Severely injured in a car accident a few months ago, All Star cheerleader, Micah, decided to respond to his adversity with ambition and an unwavering sense of hope. At the bottom of a very crowded goal list Micah added - “go to Dallas for Cheer Competition.”
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Pierce Athletics is hosting an open gym where they will be conducting a pop-tab, aluminum can and NEW toy drive for the Ronald McDonald House of Eastern Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin! The drive is going on now until the big event on April 22 from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.
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When you think of All Star Cheerleading, you normally think of a jam-packed, fast-paced two minutes and thirty second long performance. The crowd goes wild when the stunts hit, much like a rock concert. No two routines are ever the same, either. This year, the International Open Coed Level 5 team from Top Gun All Stars is showing the latter, and a different side of All Star. Read More
It’s time to start seeing cheerleaders differently. Sarah Cronk created The Sparkle Effect to help break through stereotypes and demonstrate the power of peer acceptance. She grew up in Bettendorf, Iowa watching her older brother struggle to fit in because of his disabilities. After seeing how one act of kindness changed his life, she decided that she needed to spread some cheer of her own
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If I could make a list of the top 10 things I love about cheerleading, trying out would NOT be one of them! We all know that nervous feeling we get when we try out, but who says you can’t walk into your tryout prepared and confident? No matter what kind of cheerleading team you’re trying out for, here are some tips for you to enter your tryout with confidence and leave with no regrets!
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The NCAA Tournaments are in full swing right now for Men's and Women's basketball teams across the country. The school's are setting up pep rallies, alumni associations are trying to get the fans excited about watching the upcoming games, and the teams themselves are trying to just focus enough to get a few more wins.
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After wrapping up the UCA & UDA International All Star Championship at Walt Disney World®, several teams left Orlando with the prized black jacket and memories to last a lifetime.
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Winning feels good. Finishing first place feels even better. But there is something else, something greater than a competitive win: A winning attitude – your drive to get back up and make new goals, to persevere with a passion for what you love.
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During the busy competition season, there is one group of people that tends to get left out of the conversation: alternates. The word “alternate” seems to have a negative connotation attached, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are plenty of ways to be a good alternate and just as many ways to be a bad alternate- it all depends on how you look at your situation. Brianna Epperson, from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, caught my eye this year whenever I watched a practice. Not because of what she was doing on the mat, but for what she was doing off of it.
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My name is Lisa Albert and I have a confession…Everything I’ve learned in life, I learned from cheerleading. Okay – so that’s a bit of an overstatement, but I’ve learned so many valuable lessons that I can apply to other areas of life.
