Cheerleading

Its that time of year again, MLK weekend and that means UCA nationals. It’s one of two college nationals. The other NCA, which is held usually in early April. To keep it short, my favorite is UCA, though I’ve been to both. Anyway, I have a bunch of friends competing and I would like to wish them the best of luck. Here are the teams I’m pulling for: Villanova Small Coed – Lets go Cats! My Alma martyr. Southern All Girl Division II – Good luck, your routine is fantabulous, wish you the best. Southern All-Girl Partner Stunt Groups – Both of the groups I’ve seen have great routines, really hope you do well. Special wishes to Cheri, Kay, and Haley, who I have had the pleasure of cheering with on my CT Spirit Onyx open team. Bill Mayo, University of Delaware, Coed Partner Stunt – Good Luck Bill, hope you do well, make ACE proud!

As competition season is fast approaching and my front through to layout still needing work, I decided to start re-working my Roundoff handspring full again, to make sure I had at least something to throw for our first competition. Well, I started a few weeks ago with throwing layouts, but to no real success. The layouts timing was off. What do you expect after a nearly 6 month break from working on them. ...

The best feeling as a coach is when one of your students has a great day. Yesterday evening was one of those days, and it means enough for me to be slightly late to work in order to write about it. There are three major components in cheerleading for a guy, throwing people around, throwing ourselves around, and yelling. Yesterday was a very strong day for our guys, to be called Big and Little. ...

When I went to UCA camp last weekend there were two new dances being pushed around: aka, the Soulja Boy. And: Check them out. They are fun.

Its official, I’m now a volenteer assistant coach for the St. John’s Cheerleading program. I’m very excited to be working with such a wonderful program and team. I have been helping out a few practices prior to camp and I will be going to visit them (and my college program, Villanova) at UCA camp tomorrow.