Michigan Cheer Company — Local services in Kentwood

I attended an open gym with my daughter who was wanting to join an all star cheer team. We were with a neighbor who was a current athlete at the gym at the time. The coach couldn't be bothered to answer my questions as her twins were occupying all of her time. She shoved some paperwork at me and disappeared. I chatted with the mother of the athlete who had invited us and asked if she could help with my questions. I wanted to know which of the Full, Limited or Recreational options the coach recommended for an athlete of my daughter age and experience. The current athletes mom had me go into the gym with her to try and get my questions answered. The twin girls were running around where athletes were trying to stumble and stunt and the coach was in the corner on her phone. I left to run an errand and returned 20 minutes later to find the gym empty and to discover my daughter and the other athletes walking barefoot through the parking lot and grass looking for a turtle that had escaped. We left pretty quickly after that. I asked my daughter if the coach had worked with her at all and she said that she had not, but she had stunted with some of the other athletes. I felt that the entire situation was unorganized and honestly completely unsafe! I attended an open gym at a neighboring facility the next day and had a completely different experience. The coach was more than happy to answer my questions and spent significant time with my daughter to evaluate her skills and made recommendations off of that. I'm so glad a parent at CCM told me about the neighboring facility as I...

Our experience here had its ups and downs. The coaching style is based on hard work , dedication and winning. Hard work= lots of practice, lots of yelling, lots of demeaning comments to “motivate” , swearing, bullying and belittling the athletes. Dedication= you put practice and competitions first in your life. That means before school (band concerts, choir concerts, prom...) before family (vacations, church, funerals ) before any other sport , or activity. You even come if you are sick. We had kids at practice and competitions with the flu, mono, lice ... You must sign a contract that you agree to keep paying tuition for the full year and pay a $500 liquidation fee and a $150 re-choreography fee if you quit. The contract and code of conduct is lengthy, make sure you agree with ALL OF IT before you sign it. That is scary in my opinion and very expensive. Winning= yes the teams do well in competitions and they do sometimes win. However, my child’s team won the US Finals National Championship, which was wonderful, but out of the 18 athletes on that team 11 of them decided to leave the program the following year. That leaves a red flag and says it all. Winning is nice but not as important as being treated with kindness and respect and maybe a thank you for your hard work and dedication, sadly this was not said after their wins. I would not recommend this gym. All Star Cheer/Competitive Cheer is a fantastic and fast growing sport. There are lots of other great programs in our area to...

I find it abhorrent that any parent who did not join this program to leave a rating of one star. How can you rate a program in which you never participated? How can you leave a one star rating based on the language of a contract in which you never signed; therefore, were never bound? The bottom line is this is a stellar program that is having its reputation slandered and liabled by few parents who made the decision to NOT participate in said program. To the mother who claimed her husband was an attorney and had concerns over the language in a contract; may I suggest you ask your husband about the ramifications of making defamatory statements against an organization based upon a contract to which you were never bound. I say this as an actual attorney and not the alleged spouse of an attorney. Any parent looking to have their child participate in an all star program, I implore you do look to the vast number of 5 star ratings this program has been given by actual parents of atheletes rather than those of the parents who have never experienced the privilege of working with the coaches and the outcome of the hard work...