Youth Football Cheerleaders

I feel that it is time that people know the truth behind the football league, mostly the cheerleaders. I know some of you will say I'm a coward for not using my name but I don't want my  daughter or her squad to suffer because that's the way it works with the people that run this. First of all, yes my daughter is a cheerleader. She was on one of the smaller squads. There were several squads with just a few girls. The way it's supposed to work is the head cheer coach is supposed to assign new girls, who don't have brothers playing on a team,  to the smaller squads so that everyone has about the same number of girls. This is not the way it is. And guess whose squad has more than twice the number of girls as anyone else? Then, the weekend after Hurricane Ike, when we were still under tornado watch, they did not cancel games. The wind was blowing so hard that you had to hold on to something, or so I heard. I did not bring my daughter out in it. And when some teams couldn't get enough players to play because they were still evacuated the president said that team would have to forfeit. Now, the coaches were able to fight that one by the hardest. The cheerleaders have a little competition towards the end of the season. It had to get pushed back because of the storms. Guess who wanted to schedule it on a weekend when no other squad would be ready or able to perform? The head coach, with the biggest squad. So the other cheer coaches argued and got it changed. Then the cheer coaches were given all these rules about the dance and cheers to be performed at the competition. No coaches could lift or even touch the girls during the competition and all cheers had to be original. She specifically said points would be deducted for cheers that were from the games. Guess whose squad won? Guess who helped her girls do stunts and did not have original cheers? And guess whose squad was the only squad allowed to practice on stage for over an hour before the competition? Now before I get attacked, those girls did a really good job. Actually everyone did. And I teach my children that winning isn't everything, just have fun doing it. But if you are going to make rules shouldn't everyone have to follow them? And if you are part of the competition shouldn't you stay away from the judges before and not talk with them extensively? Why is it that there were only 2 or 3 squads that followed all of these rules but didn't win? The last straw was the way they chose princess on Saturday. Each squad chooses one girl to be a princess and a queen is selected by the fans. The girls thought it was going to be done at the All Star game in 2 weeks. The head coach decided at the last minute to vote on Saturday. Some of the princesses were not even there and so they didn't get to participate because they didn't know. Those fans that knew what was going on voted during half time of one of the games. Want to guess who's princess one? The strange thing was, her team wasn't even playing. So shouldn't one of the girls of the 2 teams playing have one? After all, they had the most fans present. Even the other cheerleaders commented that they weren't surprised. What are we teaching these girls? My daughter wasn't a princess but even she said, "why does her squad always win everything?" How sad is that! Bottom line is this: lady you must choose. Either coach or be coordinator but you can't do both. It just isn't fair.