Cheerlebrities?

What do you get when you mix cheer and celebrity together? Cheerlebrity. As ridiculous as it sounds, it is a popular term in cheerleading. A cheerlebrity is a cheerleader with a large social media following.

For example, Carly Manning has 488,388 followers on Instagram. Carly Manning was on Cheer Athletics Panthers for 3 years until last year when she made Wildcats. Carly has won the World Championships twice and continues competing to win again.

Cheerlebrities promote products and are spokesmodels for different brands. They get paid to post photos onto their very popular accounts to help the company sell things. The girls are treated as celebrities and if spotted, fans will run up and ask for autographs and pictures.

They are often criticized to no end. How can somebody be so famous and not an all-around amazing cheerleader? The girls are popular but there will always be something to say about why they’re “cheerlebrities.”

Allstar VS. High School

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The ongoing debate between allstar and school cheerleading is a debate that will live on. Allstar cheer is skill, skill, skill while high school is all about crowd engagement. The difference is monumental.

High school cheer is usually classified into two types: sideline and competition. Some schools require the varsity sideline team to compete as the competition team, while others allow the two teams to be separate. High school coaches are less experienced and rely on more traditional techniques. The teams are made up of girls who all have different skills. One member may be competing a back-handspring while another is competing a full-twisting layout. The teams are expected to have the same stunting ability.

Allstar c                heer is fast-paced, and challenging. The coaches are certified in safety and often very experienced. Cheerleaders are judged by levels. The levels are set by skill level in tumbling and stunting. Level one is the lowest and level 5 as the highest. The judges are harsh and are only looking for certain things. The technique is more advanced and is judged harsher. The two minute and 30 second routine is creative and challenging to even the best of athletes.

The fight is the technique, skill, and difficulty. Coaches usually don’t like having athletes that participate in both because of the tremendous time commitment. Allstar coaches will work with the athletes who participate, allowing them to miss little bits of practice for the high school team to practice.