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This Week at The UKCA

We are looking forward to our Spring Championships, which are taking place at The Manchester Velodrome on Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of May. You can find more information on both days of the competition by clicking here. Spectator tickets are also on sale via our online system, which can be found on our website. However, entries for our Spring Championships 2015 have now closed, unless otherwise specified.

We are holding Tumbling courses this weekend, it’s great to see so many UKCA members learning new skills & growing their sporting knowledge on such a high level course. You can find our UKCA Cheerleading & coaching pathway on our website here, this will help to guide you through the different aspects of Cheerleading and allow you to realise which course you want to take. So, no matter your Cheerleading passion here at the UKCA, we have something for everyone.

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The Clarets, Shooting Stars & Manni the Mascot are all cheering and supporting everyone at the Manchester Giants! Great cheer spirit guys, we are proud of you! It’s fantastic to see our UKCA members at sporting events keeping the atmosphere alive and fun! Such a great job, we hope you’re all having a fantastic day. We will be seeing more of the UKCA teams at our Spring Championships which are little more than a month away. Keep up the good work, keep training and we’ll see you in May!

Follow us on social media across several online platforms, which you can find here:

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UKCA Twitter

UKCA Facebook

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UKCA YouTube Channel

We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming courses, competitions & the Spring Championships!

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

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How To: Use Our Club Management Tool

Welcome to the new UKCA Club Management tools.

Firstly you’ll want to be in your dashboard, click here to go to your dashboard (don’t worry it’ll open in a new window) If you don’t have an account with us you can register here.

Your dashboard will look like this

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Click the option “Create a Club/Squad”

You will be taken to this page where you can enter some info about your club/squad.

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Once you click “Submit” your club/squad will be created and you can then add your Teams.

Now from Manage Your Club/ Squad from your dashboard your newly created club will be listed here. Click on manage to add teams, cheerleaders and coaches to the club.

Here you can add as many teams as you want to your club by clicking on Add A Team. It is important to try and add all of your teams, including any competition specific teams.

REMEMBER A CHEERLEADER CAN BE IN MORE THAN ONE TEAM & THIS IS TO MAKE COMPETITION ENTRY AS EASY AS POSSIBLE

To add Cheerleaders to your club use our team management tool shown here:

Please note: You can also choose to add coaches to your club here as well.

This is where you can add your cheerleaders to your club/squad and its teams.

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Simply enter the email address, First and Last Name and date of birth. The system will then search for any accounts that match these details and add them to your club.

If they are not in our system, they will be added to your club and emailed (assuming you enter their email address) Welcoming them to the UKCA.

From the Team management tool you will be able to drag and drop the cheerleaders you added, to the the teams that you created previously.

If you need to make any changes to your clubs/squads, teams or cheerleaders there is a “Manage Your Clubs/Squads” option in the dashboard

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How To: Enter A Competition

So firstly you need to have created all your clubs & teams and added your cheerleaders to those.

If you aren’t sure how to do this you can follow our guide here

So once you’ve done that you find the competition you wish to enter in our competition diary (Please note the competition entry system is only for official UKCA competition)

Select the competition you wish to enter and scroll down until you see the button as below.

Enter Competition

Once you’ve clicked this you may need to sign in, if you don’t have an account we suggest you register and then use the club management tools mentioned earlier on.

Step 1: Select your club

Select Your Club

Step 2: Enter teams

There are a large number of available categories, simply click to expand the categories then you can drag and drop your teams in.

Enter a Category

Expand the categories

Drop squads in

Step 3: Enter Cheerleaders for Freestyle

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Step 4: Review your entry and add helpers and any additional coaches that are attending the competition.

Entry Overview

Step 5: The final stage you will be given the total cost of your entry and details on how to pay.

The National Championships 2015!

