CHEER DANCE

CHEERDANCE
“A GOOD CHEERLEADE IS NOT MEASURED BY
HEIGHT OF HER JUMPS BUT BY THE SPAN OF HER
SPIRIT”
- AUTHOR UNKOWN-
CHEER DANCE
• Is relatively new in the field of sports and dance as it has only
emerged during the early 1990s as part of the cheerleading events.
• It is one of the categories in International Cheerleading Competition
that focuses in dance techniques and basic elements if gymnastics
skills
WHAT IS CHEERLEADING
• Is an event that consist of cheers and organized routines for sports
team motivation, audience entertainment, or competition.
• Consist of many components of cheers, jumps, dance, gymnastics,
and stunting.
• The yellers, dancers, and athletes involved in cheerleading are called
“CHEERLEADERS”. When they are group together as one, they are
called “squads”.
HISTORY OF CHEERLEADING
• Traced as far back as the late 19th century where in 1860s, students
from Great Britain began to cheer and chant in unison for their
favourite athletes at sporting events
• 1880s – the first organized recorded yell done on locomotive style
was performed in an American Campus and was first seen and heard
during a college football game.
• Thomas Peebles – organized all-male cheerleading
• Johnny Campbell – cheerleading began in November 2, 1898
 CHEERLEADING TIMELINE
1870S FIRST PEP CLUB AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
1890S FIRST SCHOOL FIGHT SONG / USE OF MEGAPHONE
1900 MEGAPHONE BEING POPULAR
1920 WOMEN BECAME ACTIVE / BASIC GYMNASTICS ROUTINES WAS BEING ENCORPORATE
1940 FIRST CHEERLEADING COMPANY BY LAWRENCE R. HERKIMER
AMERICAN CHEERLEADING ASSOCIATION BY BILL HORAN
1960 VINYL POMPON BY FRED GASTHOFF
1970 NATIONAL CHEERLEADERS ASSOCIATION TRAINED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
CHEERLEADERS
FORMER GENERAL MANAGER AND VICE PRES. OF NCA , “JEFF WEBB FOUNDED THE
UNIVERSAL CHEERLEADERS ASSOCIATION TO TEACH HIGHER LEVEL OF SKILLS (PARTNER,
STUNTS, PYRAMIDS
1975 CHEERLEADING ROUTINES – FIRST USE OF MUSIC BY JEFF WEBB
1980 NATIONAL CHEERLEADING COMPETION FOR JR,SR, AND COLLEGIATE SQUADS
 CHEERLEADING TIMELINE
1988 UCA INTRODUCES CHEERLEADIN IN JAPAN
1989 UCA INTRODUCES CHEERLEADING IN UK
1992 INTRODUCED IN AUSTRIA AND FRANCE , AND IN IRELAND
1994 IN CHILE, SOUTH AMERICA AND CARIBEAN
2008 – THE IASF/ICU CONTINUE TO HOST THE WORL CHEERLEADING CHAMPIONSHIPS, ICU
PRESENT TRAINING CONTINUES AROUND THE WORD