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http://icheersafe.com/

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iCheerSafe. Do you? Take the pledge, get the button, and spread the word at http://icheersafe.com!
iCheerSafe. Do you? Take the pledge, get the button, and spread the word at http://icheersafe.com!

iCheerSafe is a safety initiative by AACCA and the entire cheerleading community. Help spread the word!

Print off the reg form and the following complete and mail or bring into gym:

NOTARIZED ’10-11 MEDICAL RELEASE FORM
OPEN GYM FORM
COPY OF INSURANCE
PAYMENT
REGISTER EARLY TO RESERVE YOUR FIRST CHOICE!
 

Click on the links for complete study. 

All Nebraska Tiger employees are AACCA certified

The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators has just released a study of catastrophic injuries and emergency room visits for cheerleading and other sports. The results of this study clearly demonstrate that the risk of participation in cheerleading is lower than that of many other sports and that it is more in line with sports such as softball, track and volleyball and not “more dangerous than football” as several recent articles falsely claim.  This matches our anecdotal evidence and what we hear from state associations that govern cheerleading and from insurance organizations that cover cheerleading injuries – that they are no greater than most other sports.

The study also makes recommendations for continued improvement in cheerleading risk management, including required safety training of coaches and some level of regulation by state associations.  If your state athletics or activities association does not require coaches to follow safety rules or have risk management training, we need your help in securing action.  The documented recent success with the NCAA’s requirement for cheer coaches’ training outlined in the study points to a model that will benefit our high school cheerleaders as well.

Increasingly we are working with local school boards that want unified safety training for all of their cheerleading coaches.  We applaud them for taking an active role in improving cheerleading safety and implementing a risk management program involving AACCA. We also work very closely with the National Federation of High School Associations on cheer coaches’ education. We are proud to be a part of the NFHS Coaches Education Program and our safety course is available online now at http://www.nfhslearn.com.

This press release summarizes the study findings: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS142622+14-Oct-2009+PRN20091014

You can find the study available to read or download at http://www.aacca.org/safetystudy

Feel free to forward it to your school board contacts and cheer coaches. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

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Jim Lord

Executive Director, AACCA

901.387.4309/800-533.6583

jimlord@aacca.org

Sign up for a safety course or take it online! http://www.aacca.org/safetycourse

  Please note the following rules:  

•  NO fountain drinks allowed. The only drinks allowed are plastic bottled.
•  NO food or drinks allowed anywhere in the gym except, the locker room.
•  NO GUM allowed!! Gum has been found on the mats, in the entryway and ladies bathroom floors.
•  Observation area is for parents, family& friends to watch/observe classes that are going on.
  
• There will be no standing or sitting by the floors. This is very important to follow this rule to decrease the risk of injury. THIS will be followed.

• 1^st payment: $106 (Aug./May, Sept. & registration ); uniform extra
• 2^nd payment: $152-due Oct. 1 (Oct.,Nov,Dec., Jan)
• 3^rd Payment: $114-due Feb. 1 (Feb. Mar. & April)
   
• Please note the following dates that have been planned off times:
          Aug. 29                           Nov. 26-29                                 Jan. 1 & 24/25                                        
          Sept. 6th & 7^th                 Dec. 24-26 & 31                         Feb 12-15? possible                         
          Oct. 31                                                                                Mar 11-16
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  ·         All of your scheduled  times are planned ahead. Prices are based on 4 classes per month per paid class. Scheduled closed times are not classes that are made up. They are built into the system.
• Tigers school session classes do follow the Millard Public Schools for school closing during winter related weather. If MPS is closed due to bad weather, Tigers do NOT have school session classes. Classes closed related to weather, are classes that can be made up.