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This was my first season at this school. In the past my other schools I had no problem used to have more guys than girls actually but for some reason the boys here are shy about it. Last season I had a football player walk in and like you said he picked up tumbling quickly and everything else. He's trying to recruit his friends so we'll see how many he gets once we hold tryouts in August. The open gyms don't work so well for us because normally it just attracts kids that want to goof off and run around the gym so we had to stop those for now.This year the boys just came it was strange we have 8 boys football season with 2 football players joining us competition season for a total of 10. What I can suggest to you for getting boys is to look at your basketball team and wrestling team and see what boys are riding the bench. Those are the ones you want to target. While they may not be the most athletic kids they obviously are interested in sports and we have found with our guys that they pick up either tumbling or stunting very quickly. After you get a few boys usually they pull in another one or two with them. We usually do not get freshman. Most of the guys we get are Jrs or Srs. We were lucky enough to be blessed with two freshman this year. You also want to find that one guy that excels at stunting and him off to everyone else. We hold a lot of open gyms and we even let the guys that we know will not do it come in and try. That way when the ones who are willing to do it decide to join there is less criticism from the jocks at the school. Getting just one football player is huge. Football players generally have a bond with their teamates and may convince one other one to join. If you want any other ideas or have any questions just as. 4 years ago I believe we only had 2 guys and now we are up to 10. Sometimes its hard work and sometimes its luck.
Also the Athletic Director is from the south so she grew up with true southern coed cheerleading lolThe school has over 700 students per class and the Athletic Director and Head of school are on my side with pushing big for a coed team. There's so many guys with natural tumbling talent that they just learned in the street and I see them doing it in the halls but the second I bring up anything cheerleading they are always like "Na Coach that isn't for me" The school is Albany HS its in the heart of the capital and most of the students are African american. I guess that could be a part of it and I have a feeling that it might take a few years to have a good girl to boy ratio but I just wish I could speed up the process.
The school has over 700 students per class and the Athletic Director and Head of school are on my side with pushing big for a coed team. There's so many guys with natural tumbling talent that they just learned in the street and I see them doing it in the halls but the second I bring up anything cheerleading they are always like "Na Coach that isn't for me" The school is Albany HS its in the heart of the capital and most of the students are African american. I guess that could be a part of it and I have a feeling that it might take a few years to have a good girl to boy ratio but I just wish I could speed up the process.
Thankfully the one boy is African American so I'm hoping that works in our favor.Yeah I am not sure if its just our area or what is is but we just don't appeal to the African American boys. We have one on the team right now and he loves it.