Cheerleading Practice Wear

When you're a cheerleader, you know how important it is to have excellent cheerleader clothes.  After all, you are not only cheering, but you are also tumbling, jumping and dancing.  Cheerleading has gone beyond just cheering, and as you know has become more of an acrobatic sport.  Therefore you need cheerleading gear that can perform to the level of your team.

Our cheer clothes are exceptional because of the following factors:

• exceptional fit
• cool factor
• high stretch fabrics
• comfort
• competitive designs
• custom look
• ease of ordering
• on time delivery

GK was listed #3 among the topp 50 Cheerleading Blogs by OnlineChristianColleges.org

As Stated in their listing:


Cheerleading has gone from an American pastime to a cutting edge sport that requires as much athleticism and competitive fierceness as football or basketball. Even in middle school, girls are trying their best to become cheerleaders for the age-old allure of wearing the uniform and being among the popular crowd.

Of course it isn’t all fun and games, as these blogs on cheerleading point out. For aspiring cheerleaders, health and mental preparation are crucial to becoming part of the squad.

Top Cheerleading Blogs

Need to learn the ropes of cheerleading before making the squad? Get in gear with these cheerleading blogs that can help you prep for practices and routines.

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Announce Newest Team Member is GK Elite Sportswear

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders announced today that GK Elite Sportswear, L.P. has been selected as the official provider of workout, rehearsal and appearance attire for the world famous squad!

They will wear GK’s tops, shorts, warm-ups and jump suits for practices and personal appearances, including final auditions and rehearsals for the hit Country Music Television series, “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.”

“Being a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader is active, demanding work that requires full range of motion and athleticism.  We wanted to partner with someone known for superior quality, great fitting, and stylish performance apparel.  GK Elite Sportswear was the perfect fit!” said Kelli Finglass, Director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

“We are so excited to be partnering with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders!  We have outfitted the world’s top gymnasts for nearly 30 years, including a number of Olympic teams and athletes.  We entered the cheerleading market less than two years ago, and it’s truly an honor to now be outfitting the world’s most famous cheerleading team,” said Kelly McKeown, Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations for GK Elite Sportswear, L.P.

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have grown from their 1972 beginnings into the most famous cheerleaders in the world.  While best known for their trademark high kicks and routines during Dallas Cowboys football games, the group has reached well beyond the sidelines.  Just a few examples of the diverse and worthwhile activities of America’s Sweethearts include nationally televised halftime shows, “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Making the Team” on Country Music Television (CMT), annual clinics, camps and competitions for kids, hundreds of personal appearances and performances all across the country, personal visits with patients and residents of children’s hospitals, veteran’s hospitals and nursing homes and more USO overseas trips in support of America’s Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Guardsmen than any other entertainers over the last quarter of a century!

GK-Elite Sportswear is the world’s leading supplier of gymnastics apparel and is recognized around the world for superior variety, quality, fit and service. Based in Reading, Pennsylvania, Elite Sportswear, L.P., the company behind the GK brand, continues its commitment to American-made quality and continuous innovation in designs for Gymnastics, Cheerleading, and Dance apparel.
 

The Story Behind the GK Cheerleading Uniform

How Revolution Began

Since entering the all-star cheerleading market a little over a year ago, we, at GK, are frequently asked, “How did you decide to get into cheerleading?”  While we’d love to say we had some special foresight, it was really a right place, right time situation. 

We had been supplying warm-ups to the Maryland Twisters Cheerleading for a few years prior.  The Twisters (who have a reputation for being innovative) were looking for something different to wear.  They were familiar with our position as the market leader in outfitting gymnasts worldwide and wanted something similar to what our Olympic athletes wore.  So we set about engineering a cheerleading uniform that would fit great, be comfortable to wear, and look amazing under the lights.  The result was the original F5 uniform.

We received such overwhelmingly positive feedback on this one uniform that we decided we better take a closer look at this all-star cheer industry.  What we found amazed us!

On the one hand, the progression of all-star cheerleading routines over the years was phenomenal, with stunting and tumbling skills being much more complex and requiring a lot more athleticism.  It was immediately apparent to us that cheerleading is a sport……and cheerleaders are real athletes!

On the other hand, when we started researching the cheerleading apparel side of things, were less than impressed with how little the cheerleading uniforms had kept up with the advancement of the sport.  They still resembled the sideline variety your mom wore when she was a varsity cheerleader for the football team.  They were predominantly made of heavy 100% double-knit polyester, were covered with restrictive, non-stretch binding, and even had zippers! 

So here’s what we did.  We took our 30 years of experience outfitting Olympic athletes and created the next generation cheer uniform:

·         We used four-way super-stretch fabrics developed exclusively for GK and our proprietary pattern technology to engineer a garment designed for maximum performance, fit and comfort.

·         We eliminated zippers, binding, buttons, or anything else that would restrict movement while practicing or competing.

·         Finally, we designed a cutting edge look that would set our teams apart from the others on the competition floor.  Our styling included an athletic cut, a wide range of performance fabrics in eye-catching colors, funky backs, crop tops and design lines, and lots of bling!

And that is how the revolution began.

As seen on Buzzvee.com


Olympic Gymnastics Champion Shawn Johnson leans back-to-back with Minnie Mouse as they hang out at ESPN The Weekend fan festival at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida on Saturday afternoon (February 27).

The 18-year-old Olympian and a couple of friends have been touring the resort — with Shawn picking up her own taxi, since she is hopping around on crutches.

Shawn recently designed a line of signature cheer practice wear collection for GK-Elite Sportswear. She’s the company’s first-ever endorsed athlete promoting her own line, which includes seven coordinating practice Cheerleading crop tops, long tops  and cheerleading shorts in cutting edge styles, prints and colors.

Shawn shared, “I love cheer and the fact that it incorporates tumbling skills into the routines. I hope everyone finds my collection to be fun and fashionable. Good luck in 2010!”

Check out her line at GKEliteSportswear.com.
 

See GK’s New Cheerleading Apparel online at:

www.GKCheerUniforms.com

• Fresh New Designs
• Comfortable Fit
• Fabric Choices
• Color Choices
• And lets not forget customization options!

See GK’s New Cheerleading Apparel online at:

www.GKCheerUniforms.com

GK is bringing their gymnastics wear engineering expertise to the spirit market. The 2010 catalog includes a greatly expanded range of women’s styling, men’s cheer apparel, cool new practice wear, dance wear, camp apparel, spirit wear, matching bows and safety & training equipment.

See GK’s New Cheerleading Apparel online at:

www.GKCheerUniforms.com

The Shawn Johnson Collection is highlighted in GK’s new 2010 Cheer catalog. GK is bringing their gymnastics wear engineering expertise to the spirit market. The 2010 catalog includes a greatly expanded range of women’s styling, men’s cheer apparel, cool new practice wear, dance wear, camp apparel, spirit wear, matching bows and safety & training equipment.

See GK’s New Cheerleading Apparel online at:

www.GKCheerUniforms.com