What are the rules for cheerleading at high school level? Can they cheer for more than 4 years?
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A child can participant for five years on a varsity team.  I suggest you check out www.varsity.com  I find it to be a very informative site when my girls started cheering, and still do.
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A sport should meet three criteria:\n\nI. It should require athletic ability.\nII. It should involve some unique skills.\nIII. It should involve direct head-to-head competition in which one side's performance directly affects the other side's.\n\nIn this case, while cheerleading may meet the first two criteria, it does not meet the final one. Thus, cheerleading, like ice skating or gymnastics, is not a "sport".
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Probably that you have a cheer voice, are enthusiastic, committed to the routines and learning.  They aren't going to expect you to know everything, since it's your first tryout, but by high school you will have to be experienced, so start now if you really want to do it.
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Hi\n\nIve coaches YMCA and USA swim teams... and Those do have National Compettions after State IF you qualify of course...\n\nBut your friend may be right as I do not think WIAA which governs most High school sports has that?\n\nI am not sure but I dont think so.\n\nIf your friend is done with her swim season now  ( early)  or when she is done she can hop onto a USA or Y team and make some qaulifying meets and go to nationals that way in the spring.. we have High school girls do that all the time!\n\nShe just cant swim for both teams at the same time.\n\nGood Luck\nWismom
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why can't you do both, then you would be ahead of the competition once you get to high school. You have some time, don't get stressed about it when it only your 7th grade year. RELAX and think it through, make a pro con list for each. Maybe you could talk to a high school cheerleader or a coach and ask them.
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same here. i want to cheer in high school! and i started doing stuff to get ready for that so do all of this.....\n\nget a book on stretching your body. you need to beable to do the splits and toes touches and the very impotent hurkey! and also get a book on just cheerleading! i LOVE LOVE LOVE! the book: the ultimate guide to cheerleading! by leslie wilson. look for it at the library! and it has EVERYTHING YOU WILL EVER NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT! cool huh?\n\nso you have to know how to do all of these to be ready to go to tryouts. summersalt, kartwheel,hand stand (if not it's ok but it's very good to know how to do a hand stand to learn a back hand spring!) roundoff,head stand,splits, toe touch (and it helps to know the splits to do a toe touch) hurkey, and ect. as much as you can learn. \n\nmake up cheers and a routine. and go over them.get a book on cheers. \n\nask some cheerleaders at your schools what it takes to be a cheerleader. they can help you. are better yet ask the cheerleading coach. she can really get you going!\n\nremember that cheering is serious and you can get hurt while stunting. so always use your head when cheering and donn't do anything at home like trying to lift your little sis into a lift with you down on the base with your brother!\n\nso jsut do all of that and you will be great! good luck!
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At my school, it's about who you know, not what you know.  You have to be able to do a roundoff backhand spring and be a good cheerleader.  Stiff, loud, smile.
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Yes definitely!\n\nImagine a football player having to run a play, while reciting a cheer, staying in step with the player next to him (or her), then at the correct moment have three to four players lift him up.  Cheerleaders do it.\n\nA high school cheerleader will, in most cases, memorize the names of all of the football and basketball players in order to do personalized cheers...on top of the pages of generic cheers they must learn.  A football player does have plays to remember, but he doesn't have to worry about the basketball team.\n\nIf you take five football players, five basketball players and five cheerleaders and required them to score a touchdown, score a basket and put someone in a half, (a half is where the flyer is lifted to sholder height of the bases) the cheerleaders will win.  There is a specific way the flyer has to jump into the hands of the bases or it's not going to go up.  Throwing a football can be done most anyway you hold it.  It may not go far, and it may not spiral, but it will go.  A basketball does not have to roll off the fingertips to score, but it will go into the basket.\n\nI broke my finger playing football as a child.  I ripped the tendon in my shoulder while playing centerfield as a teen.  I didn't injure myself playing basketball, but I did play on a league as a teen.  I have never been able to do anything above a thigh stand in cheerleading.  So, I am familiar with all sports as a participant.\n\nCheerleading is definitely a sport.  Like football, there are "plays" to remember and execute.  Like basketball, there is timing.  Like running, there is endurance.  The only difference is the participants have perfect hair the entire time.