Last weekend saw the return of The UK Cheerleading Association to the Manchester Velodrome for The National Championships 2015! We were absolutely thrilled to welcome all of our UKCA members, coaches, volunteers and spectators back for another great weekend of ‘The Sport of Smiles’. With so many different cheer categories across the weekend, it was fantastic to see such a wide range of cheerleading talent! From Tiny Teenies to Senior Group Stunt there were so many fantastic performances across the weekend. In this week’s blog we are going to share some of our favourite aspects of the weekend with you. Firstly, we would like to congratulate Katie from Kobika Starlites on winning our UKCA Coach of The Year Award! Our coaches are a really big part of The UKCA as an organisation and all of our squads wouldn’t be at the level they are now without the help, training and guidance from our coaches, so well done to you all.

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We’d also like to give a big thank you to our UKCA Comperes who kept the energy alive across 2 days of cheer fun! Also, we’d like to welcome our newest Compere, Ryan. He was great and really brought a fun aspect to the event with his dance moves and Cheer spirit! So a big UKCA thank you goes out to Jason, Lane & Ryan & Vicky! You can find pictures & videos featuring the comperes, performances & spectators on our Instagram, so click here to follow us and keep up with all things UKCA.

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Congratulations to Kobika Starlite who took home the Insure 4 Sport Spirit Award and also to The Clarets who were winners of the Milano Spirit Award! To all of the competitors at the weekend you did an amazing job of keeping everybody involved entertained and really showed off the spirit of the UKCA! We hope you managed to catch our friends Halbro, AntCheer and Logobility who were supporting us all weekend with their fantastic cheer products.

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Our highlights of the event were the 1,600 Cheerleaders who took part in our #ThisGirlCan photo and the Mexican wave! What was the highlight of your weekend?

Can’t wait to see you all again soon for the Spring Championships in May 2015!

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

The National Championships are here!

We cannot wait for this weekend! Each and every year we look forward to The National Cheerleading Championships, which are held at the Manchester Velodrome. With so many fantastic categories throughout the weekend we’re sure to see lots of fantastic talent. There are so many different categories which will display lots of different moves and stunts. From group stunt to street cheer there will be many areas of Cheerleading on show. Which category are you looking forward to the most?

Whether you are competing or a spectator, we can’t wait to see you. As a spectator you will have a fantastic weekend, where you can show your support and watch the Cheerleading teams and squads as they show off their skills! if you have friends and family who are competing then be sure to show the same level of support to all of the other teams that are competing. We love to see the support and encouragement that the spectators bring to our events, it’s fantastic!

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Moreover, if you need anymore information concerning the weekend and the manchester Velodrome then please head to their website, here… where you can find out all you need to know about location and parking. We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow for a wonderful weekend of Cheer! Who wants to win the Spirit Award?

Don’t forget to keep up with all of the action from the Championships by following us on Twitter @UKCheerleading

We are proud of you.

Team UKCA.

28 New UKCA Coaches To Qualify This Weekend! #ThisGirlCan

Here at the UK Cheerleading Association we are focussed on involving new and existing members with our educational training programmes. We train and coach thousands of UK based Cheerleaders across the Country. We really enjoy our courses, meeting new members and helping them to grow.

This is especially great in regards of our weekend courses which can be more intense as these are usually Level 4 training courses. Some of our more advanced classes can span over 4 days, these are great ways to expand your knowledge. Head over to our Coaching Pathway here and find the best option for you to take on your Cheerleading journey. We run an advanced Intermediate Stunts course once a year which is more instensive and requires a lot of resources. We’re looking to run more and more courses throughout the year.

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So it’s great to announce that we are training 28 new UK Cheerleading coaches this weekend across the North West and the West Midlands. We are bringing more and more Cheerleaders and females lathes to the This Girl Can campaign. We also work in conjuction with many other sport and charity organisations such as Youth Sport Trust, Greater Sport, Sporting Promise, Manchester City Council, Halbro Sportswear and Milano. So if you want to get involved with the This Girl Can movement then enrol on a course with us now & start exercising with ‘The Sport of Smiles’.

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Good luck to all our members who are training this weekend! We will see you all soon at the UKCA National Championships 2015 at the Manchester Velodrome.

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

The National Championships are almost here…

Are you ready for the UKCA March National Championships 2015?

