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I want to say that Top Gun was earlier than that, but I could be wrong.
Top Gun's website says that this season is their 19th so that would put them at 1993.
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I want to say that Top Gun was earlier than that, but I could be wrong.
They were around way before that bc I graduated in 95 (from a school in Greensboro) and quite a few of our cheerleaders cheered there.When I was looking for info on Cheer Extreme, I saw that Wake Forest All Starts got their business license in June of 95. So they're almost 18
And Greensboro All Stars license is from August 1995, but they could have operated as something else since that's what their website implies
I went to Amazon to see if there was a book on the history of All Star...didn't find one but I did find this little gem...
Complete Cheerleading: Justin Carrier, Donna McKay: 9780736057394: Amazon.com: Books
Who knew ASCheerMan was a published author?
Sorta...half trueI once heard El Popa started CEA while she was in high school. So she was charging people to be on a team she was also on but coaching. Not sure if that is true or not but it's a great story. A little backwards math, if that was true, would put that around 93/94?
lol..we were Juniors in 1994, so I think it must have been 1993 (which sounds right bc I remember being in the 10th grade when Kelly would be at practices often)True. Kelly Smith was on her first team and they were know as the Panthers. They practiced in her parent's yard and then in their church basement. I believe they had one team to start of 15 kids. I think it was 94 and she was 15. This was the classic roll out the mats, go to every local activity in every gym and parking lot. We started in 97/98 at Pro Spirit Dazzlers in Lewisville NC which became Tanya Boyle's CSA after Ginny from CEA took over the gym from Teresa Newell who started the gym and who's husband helped me build my gym. We went with Pro Spirit to the first Cheersport in Atl, not Charlotte, I do believe, I think there were 70 teams in the same location, bottom left of WCC. It was our dream to go to NCA and win from the first. The first great cheerleader we saw was a kid from the "Bears" there from a Georgia team named Whitney and I have forgotten the last name, may have been Johnson. Hannah Correll was the first cheerlebrity we knew and was Maddie's role model from CAC. We met Kevin B. and Jamie P at that competition.
Wait, so are you saying Court also competed w/the team alongside Kelly?True. Kelly Smith was on her first team and they were know as the Panthers. They practiced in her parent's yard and then in their church basement. I believe they had one team to start of 15 kids. I think it was 94 and she was 15. This was the classic roll out the mats, go to every local activity in every gym and parking lot. We started in 97/98 at Pro Spirit Dazzlers in Lewisville NC which became Tanya Boyle's CSA after Ginny from CEA took over the gym from Teresa Newell who started the gym and who's husband helped me build my gym. We went with Pro Spirit to the first Cheersport in Atl, not Charlotte, I do believe, I think there were 70 teams in the same location, bottom left of WCC. It was our dream to go to NCA and win from the first. The first great cheerleader we saw was a kid from the "Bears" there from a Georgia team named Whitney and I have forgotten the last name, may have been Johnson. Hannah Correll was the first cheerlebrity we knew and was Maddie's role model from CAC. We met Kevin B. and Jamie P at that competition.
Wait, so are you saying Court also competed w/the team alongside Kelly?
Oldest Gyms still in business
1988 - Greensboro All Stars, ASG Cougar Cheer1990 - Charlotte All Stars1991 - GymTyme All Stars1992 - Pro Cheer (GA)1994 - Cheer Athletics, Texas Lonestar, World Cup, Premier Athletics1995 - Memphis Elite, Spirit of Texas, Cheergyms.com1996 - CJA, Twist and Shout1997 - Pro Spirit, Top Gun (?)1998 - ACXknown "old" gyms (16+ years), but don't know date
Cheer Station (Austin, TX)CEA
Added my gym. Cheergyms.com started in October 1995 in Concord, CA
It wasn't called that then, was it? The Internet was pretty young for someone to have named their gym after a website.
It wasn't called that then, was it? The Internet was pretty young for someone to have named their gym after a website.