UCA
Masters Camp

Work with the best of the best this summer!

The UCA Masters Camp Experience

For over 50 years, UCA has been building spirit and training leaders for life! Masters Camps are for competitive & performance teams with curriculum focused on skills training to prepare squads for competition, performance and entertainment. These are high-intensity camps that focus on challenging your squad in skill-building and mastery. All Masters Camps are staffed 1:1 with top UCA instructors from around the country.

*Programming typically varies by location, contact your State Director for details HERE

Curriculum Highlights

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.
Spirit Prop Workshop
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!
Stunt & Pyramid Curriculum Troubleshooting
Updated partner stunt and pyramid curriculum from elite to super 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. Stunt Classes incorporate troubleshooting and drills within class for proper lead up and technique work.
Masters Challenges
Exclusive to Masters Camps! Enjoy fun, athletic, team-orientated challenges throughout camp.
Cheer Private Coaching
1:1 time with the UCA Staff incorporating spirit props such as signs, poms, megs and flags along with skills and spirit into a cheer from home.
Custom 1:1 Skills Private Coaching
Work 1:1 with an instructor on skills of your choice to get your team the help they need while at camp!
Team Building with Team UCA!
Build, bond and grow through team building exercises, encouraging evaluations and leadership training.
Coaches' and 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.
Jump/Tumbling Critique
Experience jumps and/or tumbling drills and opportunities for feedback from the UCA Staff on technique and group synchronization.
Spirit Night!
This summer, it’s GAME TIME with UCA! Athletes will train with passion, purpose and heart, building confidence and teamwork every day. For Spirit Night, dress to represent the sports or clubs your team supports as ambassadors and spirit raisers at your school— from football and basketball to theatre, band, and everything in between; cheerleaders know how to show up for their peers and school when it’s GAME TIME.
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!
Final Day Evaluations
Get additional feedback after your final performances to ensure you leave camp with quality advice on how to improve for the future!
Additional New Benefits
-Final Day Material Showcases – will be added into all Day and Overnight camp session as a way for athletes to show off what they’ve learned at UCA camp!

-New Coaches’ Education Seminars

Game Day Masters Camp Curriculm
-Private Coaching focused on all Game Day Competition elements (Band Chant, Sideline, Cheer, Fight Song)

-NEW! Private Coaching – Timeout/Tradition: should reflect a similar crowd interactive and entertaining performance that your team performs during halftimes, extended timeouts, or pep rallies.

Sample Schedules

2 Day Masters Skills Camp

3 Day Masters Camp

4 Day Masters Camp

Coaches' Education & Safety

Educational and Safety Best Practices
UCA’s Coaches’ Meetings are powered with the knowledge of USA Cheer, Varsity University and the NFHS! Learn proven techniques for successful spirit program management as well as elevating your school’s spirit like never before.
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!

Squad Credentialing

Ways to get your squad credentialedLearn more about the roles of a cheerleader!

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