All-Star Kids Asked To Cheer?

[Keep_Believing]

My 2 cp's saw an all star gym put on a performace at our local mall. After they saw this they begged for a month strait to cheer. I gave in and now we are starting our 5th cheer season. My girls love it and can't get enough of it!!! :)

 

[vanessa-]

I asked to in 7th grade and then made the team in 8th grade and have been cheering ever since!
As a child, my mom would ask me things like "Do you want to try dance?" and I would tell her that I already COULD dance and probably showed her how "good" I was :rolleyes: ...I wish I would've started earlier, but then I may not have stuck with it.

 

[BuegeSmalls]

Ialways looked through my brother's (5 years older than me) yearbooks and saw the cheerleading page and knew that I wanted to be a cheerleader, but I never thought it would actually happen. Then when I in 5th grade a flyer came home for the youth team, and my sisters showed it to my mom who said they could join. She asked me if I wanted to do it but I said no thanks because that would mean that I would have had to give up my horseback riding lessons! But somehow I ended up doing both, and the rest is history. I remember being at practice in 6th grade and we were working on tumbling and I watched the Varsity girls doing their perfect round offs and I remember thinking to myself "I'll never be as good as them" and many years later I can proudly say that I am better than they were.:)​

 

[INeverStopCheering]

Two of my older cousins were cheerleaders, but my mom came from a really large family where they didn't really do extra- curricular activities. I did everything when I was little, ballet, tap, jazz, art, gymnastics, acting, diving, but I decided that I wanted to cheer for my middle school. I heard about a private program where you could take classes. I didn't make my MS team (thank God) and decided to cheer for Allstars instead. In the beginning, my mom and I had NO idea what it was. We thought you learned a new routine each time, and actually said words. She was disappointed when we did not have to buy poms. But she's grown into a fluent cheer parent, and will probably co-own my gym someday

 

[mollymags]

I asked... and asked... and asked... and begged... and then finally my mom gave in when I was in 6th grade. I did rec cheerleading for a few years and I was always SO bored at games but loved competitions. I found out about all-star cheer in 8th grade and started all-stars going into my freshman year of high school. I stayed until my super senior year. I also cheered on my college team. Now I'm working for an EP (the owners of the company were my coaches at my all-star gym) and hope to make a career out of this, so good thing my mom finally gave in! ;)

 

[Hi! It's me!]

My cps are almost 11 years apart in age. When older cp wanted to try cheerleading before she got to hs I tried to figure out where to go and what to do. Found a flyer on my car and went there. After 3 seasons we moved to a very well known gym and that is where we still are. Little cp was only 2 at the beginning of this so got stuck coming to practice. Older cp never tried out at the hs and graduated from hs a veery happy level 2 and moved on. Little cp watched sissy's first season with stars in her eyes, learned the cheer (still laugh at her wording) and tried EVERYTHING. She was like a rubber bouncy ball gone wild. Somewhere in the last 2 seasons she has made the mental shift from play time to serious sport and her tumbling has followed suit. So after 6 seasons and starting something to be like sissy it turns out that she has a real talent for this and I see a very long road in front of me. I was a dancer never a cheerleader so not sure where all this came from! But I love the sport and am happy to drive the bus to insanity!

 

[AScheer]

I started cheering at age 4 and I chose it. Not sure how I found out about it. My moms side of the family was heavy into baseball/softball/basketball, NO ONE cheered. Those sports are what you did, so when I chose cheerleading it wasn't exactly accepted. I'm glad my mom never cheered because it kept her out of the mom drama we used to have on some of my squads! Since I started cheering all of my female cousins on my dad side followed in my footsteps (I'm the oldest grandchild on that side.) Still the only cheerleader on my moms side. My youngest cousin came to a comp once when she was 6 and wanted to cheer so badly. 10 years later I can still tell there are times she wants to cheer but her parents have never let her. She even had me give her a mini boot camp one day. Instead they've pushed her into the typical sports that they all do and she hates them. I'm so grateful my parents let me do what I love and I commend all the parents that let their kids try cheer even if they didn't want them to! Whenever I have children I hope they cheer, but I don't want to push it on them. Whatever they do I want them to be happy, I just hope its cheer that makes them that way!!

 

[nikimo]

The only thing I ever played was the violin. When my first daughter was 3, I put her in dance. Then when I had two little ones, I started them in baton. By the time my second baby was 4, I knew her personality was built for cheer, and her body was built for flyer. It just seems to be one of those things a mother feels, for me anyway. She started cheer clinics at gymnastics centers, then moved to Allstars. She is 8 now, and we are so happy with our cheer life. I really don't know what I would spend my evenings doing if it wasn't for cheer. At her young age we already spend 5-6 days every week at the gym, and I still have to argue to get her to leave some nights. Watching my daughter learn, grow, and love what she does is all anyone could ask for. I guess we were just blessed with her that she found her calling early, so she could have more time to do what she loves.

 

[coachbd]

I love reading all these stories :)

 

[NEliteSteven]

I did neither. I was asked to cheer by my high school coach, and so I told my parents that I was cheering. Awkward conversation.

 

[CaptainoftheCheerocracy]

When I was in 3rd grade I tried to get my parents to let me go to the private catholic school that the girls around the block went to, because they had cheerleaders. Since we are NOT catholic, they weren't really down, but I begged so much. I just wanted to be a cheerleader!!

I had to wait until middle school when they had a cheer team at my school =(

 

[mommadonna]

I was wondering how many parents out there were asked by thier CP to cheer Vs parents that cheered (cheer) themselves so wanted thier kids to try cheer?
I ask because I personally was not in cheer, in fact I was a band dork. One day I asked my 5 year old if she wanted to try Soccer and her response was "No, i'll try cheerleading". Now don't flip out but what i wanted to say to her was "where did you hear that horrible word" (yes, boo!! hiss!! I was buying into the stereotype), instead I said I would look into it. So this is me, completly clueless, googling our local sideline cheer team and realizing she was too young for it. A few additional searches resulted in the discovery of the world of allstar and we haven't looked back. If my child had never brought it up, I never would have known anything about allstar.

I was a band dork too! LOL! :chestbump: