All-Star What Got You Into Cheer?

[Kätter]

(Yes, I'm not a cheerleader but anyway.)
Whenever I was younger, I was forced to go to a cheer comp with my dad (He's a vendor/photographer.) And I fell in love with it. Ever since then I've been going to UCA & NCA competitions all the time and I can't keep myself away from all of it. Being the first to get there, last to go home, just Taking photos, trying to break my barrier of insane shyness, that seems to be working! Though, 4 years later and I still can't pursue in the sport, so I'm positive that day will never come. But, it's a good life already. (: I can't complain much.


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[TinyBlondie15]

I was playing soccer for about 4 years before. I got a flyer for the local church camp that was run by all the catholic schools in the area and they had a cheer camp going on the same week as my brother's Jesus camp so my mom let me switch over to that one. They made me the flyer as I was so tiny and I fell in love with it! I ended up doing the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) team that was for my area of Oregon (if any of you are familiar with Oregon, it was the CYO Beaverton Knights) and my brother played football for them. It was a good way to keep us both active at the same time :P My mom made me choose between soccer and cheer. Thankfully I chose cheer because I sucked at soccer, MAJORLY. Fast forward through a pop warner career and one year of all stars to three years of high school JV cheer to coaching a rec team my senior year, and now in college as a Sports Management major to hopefully owning my own gym one day!

 

[Miialovescheer]

(Yes, I'm not a cheerleader but anyway.)
Whenever I was younger, I was forced to go to a cheer comp with my dad (He's a vendor/photographer.) And I fell in love with it. Ever since then I've been going to UCA & NCA competitions all the time and I can't keep myself away from all of it. Being the first to get there, last to go home, just Taking photos, trying to break my barrier of insane shyness, that seems to be working! Though, 4 years later and I still can't pursue in the sport, so I'm positive that day will never come. But, it's a good life already. :) I can't complain much.


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i can't cheer either. i saw your thread on it and thougth i would say something. not everybody can cheer but be happy you get to photograph them.. here in sweden the teams compete one or two times and the best teams go to worlds and maybe europeans so i dont have much to watch here. and i live quite off so no competitions close.

 

[Kätter]

i can't cheer either. i saw your thread on it and thougth i would say something. not everybody can cheer but be happy you get to photograph them.. here in sweden the teams compete one or two times and the best teams go to worlds and maybe europeans so i dont have much to watch here. and i live quite off so no competitions close.

Yay! I'm not the only one on the board not being able to cheer! I feel you definitely. It must be aching to not have anything to go to. Also, European countries for the win. I just crossed the pond. :)



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[Miialovescheer]

Yay! I'm not the only one on the board not being able to cheer! I feel you definitely. It must be aching to not have anything to go to. Also, European countries for the win. I just crossed the pond. :)



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Let's go jump in the moonlight. RDS. ~

i am not psycially able to cheer and im too old too. im a bit older than you though (23 turning 24 this year) and yes it is hard not having any comps to watch but my dream is to one day have money enough to go to the states, if you wanna countinue talking just PM me becase we are hijacking this thread.

 

[cheergirl09]

I was playing soccer for about 4 years before. I got a flyer for the local church camp that was run by all the catholic schools in the area and they had a cheer camp going on the same week as my brother's Jesus camp so my mom let me switch over to that one. They made me the flyer as I was so tiny and I fell in love with it! I ended up doing the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) team that was for my area of Oregon (if any of you are familiar with Oregon, it was the CYO Beaverton Knights) and my brother played football for them. It was a good way to keep us both active at the same time :P My mom made me choose between soccer and cheer. Thankfully I chose cheer because I sucked at soccer, MAJORLY. Fast forward through a pop warner career and one year of all stars to three years of high school JV cheer to coaching a rec team my senior year, and now in college as a Sports Management major to hopefully owning my own gym one day![/
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I'm sure glad you made the switch to cheer Lauren because you were such a joy to coach :)



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[TinyBlondie15]

I'm sure glad you made the switch to cheer Lauren because you were such a joy to coach :)

aww! You were the best coach ever Allie! You always knew what we were capable of and inspired us all! Heck, I still wear the bows you made us! :)

 

[stcchamp]

My sister did competitive cheer for about 4 years and I competed internationally for TaeKwonDo. But I was still pretty young and always went with my sister and my mom to competitions when I wasn't away at a meet with my dad. The more and more I watched, the more and more interesting the sport became to me. So I asked my mom if I could start tumbling privates (it was so easy to incorporate tumbling into TaeKwonDo). She said yes. I excelled so much faster than my sister did even though she had been doing it for years. Got my handspring in two weeks, got a tuck in a month, and was hooked... Eventually my sister quit the sport about her fourth or fifth year and the owner asked my mom if I could fill in for a competition just to tumble. She said yes, and I never stopped cheering since then! Started on a J3 and now I've been on worlds teams for almost 4 years! Lol and yeah, I did quit TaeKwonDo eventually... haha:rolleyes:

 

[TheDivineCheerYaYaSecret]

When CP was at the end of 2nd grade she said that she wanted to be on our HS cheer team one day. Our HS cheer team is very competitive, if you don't have a BHS, now a back tuck, you aren't making it. Her brother plays football and was then on the middle school team. At his games I would look over in the grass and some of the HS Varsity cheerleaders would have her up in the air doing all these crazy stunts that I didn't know the name of. So I found a small cheer gym about five minutes from the house that advertised "tumbling classes". I told CP if she wanted to cheer HS she had to tumble or she would never make it. She had never even done a cartwheel.

So that spring I called the gym number and spoke with the owner. I explained CP needed to tumble and why and then told her about the "up in the air with the Varsity girls thing" trying to explain the twists and flips and rolls they had her doing. ( I didn't know their names!) She asked us to come that night to "watch" her L2 team practice and get a feel for the gym. Fifteen minutes into the practice CP was up in the air doing it all. They had one comp left that season and asked if CP could join. I declined but let her start tumble for the summer. She had that BWO in one practice and the BHS a week later. The rest is current history!

 

[Amanda72]

When I was in 2nd grade, my sister joined her middle school cheer team. At this time I was doing ballet/hip hop and even though I enjoyed it I wanted to try something else. I'm the youngest so my mom was always afraid of me getting hurt so she wouldn't let me try cheer until I was in 5th grade. As soon as I went to my first practice I just knew that it was what I wanted to do.

 

[Cheeralyssa_]

I was a gymnast for 5 years, and I was going to quit when I was 10 because my gym was so stressful and we had to practice 4 hours at a time. And then one of my best friends from school told me about the same gyms competitive cheerleading teams. So I joined and I instantly fell in love. Of course I have switched gyms, but I wouldn't be where I am at california allstars today if it weren't for her!:)

 

[Adam]

I started dating a cheerleader my freshman year of college. Sophomore year they had one guy try out and he joined the team, I saw him in there and I was like "I could be hanging out with the GF right now instead of just sitting on my butt", so I talked to the coach and tried out late, made in on the team and fell in love with the sport. Getting into cheer was probably the best thing that came out of that relationship! :cool:

 

[SL&AM]

CP tried dance out for 2 years. Her first year was just a combo class with ballet and tap, her second year they added a small tumbling class to it and she loved that class, but found ballet to be boring so she asked to not be signed up again.

Then the local gym decided to form a Mini team so I let her try that and she's been hooked ever since and it's been a little over 2 years since she started.

 

[shawn smith]

I started with tumbling for a year then one of the coaches forced me to go to the tryouts for cheer and I easily made it. And everything went on from there:)