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www.cheerleading-central.com\nIt costs money but helps.
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You'll probably want to take it to the PhD level.\n\nThat's 8 to 12 years after high school.  Then there's post doctorate study.  So probably 12 years.
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People play pool after leaving school. People play darts after leaving school. Besides cheerleading camp, tell me where all the cheerleading parks are. Cheerleading is not an enduring activity. It's like asking a CEO how he likes recess.
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I suggest stretching everyday.  You will need to do wall splits.  In cheerleading we used to do this before every practice...lay on the floor with your butt up against a wall, this will support your legs concentrating on the stretch.  let your legs fall to the sides as far as they will go and hold it as long as you can stand it up to 10 min.  The weight of your legs will create resistance.  Every time you do this you should notice a liitle more flexibility.  I would say it would take a couple of months doing this everyday to be able to do the splits.
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This is a great website\nhttp://www.cheerleading.com/gcards/ecards.php
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http://cheerleading.about.com/\nhttp://www.varsity.com/\nhttp://www.americancheerleader.com/...\nhttp://www.mspineapple.com/
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I was a Coach at a Junoir High and a High School for many years. As a ninth-grader you can "play up" as a Super-Frosh. I had two occassions also where an eighth-grader was asked to "play up" on the High School JV Team for two games. The eighth-graders continued to play on the Jr. High Team after playing up, but Super-Frosh continued to play at the High School level. \nIn my district, Super-Froshes played on both High School Varsity and High School JV and eleventh-graders down to eighth-graders could play High School JV.\nI agree with the other responder that it is counter-productive to play down if you play well at a higher level. However, if you are on-the-fence, playing up selectively is a good idea.\n\nOldCoach
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Official competitive rules (as far as I know) for high school level:\n\n-No movement on the block until starting sound is made. If the line judge sees movement he will order the swimmers to stand up and he will then order swimmers back down.\n-No leaving the block before the previous person in your relay has touched the wall. Early departure from the starting block will result in a DQ.\n-No entering the water for backstroke until the line judge gives the OK. Early enter can result in a DQ and late entry can result in either a DQ or a no-swim as determined by the line judge (if DQ is called only the swimmer's time is taken for coach's uses).\n-No flutter kick at all on breaststroke and butterfly.\n-2 hand touch on wall for butterfly and breaststroke, same level, same time\n-Flip turns for backstroke and freestyle in all events at all times in 1st heats that count for points. \n-No flip turns for breaststroke and butterfly in all events at all times. \n-No touching of the wall until finished for backstroke and freestyle. \n-No touching of the bottom of the pool for all events. \n-No re-entry into the water upon completion of the race. \n-Relay swimmers must be out of the water upon the arrival of the next swimmer to finish. \n-No controlable sound during diving.\n\nOther rules that apply to swimming as far as I know: \n\n-Pool temperature must be over 68 degrees and lower than 87 degrees Farenheit to swim in. Any lower or higher (respectively) and the meet is either delayed or postponed if not started. \n-No person with a commonly comunicable disease is allowed to swim.\n-No bodily fluids such as blood can enter the water in an obviously notible number. If they do enter the pool then all swimming is stopped for about 8-10 hours for all the pool's water to circulate through the filter.
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My cheer team went to Nationals in March, and the best  thing besides being 100% prepared and completely confident in every move, jump, and stunt is to practice in front of an audience.  \n\nFind out how large the floor you'll be performing on is, and measure the outline with tape on the gym floor or wherever you practice.  Go over how you will enter and exit the floor again and again.\n\nInvite everyone you know to watch your squad perform.  We had more experienced cheerleaders and coaches from other teams critique us, and we performed three times.  The bigger the audience, the more you will be prepared for the competition.\n\n\nMake sure to practice your facials, especially in front of an audience! Sometimes when you're nervous, you think that you are smiling but you aren't.\n\nMake sure to be full of spirit, because that's one of the things that the judges will look for!\n\nHave lots of fun, good luck!