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Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:46 pm to KemoSabe65
It cost me $2300 for my freshman daughter I cheer for her HS. I almost had a heart attack when I saw the bill. This cheer sponsor may be the next Bernie Madoff.
So I guess it’s going to cost me $10k or more (they go to Hawaii) for her to cheer at her public HS.
So I guess it’s going to cost me $10k or more (they go to Hawaii) for her to cheer at her public HS.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 8:50 pm to rpg37
National champs….weak
My daughter’s team in Louisiana won the National and World Championship last season
Off to a rough start in Indianapolis this year, but we have a National title event in Houston soon to redeem ourselves
My daughter’s team in Louisiana won the National and World Championship last season
Off to a rough start in Indianapolis this year, but we have a National title event in Houston soon to redeem ourselves
Posted on 2/1/26 at 9:54 pm to rpg37
They base the categories on the size of a schools’s student body and then the number of kids on the squad. A school with 650 kids and a squad of 18 can’t be expected to compete with a school with an enrollment of 1800 and a 30 member cheer squad.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:03 pm to Aces_full
quote:I can't use most of the words I want to use for theater, dance and cheer !&$&! My ex wife has graduated from spending $18k on dance to almost $30k for an 11-12 year old. shite is going to get worse. Your daughter is not Gabi Butler, and is not "competing" at Navarro, for a chance to fail out of DCC tryouts in a few years. Cheer and dance are a complete racket. Oh, those 529 contributions?
This cheer sponsor
Dance moms and travel ball make sure most o the OT is broke. But happy wife, happy life, right? F the future.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:12 pm to rpg37
Granddaughter is on a team in Prairieville. Practice 5 days a week that is mandatory and every weekend they are in a different city to compete from Atlanta to Orlando and back. Time consuming and expensive. I wouldn’t do it, but they love it. From what I have heard they are moving out of the participation trophy years.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:20 pm to caill430
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, but they love it.
That's nice. How are her grades? Is her 529 fully funded? Does she know what she wants to do in life to earn money?
Clearly, teams from places like Prairieville, where there are not cheer teams between Lake Charles and Mandeville, need to travel to fing Orlando for "competition."
They are not moving out of participation trophy years, at all. They find ways to give them all something, so they keep paying to come back to the next "Championship" of which there are 24 in their cheer league ,but there are 22 more leagues that are also going to get championships this year.
The girls love it because their parents treat them like divas on competition weekends. Shocker.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:26 pm to rpg37
I love these threads, reminds me of how much I am catching up to people my age bc of no kids, when I started out behind with student loans, etc.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:27 pm to nola tiger lsu
Women will go to no ends to throw money at kids unnecessarily. Is there a dance school that's 4k a year instead of 30k? Sure, but that's not where her friends go, sort of BS.
It's not a kid problem, it's a woman problem.
It's not a kid problem, it's a woman problem.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:43 pm to LemmyLives
Update: Germantown HS also won the national championship today in Orlando. Six Mississippi High Schools are now NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!
Posted on 2/1/26 at 10:58 pm to rpg37
All I know is Dance Moms was a good train wreck of a show to watch.
Posted on 2/1/26 at 11:04 pm to holmesbr
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s Dance Moms was a good train wreck of a show to watch
It normalizes that behavior, from kids and adults.
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:26 am to rpg37
So there are hundreds of national champions? What a scam.
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:28 am to rpg37
Instead of wasting all this money in this and travel ball BS, parents should be putting that money towards their college or a Roth IRA for their kids.
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:30 am to Dr Rosenrosen
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There are so many categories that there are probably thousands of national champions
So really, no one is a national champion and it means nothing
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:33 am to rpg37
Competitive cheer is like travel baseball
There’s a World Series or National Championship every weekend somewhere….and all you have to do in order to qualify is pay your entry fee.
There’s a World Series or National Championship every weekend somewhere….and all you have to do in order to qualify is pay your entry fee.
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:33 am to rpg37
Lots of travel, lots of obsessive parents, lots of obnoxious kids, lots of trophies and hardware if you win a national championship, which seem to be available weekly
Basically, a spin on travel ball
Basically, a spin on travel ball
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:39 am to rpg37
Our daughter is finishing her senior year of cheer here in the next month. I don’t know much about it other than:
1. It’s expensive as shite.
2. They have to match exactly whenever cheering.
3. On top on cheering at football & basketball games, thy also do competitions that I frankly do not understand. I just go, smile, and support my daughter.
1. It’s expensive as shite.
2. They have to match exactly whenever cheering.
3. On top on cheering at football & basketball games, thy also do competitions that I frankly do not understand. I just go, smile, and support my daughter.
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:41 am to rpg37
Me.
Was in Orlando for 5 day, saw a total of 5 hours of cheer. My son and I hit every park/ride/activity possible. Watching him scream and pass out on the Rockin Rollercoaster was priceless. Def worth the money grab. I’ll be back next year.
Edit - my daughter only practices once a week, and while Disney is expensive we don’t pay nearly as much as the numbers in this thread.
Was in Orlando for 5 day, saw a total of 5 hours of cheer. My son and I hit every park/ride/activity possible. Watching him scream and pass out on the Rockin Rollercoaster was priceless. Def worth the money grab. I’ll be back next year.
Edit - my daughter only practices once a week, and while Disney is expensive we don’t pay nearly as much as the numbers in this thread.
This post was edited on 2/2/26 at 7:49 am
Posted on 2/2/26 at 7:42 am to rpg37
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How do all these schools claim them?
My grandaughter’s team just won a “national championship” at Disney World. They invite a dozen or so teams, from all over the country, award about four national championships (one for each of several categories of cheer) then do it all again next week. And they are not the only ones doing it.
This post was edited on 2/2/26 at 7:43 am
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