All-Star Chasing The Ring

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If my child were chasing a realistic Olympic dream then, yes. I would send that child to the moon or Iowa to train at Chows without hesitation.

If my child asked to move away for Cheerleading to chase a worlds ring I will tell them to have several seats and to get ready for school.

Sure they've created worlds as the pinnacle for cheer but to me it doesn't hold a candle to chasing an Olympic or professional sports (realistic) dream at the point in time.

I also wouldn't allow a child to super senior.
 
If my child were chasing a realistic Olympic dream then, yes. I would send that child to the moon or Iowa to train at Chows without hesitation.

If my child asked to move away for Cheerleading to chase a worlds ring I will tell them to have several seats and to get ready for school.

Sure they've created worlds as the pinnacle for cheer but to me it doesn't hold a candle to chasing an Olympic or professional sports (realistic) dream at the point in time.

I also wouldn't allow a child to super senior.
I'm going to have to use this with my kiddos :D
 
If my child asked to move away for Cheerleading to chase a worlds ring I will tell them to have several seats and to get ready for school.

I also wouldn't allow a child to super senior.

Heeeeeeeeeee hee heeeee heee. Dead. I will also be using this daily from now on.

I did let my child super senior, but she was home schooled and wasn't heading off to college yet either. She actually finished high school 2 years ago and is still eligible this season for one more year on senior (super super super senior?), but she's not doing cheer - and if she does it will be an open team.


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I think I would miss mine too much...is that selfish? I'm a single mom and they are all I have but yes, if it was Olympic aspirations I would contemplate maybe moving the whole family if possible.
 
I also wouldn't allow a child to super senior.[/quote]

I am curious as to why no super-senioring (serious question - my daughter isn't yet in high school even but we are in our second year of a Worlds team). I can certainly understand if it affects her college choices but let's say she has always wanted to attend TCU/SMU, etc. So while up there for college, she tries out for CA or SOT and makes a senior team, what is the downside? I'd love to start influencing her now while I have several years still!
 
I also wouldn't allow a child to super senior.

I am curious as to why no super-senioring (serious question - my daughter isn't yet in high school even but we are in our second year of a Worlds team). I can certainly understand if it affects her college choices but let's say she has always wanted to attend TCU/SMU, etc. So while up there for college, she tries out for CA or SOT and makes a senior team, what is the downside? I'd love to start influencing her now while I have several years still![/quote]

I'm going to be perfectly honest and I'm sure majority with disagree with me. I was raised to value education and I was raised to have and value a traditional college experience. My parents encouraged myself and all of my siblings to go away to college; to live in a dorm; to engage in activities on campus; to be a college student on campus interacting with our peers . I cheered my freshman and sophomore years of college for my college and it was great. I had wonderful experiences cheering during March Madness going to NCA college nationals etc.... but to imagine spending my nights going to a senior all star practice with people that aren't my "peers... spending hours on end with kids that might be as young as 12. No thanks. To have to miss out on college activities; going out with friends; partying etc because you have to travel to competitions. It also adds on unnecessary stress in the time management department. Also college is so expensive; therefore you're paying for college while paying for all star? No thanks.

All star cheerleading isn't and shouldn't be your entire existence. I feel like if you're in college, be in college, have the college experience.

* I'm not saying that a college experience and a super senior experience experience cannot exist in harmony together
** I'm not saying college is for everyone
*** I do think picking a school solely around all star cheer is stupid and you might end up being miserable.
**** We're all different...and what works for some won't work for others.
 
I'm going to be perfectly honest and I'm sure majority with disagree with me. I was raised to value education and I was raised to have and value a traditional college experience. My parents encouraged myself and all of my siblings to go away to college; to live in a dorm; to engage in activities on campus; to be a college student on campus interacting with our peers . I cheered my freshman and sophomore years of college for my college and it was great. I had wonderful experiences cheering during March Madness going to NCA college nationals etc.... but to imagine spending my nights going to a senior all star practice with people that aren't my "peers... spending hours on end with kids that might be as young as 12. No thanks. To have to miss out on college activities; going out with friends; partying etc because you have to travel to competitions. It also adds on unnecessary stress in the time management department. Also college is so expensive; therefore you're paying for college while paying for all star? No thanks.

