Welcome to NLYAA Competition Cheerleading! 

The below information is for our 2025 season!
For questions/concerns, please reach out to your athletes direct coach.

  Registration Information:

• Registration for Competition Cheer will be open from April 14, 2025 through July 14, 2025. 
  

•  Late Registrations will be accepted from July 14, 2025 through July 28, 2025 with an additional $10 late fee.
•  Athlete MUST participate in Football Cheer in order to be eligible for Competition Cheer.
• This includes athletes that are age eligible at the 7th and 8th grade levels.  
  
  

  Sign Up Fees:
This registration is separate when signing up for football cheer.

• Competition cheer - there will be an additional $40 fee.

• NLYAA Sport Fee -$15 per child (not an additional fee for those registered for NLYAA Football cheer, this only applies to 7th & 8th grade athletes)
• Cheerleaders participating in Competition will be required to adhere to the competition contract as well as participate during the football season.
• Cost of competition cheer will help cover the cost of gym rental spaces, additional competition cheer bow and competition cheer end of season gift.

 Practice:

•  Our season will start early this year.

• Competition Cheer practice will start August 1, 2025 and be held every Friday.

• Starting in September, practice days will be held in the Slatington Elementary School Gym. Teams will be given days for their practices when the time gets closer due to sharing practice space.

• An attendance police for Competition cheer will be implemented. Attendance to competition practices and attended competitions is MANDATORY.

• A doctors note will be required for release after 2 consecutive missed practices/events/games and or injury.
  

Competition Groups:
**Age will go by the UCA guidelines. Athletes must be born within these years**

• 5U-- is designed for athletes born 2020-2021.
• 6U-- is designed for athletes born 2019-2020.
• 8U-- is designed for athletes born 2017-2018.
• 10U-- is designed for athletes born 2015-2016.
• 12U-- is designed for athletes born 2013-2014.
  
  
  
  
  Fundraiser:
  
  

• This 2025 season we will have a MANDATORY Fundraiser.
• Our MANDATORY fundraiser will help cover each Cheerleaders admission to all competitions we attend as well as their Jump off & Tumble offs during competitions. 
• Our fundraiser for the 2025 Competition Cheer season will be Gertrude Hawk candy bars.
• If you do not plan on selling candy bars there will be a $30 buyout.
  
  

 2025 Competitions:

• This year we plan on attending 5 cheer competitions. *This is subject to change*
• Our Hosted competition is a MANDATORY volunteer event. This event will not work unless we all work as a TEAM!
• Our hosted competition will be held this year on Saturday 11/08/2025.

*We understand age groups will have some athletes working with a different group of kids from football cheer to competition cheer, however, this provides your athlete(s) with the best age appropriate opportunities within the competition community.* 

Let’s go Bulldogs!