Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Prairie Fire Cheerleading

Spring returns to the Prairies! We spent an incredible weekend with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies and the Prairie Fire All-Star cheerleading teams. We hadn't seen either group since the summer when we worked with them for skills camp and we were so impressed by the hard work and determination from all the athletes.

Prairie Fire has an INCREDIBLE Youth Level 2 team called the Spitfires. Their stunts are incredible and these little kids LOVE to tumble! They have full team backwalkovers AND managed to get full team front walk over suicides! Amazing!

The Junior team was definately the surprise hit of 2010 so far! They worked through some major changes to their routine on Day 1 and despite come challenges with the material they came back for Day 2 having completely mastered the work from the day before! We were SO IMPRESSED!

The Senior Level 3 team made huge improvements in stunting and worked on some pretty significant routine changes as well as they prepare for competition as Vancouver's Sea to Sky Championship!

Our final group was the Huskies and they worked on pyramids, baskets, stunts non-stop for their debut at UPA Nationals! They are such a hardworking, talented team! It is no wonder they placed third at Canadian University Nationals!

Special thanks to Todd and the entire PFC Coaching staff! We had a blast with your kids and loved being back in Saskatchewan!

SMU

So last week Kenny and I took on a new team from Halifax, Nova Scotia called Saint Mary's University. The team is looking to rebuild their program and is working very hard to establish itself as a force in Atlantic Canadian Cheerleading.

An all-girl squad of 19, the team worked very hard to learn their choreography and build new skills in a quick 8 hour session over 2 days!

SMU will make their competition debut at Cheer Expo in Halifax at the end of March! We had an amazing time working with them and wish them all the best as they continue to build their program!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Happy 2010!

Okay... so I've been a little delinquent with the blog updates. In the last four months Spring has travelled to London (2x!), Paris, Bordeaux, Germany and Mexico! If that was not exciting enough we have also travelled all over Canada and have plans to visit Scotland, Russia, Italy and more in 2010!

The 2009-2010 season is well underway and we could not be more excited and thrilled with our Spring Family of teams. Already Ascension Eagles, Goldstar and Unity from the UK have earned Worlds bids and Les Cobras de Quebec and Flyers Allstarz have earned bids from Quebec! Cheersport Sharks took PCA nationals by STORM winning the International All-Girl Level 5 and 6 division and were crowed Canadian National Champs! Capital City Storm also won their first PCA National championship in the International Coed Level 5 division! What a fantastic start to the season!

This past weekend we kicked off 2010 with tumbling clinics at Absolute Academy, and choreography with ECS PEI, ECS NB and Capital Cheer Academy!

Kenny and I are excited to be back on the road and hope to see you all soon! Happy New Year!

L.