1st time we have entered Teenies Cheerleading and we didn't really know how it would turn out, so to come home with a 5th place at your very first attempt is a fantastic achievement.  Well done, you were all great

Sporting Dynamite Teenies Pom Dance Squad - Team Name: Sporting Dynamite X-PLODE

Placed 8th

Sporting Dynamite Nationals Squads entered into the UKCA Community Championships held at Manchester Velodrome (The National Cycling Centre) on Saturday 14th May 2011

Please note:
All team selections are provisional and are therefore subject to change.  Any person who has not yet paid their membership or fails to pay their competition fees in full, will be removed from the squad and their competition application will be withdrawn.

The Community Cheerleading Championships 2011 will once again take place at Manchester Velodrome on Saturday 14th May. 

The event entry fee charged by UKCA has remained at £20 per person per category but unfortunately there will be No reduction for early booking (previously £5 per person) so for those of you dancing twice the entry fee alone will be £40 hence the fee for cheerleaders entering two dances will need to increase accordingly.

As usual Sporting Dynamite will attempt to subsidise the competition costs as much as possible but this will still mean a cost of approximately £55 for those of you entering one dance and £95 for those entering two dances.  This subsidy will only be possible if everybody pays their competition costs in full, promptly. (The costs shown here are subject to several variables and therefore may have to change, so please use them as a guideline only!)

Any cheerleader who has not paid their 2011 membership or does not pay the competition fees by the due date will be immediately withdrawn from the team (No membership means No insurance which makes you ineligible to enter under UKCA rules).  Please note that we will have no option as all fees Must be paid in advance to UKCA and the club does not have funds to cover advance entry fees of £1600 plus outfits purchases taking the overall cost to well over £3000 for the event.

All indications from UKCA show that the Spectators tickets have remained the same price, £10 per person (No concessions)

Coaches

Sereena Hunter (Head coach)
Julie Massey (Teenies coach)
Melissa Gouldman (Assistant coach)
Alan Massey (Coach advisor)
Donna Hunter (Seniors coach/advisor)
Chia-Hsin Chang - Angelus (Flexibility coach)
Danielle Purcell (Assistant Flexibility coach)

As usual we require several helpers, these positions have now been finalised with the following (many thanks to you all for kindly agreeing to give up your time) being registered.

Thirteenth place out of fifteen, seems like an insignificant start but its a lot better than the initial numbers indicate.  This was Sporting Dynamite's first year in competition and for a new club which was only formed three months before, just entering a squad in the first place was a huge undertaking. 

Once entered, the team danced against children much older and more accomplished than themselves as at this point (2009) there wasn't a Tiny Teenies category and even if there had been one, we still didn't have enough children under seven years to split the squad into  a "Teenies" and "Tiny Teenies" where they would have had the chance to dance against children of their own age and would have most certainly achieved a better result.

Having said all that, the Teenies squad acquitted themselves really well and to beat two other teams was a great achievement and a positive start to the clubs existence.

Sporting Dynamite Junior A

Placed 5th
The first competition ever, everybody nervous and not even sure if what we are doing is correct yet.  A fifth place wow, what a start, everybody had a great day and fifth place out of nine teams was just the start a new club needed and a positive placing to build from next year.

Sereena was so nervous she couldn't even put the disc into the sound system, "I don't think I have ever seen her shake so bad" "or have so much fun", it seemed that if she had smiled any wider she would have split in two!

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To put all of this in prospective:

I have seen many teams compete over the years and I have helped UKCA with child protection and event management for more than 10 years.  It normally takes 2 years for any club to put together a squad that are ready to compete and in the first couple of years it would be nonsense to expect to achieve any significant placing so for Sporting Dynamite to get such results is their first year was nothing short of brilliant.