This document provides an overview of cheerdance and its history. It discusses how cheerdance originated from cheerleading and dance to motivate sports teams. The history section details how cheerleading began in the late 1800s at Princeton University and originated in the US, later becoming dominated by women. It discusses the growth of cheerleading through organizations in the 1950s and how it became popular worldwide through competitions. The document also summarizes the history and development of cheerleading in Poland and the formation of organizations to promote cheerleading as a sport.

1. Cheerdance
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2. Cheerdance
• Cheerdance is coined from the word “Cheer” and “Dance”
• To cheer is to shout out words or phrases that may help, motivate and
boost the morale of a playing team and perform better during a
game.
• Dance, on the other hand, is a physical activity where one expresses
emotions or gestures while performing bodily movements usually in
time with Rhythm.

3. Cheerdance
• Cheerleading rooted from cheerleading- performance of a routine,
usually dominated by gymnastics skills such as jumps, trumbling skills,
lifts and tosses combined w/ shouting of cheers and yells to lead the
crowd to cheer for a certain team during a game or sport.
• It has been considered an iconic American activity symbolizing school
spirit, leadership, youthfulness, and sex appeal.

4. History
• Ivy league college sporting events.
• Cheerleading/Cheerdance originated in USA. In the 1980s at
Princeton University, Thomas Peebles together with other students
supported a local American Football team w/ cheers.
• On 2 November 1898, standing in front of a crowd of sport fans,
Johnny Campbell, a medical student, started conducting the cheer on
the spur of the moment. He was so effective that the team won and
he made history as the first cheerleader.

5. History
• It might hard to believe that the first cheerleading was mainly
performed by men. It was not until World War II that women
dominated this activity. 1923, at University of Minnesota, Women
participated.
• Since then, nearly 90% of competitions have been girls.
• In the year 1951 after the war, National Cheerleaders Association was
established and the founder is Laurence “Herkie” Hurkimer.
• 1965, Fred Gastoff invented the Vinyl pom-pom

6. History
• The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders soon gained the spotlight with their
revealing outfits and sophisticated dance moves, debuting in the
1972-1973
• In 1970 they established cheerleaders as “American Leon of
Wholesome sex appeal.”
• In 1980s is the beginning of modern cheerleading.
• The Baltimore Colts cheerleading group, formed in 1960, was the first
professional team.

7. History
• From the 1970s on, the popularity of cheerleading continued to rise,
and the female dancers acted as supporters not only for American
football or basketball teams, but also swimming and track-and-field
competitors.
• In the 1980s and the 1990s, cheerleading started gaining popularity in
various other countries, such as Japan, Chile, The United Kingdom,
Germany and in Scandinavia. This discipline started to flourish in the
USA as well, as evidenced by the massive number of competitions
held nearly every weekend in many American towns and cities.

8. The President was a Cheerleader, too!
• Cheerleading is so important and popular a sport in the USA that even
famous Americans had careers in it. In the 1960s, future US president
George Bush played trumpet as the head Cheerleader at the Philips
Academy Massachusetts. And he was not the only president of the
United States with such a past. Ronald Reagan supported his fellow
students at Eureka College, Dwight Eisenhower focused on cheering
after he quit playing American Football, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was
a Harvard cheerleader in the early 20th century, back when the sport
did not enjoy as great popularity as now. Celebrities whose careers
started cheerleading include Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence,
Madonna, Cameron Diaz and Eva Longoria.

9. Cheerleading in Poland
• Cheerleading in Poland begun in 1988, when the first team was
founded by Edward and Ruta Krajewski in Warsaw.
• The team participated in World Cheerleading Championships in Japan
four times- gaining knowledge and experience to make progress in
discipline in our country.
• In 1997 a Cheerleading Section was established in association to
Polish Basketball Union which helped to develop first rules in
cheerleading competitions and allowed to organize Polish
Cheerleading Championships.
• In next few years cheerleading became more and more popular in
Poland.

10. Cheerleading in Poland
• In 2001 there was an organization funded, to gather all the cheerleaders
across the Country.
• Polish Cheerleading Association (PCA). The founders and first board
members were Edward and Ruta Krajewski, Mikolaj Korzun, Jerzy
Wojtkowaik and Maria Kapczynska.
• Becoming a member of European Cheerleading Association (ECA) in 2005
was break through moment for PCA.
• It was the first time when Polish national team took part in European
Cheerleading Championships in Moscow.
• Membership in ECA gave Polish cheerleaders new opportunities. Thanks to
special international workshops and conferences in only teo years Judges
Rules and Competition Rules changed significantly, so that they fit to
European Standards.

11. Cheerleading in Poland
• New system of coaches and judges training was established.
Knowledge gained through cooperation with ECA, International
Federation of Cheerleading(IFC), International Cheer Union (ICU) and
European Cheer Union (ECU) helped cheerleading to thrive in Poland
and also allowed Polish National Team to take part in European and
World Championships.

12. Polish Cheerleading Sport Association (PCSA)
• Was founded in March 2018 by four associations: Polish Dance
Federation, Students Sports Club Duet, Students Dancing Sports Club
Shock Dance Szczeicin and Sports Club Gravitation.
• Piotr Patlaszynski was elected as the first President of PCSA and in
board of this Association there was also Leszek Cichocki, Szymon
Kowalewski and Andrzej Kuznicki.
• PCSA represents cheerleading in Polish Ministry of Sports and
officially organizes Polish Sport Cheerleading Championships.
• PCSA is a way to express ambitions and dreams of coaches, parents
and athletes to reach the best teams of Europe and World.

13. Polish Cheerleading Sport Association (PCSA)
• PCSA is a member of European Cheer Union and International Cheer Union
and International Cheer Union.
• Its priority is to appoint and prepare National Team to take part in Olympic
Games, Paralympics, World and Europe Championships.
• On 6th day of December 2016 International Olympic Committee recognized
cheerleading as an Olympic sport which will allow cheerleading to make a
debut in Olympic Games during 2014.
• This decision raised hopes of athletes, coaches and activists for further
development, higher recognizability and wider interest of the sport.
• On 21st of November 2020 Polish Cheerleading Association signed an
official agreement with Polish Cheerleading Sport Association to cooperate
in order to develop cheerleading in Poland.

14. Basic Steps in Cheerdance