In Summer 2001, Pat Hawkins from the 'Rising Stars Cheerleaders' introduced the Level 1 ICF Coaches Exam to those 18 or over on her Programme.
John Dwan from the Sport Action Zone based in Beswick, East Manchester, contacted Pat Hawkins and Alison Dixon .
Alison Dixon then took over St. Barnabus classes with the help of Hayden and Lyndsey and then Alison expanded the classes in May 2002 to the Grange and Starting Coaching 2 classes a week there as well. The Sport began to develop in East Manchester and because Eastland Stars are based in the heart of the Commonwealth Games they had a lot of press.
A lot of young girls joined Eastlands and in 2003 participated in the UK Cheerleading Championships and 3 out of 4 of the Eastland Stars Squad came away with trophies.
In June 2003 some of the Eastland Stars parents are attended a 3 day Intensive Coaching Course, Level 1 ICF Coaches Exam and all the parents passed the course delivered by 'UK Cheerleading Association' (UKCA).
All classes ran successfully during the 2003-2004 season and the UKCA National Champs 2004 seen Eastlands bag another 3 trophies.
Now Eastland Stars has a lot of young people joining.
The year 2004 was a very busy year as Alison now left the squad to pursue her career and Carol and Hayden took over full time.
The cheerleaders went indoors to learn lots of new routines and stunts and they changed venue to the C of E Resurrection Primary School.
In 2005 Hayden then had spread his wings again and now is following his dream in Entertainment and the cheerleaders are still preparing for upcoming competitions and performances.
After UKCA 2005 ESC had to have a break. In Dec 2005 Hayden returned ready to get back Eastland Stars running. With the help from John, Carol and Lyndsey the Eastland Stars are now back and training for summer 2006 with plenty of performances to do and maybe the Lord Mayors Parade 2006.