Last year we saw fantastic talent from all of our Cheerleaders and coaches. The routines are precision just keeps on improving year on year! Not only are all of the UKCA members fantastic but so are all of our spectators and supporters who turn up at all of our events and cheer on each and every squad – you really make a difference! All of our volunteers and those who work with the Teenage Cancer Trust who dedicate their entire weekends to lending a hand and giving their full support, bring an absolutely amazing aspect to the day. We are proud of you!

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The March Nationals at the Manchester Velodrome are always a big event for us here in the UK. We look forward to this competition each and every year. Plus all of the interaction which we have shared across our social media channels on Facebook, Twitter and here on our website has been outstanding. We can see how important the This Girl Can campaign has been to so many cheer leading teams across the country. It is a fantastic ongoing event to be a part of and we encourage you to keep on sending us your fantastic images from training and competitions. We know there will be plenty more #ThisGirlCan at the Manchester Velodrome very soon indeed!

We can’t wait to see you all soon!

Team UKCA.

The UKCA is in Northern Ireland this weekend!

Today we are all systems go at the Antrim Forum in Northern Ireland for the Antrim Primary Schools Festival! This event is happening throughout the whole of today, we can’t wait to see all of the cheerleaders, coaches and supporters at the event. This event is an important date in the calendar for us here at The UKCA. The majority of our cheerleaders are based in England so it can be difficult for us to arrange large events of this scale in the area of Northern Ireland. However, we do ensure that we have events which run there throughout the year, so this Festival is a wonderful experience for us to get our young cheerers together and have a fun filled day.

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Due to our lack of high numbers of UKCA members within Northern Ireland we recommend that if you want to run a course or complete more UKCA events & educational based programmes, that you set up a course in your area. This is a great chance for experienced coaches and members to up their skills and take on the challenge of running a UKCA course themselves. It’s brilliant to be in control of your own training and you will be able to create a fantastic cheer community in your area. Please find all of the information for setting up a club or hosting a course in your area here.

We can’t wait for all of our events in Northern Ireland and will be adding as many events in that area as we can.

We are proud of you! Team UKCA.

The UKCA across all Three Home Countries!

UKCA has held courses up and down the country. It’s brilliant to be training so many UKCA members and helping them to improve their skills. Holding courses in England, Scotland and Wales we’re so happy to see so many cheerleaders, coaches and members here in the UK. With plenty of training and education courses across all 3 of the home countries we are very proud to see so many cheerleaders mastering their craft!

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All of the courses which we are holding across the entirety of the United Kingdom mean that we are sure to be impressed with the cheer talent at our competitions. With the Northern Ireland National Championships only 1 week away we can’t wait to see all the new skills put into practice! There are many UK Cheerleading competitions which take place throughout the year, we’re also looking forward to the championships in March – how could we forget? Make sure you purchase your tickets for these events (if possible, as some are just available at the venue box office on the day) to ensure you aren’t disappointed!

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We love to see all of the supporters in the crowds at our events & competitons, here at The UKCA we have so many wonderful parents & supporters to come along to our events and keep the atmosphere up all day long! See you all soon

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

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1 Month On: The UKCA & This Girl Can

Last month we were ecstatic to announce The UKCA’s involvement with the ‘This Girl Can’ campaign from Sport England. Well, after announcing our partnership with you all and promoting #ThisGirlCan across our social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, we can now show you some of our fantastic This Girl Can images! We are so excited about this initiative & we are loving the responses from so many UKCA members across the UK and Northern Ireland.

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This image was shared with us from The Olympus Girls Cheerleading squad as they are hard at training read for the Northern Ireland National Championships on the 28th Feb. Thank you to Kim Gillespie for sharing! We have brought together some of our favourite images that we’ve recently received from members of The UKCA. What do you think of our This Girl Can images? Keep a look out across our Facebook and Twitter for more This Girl Can from The UKCA. So continue to send us images of your teams and you could have your very own This Girl Can poster!

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Here are some of our Cheerleaders showing their cheer spirit at a recent course of ours. So if you attending any of our upcoming course be sure to tweet us your photos @UKCheerleading. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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We are proud of you! #ThisGirlCan