With the comp now less than a month away it’s time to get your spectator tickets to experience two days of stunts, dance and winter cheer!
Buy: https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/winter-championships-2016/
Competitions
Winter Championships 2016 – Get Your Entries In!
Don’t forget: Get your entries in for the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championships 2016, there is only a few days left to enter! UKCA competitions are always exciting, by entering a competition this gives you the opportunity to show off your skills and challenge yourself. Visit: https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/winter-championships-2016 now to book on to our final competition of the year!
We can’t wait to see you there!
Team UK Cheerleading World Championships November 2017 Japan
We are looking for talented athletes to represent the United Kingdom at the Cheerleading World Championships November 2017 in the following categories:
Juniors
Cheerleading
Cheer Dance
Cheer Dance Doubles
Must have turned 12 on day of competition
Cannot be older than 16 on day of competition
Seniors
Cheerleading
Group Stunt
Partner Stunt
Cheer Dance
Cheer Dance Doubles
Must be over the age of 16 on day of competition
Criteria
Athletes must have competed in a UKCA 2016 competition
Athletes must also commit to compete in a UKCA 2017 competition
Application Process
Online application form plus video
Video showing skills listed – maximum one minute
Click here to submit your entry
Application Deadline Date 31st October 2016
Successful Applicants Announced 30th November 2016
If you have athletes that fit the criteria and would like to be considered for this once in a life time opportunity, please pass on this information.
Team UK Required Skills
Cheerleading
Tumbling – Minimum requirement
Standing back handspring on a non-sprung floor
Tumble pass showing other linked skills
Jumps – Sequence including not less than
Toe touch – Herkie on both legs – Pike
Flyers
Show a number of flexibility skills on the ground
Heel stretch – Scale – Scorpion – Spike
• Video showing skills listed above – maximum one minute
OR
Group Stunt/Partner Stunt
Continuous stunts including different mounts & dismounts
• Video showing skills listed above – maximum one minute
OR
Cheer Dance
Kicks – Splits – Leaps – Jumps – Pirouettes – Fouttes
• Video showing skills listed above – maximum one minute
Only one video per athlete can be accepted
Successful Applicants Announced 30th November 2016
September Newsletter
World Class Stunt Workshop
Thanks to our European friends for sharing your top level knowledge and experience, and helping to educate more than 150 UKCA coaches and athletes at the fabulous stunt workshops over a wonderful weekend.
Longstanding UKCA Volunteers, Karen and Louise Adlam supporting others click here for more information.
Regular performance opportunities while supporting local teams.
Futsal – North West
Contact Simon Wright
simon.wright@manchesterfutsal.com
Wheelchair Basketball – Nationwide
Contact Franky Harper
f.harper@britishwheelchairbasketball.co.uk
Gain invaluable knowledge and understanding about the score sheet by booking onto the Level 1 Judging Course
Winter Championships Entries Closing Soon
The deadline for entries is 24/10/2016 so don’t miss out!
Team UK 2017
Announcement to be made Monday 10th October, check back with us soon
We can’t wait to see you all at the next event.
Team UKCA.
How To Enter A UKCA Competition
As you will have seen we recently released the dates for our 2017 competitions. You can find all the information you need to know in last week’s blog post: ukca.org.uk/2016/09/ukca-competitions-2017
You can now enter all of UKCA’s 2017 competitions as well as our final comp of 2016, the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championships 2016. As always entries get filled very quickly due to the high demand of the competition so don’t waste any time getting your entries in to avoid disappointment, it promises to be another fantastic weekend!
If you have never entered a UKCA competition before and need some help navigating your way through the process the UKCA “How To: Enter A Competition” guide is there to help. The guide breaks the process down step-by-step to ensure that your entry goes as smoothly as possible. We’ve included some visual guides to help, too. The “How To” guide can be found here: ukca.org.uk/2015/03/how-to-enter-a-competition
Step 1: Select your club
Step 2: Enter teams
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
We’ve made our entry system as simple as possible to reduce the amount of time it takes our coaches to enter their teams into our competitive events.
UKCA can’t wait to see you at our next competition and at our 2017 championships.
Team UKCA
UKCA Championships 2016/17
Autumn is now just around the corner and that means here at the UKCA we are looking ahead to UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championships and beyond.
This year’s Winter comp will take place on Saturday the 3rd and Sunday 4th December at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. It promises to be an amazing occasion as we round off a fantastic year of competitions just before the new year! Places are filling up fast so get your entries in asap to avoid disappointment. Took book on visit: https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/winter-championships-2016/
As well as looking ahead to the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championships 2016 you may also have seen that our official dates for the 2017 competition calendar have now been confirmed and are live on our website.
