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Cheer Evolution in Canada is owned by Doug Martin of UCC, Chris Hollingsworth and Frank Vurro of Cheer force, and also formerly Andy Ceccini of Supercheer.
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Ultimate Athletics and Ultimate Speed Camps.
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I hear ya, I'm not against gyms and kids competing at the highest level. Maybe Varsity should just stick to competitions and not to gyms?i agree with you, in theory. in the olden days when varsity didn't own everything it wasn't too difficult to avoid most, if not all varsity events in a season. now, with varsity owning nearly everything, in order to see real competition or go to a bigger nationals 80-90% of choices are a varsity brand.
while morally varsity should say "hey we own this gym, so to be fair, you can't compete here" that would ruin the monopoly they have on things, and take away some of their profit (because it doesn't look like they're waiving comp fees for their gyms either.)
and a small part of me thinks it's okay that they compete there... because it's not like the owner of varsity is in the actual gym coaching kids. they are sitting back in their offices collecting profit from those kids, but i don't see varsity sending in the best choreographers/music producers/tumbling coaches to make sure their gyms win. (or maybe they do and i'm wrong. it happens)
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They do, but I have never seen a CT Spirit team compete at that competition (side note: it is a great comp!)
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Yeah I know Frank and Chris are still involved, just didn't know if the other owners still had a part in it.
Those camps are now run by Nca.
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I am pretty sure they are still affiliated. I work with another cheer mom who has a CP at Twisters Elite, and she swears up and down that the owner also owns Xtreme Spirit.
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Oh sorry I guess I misunderstood, from what I have heard I think they might not be apart of it anymore. Possibly Doug, but I don't think Nat is.
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How did I miss that one?!
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Yeah, I wouldn't exactly be surprised if the owner of Xtreme Spirit is still involved with Twisters. As far as I know there is some superficial separation (i.e. the Xtreme Spirit owner and his wife no longer coach teams at Twisters, etc.). Not to call anyone out, but I happened to overhear a main Xtreme Spirit staff member telling the coach of a Twisters team how they scored/what to improve for the next day at an Xtreme Spirit competition while I was sitting behind them in the stands. Even if there is no official affiliation, there are certainly still some ties.
I will leave with one final comment: the Twisters Elite website and the Xtreme Spirit website look remarkably similar.
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I always thought it was pretty well known. Louisville/GT always exhibitions at a SS comp at the beginning of the season. I have seen James working at Northeast Knockout practically every season I cheered. Heck, he's even on the Spirit Sports facebook!
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When did that happen? Craig has done all the staffing and hosted the events for the past many years. He is the director. They have their own section on the Ultimate Athletics website.
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Is it recent?
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True but every team that attended was a Premier gym or Varsity gym so it kinda defeated the purpose.
I do know, when I was with a Premier gym as a coach for 8yrs. We had to fight them to be able to go to a Jamfest Comp or Supernationals and even though it was our Parents and Athletes favorite comp we weren't aloud to attend but one year.. I also found it odd that they stopped allowing us Custom Uniforms.. we were only aloud to purchase out of book uniforms.. needless to say we (the staff) were always fighting to get what fit best for our program and our area. There were times that everything went smoothly though.
I feel like Sharks was handled and run differently being the original Premier Gym and at the time most the staff worked within Varsity in some way.
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It hasn't always been Premier.. it has always been Sharks though.. it was KGTC before Premier... Boog (SP) Potter, Cole and a couple others came up with the Concept of "Premier" in College as a project and then ran with it.. after a little time they sold it Varsity. It was a lot like the "United" concept but with a better business plan. (Ived worked at both) There are a handful of other gyms that aren't named Premier but paychecks come from Varsity.
Yes it was Craig who sent out the email a few weeks ago. He will still do the staffing but it will be under the NCA umbrella
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