Attending Cheerleading Camps As A Team Makes Them Fun And Creates Unity (via Cobweb/3.1 Planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)

Posted on January 30, 2008
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Attending Cheerleading Camps as a Team Makes Them Fun and Creates Unity
By Lisa Robbins

I remember going to cheerleading camp with my high school squad. Our team moms made sure we had matching uniforms, water bottles, and other essentials. We loaded up on a Monday morning, and headed to camp held at a college campus a few hours from where we lived. We were all very excited to go to camp, although we really did not know what to expect. Looking back, camp was really a great experience, and it was worth making the effort to attend.

Prior to heading for camp, we held a fund raiser to pay for the camp tuition by holding our own miniature day camp for young girls. We showed them how to do cheers, dances, and elementary stunts. We also gave all the participants a shirt for coming. The kids loved it. We had a lot of fun at the camp, and we earned the money we needed to go to our own camp.

There are many advantages for going to cheerleading camp as a squad. First off, we gained a sense of unity as we worked together. We roomed, ate, and practiced together. We decorated spirit sticks and came up with new cheers of our own. The camp had workshops to teach us dances, cheers, and stunts. We learned each others’ strengths and weaknesses, and helped each other to perfect what we learned.

At the end of the camp, we performed what we learned in a camp competition. I don’t remember anymore how we did, but I do know that we had a lot of fun and we came home with some new, exciting routines for pep rallies and games. This is another advantage of cheerleading camps. If your squad goes every year, you will always have trendy dances and cheers to show off. Your squad won’t get bored with a limited number of chants.

I think I can speak for the whole squad when I say that by going to a week long training camp, we gained more experience and confidence for cheering. This of course affected the whole school year and made each of us better cheerleaders.

Camps are generally held during the summer. It is a good idea to form your squad some time in the spring so you will have time to work together and get to know each other before attending a camp to insure you get the most out of your camp experience.

Lisa Robbins is one of the owners of RobbinsSports.com, a retailer of cheerleading warm-up suits and other cheerleading apparel.

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