All star cheerleading isn't and shouldn't be your entire existence. I feel like if you're in college, be in college, have the college experience.

* I'm not saying that a college experience and a super senior experience experience cannot exist in harmony together
** I'm not saying college is for everyone
*** I do think picking a school solely around all star cheer is stupid and you might end up being miserable.
**** We're all different...and what works for some won't work for others.
I like your reasoning. I know plenty of parents who will not pay for a super senior year. If the kids want to do it, they have to pay for it themselves. I too was also encouraged to go away and enjoy college. I wouldn't give up that experience for anything (granted none of this really existed back then, but still).
 
I like your reasoning. I know plenty of parents who will not pay for a super senior year. If the kids want to do it, they have to pay for it themselves. I too was also encouraged to go away and enjoy college. I wouldn't give up that experience for anything (granted none of this really existed back then, but still).

I think my parents stand point would be (they have a child that moved away for college last week) that if she had chosen to super senior (she definitely would never have done it) that she would have to pay for it; they wouldn't encourage it and they would assist with competitions but they wouldn't tell her she "can't do it" either

. Not because they are "mean" but rather in my family when you turn 18 ( or graduate high school...since I was a 17 yr old in college and my older sister turned 18 over the summer after hs graduation) you can make your own decisions and you can come and go as you please like an "adult". So if you want to do something like super senioring you have to handle it like an adult would...and finance it yourself.
 
i dont see a problem in super senioring, im pretty positive some girls from stingrays orange did it, and i doubt they regret it. i dont think its insanely common for people to do it though, at least to my knowledge. but i can only imagine the stress of dealing with countless practices and freshman year of college... heck i barely made it through my first year of college without having a few meltdowns. i think thats why you dont hear girls doing it to often, simply because they dont want to have to deal with the stress of both, cause half way through the season you cant really quit, and you obviously cant quit school at that point either.
 
I think if an athlete is going to their first choice, and the FC doesn't have a competitive cheer program, but there's a near by AS gym with a senior team or open team that they could be on, this could be an option. As a rising HS senior who still doesn't have elite skills (full), and my top choices either don't compete, or do but are very competitive, super senioring gives me the opportunity to gain those skills so that maybe down the road I can try out. If I get a ring in the process, it's icing on the cake.

My mom has given me that option which is very surprising coming from her, as she works in the education field and has made me miss several weeks of off season practice to study.
 
I'm going to be perfectly honest and I'm sure majority with disagree with me. I was raised to value education and I was raised to have and value a traditional college experience. My parents encouraged myself and all of my siblings to go away to college; to live in a dorm; to engage in activities on campus; to be a college student on campus interacting with our peers . I cheered my freshman and sophomore years of college for my college and it was great. I had wonderful experiences cheering during March Madness going to NCA college nationals etc.... but to imagine spending my nights going to a senior all star practice with people that aren't my "peers... spending hours on end with kids that might be as young as 12. No thanks. To have to miss out on college activities; going out with friends; partying etc because you have to travel to competitions. It also adds on unnecessary stress in the time management department. Also college is so expensive; therefore you're paying for college while paying for all star? No thanks.

All star cheerleading isn't and shouldn't be your entire existence. I feel like if you're in college, be in college, have the college experience.

* I'm not saying that a college experience and a super senior experience experience cannot exist in harmony together
** I'm not saying college is for everyone
*** I do think picking a school solely around all star cheer is stupid and you might end up being miserable.
**** We're all different...and what works for some won't work for others.
I applaud your reasoning, and I think I would raise my kids the same way (if/when I have them). There are times I'm kinda bummed I didn't go to a 'traditional college' and have the 'traditional college experience' (being an acting major). But, I will say there are times when I wish I knew enough to take certain 'acting career' things more seriously.[/quote]

Then again, this was my CAREER, something that does (on occasion) pay me. It's not a sport that provides zero financial incentives.
 
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