Cheerleading

Winter Cheerleading Championships 2017 – Review

December 6, 2017 by UKCA Admin

This weekend the National Cycling Centre was the scene for the final official UKCA competition of the calendar year. Cheerleaders from all over the country travelled to the Manchester venue to compete against fellow athletes in Cheerleading, Group Stunt, Partner Stunt, Pom Dance, Cheer Dance and Street Cheer categories.

Results

All of the results from the weekend are now live on our Results section.

View Saturday Results

View Sunday Results

Watch the Highlights!

Competition Gallery

We’d like to say a huge well done to everyone who competed as always we were inspired by the level of ability and professionalism you showed! A massive thank you must go out to all of the coaches, judges, event organisers and, of course, spectators who helped make it an amazing end to 2017 Cheer competition! We can’t wait to see you all again next year!

We are proud of you, we are proud of you!

Cheerleading World Championships 2017 Review

November 13, 2017 by UKCA Admin

This weekend saw the Cheerleading World Championships 2017 take place at the Takasaki Arena in Japan. Athletes descended on the brand new, 3-story, Kantō region facility to showcase their talents against some of the best Cheerleaders from around the world. Last Tuesday Team UK travelled over 5,800 miles to get to the competition but for those athletes representing the United Kingdom the journey to the 9th Cheerleading World Championships began in 2016.

March 2016 – June 2016
For athletes to be eligible for Team UK selection they must compete in an official UKCA competition.

November 2016
Team UK squad selection is announced on the last day of the month.

March 2017 – June 2017
Team UK athletes compete for their Clubs in official UKCA competition.

September 2017
Team UK take part in their first official training sessions.

October 2017
Team UK take part in their final official training sessions before they travel to Japan.

7th November 2017
Team UK and their supporters leave the UK for Japan and arrive in Takasaki to sunny skies!

8th November 2017
Team UK arrive at the Takasaki Arena for their penultimate practice session in the venue where they will compete.

9th November 2017
Team UK take part in their final practice session before competition and meet other athletes from around the world.

10th November 2017
Athletes from around the world take to the Takasaki Arena for the final time before competition day for an event rehearsal. Athletes from Team UK meet fellow athletes and visualise their routines.

11th & 12th November 2017
After months of preparation the Cheerleading World Championships 2017 is finally here. Team UK compete in Cheerleading Junior 2, Cheerleading Senior All Female, Cheer Dance Doubles Junior 2, Cheer Dance Doubles Senior categories. The final day of competition is streamed live on YouTube to people all over the world.

13th November 2017
Team UK are rewarded for their months of dedication with a celebration day at Disney Tokyo!

Results

Cheerleading Junior 2 – Team UK 2nd Place

Cheerleading Senior All Female – Team UK 4th Place

Cheer Dance Doubles Junior 2 – Team UK 7th Place

Cheer Dance Doubles Senior – Team UK 8th Place

A full list of results is available on the official Takasaki 2017 website

On behalf of all at the UKCA, we’d like to say a huge well done to Team UK’s athletes and coaches for their superb performances against some of the world’s elite Cheerleaders. Your attitude and commitment in the months leading up to the competition have been fantastic and you represented the United Kingdom brilliantly.

We’d also like to say a massive thank you to the supporters and helpers who travelled with the squad to Japan.

We are proud of you, we are proud of you!

UKCA Cheerleading Courses

November 9, 2017 by UKCA Admin

We’d like to say a huge WELL DONE to everyone who’s taken part in our recent courses across the UK! It’s fantastic to see how enthusiastic you all are to learn and develop within the sport.

In October alone UKCA hosted courses covering Cheerleading Leaderships, Basic Skills, Stunting and Tumbling. We pride ourselves on offering a very high standard, diverse range of Cheerleading education to all of our attendees.

Take a look at some of the highlights from recent courses:

UKCA hold coaching courses throughout the calendar year across the country, book on a course that’s right for you today:

October 2017 Newsletter – Happy Halloween!

November 2, 2017 by UKCA Admin

We hope you all have a spooky night and a fun time, make sure you tag us in with your costume pics using #ukca on Instagram or Twitter.

Upcoming Courses

Check out our latest courses happening up and down the country.

Final Training Session

As 28 countries prepare to make their way to the World Championships in Japan, Team UK are eagerly awaiting their final training session this weekend. We wish them all good luck at the Championships.

Zephz Shoes

A huge thank you to Zephz shoes for providing Team UK with some awesome footwear for the World Championships.

Winter Championship Tickets

With entries now closed, we’re in for an exciting competition so make sure you get your tickets to avoid disappointment.

Team UKCA.

Northern Vipers – 2017 Aviva Community Fund

October 27, 2017 by UKCA Admin

As you will have seen in recent weeks UKCA have shared information about 2017’s Aviva Community Fund.

