L5cheermom
Cheer Parent
- Mar 29, 2012
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Your daughter is making the right choice in cheering for her high school. I have noticed more and more colleges requiring explanations/waivers if a cheerleader wants to cheer in college but didn't cheer on their high school squad their senior year.
Back in the day I would have said yes but now it would be a "no". Maybe if she was attending a college close to her "dream team" and the pieces fell into place I would even pay for it. As much as we love this crazy sport of ours, the rest of the world could care less. Read some of the freshman profiles for A&T...Baylor mentioned Kiara's World Championship as an afterthought but loved the fact she was a Olympic level power tumbler. Even cp has decided that she will do high school cheer because that will mean more on her college app than all star.
Once they graduate and leave all star no one cares if they were a "cheerlebrity" or won Worlds 3x in a row.
In fact I'm imagining some of those kids will be nightmares their first semester (at least to their roommates).
Okay, had to check because at one point you sounded like a parent then sounded like a coach/owner whose responsibility it would be to advise kids/parents the potential downfall of a long commute.
Would your perspective change if the commuters were just that good and even having them just one day a week dramatically increased the teams and your CP's chances of winning gold?
Sources please. Insinuating that being in all star will HURT your chances to cheer in college compared to HS is a big thing to just throw out there without a little explanation. You are the only person I have ever heard say this. I'm not saying you are necessarily wrong, that is just the polar opposite of the college coaches we talk to. I saw the UT one for the pom squad I think - are there others? Do you know of even a single athlete who was not allowed to try out because of this? ("requiring explanation" is not the same as "forbidden to try out")
I don't believe I insinuated that all-star would hurt your chances for college cheer. And I don't think I stated that a candidate would be forbidden from trying out if they didn't have game day experience. If you can do both that would be the ideal situation. If a college has a competitive squad then having all-star experience would be ideal; if they only have a game day squad then having high school cheer experience would be a plus.
University of Texas has this statement on their cheer website:
All prospective cheerleader candidates must be a current member of their school's spirit group (ie. cheer squad, pep squad, etc.). If the candidate is not a current member of the school's spirit group, they can apply for a waiver by providing a letter of reasoning to the Head Coach for approval. Please include this letter in your tryout packet.
Obviously you have much more in-depth information since you have spoken to college coaches and have been in the business for years. I am only going off of the college's websites. In addition, I am only looking at schools that have game day squads.
If he's intending to cheer for a college that needs a waiver to understand what Allstar cheer is.....I'm thinking that's not a very well educated program in the first place.CP will be screwed then for college cheer since we will not allow him to do HS because of where they practice.
I don't think it's to "understand" allstar. I think it's because they're getting all these allstar cheerleaders that can stunt and tumble but you put them out there on game day and they're lost. I think it's reasonable for a college cheer team to expect someone to have done something similar to what they do to prepare them.
Everyone posts on here all the time about how school cheer and allstar are not the same thing - so y'all can't turn around and get mad when colleges say "Allstar cheer and school cheer are not the same thing." Cheering in college usually involves cheering at games. Not many allstar cheerleaders are prepared for that if they've never done school cheer.
That being said I'm sure it depends on the school and what type of cheer they do. Schools with a strong game day presence and that actually *cheer* are obviously more apt to want to see someone with school cheer.
They are different skill sets, absolutely. I'm not arguing that it would be wrong for them to require school cheer experience if they wished, I'm just saying (in my experience) that the overwhelming majority of them do not.