What is Competition Cheer?

Sideline cheer encompasses cheering for a team, such as football or basketball, and the cheerleaders’ main goal is to engage fans and encourage the team to play hard. Competitive cheer is not cheering on another team but instead involves performing routines against other cheer teams, where they are judged by a panel of cheerleading experts based on difficulty and execution of tumbling skills, stunts, flexibility, synchronicity, and facial expressions.

It is a higher level of cheer than sideline cheer and involves more focused practice time and commitment, as the team relies on every member to put in the work to make their performance the best it can be.

Our governing body, the Oregon Cheer Coaches Association (OCCA) has rules requiring that any cheerleader who participates in Competition Cheer, must have also participated in Sideline Cheer that same season. With this rule, we do not open up registration for Competition Cheer to the pubic, as it is only open to those who are part of our current season of Sideline Cheer.

This next season we will be holding an additional day of Readiness Camp, on July 25th, to assess those interested in Competition Cheer. Teams for competition cheer will be set the first week of Sideline cheer practices (July 28th). This allows us time to align cheerleaders on the same competition team time to work together during sideline season.

Prices for Competition Cheer have not yet been finalized but ill be communicated ASAP.