Important parent and athlete information for America's Best Nationals in Kansas City, Missouri.
Patriotic Championship 2017
Cheersport Kansas City
We're getting ready to wrap up our season at KC Cheer. All teams will be competing at Cheersport Kansas City Championships on March 25, 2017. The event is held at The Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City.
Admission for spectators is $10, CASH ONLY. Children 10 and under are free. A complete list of performance times and venue information can be found on the Cheersport website.
General Reminders
It is so important that all athletes are on time. These competitions will not hold our practice times, so if we are without someone at check-in, we lose our chance to warm up and practice.
It is required that all athletes be at all KC Cheer performances to cheer loudly for all our teams. Please pay close attention to the schedules below to make sure you are in the arena at all of the listed performance times. It is unacceptable to miss a performance because you're eating a meal or getting ready to meet your coach (hair and makeup). All of these activities can and should be planned around performance times.
It is super exciting to be competing against teams from all over the country right here in our city. Remember to show great sportsmanship (cheerleaders AND parents), and hospitality so teams want to return to KC for future competitions.
Arrival Times
Teams should be at the convention center no later than 1:30 to watch the first team perform. If your team is listed below with a meet time earlier than 1:30, you should be there for that listed time. Teams should plan to meet their coach in the main entrance of the convention center. Coaches will instruct team parents on where parents can meet their cheerleader following each performance. Please be sure you are dressed and ready at the time you meet your coach. This means hair done, lipstick and make-up done, and give all belongings to a parent or someone that can hold them until you are finished.
Uniform/Apparel
Teams should be dressed in red gym tank top and black pants or warm ups when not in uniform. Remember that you must always have your tank top or warm up jacket on to cover your midriff if you are not in the practice room or performing. Everyone will wear the white bow.
Schedule
Listed below are the times to be dressed and ready to meet your coaches. It is very important that everyone is dressed and entirely ready at the times listed below.
UPDATED AS OF 3/24/2017 at 12:00 noon
AWARDS
There will be 2 awards ceremonies for our teams as each session finishes. Everyone must be in full uniform when they go to their awards ceremony. This means no backpacks, no warm ups, no shoes other than cheer shoes. You should look exactly as you look when you take the mat. FULL. UNIFORM.
All teams must stay until 6:20 to watch Fearless, but if your awards ceremony has already happened, you may leave after Fearless goes. Flippers and Fiercelings may leave after their awards ceremony at 4:20.
UCA 2017
NCA All-Star Nationals
NCA Level 5 Teams
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
TRAVELING
- All athletes are required to ride the bus to Dallas. The buses will leave from the Blue Valley Recreation Baseball complex located at 137th street between Switzer and Antioch in Overland Park (same as OKC). The parking lot is on the south side of 137th street and closest to Antioch. Please be on the bus by 5:45 a.m. so we can leave promptly at 6:00 a.m.
- The bus will only be stopping for cheerleaders to get off for food and drinks one time, so please make sure your cheerleader has snacks and drinks for the entire 9 hour trip, as well as money for lunch when we stop. We will also be making a few "stretch" stops for the drivers, but cheerleaders will not be allowed off the bus during these stops.
- When we arrive in Dallas, cheerleaders should take their luggage to their rooms and get ready for a quick team meeting to discuss the next day and potentially practice. Athletes should be in bed no later than 10:00 p.m., as we have an early day on Sunday.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26
DAY 1 ATTIRE (RED TANK, WHITE BOW)
- Fearless will meet in the lobby at 6:15 a.m. dressed and ready to go (white uniform, red bow).
- Ferocious will meet in the lobby at 7:45 a.m. dressed and ready to go.
- Fierce 5 will meet in the lobby at 8:00 a.m. dressed and ready to go.
- All level 5 teams (except maybe Fearless, TBD) will stay until Fireball performs at 6:46 p.m. During that time period they will meet with the coaches to practice. Team parents will be notified as we know these times.
- Here is the tentative schedule for Sunday. Times will be updated on the Master Schedule as we learn them.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Day 2 Attire (New NCA Tank, Red Bow)
- The level 5 divisions are extremely large, so it is very hard to predict times for any of the plans for Monday yet. Team parents will be notified as soon as we know times and they will relay that to the teams.
- Teams will need to have buses loaded in the morning before hotel checkout.
- Teams will stay at the convention center all day to watch each other, and will load the buses to come home after the last team's awards.