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I would like to complain about the STATE competition..... My team went through warm area and I thought it was a very unsafe situation.... Teams were only given 5 minutes combined to do both stunts and tumbling on the same mat and then were required to do a full out cheer and pom routine for the tech judges without so much as a rest period.......... stunts were not warmed up properly when shared with tumbling time. My suggestion to KAPOS would be to warm up in 4 stations instead of two. STATION 1. 5 min stretch STATION 2. 5-8 minutes standing and running tumbling STATION 3. 5 -8 min stunt time STATION 4. 5 minutes on tech mats to show cheer or 2 1/2 minute routine then have a rest period of about 10-15 minutes before actually competing.........NOT BOTH BACK TO BACK ...... this is very unsafe!!!! girls were exhausted and then had to walk straight out to compete............... Felt to me that they were more worried about keeping on time than on keeping things safe and about the cheerleaders!!! These kids spend hours upon hours of practice time to get to make it to STATE and do not deserve to be rushed through all.... I was VERY dissapointed!

I know that our school paid a LOT of money to travel to the Regional and State KAPOS competitions with the cost of travel, gas, meals, hotel, busdrivers, etc. and then were rushed through without the quality time needed to prep so they could perform their best!!! I'm not sure that we will return to a KAPOS competition again!!!

I am also very concerned about the validity of the results from the morning session......Seemed very OBVIOUSLY wrong!!!!!!!!!!