Overnight Cheerleading Camps in New Jersey

You need good coaching, teamwork and dedication to become the best cheerleader you can be. Overnight cheer camps give you the opportunity to improve your cheer, tumbling and dance skills in a fun camp environment. Four sleep away camps in the New Jersey area offer different length cheer programs for middle school, high school and college-aged cheerleaders.

  1. American Dance Training Camps

    • Improve and innovate your cheer choreography at an American Dance Training Camp (americandancetrainingcamp.com) overnight program. The Lawrenceville, New Jersey, location invites individual campers and squads to take their dance skills to a new level. Cheerleaders between the ages of 13 and 17 can choose a weeklong program focusing on jazz or hip-hop dance. In addition to four daily dance classes, overnight campers participate in activities such as horseback riding, swimming, tennis and a performance at the end of the week.

    Pine Forest Cheerleading Camp

    • Take your whole cheer squad to Pine Forest Cheerleading Camp (cheerleadingcamps.com). Located just 16 minutes from the border of New Jersey in Greeley, Pennsylvania, Pine Forest offers three-day sessions for squads of all levels with team members between the ages of nine and 18. Regular and elite sessions emphasize tumbling skills, choreography and cheers along with team building. The camp also offers stunt and performance sessions focusing on partner stunts, pyramids and competitive level performance. Every session includes lessons in cheerleader safety, game planning and choreography.

    Lake Greeley Camp

    • Located in the Pocono mountains, a 17 minute drive from the New Jersey border, Lake Greeley Camp (lakegreeley.com) offers two-, three- and four-week sessions for young athletes. Campers can participate in the camp's cheer program and supplement their new cheer, tumbling and stunt skills with classes in dance and gymnastics. Other daily activity options include circus arts, drama, tennis and swimming. Cheerleaders in sixth grade and above can choose to take extra cheer classes through the camp's elective program.

    Sixers Overnight Dance Camp

    • The Sixers Dancers, official cheerleaders for the NBA Philadelphia 76ers, operate overnight camps for young cheerleaders and dancers every summer. Hosted by Valley Forge Academy and College in Wayne, Pennsylvania, the camp offers girls ages seven to 17 the chance to improve their dance and cheer skills in a fun, challenging environment. In addition to daily technique and choreography classes, campers can swim and run an obstacle course during free time. All campers are eligible to audition for the Sixers Junior Dancers, a squad that performs at home games.