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Old 01-17-2012, 08:00 PM
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2012 Cheerleading National Championship

"Championship #19 is coming home!"
UK Cheerleading wins record 19th UCA National Championship

For a record 19th time, the Wildcats won the UCA national title at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. UK finished ahead of second-place Alabama, who ended a streak of three consecutive Kentucky titles in 2011.

Final Results
  1. Kentucky
  2. Alabama
  3. Central Florida
  4. Memphis
  5. Tennessee
  6. Mississippi
  7. Hawaii
  8. Minnesota
  9. Ohio State
  10. Kansas
  11. Louisiana State
  12. Mississippi State
  13. Cincinnati
  14. Western Kentucky
  15. Florida State

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Old 01-17-2012, 09:25 PM
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Yay, Kentucky! S-E-C!

Hey! I used to coach 2 of those squads.
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Old 01-17-2012, 09:40 PM
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Hey! I used to coach 2 of those squads.
Really?!! *bows*
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Old 01-17-2012, 10:00 PM
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Cheer is big in our family (I didn't cheer but my mom has coached competitive HS and all stars in the past) so we follow college cheer.

At this point if you compete in this division at UCA, the real competition is for 2nd and 3rd because UK is coming home with that top spot (they've only ever been upset by UCF, after having their only fall on a pyramid at UCA in like 12 years. Just so happened that UCF had no mistakes that year.)

I think it's a testament to just how deep the cheer talent pool they attract is. Their kids come from the top all star programs and high schools in their state and the country.
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Old 01-18-2012, 04:24 PM
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A Theta alum from my chapter has a daughter on the Western Kentucky squad!

I'm glad to see two Kentucky schools and 6 SEC schools on this list!
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Old 01-18-2012, 10:10 PM
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WOW! I never followed cheer (my high school didn't have any and my college weren't a competiting squad) but I'm sad I missed this. It's like Bring It On...but for real.

Kentucky's winning performance: http://youtu.be/-bYpV-FTyDE
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Old 01-19-2012, 10:18 AM
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I only saw one major flaw at the beginning. the first set of backhand springs a girl to the left fell. Aside from that the level of difficulty looks rather high! I'm glad they won!
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Old 01-19-2012, 12:29 PM
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I love watching cheer competitions on television. The flyers also impress me with how high in the air they get. Amazing!!
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Old 01-19-2012, 02:42 PM
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I watched the top 3 perfomances from that link and was just amazed. They make it look effortless to be lifted like that. I think this video is what brought if home for me was this though. Just watching two people do all those lifts and flips was amazing, and you can really see the acrobatics of it in slow motion. You can also see how hard the lifter has to work to keep her balanced. Then multiply that by 7, all at the same time, all perfectly synchronized. I just can't imagine being so talented at that.
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Old 01-19-2012, 03:34 PM
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The "handstand to hands" at about 2:07 in Uk's video is pretty amazing. High difficulty there.
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Old 01-19-2012, 04:01 PM
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Except for that tumbling fall, UK's performance was pretty clean. I watched a good number of the other videos (All-Girl and Co-ed) and overall I was unimpressed. I cheered in high school & college (games and competitive) and none of the "Big Moves" have changed AT ALL. The pyramids, transitions, even the handstand to hands are all very old at this point (my last year of college cheering was in 2003).

I guess there isn't too much more that can be done, but I was a little surprised and disappointed about the lack of novelty.
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Old 01-19-2012, 04:39 PM
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I wonder how much more can be done anyway? There are so many safety rules in place, like how high a pyramid can go, and thank God for that because things were getting out of hand by the nineties. There have been so many horrible injuries!
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Old 01-19-2012, 06:29 PM
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I coach college cheerleading, and carnation's right - with the safety rules that are in place (and rightfully so), there's not much more that can be done. The variety that you see now is moreso in the transitions than the pyramids/partner stunts/baskets themselves.
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Old 01-19-2012, 07:52 PM
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