All-Star Cheersport 2013 Sportsmanship

[CricketCheerMom]

F5 was also bonding a bit before awards with Spirit of Texas...they are now known as Spirit of F5! My overall impression across the weekend was one of sportsmanship, even with the competitors in our division. It was so incredible close and I know people were disappointed while others happy, but each team there had a lot of respect for each other.

My daughter had to do her share of photo posing and autographing as she left stage, but people were respectful for the most part...HOWEVER, I wasnt thrilled when random people were petting her uniform...happened quite a few times that people wanted to just reach out and touch it and felt they could. We covered it up as soon as possible.

That is creepy and would totally freak my daughter out.

 

[ChoreographyInTheBack]

MyDaughterCheers she is okay now, thank you! All stitched up and dying to be released so she can practice again.

 

[catlady]

I was very pleased with the sportsmanship, however, I know there are incidents out there. I hate to say it but, I think the kids are better at letting things roll off their shoulders than the parents with scoring. The kids are fine until they hear their parents talk about "confusing scoring", "biased judges", "sandbagging", etc. I know a few of our parents made comments in our parent room about a gym who has "sandbagged" a Jr. lvl 2 team for the past few years. I hope it was not our gym, our owners would be very upset along with the 99.5% of parents. What some parents have decided is "sandbagging", is actually an allowance so small gyms can build teams from a small number of kids. Agree or disagree, it is not illegal. Cp is at a large gym and often it is new parents that don't understand the logic of the rules. My feelings are, until they change the rules it doesn't help your child or their team to harp about it. The rules on team tumbling and ages changed slightly last year to help accomodate some of the issues people had concerning "sandbagging".

If you noticed a particular gym that had horrible sportsmanship, I would email the owner, I know ours would want the opportunity to address the issue.

 

[WCMAN]

the base is on lites the flyer is point on cells

World Twister CelluLites (the left flyer, middle base and right bases are on cells the rest are on lites ). Starlites are a really sweet group of girls to be around :)

My CP is the base on the one man.....my baby..lol...The girls got along great.The Cells and their parents are a class act .We will be together again in Dallas....

 

[cheermommaRN]

My CP is the base on the one man.....my baby..lol...The girls got along great.The Cells and their parents are a class act .We will be together again in Dallas....

She looks familiar...was she on the Twinkles documentary? Sorry if I'm tardy to the party on that one....

 

[aggie1983]

MyDaughterCheers

I would just echo what catlady said, notify the gym - phone, email whatever - if the gym owner and coaches have any care at all about their reputation, they would want to have a friendly little chat with the parents out behind the woodshed. And yet, as I write that, I can't help but wonder if that many parents were acting that way, this probably isn't the first time. I'm trying to imagine that many parents from a gym being that oblivious to basic comp etiquette. I don't remember our gym ever having a dedicated meeting before comp season to go over the "rules our parents will observe while at comps", it seemed more like the veteran parents would clue in the newbies, but if gyms don't already do that, maybe they should.

 

[WCMAN]

She looks familiar...was she on the Twinkles documentary? Sorry if I'm tardy to the party on that one....

Yes. She was we were in the truck singing along to cheer music.LOL. Lifes most embarrassing moments.lol

 

[SmileCat]

Driving up we made a pit stop at the Florida/Georgia line and a team came up to do the same thing as us (stunt by the state line sign) and they were rather catty and impatient with us even when we tries to start up conversation and wish them good luck.
The only negative experience I had at the competition was with our rival team and their usual ways but other wise, I met some awesome people from all over, cheering on teams in warm ups and on practice Friday and when we won teams were standing up and cheering for us! i had a great first/last cheersport experience :D

 

[TwistedLady]

My CP is the base on the one man.....my baby..lol...The girls got along great.The Cells and their parents are a class act .We will be together again in Dallas....

