Cheerleading Community Blog

Wow so it’s been a long 8 months here at CheerOutLoud. Jason and I finally got together in person as I stayed with him while I was in town competing at the AVP Brooklyn event on August 23. I also realized that I was battling an ear infection and respiratory infection at the same time. Pretty harsh. I ended up in bed for a few days when I got back to San Diego. Our sessions in his office were great and we went through the website and made revisions to a lot of features, interacted with our development team and connected with some members for feedback. We love feedback and we want your feedback on what you want for features, what tools do you need to make cheerleading better for you? What companies do you want to see on the site? What brands do you just love?

In case you didn’t know we’re all over the web by now and we wanted to share with you what sites you can find us on as we all know that managing multiple profiles is tough, but to make it easy here is where we are:

YourMinis: http://www.yourminis.com/people/yourminis/cheeroutloud
SuperViva: http://www.superviva.com/ideas/23680-make-CheerOutLoud-a-successful-business.html
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/cheeroutloudteam
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=779785022
TeenInk: http://teenink.com/talk/member.php?s=fe0fc430d95e15ef45720176d41cecaa&action=getinfo&userid=9966
Australian Cheerleading Online: http://www.acacheer.com/dragonfly/index.php?name=Your_Account&profile=cheeroutloud
Spain Cheerleading Directory: http://www.worldwidirectory.com/Europe/Spain/Recreation/Sports/Cheerleading/
Technorati: http://technorati.com/blogs/blog.cheeroutloud.com

So with all of the hardwork and long nights that have gone into CheerOutLoud.com to make it the best experience for cheerleaders arounf the world, we’re now looking to our current 550 BETA members to give us some feedback on what they want to see next!

thanks for all of your support!

Jason & BJ
Co-Founders

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The first-ever Nebraska State High School Cheerleading and Dance Championships will take place at Grand Island’s Heartland Events Center. The coaches association is sponsoring the Feb. 23, 2008, event, along with the Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

It will be coordinated by the Universal Cheerleaders Association and Universal Dance Association from Memphis, Tenn., which also sponsors the national championships held annually at Disney World and televised on ESPN.

Johnsen said high school cheerleaders and dancers spend a lot of time, money and energy on their sport.

“It’s an expensive activity, and other than being showcased at games, they don’t have a true statewide competition. We felt it was time to change that,” he said.

The competition will feature the cheer divisions of tumbling, non-tumbling and sideline cheer. The dance divisions are pom, jazz, hip-hop and high kick.

All high schools Classes A, B, C and D are eligible for the competition.

Read more here.

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Step Up. Stand Out. Be proud to be loud!

Well this girl fits perfectly with us. Wney is a 17 year old cheerleader from Malaysia, who isn’t afraid to speak her mind. She covers all of the previous winners and awards for this competition. Read her blog here.

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Hello all fellow cheerleaders! We wanted to share a blog we found the other day that literally listed every single professional cheerleader and dance team for every sports team you can think of. The website, Pro Cheerleader Blog, features links to all your favorite teams in football, basketball and more.

In other news, we’ve introduced a new black design to our homepage while the community website is being worked on. It’s the same simple form to signup with a link to our blog here. We’ve also introduced ways for our members to help promote CheerOutLoud by introducing new features like:

Digg - If you have a Digg account, you can help spread news about CheerOutLoud.com

Social Bookmarketlets - These little images/chiclets at cthe bottom of each post allow you to submit your favorites to any of the websites shown like Technorati, Del.cio.us, Newsvine, My Yahoo, Google Homepage, Squidoo, Simpy, Furl, Reddit and more!

RSS - To the right here you can subscribe with your Google homepage, My Yahoo and a variety of other feed readers!

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There’s a lot happening right now with our team. We decided that the best way to truly and authentically represent the cheerleading lifestyle was to have real cheerleaders be a part of our team. In the past two weeks, we’ve added to new authors to the CheerOutLoud blog here. We asked them questions like, “What do you love about cheerleading? How long have you been cheering? Favorite cheer mix? Age? Location? What other blogs or sites have you written for?” What’s goo to identify is that last question in that, so many cheerleaders are online on Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Bebo and other social networking websites that we want them to have a unified, unique voice in a community that is geared to them. Being lost in the mix at all the other websites can be annoying, unsafe at times and unproductive when they want to be heard. That’s the thing about CheerOutLoud, we are building a safe, focused community website for you, the cheerleaders of the world.

We want to welcome Courtney B, an 18 year old student from Canada that loves feeling weightless in the air, meeting new people, Britney Spears in her cheer mix and has been cheering for 4 years. We also want to welcome Whitney C, a 20 year old student at Kent State University, who loves the competitive nature of the sport, the satisfaction from perfecting a new skill, stunting and tumbling to loud rock music like System of A Down, ACDC and loves writing. Welcome to the team Courtney and Whitney!

In recent news, Kokomo High School varsity cheerleaders held their Kitty Camp for kindergarten to eighth grade students to help raise money for their cheer camp at Purdue University. Read the article here by Danielle Rush.

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The article goes into depth about how cheerleading is truly an industry progressing each year and can be compared with any of the sports out there. “College and high school cheerleaders compete for national championships. They risk terrible injury. They get recruited for college scholarships. And, in some cases, they put in more practice hours than the football team.” The biggest poll seems to always be “Is cheerleading a sport?” Of Course! That’s why we’re here and 20 state high school organizations think so too. There are more than 3 million cheerleaders in the world and most of them participate in other parallel sports like dance and gymnastics. To add to that, a half-million of them attend cheerleading camps each year. The article goes into listing celebrities who were cheerleaders as well like Halle Berry, Katie Couric and our esteemed president George W. Bush. Wish we had some pictures of them! It’s a great article with tons of information, so go check it out and feel free to give us your comments on how you see cheerleading shifting over the next few years.

Before you go, here’s a little tidbit on a list of what it costs to be a cheerleader, even though we all know it’s all about heart and dedication. Hey mom, this list is for you!

Women:
Hair accessory: $4
Crop or body suit: $20
Top: $56
Skirt: $60
Briefs: $9
Socks: $5
Shoes: $56
Pom-Pom: $18 per pair
Megaphone: $26
Personalized warm-ups: $80
Men:
Top: $62
Pants: $53
Shoes: $60
Socks: $5
Source: National Cheerleading Association

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