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The Chick-fil-A Collegiate Cheer and Dance Competition, run by the National Cheerleading Association (NCA), will air Saturday afternoon on CBS (2 ET). It was taped this month in Daytona Beach, Fla. There were 183 teams 110 cheer and 73 dance competing in eight cheer and three dance divisions. They qualified by reputation or by sending a video.
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The nine-member squad competed in the National Cheerleading Association's small, nonmount high school division, which is for squads that don't do stunts. Each squad was judged on cheering, tumbling and dance routines.
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The ISU Bengal Dancers and Cheerleaders will perform their 2007 National competition routines that will be presented at the National Dance Alliance (NDA) and National Cheerleading Association (NCA) Collegiate Championship held in Daytona Beach, Fla., on April 5 and 6. The Bengal Dancers finished second and won the Innovative Choreography Award at the NDA Championship 2005 and 2006.
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Justin Carrier worked for the National Cheerleading Association (NCA) for 11 years, most recently as director of curriculum, until 2004 when he was promoted to director of events and championships. As the curriculum director, he was responsible for training materials, manuals, books, and curriculum for youth, high school, all-star, and college levels. He has appeared in many of the NCA’s training videos and speaks regularly at coaching clinics around the country. Carrier is head instructor for many of the NCA’s largest camps, and he personally trains more than 5,000 athletes and 400 high school coaches each summer. In addition, he created and developed the coaches certification program for the NCA from 2000 to 2005 and coauthored curriculum for safety programs for both the United States All- Star Federation (USASF) and the National Council for Spirit Safety and Education (NCSSE).
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Cheerleading is not an NCAA sport. It doesn't count toward Title IX compliance. Duck athletic administrations are confident both will change and in a decade, the decision to add competitive cheerleading as a sport at Oregon will look brilliant. Or so goes the logic they laid out to the Daily Emerald.
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It has members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association discussing whether to recognize cheerleading as a sport. And it has reopened the thorny national debate on Title IX and the appropriate ways for institutions to comply with it.
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