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No cheerleading coach?

posted 11 years ago by Speeders
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I'm wondering, since there's no cheerleading coach present in the movie as far as I recall and it's just Torrance (and Big Red before her) running the show, same with the Glovers? I can understand with a squad as good as the Toros, they could do fine by themselves but is it realistic that there seemed to be no supervision whatsoever? Does it differ from school to school or did the movie just take "huge" liberties to simplify the plot? Can someone who's been a cheerleader or know more about the subject clear that up for me?

Sorry for the endless questions

[–] dmcdknf 11 years ago

Not at all a stupid question. There used to be a thread on this topic, but I think it got so old that it dropped off.

They definitely would have had a coach even if it was only an unqualified PE coach or some other teacher. In a school like the San Diego team represented in this movie they would have had a serious coach helping the captain with the routines, summer training camps, fund raising, and competition coordination.

[–] jamestrevlin 11 years ago

No in fact in most high schools the girls do most of the work(at least in my highschool lol).

[–] Neptunechild87 11 years ago

there is no high school in america that has a cheerleading squad without an adult coach. puhleeeese. those girls would tear each others heads off.

[–] chet19 11 years ago

"That's all right. That's okay. You're gonna pump our gas some day." Coach or no coach, that is among the greatest lines in movie history!!!

[–] betsywetsy 10 years ago

That's one of the oldest taunts in the book, and is really unsportsmanlike and ungracious coming from privileged kids to kids obviously from a much poorer squad. Most coaches wouldn't have allowed that.

(Not that the other squad were gracious either.)

[–] JCrewgirl 11 years ago

The girls at my old high school did most of the work as well but all school activities and clubs need a coach or faculty advisor especially if that activity is one that requires travel like they did to the cheerleading competitions. The cheerleading coach at my old high school was an English teacher and the most she did was get the travel schedule, uniforms, and attendance roster together, the girls did the rest. I'm guessing having a coach on this movie though would slow it down and most of the plot would have no meaning since most of the stuff the girls had like with the stole cheers, the coach would have had to find a solution to and not them. So I understand that factual error for storyline purposes.

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[–] jefgg 11 years ago

The cheerleaders at my high school had a coach. Or maybe she was called their adviser. I knew her because she was my friend's older sister. She was a substitute teacher at our school and really didn't do much with the cheerleading squad. They pretty much did their own routines .. and it showed. They were awful.

[–] thepixinator 10 years ago

My High School's cheerleading coach was also the Latin teacher, and let me tell you, those cheers were E-NUN-CI-AT-ED! LOL. They were good, though. They used to win competitions.

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[–] CheerAngel21 10 years ago

I am a senior captain of my high school cheerleading squad and we have 4 coaches: head coach and three assistant coaches. We have 30 girls on Varsity, 25 on the JV squad and 10 on the Freshmen squad. Our squad is the largest in the district and one of the largest in the state.

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[–] phyre_Iyz 9 years ago

I'm pretty sure that all school activities must have at least an advisor for insurance purposes. The role the coach plays varies from district to district, and how competitive each team is. The high school I went to had different levels of cheer and kickline teams. The varsity kickline was highly competitive and won many nationals. The coach and assistant coach were very involved in leading and choreographing routines.

This movie takes liberties.