Levels of Cheer

Usually a cheerleader starts her “cheer life” when she’s young at about 5 or 6 years of age with Pee Wee. In Pee Wee you learn all of your basic, need to know cheer. Like motions and simple jumps, and easy stunts. After that she’ll usually move up to IGCA. IGCA is the Irving Girls Cheer Association which cheers for the IBFA which is the Irving Boys Football Association. In IGCA it becomes slightly more intense. The girls might build slightly bigger stunts and they learn more dances that are harder and a little more fast. After IGCA, comes middle school cheerleading. Which involves a cheer camp at the beginning of the year, that helps to teach new cheers, dances, stunts, and even jumps. Middle school cheerleading is when the games really begin. You have more practices, games, and now you hold pep rally’s for the school as well. Next is high school cheerleading. In high school cheer, practices become apart of your everyday routine in order to help the squad grow as a whole. It usually can range anywhere from an hour to two and a half hours, and includes perfecting jumps, cheers, stunts, chants, dances, and tumbling. Also you have to prepare for games that occur every week and pep rally’s, that occur every so often. As you get older cheerleading becomes more intense and difficult, but will no doubt always stay exciting. These are the first levels of cheerleading.

Here are some Pee Wee cheerleaders

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