The initiative offers local projects of all sizes the chance to win funding from £1,000 up to £25,000 which could be enough money to change lives for the better within their community.

The fund fall’s into various categories:

• Health & Well Being (including physical activity in a community setting!)
• Skills for life
• Inclusivity and Community

Applications fall into four levels:

• Up to £1K
• Up to £5K
• Up to £10K
• Up to £25K

Northern Vipers, a familiar name to many in the UKCA Cheerleading community recently submitted their application for funding and are now, fantastically, through to the public vote which is active between 24th October-21st November 2017.

Vipers have submitted a joint project, along with a local gymnastics team. They are hoping to get funding for a full floor, a tumble track and a trampoline rig to help them develop and improve their routine spacing on bigger competition floors, increase tumble skills and safely practicing Level 6 basket skills.

To vote for Northern Vipers and take them a step closer to their goal in the 2017 Aviva Community Fund, visit: The Aviva Community Fund before the 21st November deadline.

Good luck to Northern Vipers Cheerleading and Grindon Gymnastics Club from all at UKCA.

Winter Cheerleading Championships 2017 – Last Week to Enter

October 12, 2017 by UKCA Admin

There’s just over a week left to enter the final UKCA competition of the calendar year!

That’s right it’s that exciting time of year again – Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas AND the UKCA WINTER CHEERLEADING CHAMPIONSHIPS! It feels like forever since our last competition back at the beginning of the summer, so we’re especially excited about this one!

This year the Winter Championships take place on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd December with competition due to start at 9am on both days however an official running order will be made and sent to coaches once the competition entry process has been completed.

Over the course of the weekend, we’ll see teams compete across Cheerleading, Group Stunt, Partner Stunt, Pom Dance, Cheer Dance and Street Cheer categories…and of course the mascot dance-off! It’s not one to be missed.

The official deadline for entries is MONDAY 23rd OCTOBER so make sure your get your entries in as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

To enter and find our more information about the event, visit the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championship 2017 competition page.

We can’t wait to see you all there!

UKCA Newsletter – 29/09/17

September 29, 2017 by UKCA Admin

ICYMI: Here’s the latest UKCA newsletter

UKCA Winter Championship

Make sure you get your entries in.

Update Your Details

To allow The UK Cheerleading Association to provide the best service to you we need to get in touch from time to time, send out certificates, confirm courses bookings or your entrance into a competition.

Please make sure we have the most up to date information so that we can continue to improve our service to you.

Upcoming Courses

Check out all Upcoming Courses including two at King’s in Macclesfield over the next couple of weeks

Team UK Prep For Japan 2017

2nd training session this weekend, Team UK are raring to go!

Team UK & UKCA

Are proud of all the Athletes taking part in the Invictus Games in Toronto

Team UKCA.

Winners Draw

September 25, 2017 by UKCA Admin

UKCA are always looking for ways to improve our service to you. To help us plan for the future, we want to understand more about what our brilliant Clubs and Cheerleaders located up and down the country are up to.

Please share your feedback so we can make the Sport of Cheer

BIGGER AND BETTER!

Complete this survey to win

BBC Radio 4 – ‘Why cheerleading is taking off’

September 18, 2017 by UKCA Admin

Cheerleading on the airwaves! As some of you may have heard, on the 11th September 2017 BBC Four aired a feature on our sport, Cheerleading.

“It used to be about pom-poms, short skirts and jaunty chants, but these days it’s more about athletic prowess. Cheerleading is on its way into being included in the Olympics. But despite becoming more popular in the U.K., it’s not recognised by any governing body. Cheerleaders say it’s time Sport England stepped in and regulated it.”

As part of the feature, Elizabeth Hotson spoke to UKCA’s President, Pat Hawkins, about the growth and development of the sport in the UK.

EH: There are lots of different variously sized bodies organising Cheerleading and Pat Hawkins is Chief Executive of one of them, the UK Cheerleading Association.

PH: In the twenty-plus years that I’ve been involved, we started off with less than 300 cheerleaders and currently the association that I’m involved with has in excess of 235,000 involved and I know that there are other organisations and event producers that have got a lot of Cheerleaders registered. So there are thousands and thousands of young people in this country actively taking part in Cheerleading on a daily basis.

EH: So if it’s so enormous and a growing, fledgling olympic sport, why isn’t it regulated by Sport England?

PH: They know that the numbers are very very big and now Sport England really need to stick their neck out and say ‘OK we’re going to have a governing body that can oversee the growth and development of this very exciting sport.

EH: And the governing body would have set rules, set regulations and set safety standards?

PH: Absolutely.

You can listen to BBC Four’s full feature on Cheerleading over on their website – BBC Four – Why cheerleading is taking off