UCA Junior
High Camps

Elevate your camp experience with UCA!

The UCA Junior High Camp Experience

For over 50 years, UCA has been building spirit and training leaders for life! These camps are similar to our traditional overnight camp but at the perfect pace for Junior High and Middle School squads! Focused on crowd leading, skill fundamentals and team bonding with exclusive, special material and dances.

Contact Your State Director

Contact Your State Director

Sample Schedule & Curriculum Highlights

Spirit Prop Workshop & Game Day Training
Squads will learn how to create excitement and engage the crowd during a game with poms, signs, megs, flags and proper spiriting techniques in the Spirit Prop Workshop! During Game Day Training, teams will learn exciting and crowd effective sidelines, cheers and band chants to become the ultimate crowd leaders at school.
Stunt & Pyramid Curriculum
Updated partner stunt and pyramid curriculum from beginner to elite with transitions, inversions and dismounts while still following the UCA progressions squads know and love. Includes a Safety Awareness Test, Spotting Seminar and Stunt Qualification.
Sideline Private Coaching
Personalized sideline instruction with the UCA Staff for football or basketball with training on motions, voice inflection, incorporating crowd effective skills and more!
FNL Frenzy & Game Day Jams
Squads will learn how to create excitement and engage the crowd in different game situations such as kickoff / tip-off, first down, free throw and more! Become more prepared for your sidelines by experiencing Game Day Jams which teaches your team how to react when short snippets of music play during football & basketball games!
Sideline Stunts
The UCA Staff will help teams work on utilizing simple but fun stunts to coordinate with the band and entertain the crowd at games!
Team Building with UCA!
Build, bond and grow through team building exercises, encouraging evaluations and leadership training.
Cheer Private Coaching
One-on-one time with the UCA Staff incorporating spirit props such as signs, poms, megs and flags along with skills and spirit into a cheer of choice.
Coaches’ & Captain’s Goal Setting
Coaches and captains come together at UCA cheer camp to set goals, strengthen relationships and enact plans for success at camp and beyond.
Sideline Dances
Squads will learn several short, crowd effective line dances to popular house / band music to get the fans back home involved!
Camp Routine Private Coaching
Individualized time with the UCA Staff to help create an eleven 8-count performance customized to the squad’s unique strengths and abilities.
Spirit Night
Take the first step towards your season’s success at camp! Journey through game day class and stop in stunt class before making memories at final day. Explore Spirit Night with fun-filled activities to promote bold leadership and team unity. UCA Camp is just the first stop on the map…we are here to guide you step by step (summer to spring) till you find X marks the spot!

Dress up for the adventure you want to get lost in – treasure hunt, safari, underwater, or up in outer space!

Team Leader Program
Experience 1:1 time with your UCA Staff Team Leader to guide you through camp and receive additional help to maximize your squad’s potential.
Camp Awards
UCA Camp brings out the very best in teams through daily spirit awards like the Spirit Stick and Top Banana, camp wide leadership and traditions awards and more!
Additional New Benefits
Added coach resources on Clementune (Stunt Troubleshooting videos)
New Coaches’ Education Seminars

Coaches' Education & Safety

Educational and Safety Best Practices
UCA’s Coaches’ Meetings are powered with the knowledge of both Varsity University and Spirit Works! Learn proven techniques for successful spirit program management as well as elevating your school’s spirit like never before. Also, 100% of the UCA Staff Instructors are USA Cheer safety certified so you learn safety the right way from the start!
Coaches’ Meetings
Attend daily Coaches’ Meetings, a Coaches’ and Captain’s Goal Setting and a Final Coaches’ Q&A with your Head Instructor discussing topics such as safety, new rules, music education credentialing and more. In addition to this – all new coaches will attend a First Time Coaches’ Meeting. Then after camp, your State Director is a year-round resource for all your questions and needs!
Coaches' Stunt Workshop
The Head Instructor and UCA Staff will demonstrate skills, stunt technique and stunt progressions–all geared towards training coaches! Gain valuable safety knowledge to support your own stunt coaching after camp is over. Two stunt workshops take place at all of our 4-day overnight camps.
Coaches' Gifts
UCA loves our Coaches! Attend UCA Camp and receive a Game Day Playbook (expanded digital version post-camp), Varsity University Coaches' Education Course, access to our summer material and music, supplemental resource videos available on BAND and a Tryout Kit. For coaches attending Overnight Camps, you'll also receive a special gift to take home!

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