Cheer Bag Contents: The Essentials List
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Cheer Bag Contents: The Essentials List
Have you ever seen a cheerleader with her cheer bag and wondered what’s inside? I’ll let you in on one of Cheerleaders biggest and most essential secret weapons: her cheer bag. Read on for the complete list of Cheer Bag Essentials. The major key to packing your bag is to plan ahead. Remember to pack your […]
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Extraordinary Cheerleaders Put Their Team First
A cheerleader’s skill can wow the crowds and make people realize the amazing accomplishments of cheer athletes. It’s what happens off the competition mat that makes an extraordinary cheerleader. An extraordinary cheerleader is an athlete who understands team goals and skills are equal to or more important than the individual ones. They are the athletes […]
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Why Cheerleaders Love (And Have) To Work Hard
Every cheerleader knows that practice makes perfect. But, what drives cheerleaders to work hard? There’s No ‘I’ in Team I work hard for everything I love, and cheerleading is something I LOVE. I practice hard every day. Why? Not just because I love cheer but also because I want to help my hard working cheer […]
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3 Ways to Relieve Cheer Competition Stress
I live for competition season. The rush of excitement is filled with different emotions — nervous, excited, pumped…and stressed. It’s important to remember that with excitement comes added stress that can impact you negatively. If you take care of yourself and support one another as a team you will be successful no matter the outcome. […]
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Work Hard, Play Hard
From my experience as a cheerleader, I work hard for everything I love, and cheerleading is one of them so I practice hard every day. Why? Not just because I love cheer but also because I want me and my hard working teammmates to accomplish our goals as a team. As cheerleaders it’s not always […]
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What You Can Learn From Your Cheer Coach
What I have learned from my cheer coach is so much more than just tumbling. She has been very tough on me because she knows my potential for being a great cheerleader and a great supporter of both my teams. Let me begin by saying that my coach is someone who has helped me better […]
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Team Bonding Tips You’re Missing Out On
Many people think to have a successful cheer team everyone must know how to either jump, tumble, stunt, or even have a high difficulty score. But in reality there is something far more important: team bonding! The bond that you share with your teammates and team should be unbreakable. You practice with them for hours […]
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Preservering Through Cheerleading Challenges
Athletes are presented with challenges in all sports. In cheerleading these challenges can vary from mental blocks due to an injury, to having to deal with issues with your teammates and coaches. As an athlete of 10 years, I have had to face multiple challenges and one of the hardest lessons of my life. MY […]
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Fundraising Locations You Haven’t Considered
The best places in my community to fundraise for any kind of sport would have to be in front of a door at Walmart or at a car wash. I live in a very small town with too many banks and gas stations. The location is important because it’s where most people go. Everyone always […]
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3 Things You Should Know About Fundraising
Fundraising can be very important for group organizations. Having a successful fundraiser can go a long way as well as help your team tremendously. It can help with allowing your team to participate in more competitions, get new gear, and so much more. Here is how you can have a successful fundraiser and apply it […]
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Problem Solving with Cheer Teammates
It is common for teams to have conflict, but cheerleading is a team sport that involves compromising, problem solving and collaboration. As a team you should try to talk it out, have a mediation. It is important during a conflict that each side has an understanding of the other’s point of view. It is also […]
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Cheer Bag Haul: Chassé Edition
OH MY GOODNESS… what do I not pack in my cheer bag?! OUTSIDE First in my Bowtique Backpack, on the outside, I have my three favorite Chassé bows: a royal blue Ombré Performance Hair Bow, the Hope Cheer Bow, and last but definitely not least, the Metallic Rhinestone Performance Hair Bow! INSIDE Inside my cheer […]
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How To Handle a Busy Schedule
Balancing school and cheer has always been a challenge for me, but over the past few years I’ve learned how to balance my busy schedule. PLANNER I first started with a traditional calendar on the fridge but for me that was hard to keep up to date with all of my school, work, and cheer […]
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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Cheerleaders
Buying gifts for the cheerleader in your life is actually very simple. No matter if she’s Pop Warner, all-star or anything in between, these gift ideas are sure to hit! ACCESSORIES Bows, bows, bows……did I mention bows? No cheerleader will ever have enough bows! They can be a themed bow (candy canes for Christmas, hearts […]
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How To Be a Cheer Role Model
Being a cheerleader takes determination, drive, and will power. But being a cheerleader is more than just cheerleading. You have to be a role model, not only to younger girls (and boys), but to all that see you. You are the spirit behind your school’s mascot and a role model to the students, your teammates, […]
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Show Your Commitment to Cheerleading
No matter what sport you play, being committed is very important. When you are on any type of cheerleading squad, you have to be able to have commitment at all times. Cheerleading has helped me in becoming a committed teammate as well as make me a better person and athlete. COMMITMENT TO TEAMMATES Cheerleading has […]
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Repetition in Cheerleading
Repetition is extremely key in cheerleading. Without repetition of routines, cheers, tumbling passes, jumps, and stunts – you can’t be successful. Repeating dance routines for competition of performances is important because this gives you multiple times to get timing on for motions and other things that may be in your routine. DANCE AND TUMBLING My […]
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Conquering Those Competition Nerves
Cheer competition is fun and exciting, but it can also be very stressful if you suffer from competition nerves, AKA stage fright. If that applies to you, you are not alone; performing or speaking in front of an audience is the most common social anxiety disorder. Having a few butterflies before a performance is normal, […]
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Beyond the Nerves of Switching Cheer Teams
Switching cheer teams can be intimidating, fun and a great experience. There are many reasons to change gyms. It could be you are going onto the next level of cheer, you moved, are having personal or financial issues, or any number of reasons. Having the opportunity to switch gyms can be an exciting experience. You […]
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The Nerves We Get at Cheer Tryouts
Everyone is always nervous at cheer tryouts even if it is just a little bit, no matter what kinda of cheer team. I know I’m always really really nervous at tryouts. Even if I’d already been on the team or everyone is telling me I’ll make it, I get nervous. Maybe you’re going to a […]
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How to Get on Your Coach’s Good Side
I have been on all-star cheer teams for many years and now I’m on my high school’s Varsity cheer team. Regardless of what type of team I have been on, I have always become very close to my coaches. They put in so much time and effort to make sure we are the best team […]
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Advice for Cheer Parents: Supporting Your Cheerleader’s Coach
Whether you have been a cheer parent for a week or a decade, these are the little things that you can do to make your child’s coach love you. Consider these tips and advice for cheer parents: Make Cheer a Priority As you have probably figured out by now, cheerleading is extremely time-consuming. It takes […]
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Encouraging Positivity on Your Cheer Team
A wise cheer coach once said, “we got attitude, we got spunk, we got spirit you can’t touch!” This is so true for cheerleaders. We are the face of positive attitude. We are the crowd leaders and the biggest fans. Attitudes are contagious. When you see happiness and smiles, you want to be part of […]
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Goals of a Backspot
My goals this year as backspot are to keep my stunts up at every competition. This is important to me because I do not what to let my team down and I think it will be a good goal to strive for. This is my goal because I have been having some trouble lately in […]
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Cheer Competition Packing List
Cheer Competitions! What is better than working on a 2 minute 30 second routine and competing against other teams to try to bring a trophy home? Although it is very exciting, you must make sure that you are prepared with everything that you need for a cheer competition. Use this competition packing list when it […]