We kick off the year with UKCA NI National Schools and Club Cheerleading Championships 2017 on the 3rd and 4th of March at the Antrim Forum Leisure Centre. For more information on this comp visit https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/antrim-newtownabbey-primary-school-festival-ni-national-schools-club-championships-2017/
The Northern Ireland comp is closely followed by the UKCA National Cheerleading Championships 2017 on the 18th and 19th of March at Manchester Velodrome. To book on visit https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/national-championships-2017/
In May the National Cycling Centre hosts the UKCA Spring Cheerleading Championships 2017 on the 13th and 14th of May. To book on visit: https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/spring-championships-2017/
The UKCA National Schools’ Cheerleading Championships 2017 takes place in June at the Manchester Velodrome on the 24th and 25th. For more information visit: https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/national-schools-championship-2017/
The final UKCA comp of the year is the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championships 2017 on the 2nd and 3rd of December at the Manchester Velodrome. For more information about this comp visit: https://ukca.org.uk/competitions/winter-championships-2017/
The year ahead promises to be very exciting and we can’t wait to see you all at our comps.
Team UKCA
Well Done Team UK
Last weekend saw the European Cheerleading Championships held in Koper, Slovenia with teams from all over Europe competing over 2 days at the Arena Bonifika. We saw some hugely impressive performances, it’s always amazing to see our friends from other countries competing too and really shows how popular the sport is across the continent.
It was another successful year for our UK teams, picking up 12 Gold medals, 12 Silver medals, 10 Bronze medals. A very impressive haul I’m sure you’ll agree!
The full set of the results from the championship can be found here: http://ow.ly/tAvR302c8UZ
We would like to say a huge well done to everyone who competed at ECC 2016 representing the United Kingdom. We’re incredibly proud of you all and would like to thank you all for being such superb ambassadors for Cheerleading in the UK.
We are proud of you!
A Fantastic Year So Far
It’s been a week since the UKCA National Schools’ Cheerleading Championship and we’re still talking about how impressed we were with the quality of performance throughout the weekend. If you haven’t yet had chance to read our official review of the comp you can find it here: www.ukca.org.uk/2016/06/schools-national-championships-2016 and all of the live coverage from the event is on the official UKCA Instagram feed www.instagram.com/theukca.
Now we look forward to the ECC 2016 in Slovenia where a handful of our teams will be competing and of course the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championship in December.
This year’s European Cheerleading Championships will be held in Koper, Slovenia and will take place the on 9th and 10th of July 2016. More information about the event can be found here: www.ecc2016koper.com.
The next UKCA comp of the year will be the UKCA Winter Cheerleading Championship on the 3rd and 4th of December 2016. Information about the event can be found on the Competitions section of our website: ukca.org.uk/competitions/winter-championships-2016/.
Of course in between competitions the UKCA is always holding courses to help our cheerleaders progress before their next competition. A list of the upcoming courses for 2016 can be found here: ukca.org.uk/education/upcoming-courses/.
2016 has been a fantastic year at the UKCA already and there is much more to look forward to. We can’t wait to see you soon!
Team UKCA
Highlights from the UKCA Spring Cheerleading Championship 2016
Check out the highlights from the UKCA Spring Cheerleading Championships 2016 in this montage video made by the very talented duo of Grant Quigley and sister, UKCA Ambassador and Commonwealth Silver Medalist Swimmer, Lauren Quigley. The video looks amazing and really captures what a fantastic weekend we had! We would like to say a big thank you to Grant and Lauren for producing it for us, you guys rock!
We are proud of you, say we are proud of you!
Last Chance to Enter the UKCA Spring Championships 2016
Right off the back of our highly successful UKCA National Championships 2016 that took place at the end of March we are now looking forward to the UKCA Spring Championships 2016 on 14th and 15th May.
The Spring Championships is the third official UKCA competition of the year and is looking set to be another showstopper!
The action at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester will kick off on Saturday with Cheerleading performances, Group Stunts and Partner Stunts and we’ll continue through Sunday with routines from Pom Dance, Cheer Dance, Street Cheer categories.
If you haven’t entered the UKCA Spring Championships yet, visit https://ukca.org.uk/upcoming-competitions/ before the entry deadline which is rapidly approaching, to ensure you don’t miss out!
If you haven’t entered a UKCA competition before we have made a handy guide for you to follow to make the process much easier: https://ukca.org.uk/2015/03/how-to-enter-a-competition/
Spectator tickets are available for Adults (£10 per day) and Children under 16 (£1 per day).
To help answer any queries quickly please check the orange tab at the top of the page for all competition related information before calling. You will find lots of information available on the UKCA web site.
We have an admin team for entry questions: admin@ukca.org.uk
We can’t wait to see you there!
