CHEERLEADING — We are Girls in Sport blog

In this week’s blog, we have a special interview with twin sisters, Aly Calvo and Andrea Kulberg, the co-founders of Legacy Cheer and Dance. Andrea is legally blind. Aly is fully sighted. They both spend their lives empowering visionary leadership and joyful abundance for parents, coaches, and athletes through youth sports. Through the power of cheer and dance, they aim to empower young women with the skills they need early in life, we are equipping them to realise their potential and create a world where girls lead for life.

Easing Performance Anxiety

Given everything that’s going on in the world, it’s no wonder there has been a reported increase in teens experiencing depression and anxiety. But it doesn’t have to take a pandemic to cause high stress levels in our brain: school, exams, family, and even friendship drama, can cause the brain to respond with anxiety that prohibits us from feeling and doing our best.

Teen Spirit - the Sport of Cheerleading

In April 2018 I was up late, watching the World Cheerleading Championships streamed live from the USA. The previous year I had managed Team England ParaCheer and been out there myself, but this year, as I sat up in bed watching the team honoured with gold medals, my tears of pride were for another reason: standing on stage alongside our national athletes was one of the girls from my own cheerleading programme — a girl who had come to me as a shy beginner many years before.