Our online coaching resources are made to support and assist coaches in the successful running of their Cheerleading club. The resources include everything from video tutorials of exercises and warm-ups, example skills used in competitions and example documentation.

Anyone with a UKCA qualification will have access to the relevant Coach Toolbox and upon completion of new UKCA qualifications you’ll gain access to related resources and supporting course documentation. For example, if you hold a UKCA Leadership Award you will have access to the Leadership Resources, when you successfully complete a Foundation Cheerleading Skills course, the Foundation Cheerleading Skills will become available to you too.

Here’s how you access the resources:

Sign in to your UKCA account and select Dashboard in the top right of your screen

Navigation to the “Coach Resources” tab in your Dashboard

Here you will see the “Coach Toolbox” and resources available to you based on your current UKCA Qualifications, such as “Disability Resources”, “Leadership Resources” and “Found Cheerleading Skills Resources”.

The Coach Toolbox includes resources developed to give coaches a strong foundation to their club.

Qualification related resources such as “Leadership Resources” include downloadable reading material from your initial course and Video Lessons for you to follow with tips for you to implement in your own sessions.

Over the coming months we’ll be refining and developing more resources to help coaches continue to educate and inspire new Cheer athletes.

In May and June we ran a number of online competitions designed to challenge your Cheer skills and improve your abilities.

After a difficult process of choosing winners from a host of amazing submissions sent to us via social media (#UKCA), our judging panel decided on the winning submissions and the winners were awarded for their outstanding efforts with official UKCA merchandise!

Here are some of the winners in their winner’s t-shirts and bows!

We’d like to say another huge well done to everyone who submitted entries and a special well done to the challenge winners pictured above: Ebony (Pom Dance 1), Cora (Pom Dance 2), Ruby (Urban Cheer) and Sophia (Cheer Dance)!

Keep an eye out for more challenges coming soon!

Don’t forget all of the challenges and home conditioning workouts are still live on our website for you to follow along at home!

Check them all out here.

In their daily briefing the UK government has announced that outdoor pools can reopen to the public from 11th July followed by indoor gyms, pools and leisure centres on 25th July. Meaning that indoor exercise in community spaces will be permitted by the end of the month and Cheerleading clubs will be able to return to training.

“The Government has outlined the measures that will allow … sports facilities to reopen from 25 July, ensuring millions of people can get back into more sport and fitness activities.”

“It also supports the re-opening of sports halls which are vital to the return of play for many sports, including badminton and volleyball. Guidance produced by National Governing Bodies will complement the government guidance and help ensure indoor sports can be played safely from July 25.

Venues must ensure they can enable customers, staff and volunteers to maintain social distancing before, during and after participation.”

This is fantastic news for clubs and athletes who are eager to get back to Cheer training!

The full press release can be found at Government announces gyms and pools to reopen safely and further guidance published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in conjunction with UK Active, Sport and Recreation Alliance, Sport England and other sports bodies for the Providers of grassroots sport and gym/leisure facilities can be found here.

New to UKCA! Disability SEN Module

The first of our new online courses is a certified module for clubs and coaches to gain a better understanding of the needs of disabled participants

Refresh Your Qualification

Soon you’ll be able to complete an online refresher and generate a new certificate with a revised date of completion

Announcing UKCA Ambassadors

Something exciting is on the horizon…

UKCA’s multi-talented and inspirational Ambassador Lauren Quigley is an ex-professional GB swimmer.

Recently she shared her ‘2 Minute Why’ video explaining a little bit more about the idea behind Quigley Swim, her latest project that aims to give back to the sport that has given her so much.

Watch:

It’s a really interesting project and it’s great to see experienced athletes using their platform to help the next generation. We’ll be keeping an eye on Lauren’s posts and looking to see how we can transfer and relate to some of Lauren’s personal career experiences to the sport of Cheerleading too.

Check out more and follow at Quigley Swim.

For the 2020/2021 competition season there will be updates to some of the rules at our competitions. These rules will apply to the UKCA Winter Championships on December 5th & 6th 2020 and onwards.

Please make sure you read them carefully.

Click here to view the updated Rules & Regulations

This week, as part of a new series profiling captivating sports and activities in the UK, Sport & Recreation Alliance featured our wonderful sport.

The first of the series titled Inside the World of Cheerleading in the UK features an interview with the UK Cheerleading Association’s Chief Executive, Pat Hawkins, and touches on the basics of Cheerleading, its scoring system, how people can get involved and the future of the sport we love.

“Cheerleading is a fun sport, accessible to all, where individuals can come together as part of an extended family. It can be both recreational and competitive and there are several disciplines under the one umbrella…

Cheerleading promotes teamwork, friendship and fun, whilst setting individual goals, both physical and mental, to enhance wellbeing.

It’s the sport of smiles”

To read the full article visit Inside the world of Cheerleading in the UK and make sure you share with your friends and family who might also be interested in learning more about Cheerleading and how to get involved themselves.

We’d like to say thank you to Sport & Recreation Alliance for shining a light on our rapidly growing sport and we look forward to seeing more of their insights on the sport and activities of its members over the coming weeks!

Read the full article.