Coaching Cheerleading Successfully - Softcover

Chappell, Linda

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9780873229425: Coaching Cheerleading Successfully

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873229428 ISBN 13: 9780873229425

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1996

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This definitive how-to book is sure to meet the needs of the growing number of cheer coaches, sponsors, and parents.

Covering both support and competitive cheering, it explains cheer techniques and tactics, as well as how to plan and develop cheerleading programs. Through text and illustrations, you’ll learn

� basic cheerleading skills—hand positions, arm and leg motions, and jumps;
� how to combine skills to develop the precision and timing required of a top squad;
� mounts and pyramids, from beginning to advanced;
� how to develop a coaching foundation and plans for the season;
� important safety guidelines from the the National Federation of State High School Association;
� and much, much more.

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About the Author:

Linda Rae Chappell has been coaching amateur and professional cheerleaders for more than 25 years.

After cheering for her high school and college, Linda started her own business at the age of 23, the Dynamic Cheerleaders Association, Inc. (DCA). With DCA she established cheerleading camps at college and university campuses in 30 states, trained her staff of some 350 college cheerleaders to conduct the camps, and conducted six national cheerleading championships. Through DCA she also established a national mail-order business for cheerleaders’ clothing, accessories, and educational materials.

Linda has presented numerous seminars, clinics, and workshops for cheerleading coaches and advisors, and has delivered motivational seminars at national coaches conventions.

A prolific author, she has written on spirit raising and leadership, sportsmanship, fund-raising, and coach training. Her first book, The Spirit Book, has been referred to by many coaches as the "cheerleading Bible." She also has supervised production of books and videos on safety rules for the National Federation of State High School Associations, and she has produced and directed instructional videos in cheer and dance.

In 1986 Linda established a coed cheerleading squad for the Kansas City Chiefs (NFL football team), coaching the squad until 1990.

Linda, a member of the Missouri Cheerleading Coaches Association, is a former cheerleading director for the Midwest Missouri Youth Sports Association. In 1987 she earned her master’s in educational administration from the University of Missouri.

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