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April 30, 2015 by UKCA Admin

Here at The UK Cheerleading Association we offer a wide range of fulfilling activities to our members and associates alike. Whether you Cheer, Coach or Volunteer, there are several processes of development within our organisation that we can set into motion for all members new and old. From moves and techniques based in gymnastics to dance related steps, we encourage a wide variation of choreography. Our upcoming competitions reflect varied levels of skill and development.

The West Midlands Cheerleading and Dance Competition at the Doug Ellis Sport Centre, Birmingham on May 10th 2015 is a valuable opportunity for Dance and Cheerleading groups to compete, when perhaps they aren’t quite equipped for National Competitions, this allows members to revel in the experience of a competition. Tickets for this event are £7.50, to purchase spectator tickets please email Kim at maddisonscic@yahoo.co.uk.

Our next competition on a larger scale is The UKCA Spring Championships in May 2015! We are eager to see Cheerleading teams along with hundreds of Cheerleaders attend and take part. We are always enthusiastic about all of our competitions, the Spring Competition across the weekend of May 16th & May 17th is a highly anticipated event for the UKCA and all of it’s members. You can discover further information and purchase spectator tickets for the event right here.

We’re also delighted that The UKCA National Schools’ Championships 2015 are just around the corner. Entires for the Schools’ Competition are still open, but close on the May 8th, so click here to secure your performance. We’re proud to bring another high energy weekend to The Manchester Velodrome in June, showcasing ‘The Sport of Smiles’ to the North West area of the UK. All of our competitions attract Cheerleaders from across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the National Schools’ Championships on 20th & 21st of June is no different.

Additionally, our Official UKCA Ambassador Lauren Quigley has been selected to compete as part of the British Swimming team at the FINA World Championships in Kazan 2015. Lauren is not only our Ambassador, but an inspiration to young people throughout Britain and the world over. So, from us here at The UKCA we wish her the best of luck in all of her endeavours.

Good luck to all of our members at our upcoming Competitions, we wish you all success and can’t wait to see you soon!

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

We Are Proud Of You!

April 24, 2015 by UKCA Admin

We’ve had a fantastic week here at The UKCA, we’ve had brilliant news. We are excited to announce that our Ambassador Lauren Quigley has made the British Swimming Team! We are proud of you! It’s fantastic to see her success rise and rise. You can read more information on the British Swimming team here.

We hope everyone has had a lovely week no matter what they’ve been doing, as the sun has been shining! It’s been a fantastic week and hopefully you have all had a great time. Are you ready for our upcoming Championships? We’re looking forward to the West Midlands Cheerleading and Dance Competition at Doug Ellis Sport Centre on the 10th of May, and the Spring Championships 2015 at the Manchester Velodrome on Saturday May 16th and Sunday May 17th. We are also so excited for our National School’s Competition in June 2015! You can still enter this competition and purchase spectator tickets by clicking here.

You can use our Club Management tool on our website to register Cheerleaders, coaches, and clubs. This system with allow you to manage your members online and you can click here for our How To: Use Our Club Management Tool, if you are still unsure. So if you have any issues then please refer to this page and all will be explained to you this handy step by step guide.

There are so many brilliant and varied categories within our competitions, we can’t wait to see all of the performances and skills that you are all busy practicing to show off at our events very soon. Keep up your training routine!

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

1 Month until The Spring Championships!

April 17, 2015 by UKCA Admin

After another successful competition we are looking ahead to the UKCA Spring Championships on Saturday 16th May & Sunday the 17th May. With so many different categories throughout the weekend, we can’t wait to see so many different moves, stunts and routines! Head over to the competition page on our website here to find out more information. Whether you are in the Tiny Teenies category, or part of a Senior Pom Dance squad, you can show us your skills throughout the competition.

There’s always the tough competition for who will win the Spirit Award! Here at The UKCA we award the teams who show the most Cheer spirit across both days of the competition and present them with the Spirit Award. This is a great opportunity for all teams to support each other and show who has the most Cheer spirit! Every single person at our competitions from Cheerleaders, to our dedicated volunteers and spectators all Cheer along the Cheerleaders, making sure we have a wonderful time at the events.

Please follow the link here to head to the website of the Manchester Velodrome, where the Spring Championships take place, this link will provide you with information and details such as parking and location.

You can also follow the this link here to purchase your spectator tickets for the weekend. You can purchase tickets for Saturday the 16th May or Sunday the 17th May, it’s also possible to purchase weekend tickets. We can’t wait to see you there! Good luck to all.

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA

This Week at The UKCA

April 10, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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.

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!

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

We are proud of you!

Team UKCA.

How To: Use Our Club Management Tool

March 29, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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

Click the option “Create a Club/Squad”

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

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.

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

How To: Enter A Competition

March 29, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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.

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

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.

Step 3: Enter Cheerleaders for Freestyle

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

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!

March 24, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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.

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.

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.

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!

March 20, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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!

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

March 13, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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.

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’.

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…

March 6, 2015 by UKCA Admin

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!

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.

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