QUEEN CITY STORM CHEER & DANCE
COMPETITIVE SQUADS
COMPETITIVE SQUADS
QUEEN CITY STORM CHEER & DANCE
Queen City Storm is not your average All-Star cheerleading squad. Queen City Storm is recognized as being an athlete centered, age appropriate, and progression based cheerleading program.
Athlete Centered: With a program like Queen City Storm you are not just a number. We want you to feel like part of the family. We have a mentor program for the athletes, a parent boosters group, team parties/banquets, and team activities used to form bonds in the program. Coaches are here to help the athletes set realistic goals for themselves and team. Teaching them that hard work can lead to accomplishing a goal. Success does not come without planning, hard work, and sometimes sacrifice. Using positive motivation, such as catching the athlete doing things right, and being enthusiastic keeps the athletes striving to improve themselves and excited about the sport.
Age Appropriate: We believe kids should be kids that is the reason our athletes wear full coverage tops and skirts. Our look and cheerleading style is clean, athletic, and polished! Make-up is minimal. Our choreography and music highlights the team's strength.
Progression Based: The most important thing is safety. We teach in progressions for a reason. Learning proper technique is essential to ensure safety. The skills that we perform are those that the athletes have mastered. We believe that safety is key to a successful athlete and program. Our incredible training facility is equipped with foam pits, trampolines, and other apparatus for skill building.
Come check out the FUN that comes with being a part of a competitive cheer squad.
Competitive cheerleading offers you the opportunity to show off all your cheer skills;
dancing, jumping, tumbling and stunting!
Queen City Storm is looking for girls ages 4 -18 to join our family. We have squads that range in ages and abilities, which means that there is a squad for YOU!
Contact Heather Zumberge to see how you can become a part of the best cheer programs in Cincinnati.
COMP CHEER:
- Tryouts: End of May
- Choreography: Starts August
- Season: Competitions are December-March
- Practices are twice a week for 4 hours
PREP CHEER (5 years & up):
- Classes begin in June
- Teams form in September
- All competitions are in a two hour radius
- 6 month season
- Cut off to join is early November
- Practices are once a week for 2 hours
CLASSES:
- Introductory to Tumbling, Intro to back handsprings.
- Ages: 4-5 year olds
Cheer Level Clinics
Ages: 7 years – 18 years
Dates: May 18-21
Length: 2 hours
Cost: FREE for currently enrolled athletes
$15/clinic for athletes not enrolled
This level training is open to all new and returning athletes and will lead up to Full Season Cheer Tryouts. We will work on stunting and tumbling skills. Please see below for skill requirements for each level:
- LEVEL 1: Back Walkover
- LEVEL 2: Back Handspring
- LEVELS 3: 2 Back Handsprings + Round-off Back Tuck OR Round-off Back Handspring Tuck
Tumble & Stunt Clinics
Classes take place on Gray floor in front of Ninja gym
Levels: All Levels
Dates: May 26, 28, & 29
Times:
6:00-8:00pm
Cost: FREE for currently enrolled athletes
$15/clinic for athletes not enrolled
Summer Prep Training HIP HOP
Classes take place in the Main Gym
Dates: Mondays - June 8-August 31
Time:
6:00-7:30pm
Ages: 6-14 years
Cost: $143 per month
For anyone interested in our half season Prep hip hop teams. Placements will be held at the end of September. This is a opportunity to learn dance choreography, learn new hip hop tricks, meet future teammates and coaches
Great start to your Hip Hop future
Sideline Skills
Classes take place in the Main Gym
Ages: Kindergarten - 8th Grade
Length: 1 hour
Cost: $125 per month
Youth cheerleaders! Advance your tumbling and jumps and dominate the sidelines for the 2026 cheer season!
OUR COACHES
QUEEN CITY STORM COMPETITIVE TEAMS DEPARTMENT LEADER
HEATHER ZUMBERGE
Heather Zumberge has been the Department Leader and the Competitive Cheer Program Director at Kids First since Aug. 2005.
Born and raised in rural Celina, Ohio, Heather cheered for her hometown team, the Celina Bulldogs from 4th grade until she graduated High School. From there Heather attended The University of Toledo where she cheered for three years. She graduated with a major in Sales and Marketing.
After graduating High School, Heather spent her summers working for Universal Cheerleaders Association. (UCA is a cheerleading company that teaches cheers, chants, stunts, and dances to Elementary thru college cheerleaders.)
The minute Heather stepped into the gym and met the girls she knew that moving to Cincinnati to pursue a position at Kids First was meant to be.
Along with being the Department Leader for Cheer, Heather is a Cheer Class Instructor, and Cheer Team Coach. She also teaches for the Tumble Bee program. She feels blessed to be able to work with kids.
Things you should know about Heather:
- Her favorite color is purple
- Has two dogs Chuy and Tucker
- She is left handed
- Favorite food is Pad Thai
- The mother of beautiful twin girls
