Just curious if there are any high school cheer parents on here. We are in our second year of high school cheer. We may be going back to all stars as well. She did both last year.
Just curious how your school works. Do they allow your kids to do both all star and school? How much do you pay and for what? Where do you practice? How often? Do you attend the games?
We love going to the games on Friday night. Our school does fairly well in football so that helps. The girls don't have to do too much since they compete as well. We don't want them to hurt themselves for comp season. But they do stunt some and tumble a little. They don't do a halftime show. They get to do whatever they want at halftime.
It costs us $2500 total, incuding 3 uniforms, comp fees, gym fees and coach fees. They practice game stuff at school and it's their last class. They don't do PE. Once a week during football season is when they practice at the all star gym and tumble and stunt. Then they are encouraged to tumble an extra day and get a special rate if they do it at the OC gym. But they can go where they wish. Once football is over, practice for comp season is 2 X per week.
You aren't allowed to be on Varsity if you're a freshman. When you try out, the top 20 scores make Varsity and second 20 make JV. Seniors aren't allowed to be on JV as well.
Well, just curious how everyone else does. We don't have a comp schedule yet, so I can't talk about that.
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I am a high school and allstar cheer mom. My daughter does high school cheer and after some resistance from the school is also doing a level 5 all star team. Our hs is way less involved than yours though. Our girls practice 3 days a week at the school with no mats or spring floors and they do the football games on Fridays and then will do the basketball games in the spring. They do cheers, stunts, and some limited tumbling at the games and do a halftime routine which includes all of the above also.
They don't really compete although the coach keeps saying they will (they haven't the last two years). We pay about $1500 for uniform, sweats, camp, camp clothes, and athletic fee for hs. I don't allow hs to take presedence over all star since it is not a competitive team so it works out ok. It will be interesting when basketball comes around as last year her allstar team only practiced one weeknight during the week and not until 7pm and my daughter was on JV so she didn't miss much at the hs. This year we practice two weeknights at 6:30 and the gym is 45 min away and she is on Varsity so it will be really difficult to make the games. I don't know what we will do, but we will worry about it then.
We are in the same boat...my daughter is doing both HS and all star for the first time in her four years of HS cheer. She was tired of being promised a competition squad every year and it never happening. Football season has worked out ok, but basketball will be a different story! We too will cross that bridge when we come to it! OC Mom....sounds like your daughters HS has a pretty "together" cheer program, good for you! We have been disappointed for years in ours. The majority of our HS cheerleaders come from a VERY successful and talented youth program, only to step down to a much less structured, non-competitive setting....very disappointing for us cheer moms
I am not a high school mom but I am a high school coach. I have two girls on my team who also compete on the level 4 and level 5 teams at Pyramids. Our high school does have a competition team consisting of 30 girls from JV and Varsity. The cost for someone coming into our program brand new and cheering for both game and comp team is a little over $2000 before Nationals. That includes camp, camp clothes, uniform, coaches fees, bus fees, and comp entry fees. We perform at half-time and attend all football games and all home basketball games with a few away. Our football team is pretty good and we go to play-offs most years so we really don't get a break between seasons. Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of practicing at a gym, we practice at the school with a few fold out mats. But so far it is working for us, we got first place at our first competition! The girls are excited and the program is growing!
My step daughter does high school cheer. She is on the freshman team and really seems to like it, although I think she would rather do all star if she had the opportunity. It was about $1400 for everything. She tried out for comp team, which they just started again this year, but unfortantley didnt make it. They chose only one girl from her team and the rest from JV and varsity. She was chosen as an alternate and we decided not to do that. What, pay $700 to go watch the teams perform (and pretty much know that you will not be a part of it)....they had more than one alternate.
My daughter has ventured into the land of high school cheer this season. She is a freshman cheerleader for her school. I shelled out $1400.00 for high school cheer. I also pay more for her to be a competitive cheerleader at an allstar gym. but that is different and certainly our families choice. anyway, the high school experience, according to my daughter, is "boring". The freshman team had (the coach just quit) a coach that was 18 or 19 years old. This coach told everyone that she had lots of experience in cheerleading and even competed for a high school. However, when weeks passed by it was discovered that the high school she attended never competed, and she dropped out of school her junior year. The school adminstration didn't know about this fabrication of qualifications only because they trusted the cheer coordinator's decision and her ability to choose good assisting coaches for the lower grades. At practices the cheerleaders were told to teach themselves, because their coach was always too tired or wanted to talk to her boyfriend on the cell phone while practice was being conducted. The girls learned from each other and basically left to flounder and actually did a darn good job, it worked because a couple girls are involved in competitive cheerleading gyms. Recent, developments have even made the high school experience one of a negative for my daughter. The cheer advisor has decided to move forward with the competition side of things. however, it was decided that the freshman girls were not experienced enough to compete. This, of course, has the freshman girls highly upset. Some of these girls have been completing their entire life. THey have level 5 skills but because they were assigned a non-involved coach, the coach decided they weren't ready. This action has soured my daughter on high school cheer and she doesn't want to cheer for high school next year. She will just stick with competitive cheerleading.
The only good thing that has come out of this experience is that I will not have to pay out $1400.00 next year.