Warms my heart to hear this! Keep it up!! :)

 

[Underestimated]

There's nothing more I cant stand then negativity at comps by others . I wouldn't dare anyone to say something negative to me or my kids I'd be coaching. Because I go to church and I'm a good Christian sane W-O-M-A-N but Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd be going east Compton clovers and be who bangin' and anyone who tryed to throw shade .. oh noooo man, no ham, no turkey!

 

[WCMAN]

We told you before don't be throwing no shade.....LITES...lol

 

[mybabywantstotumble]

i have never experienced negativity from athletes at comps, only parents. which i think is very unfortunate because it reflects upon the gym. every comp we are at with this one gym, the parents are so freaking nasty i am to the point now that i hate sitting near them.

 

[Jo Mallory]

I was so impressed at the sportsmanship at Cheersport. This was my team's first year ever going to compete so as a small gym we only had myself, the other coach, and some loyal parents who made the trip to stand in front and cheer for us. After making friends in the warm up room on day one, day two one of their team moms got ALL of their fans to come cheer for us so we had a full crowd. It was simply amazing!

Shout out to Full House All Stars <3

 

[12stepCheermom]

I was very pleased with the sportsmanship, however, I know there are incidents out there. I hate to say it but, I think the kids are better at letting things roll off their shoulders than the parents with scoring. The kids are fine until they hear their parents talk about "confusing scoring", "biased judges", "sandbagging", etc. I know a few of our parents made comments in our parent room about a gym who has "sandbagged" a Jr. lvl 2 team for the past few years. I hope it was not our gym, our owners would be very upset along with the 99.5% of parents. What some parents have decided is "sandbagging", is actually an allowance so small gyms can build teams from a small number of kids. Agree or disagree, it is not illegal. Cp is at a large gym and often it is new parents that don't understand the logic of the rules. My feelings are, until they change the rules it doesn't help your child or their team to harp about it. The rules on team tumbling and ages changed slightly last year to help accomodate some of the issues people had concerning "sandbagging".

If you noticed a particular gym that had horrible sportsmanship, I would email the owner, I know ours would want the opportunity to address the issue.

Well since I'm the only one talking about sandbagging I should probably clarify... My kids aren't new to this. My 12 y/o is in her 7th season, my 14 y/o is in his fourth. They're also very knowledgeable about the sport. It's not like I pointed it out.

The first thing my son said to me when he came out from the back was "so did the sandbaggers that went at x time crush it!?" To clarify, I (as the parent) was the one trying to calm he and my daughter down over what was apparently blatant tumbling advantages backstage. I didn't see them warming up with doubles and standing fulls (on a level 3) they did. I told them to blow it off, be proud of your team -who did crush it- and not to worry about it. Focus on what you need to do.

So in this particular case, it wasn't me stirring them up, it was me trying to redirect their own annoyance. I see where a mini or youth might not know its going on without a parent complaint-fest but juniors and seniors.... They know.

And I get the whole crossover thing (shoot, my kids DO crossover to this team from a level 4) and I get that it's not illegal (exactly what I told them by the way) but my suggestion is if you're going to have multiple people two levels above competing for your team.... In the name of sportsmanship, you probably shouldn't advertise it by allowing a punch front, whip through to double in warm ups in front if all your division.

I mean seriously? Who needs to warm up THAT pass for a level three team?

And my issue is with sandbagging (ethically not legally) not crossovers.

 

[garretttt]

I accidently ran into 2 girls and got the comment "they really do think they run this place" i even apologized for running into to them.

When you're at a big gym, people really do judge you over the stupidiest things. A lady even COMPLAINED to my mom that one of our teams was SOOOOOOOO rude because we PURPOSELY competed at cheersport to scare her daughters team....................................................................................................................................................................................yes we brought 24 teams to cheersport to scare ONE team............

like last year a certain gym that told my team "you all still did great" after we got 10th place, had some parents this year be really snotty to my old gym. I'm just saying don't judge a gym by a group of parents or what you THINK someone is saying. Just because someone gives your team a dirty look doesnt mean they think you cheated or bribed the judges.