All-Star The Title "allstar" Cheerleading...

[MomOf2ThatsMe]

Are there any regulations out there on who can actually present their organization as "Allstar Cheerleading"?

 

[cheerfan27]

Good question, because I so some teams yesterday who should have been park and recreation.

 

[imrichhowboutu]

Anyone can sign up to be an allstar team at a competition.

 

[MomOf2ThatsMe]

Anyone can sign up to be an allstar team at a competition.

I guess what I was going more towards was has USASF or anybody else govern who can call themselves an Allstar Cheerleading team? Is there a trademark on the phrase that only allowed to be used by member gyms? Should there be?

 

[imrichhowboutu]

Well allstar cheerleading came around before there was really a sole governing body.

I think it was just something to try and separate it from school cheerleading. I do recreational cheerleading as exactly that, more of a recreational activity. I would say that a lot of rec programs are actually the same as "all star programs".

 

[MissBee]

Rec teams are usually town based (you have to live within a certain area to join the team) and they do sideline cheers for the towns youth football and/or basketball teams. All star teams are competition only, no sideline, and don't require proof of residency to join a certain program.

 

[cheererinIL]

So, theoretically, there's nothing stopping my 10 friends and I from becoming "Dinosaur AllStars", praticing in someone's basement and entering ourselves in a competition?

 

[cupieqt]

So, theoretically, there's nothing stopping my 10 friends and I from becoming "Dinosaur AllStars", praticing in someone's basement and entering ourselves in a competition?

Nope

 

[imrichhowboutu]

Rec teams are usually town based (you have to live within a certain area to join the team) and they do sideline cheers for the towns youth football and/or basketball teams. All star teams are competition only, no sideline, and don't require proof of residency to join a certain program.

That is usually, however in New Jersey there are soooo many rec programs that don't cheer at anything besides competitions. Those to me are allstar teams.

 

[MissBee]

That is usually, however in New Jersey there are soooo many rec programs that don't cheer at anything besides competitions. Those to me are allstar teams.

Yes, but unless USASF and EPs define and regulate, nothing we can do about it! I know that some of the rec leagues have strict rules about kids on teams cheering at games. They have photo IDs that they have to "check in" with before football and basketball games, and to be able to compete all of your team had to have cheered at 90% of your games (illness/injury are not an excuse for missing games).

 

[cupieqt]

That is usually, however in New Jersey there are soooo many rec programs that don't cheer at anything besides competitions. Those to me are allstar teams.

Same here in Louisiana. There are "rec" teams that only compete. Should just be all star but I don't think they'd be competitive enough. Good, clean teams but no where near the difficulty needed for all star. Besides, they can win un-opposed every time as "rec".

 

[xoxotumblerforeverxoxo]

A few weeks ago I met a girl at a competition who practiced an individual routine at her home and competed at All-Star competitions. She considers her home her All-Star gym and her mother is her choreographer/ coach.

 

[cupieqt]

A few weeks ago I met a girl at a competition who practiced an individual routine at her home and competed at All-Star competitions. She considers her home her All-Star gym and her mother is her choreographer/ coach.

Whoa. Toddlers and tiaras?

 

[xoxotumblerforeverxoxo]

Whoa. Toddlers and tiaras?

That's exactly what came to my mind! hahaha!

 

[MissBee]

A few weeks ago I met a girl at a competition who practiced an individual routine at her home and competed at All-Star competitions. She considers her home her All-Star gym and her mother is her choreographer/ coach.

Look at it this way: Maybe she cheers for her HS team, but there isn't an all star gym nearby. She wants to cheer in college, and wants to get noticed by coaches. It's a good way for her to get her name out there.