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CHEER COMPETITION - Whittles Springs Middle School
Sat Nov. 21 begins @ 7:00 PM; doors will open @ 5:30 for sign-ins.
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CHEER COMPETITION WELCOME MESSAGE
November 21, 2009 --
Dear Cheer Coaches & Cheerleaders,
We cordially invite you to participate in the Annual "Battle In Rocky Top" Cheer Competiton. This event is sponsored by the Battle In Rocky Top Youth Football Classic and will take place Saturday evening @ 7:00 PM @ Whittles Springs Middle School Gym November 21, 2009. Doors open @ 5:30 PM for sign-ins.
This Cheer Competition was created to allow the young cheerleading athletes the opportunity to showcase thier talents against other cheer squads from other leagues, cities and states. This competition is for youth football cheerleading squads only. Your football team doesn't have to be playing in the football event to participate in this cheer competition but you must have cheered for a youth football team during the fall at some point. We encourage every football team who is bringing their cheer squad to the event to definitely enter their girls and let them compete for a trophy too. The cheer competition is open to any youth football cheerleading team from anywhere.
All first place cheer squads will receive a team trophy and individual ribbons. Special "Battle In Rocky Top" Cheer Competition T-Shirts will be available to purchase on-site all weekend long, definitely make sure you get yours. Coaches, you can pre-order T-Shirts for your girls for a cheaper price and we'll have them waiting on you at check-in.
We look forward to hosting you and your cheer squad during our great event. We welcome you to our great city that is Knoxville, TN. This competition will be one of the many activities throughout the weekend during the "Battle In Rocky Top".
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GENERAL INFORMATION - CHECK THIS LINK OFTEN FOR CHANGES
1. The fee for each individual competing cheer squad is $75.00 plus an additional $2.00 per cheer squad member. (If you're registration is received after Oct. 1st - then it goes up to $100.00 per squad). All registration forms and fees must be in by November 6th. Rosters need to be in by no later than October 15th in order to have it printed in "Event Program".
2. Competition will start with the youngest age group and work up to the oldest. We will not know all ages and how many squads are performing until all rosters are turned in and registration received.
3. An organization may enter more than one team in each age division, you can enter more than one team in the same division but a participant can only cheer with one team period for the whole competition.
4. Its very possible that your cheer squad may have to miss one game Saturday evening during the cheer competition. We apologize in advance if this happens but its near impossible to guarantee you that your football team won't be playing Saturday evening. With having to schedule over 100 hour long football games there's no way to schedule a cheer competition when there's no football games taking place, unless we did it Sunday night, but then most football and cheer teams have already headed back home. We feel like the girls deserve the opportunity to look forward to something special too while there here. This is a great chance for the girls to win the coveted prized of their own. Every football team will play at least two games, some will play more, so you will definitely get to cheer at least one game and its possible you may get to cheer for all of them. We will try our best as far as scheduling the football games based off cheer squads but its not guaranteed in anyway, plus its impossible to know who's going to win/lose certain games which also take affect into football game times.
5. Trophies will be awarded at the end of the competition after all squads have performed. We ask you be respectful and courteous to all cheer squads by cheering for them positively and also please be quiet while there performing. Any negative chanting and/or cheering against another squad will NOT be tolerated and you're subject to ejection of the entire event, both cheer and football. Please be respectful to others. Coaches your squad's score sheets can be picked up after the competition and awards are given out.
6. For the cheer competition we will have Four different age divisions (5-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-14). Please note that if we have a shortage of competing squads in one division we may re-structure the age divisions. Your age category is determined by the average age of all the girls of the competing squad. If you're unsure how to determine which age category you'll fall under, email us the ages of the girls and we'll let you know. It is possible we will alter the divisions depending on the different age make-ups of the different competing squads.
7. All cheer squads must have a minimum of four cheerleaders and a maximum of twenty. All girls must have there waiver ready to be turned in at the Cheer Squad Check-In (time TBA).
8. All cheer squads are required to provide the staff prior to arrival at the event a certified roster of the participating girls. NO ad-ons will be accepted on arrival unless the child is younger than the average age of that cheer squad and it will not change your age criteria, safest way to handle is get it cleared and approved prior to arriving, don't take any chances b/c there NO GUARANTEES.
9. The admission entrance for spectators for the cheer competition will be $5.00 per individual over 5 years old. One cheer coach per squad and all competing cheerleaders get free entrance into the cheer competition, non competing cheerleaders have to pay for there admission. Cheer Coach and cheerleaders must have their pass/band to get into event without being charged the $5.00, make sure you have it with you at all times during the weekend it saves you some $$$. Please note the football weekend passes and day passes DO NOT get you into the Cheer Competition.
We want this to be special to the ladies for all their hardwork and also want it to be remembered forever by all participants.
Exact rules are now added - check below.
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Cheerleading Competition Rules - Updated
Competition Rules - Click Here
'09 Rules have not posted yet. There will be some tweaks but if you want something to go off of you can view the '08 Rules (link above). '09 Rules will be posted by late summer.
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