All-Star High Schools & How They Perceive All Stars

In Michigan you cannot compete high school and all star. There's not many all star gyms in my area, so there's never been a problem with girls leaving our program. One girl I cheered with was seen at a competition and asked to tryout for an open team. My coach told her to do whatever she wanted, but she can always do all star, but only has a year if high school left. We always respected allstar cheer at my high school


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I don't think people should be told they can't cheer high school and allstars


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My high school coach was my all star team's owner so she not only accommodated schedules for practices and competitions, but she also recruited girls from high school to join the all star team. We would all carpool from HS practice to AS practice Wednesday nights, (the only double practice nights), it really worked out great.

My coach personally loves allstars. Her daughter cheers allstars and she has actually talked to me about joining her daughters gym. I used to do allstars so I personally like it, and don't have bad feelings towards it.


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crazeecheermom said:

There are some hs that once you reach varsity they won't allow you to cheer all star primarily because alot of those programs, rocky point, for example have been national champs and practice, I was told, like 7 days a week leading up to nationals. There just simply is no time.

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I cheered All-Star while I cheered at Rocky Point. It can be done, but I didn't sleep very much. RP practice was every day from late August to March. From 2:30-7PM. Weekend practices during competition season. If I had an all-star competition, I could miss practice. Then I'd drive an hour to make it to allstars 3 times a week from 8-10. I'd get home around 11 PM. Then I'd start homework. It was crazy, but I wouldn't change it for anything!

CheerKatie08 said:

I cheered All-Star while I cheered at Rocky Point. It can be done, but I didn't sleep very much. RP practice was every day from late August to March. From 2:30-7PM. Weekend practices during competition season. If I had an all-star competition, I could miss practice. Then I'd drive an hour to make it to allstars 3 times a week from 8-10. I'd get home around 11 PM. Then I'd start homework. It was crazy, but I wouldn't change it for anything!

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My CP's High School and the local All Star Gym (where the high school practices) have integrated their schedules and made it possible for the girls to do both competitive HS and All Star at the same time. Last year my daughter only did JV football cheer for High School because she cheered at a big name All Star Gym and it was impossible to do both. This year she decided not to do All Star and just cheer Varsity both football and competitive, but when the local All Star coach made it possible for the girls to do both, she decided to do both HS & All Star. Her high school team has tons of talent, but they don't seem to have the dedication that the All Star team has. There is lots of fooling around and lots of missing practices with the High School girls. There are currently 6 girls that do both HS and cheer at the local All Star gym.

In middle school I did both, then when I was a freshman I made JV and wanted to keep doing both, however my AS gym told me that they wouldn't work with my schedule (I was on two teams and only one affected HS cheer, but I either had to quit both or neither) for school and told me that cheering in high school was useless and it wouldn't help me get into college. The problem in my opinion is not that they wouldn't work with me, I understand it is their business and they are allowed to not let me out of one of the teams after I already agreed to do it. However, the fact they told me and my mom that being involved in school activities would not help me get into college was ridiculous. The next year I since my little sister was still cheering there I went back and was able to do JV/AS as a sophomore since they knew I would pick school over AS. Then as a junior I did both V/AS (cheering at the same gym), where this year they told me and some other girls we should skip the SAT because saturday practice was more important. As a senior I once again did both, but my sister and I finally changed gyms and the coaches were great about working it out. My little sister is now at the same high school and HS/AS is still allowed and many of the girls are involved in both. It is something I feel that has to be balanced but doing both was something I fully enjoyed and would not change my decisions. I think being able to do both ended up being very helpful for me to get into college and later be able to cheer in college.

*side note: I would make sure if multiple HS/AS cheerleaders go to the same gym/team that it probably be a good idea to all miss or no one miss. This happened to me when I was in school and my HS coach was not a happy person that I could make it to a basketball game but a girl that was on both my teams had to miss.

I coach in a district in FL with 27 high schools. We also have quite a few allstar gyms within 50 miles. There are no restrictions with doing both and a lot of athletes do. High school and allstar competition seasons start at about the same time. Both HS coaches and gym owners work well together to accommodate each other's schedules.

When I cheered high school, we weren't allowed to do all-stars whatsoever. It wasn't a district policy, it was our coach's preference. Because of this, many girls didn't even want to cheer period and the team almost folded. When things got really bad this coach got fired. Two years ago a new coach came and she allows girls to cheer all-stars. Now, there are actually four or five girls on our varsity that do, and one of them is even on a pretty well known worlds team. My high school competes somewhat, but they always make sure now that they aren't competing the same weekend as the all-star gyms in my area that girls on the team cheer for.

I've been cheering for three years when I hit freshman year of high school. I tryout and made it on jv squad. You had to have a year on it before varsity. I told the two coaches in the beginning that I did allstars. The one said that I would have to choose which one. Of course, I continued with both as neither conflicted with each other. The girls were all snubby and didn't like that I was on an allstar gym since it was 45 mins away. I would get yell at for "wrong" technique even though I've been train to these stunts properly. Towards the end of football season, we got our schedule for basketball season. It had conflicts with my allstar schedule and they wouldn't even budge( I mean my allstar coach was more flexible). I did not have to "quit" high school as I ended up having Osgood Schlatters. Today, I still do allstars, but I'll only do school cheer if they had a great cheer program.

If you're going to do high school and all star make sure that you're equally committed to both. It's honestly so frustrating having half of the team not even care about high school because they do all star and they think it's more important. I understand sometimes schedules will conflict, and it's okay to miss one for the other sometimes, but when you're on a high school team and you're not taking it seriously or showing any commitment at all, than maybe you should have just chosen to do all star. Because if you act like high school CHEERLEADIG is a joke, and other people see you acting like that, they won't take it seriously either.



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Man this is a great post! In my area we are in the middle of a few different counties that handle high school cheereleading all very differently. So we approach it with we need to know as much information up front as possible (dates, ect.) so that we can plan. In one county cheer is a sport and have mandatory competitions that rotate days each week (it's a HUGE pain) but as long as we know ahead of time we can plan for it. We do ask that our kids understand that we will bend and work with their high school, and we ask that they do the same. We also ask UP FRONT that if a major decision needs to be made we need to know which way they will go. We encourage our kids to participate in high school cheer (and other sports) but to also recognize that we have many athletes to be responsible for and ask that everyone respects that. It works out every year if there is communication btw all parties.

Jessicalynn said:

I don't think people should be told they can't cheer high school and allstars


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It depends on the situation. Sometimes there is no other choice if there are multiple schools and all-star gyms in the area and coordinating schedules isn't possible. I think when coaches, gyms or school athletic associations say cheerleaders can't do both, it's less about wanting to limit particular athletes and more about ensuring fairness for the rest of the team, who couldn't be successful if there were people missing from practice all the time.