Keep in mind that travel isn't included. This is a double whammy-you pay for traveling to competitions and hotel there (often fairly expensive hotel rooms)-and it also cuts into the time you can work. Similarly, if your gym tends to add extra practices, that can make it hard to work as well...
Florida gulf coast U looks like a possibility. They explicitly state that tumbling may not be required if you're strong in other areas.
https://fgcuathletics.com/documents/2023/2/26/FGCU_Cheer_Tryouts_2023-24_.docx
There are schools that don't compete and just do sideline. They're easier to be a specialist at-my CP had coaches calling just from having cheer on the resume. Check smaller NCAA D3 schools. You might be able to do All Star as well. The Atlanta area has several colleges which would fit into that...
I've been teaching music classes for camps at my center and we had acro dance this week- and I have to wonder-why is it that cheer doesn't use more of the tumbling skill variations used in acro at the lower levels? There were some that definitely seemed like they'd be legal, but I can't recall...
As a parent of a kid who ended up with long-term joint issues, I'd like to put in a plea to keep NT or limited tumbling. Increased ligament laxity due to estrogen levels can really cause problems for kids who already were somewhat hypermobile, and reducing the amount of stress on those joints...
And, really, kids who want sideline/game day can do traditional rec in eleme tary school and middle/high school cheer. Most of the traditional rec teams here practice in a cheer gym and have full access to tumbling, private lessons, etc (the same gym the middle and high schools practice at), so...
I wish we had master's teams. I loved it when I was on a parent team at the gym, but COVID killed that.
Honestly, I'd love to be able to join a team like in the movie POMS, just for the fun of it.
So many kids have done Dianey every year for school or all star by college it's lost it's appeal. We didn't bother to go to the parks during UCA because it would have required missing DE classes, and it really wasn't a big deal.
Band, choir and drama classes often include performancea outside school hours that are mandatory and graded. If you take the class, you know up front that there WILL be such performances.
I've also seen required things for other classes-my high school had a big weekend foreign language...
Honestly, most college sports that don't end in -ball don't have big scholarship money attached except maybe for NCAA D1 gymnastics. The same is true for music, BTW. It can be a help at getting INTO a school in the first place, but if you're depending on scholarships to college, you'll get a lot...
I teach music through parks and rec, and every instructor is required to be certified in CPR w/AED and first aid, and we have one in the gym, in the office, and in the auditorium, as well as a few in cases on the wall with breakable glass that will automatically call for backup.
There have been...
My niece started with a similar skillset on a S2 (at a megagym) so she could learn how to stunt, so be aware that you may be placed down lower than your tumbling would indicate.
I wouldn't mind the practice wear plus sleeves if the price for parents was practice wear prices. Like the GK elite ones where the tank, shorts, and sleeves are only about $100 base price.
You should be. We had to rent a car and drive to an airport 2 hours away to get home last week after our flight was cancelled and the option that they wanted to rebook on would have gotten us home more than a day later. If we'd been traveling for a competition, we would have, very literally...
Honestly, it depends on what teams are available. I don't think there are any senior prep teams in my region, and I'm not sure there is a senior or U19 level 1 anywhere close either. J1 is pretty available, but I'm not sure on Junior prep, either.
This is the one I’m seeing.
I really wonder if a big thing is that both of the big gyms in Memphis (Memphis Pride and Memphis Cheer) have not done Summit the last two seasons, even for teams with paid bids, in favor of ASW, where they can take all their teams, in part because there are a lot of...
I really wonder if they're planning their business model around parent complaints. They're promising 7-8 comps per season, that the teams will take any bids recieved, that all star is the only business, and all of those are things that I've heard complaints about-but I have to wonder how much of...