Are you looking for a cheer gym in Greenville, SC? When you’re ready for your child to start taking cheer classes and participating in team and all those cheer activities, you’ll need a great cheer gym. Greenville, SC offers quite a few options. As part of our annual KABOOM Awards, we asked our readers to vote for their favorite cheer gym. Here’s what they told us.
Top Cheer Gyms in Greenville, SC
2025 Kaboom Awards Winners

1st Place: Southern Cheer Elite
Finalist: Designer Athletics
Best Cheer Gym – First Place
Best Gymnastics School – Finalist
Southern Dance Connection and Southern Cheer Elite are proud to offer a wide range of classes for children and teens in Greer, SC, where they can learn valuable life skills through movement and performance. With classes for ages 2 through adult, our programs provide the perfect opportunity for students to build confidence, improve fitness, and develop discipline while having fun!
At Southern Dance Connection, we offer ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and acro dance, taught by experienced instructors who nurture creativity and personal growth. Whether it’s for recreation or the competitive stage, we meet every student where they are, helping them achieve their potential. Our dance students also have the opportunity to be part of exciting performance teams.
Southern Cheer Elite offers tumbling and cheerleading classes for all skill levels, focusing on stunts, jumps, tumbling, and team spirit. Our teams compete at local and national events, creating lasting memories and friendships along the way. Both Southern Dance Connection and Southern Cheer Elite emphasize teamwork, leadership, and perseverance, providing children with the tools they need to succeed both in and outside of the studio and gym. Join us today and see why our students shine!
Best Cheer Gym – Finalist
At Designer Athletics, we want to introduce you to a whole new era of cheerleading and tumbling training! We started this program with the belief that athletes of all ages and skill levels should have a place where they could learn and grow not just athletically, but in their personal life as well. Designer Athletics aims to design each athlete from the inside out by training them to be successful at the highest level both personally and athletically!
Our goal is to train every athlete to achieve excellence and greatness while creating a safe, fun and family-oriented environment where
everyone can thrive!
We do this by implementing our core values of DESIGN:
D– Discipline
E– Excellence
S– Strength
I-Integrity
G– Growth
N– Nobility
Designer Athletics offers tumbling classes as well as classes geared towards cheerleading training like jumps, flex, stunting and dance! We train many of the high school teams in the area and we are the only D1 competitive cheer gym in the Upstate! Find us on your app store to view our class schedule, just search “Designer Athletics” and book your first class free today! We can’t wait to see you in the gym!

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