are what make every school unique. Most schools have had the same traditions for several years! Here are some ideas for traditions from real schools! Unlike school dance, these teams focus completely on competition. If you are interested in competitive dance, learn more about it here.
College Dance Team The transition from high school dance to college dance can be a big change. Everything from tryouts to competition is different, but these guidelines will have you adjusted and ready to dance for your university! There are eight essential elements in dance. Read and learn them here. High School Dance Team Being on a high school dance team can completely transform your high school experience.
Before you set out on your venture to join a high school dance team, read over this guide so that you will know exactly what to expect! Cheerleading has become a staple of sporting events throughout the country being the most popular in collegiate athletics as well as throughout youth sports leagues.
Even though cheerleading has become very popular throughout the female population and has been dominated by them, cheerleading actually started with male fans at a collegiate sporting event. After this first sporting event, many colleges liked the idea and adopted it for their athletic programs. The National Cheerleaders Association NCA was the first cheerleading association in the United States and was established in order to help people improve on their cheerleading skills and spread the love of the sport more throughout the country.
The invention of the sport of cheerleading has been credited to many Yale University students that began cheering from the crowd during football games. The school liked when the students would do this and created a cheerleading squad in order to have the cheering at each of their games.
Even though these students are credited with creating cheerleading the unofficial 'grandfather of cheerleading' is a man by the name of Lawrence "Herkie" Herkimer. There have been annual cheerleading camps held in totalling twenty thousand attendees since its inaugural camp. In Herkimer created the Cheerleading Supply Company and patented the pompom9 and continued to take cheerleading to much greater heights.
Cheerleading was established in the s in Great Britain but became a very popularized sport when it reached the United States in the s when the Yale students decided to start heavily cheering for their football team during the season.
In , a Princeton University graduate, Thomas Peebles, brought cheerleading to the University of Minnesota with the idea of chanting to a crowd of spectators. He continued to lead organized cheers during their poor football season and is considered the first cheerleader. Johnny Campbell later became known as the first leader of the cheer team with the Golden Goffers.
It was not until many years later that women became involved with the sport they are believed to run today. The sport was mostly comprised of a select few male students that would simply start cheers for the spectators at games.
There were not as many movements and routines that there are today but rather just chants and cheers that were created by these 'cheerleaders'. Cheerleading became very popular near the s. The emphasis began to shift away from actually leading fans in cheers and toward developing sophisticated dance teams. Today, cheerleaders appear mainly at football and basketball games. Other sports that have cheerleaders include soccer, ice hockey, volleyball, baseball, and wrestling.
Some of the more popular college and professional squads have websites and licensing agreements. In the s the International Cheerleading Foundation began ranking the best college cheerleading squads.
This led to actual competitions between top teams. The first broadcast of a national college cheerleading competition appeared on CBS in In ESPN began broadcasting high school competitions. Started in , the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors AACCA , along with other organizations, seeks to reduce injuries and discourage dangerous stunts and formations from being incorporated into cheerleading routines.
In addition, cheer coaches for NCAA schools must complete a certified safety-training program. Im a male cheerleader and i am proud to say it!
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