We are the Kangaroo Kids!

Kangaroo Kids Jump Rope is a precision jump rope team with classes for all skill levels from ages 6 to 18, located in Howard County, MD. We perform at schools, events, halftime shows, and compete nationally and globally. Our team is committed to promoting physical fitness, good sportsmanship, and a love for the art of jump rope.

On this Monday, you need to enjoy velour track suits, that complement this DDC performance. This group of Kangaroo Kids won 1st place in the DDC Freestyle portion of US Nationals this week. Congratulations to them on their fun performance!

Kangaroo Kids are pleased to announce our awards we received this week at AMJRF US Nationals. Our head coach Nicole Meek received the Rusty Crim Volunteer award for the volunteer work she does for jumprope with committees and US National team . Our parent Jill Calhoun received the Judges Excellence award for completing the most training and volunteering to judge at all competitions and our team Kangaroo Kids received the Jump With Us Award for 2025 for getting the most new people to try jumprope in April 2025. Congratulations to all the Kangaroo Kids!

2nd set of photos from Grands at @amjrf US Nationals! Go Kangaroo Kids!

Grands!!! 1st set of photos!!! Congratulations to all the jumpers for working so hard today!

Tomorrow the Kangaroo Kids compete in the Grand National Championships of the @amjrf U.S. Nationals. The top six in each category are competing again! Let’s go Kangaroo Kids! Cheer for us!

Today at @amjrf US Nationals we competed in Single Rope Pairs Freestyle and Double Dutch Single Freestyle and Double Dutch Pairs Freestyle! It was a great day 3!

When you compete in Wheel Freestyle. @amjrf suggests you wear different shirts to assist judges in judging only the athlete they are assigned to judge. Here is a sample of our shorts for wheel freestyle today!

Two more @amjrf records set today! Alex got the male 16-18 triples record by completing 208 triples. Jake, Noah, Mason and John got the Double Dutch Speed Relay aged 19+ AMJRF record and National record. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

@amjrf Day 2 Nationals ready!!! #amjrf #amjrnc2025

It’s July 1 and we had a great first day at @amjrf US Nationals!

Congratulations!!! On Day 1 of US AMJRF Nationals, Jake and Noah got 1st place in male Double Unders and a National Record and Age Division Record and to Jake, Noah, John and Mason for getting a new age division record in Single Rope Speed Relay! Congratulations!

Kangaroo 🦘 Kids are ready to compete at AMJRF Nationals! We wish everyone a great Nationals experience! #amjrfnationals #amjrfnc2025

Kangaroo Kids! About us video! Share with anyone that wants to know more. Contact us at info@kangarookids.org

And to our "FRIENDS OF KANGAROO KIDS" Bronze level, we too are so happy to have your names on our backs, to let us know you are there for us! And for those of you who want to support us, the link is included for our upcoming year! We have a year-round program, with classes, shows and competitions! You will see Kangaroo Kids out and about! https://www.kangarookids.org/donate

We are also so grateful to our SILVER SPONSORS, The Calhoun Family, Common Ground Screenprinting, Rebecca Amster Cantor, Thomas Gibson MD, The Antes Family, and Brian's Milkshake Reviews! We are proud to have your names and images on our backs to support us!

We are so, so thankful to our PLATINUM SPONSORS! @stephaniemcclellanteam The Sariscak Family and The O'Connor Family, and The Moylan Family to honor the memory of Sara Moylan and IBM Red Hat. These sponsorships make so many things possible for the Kangaroo Kids! We appreciate you and thank you! We proudly wear your names on our backs!

Once again an AMAZING time at the Maryland Special Olympics Opening Ceremony Dance Party held at Towson! We got to take a photo with all these wonderful Maryland Athletes and perform and jump with them! We wished them the best of luck as they spent their weekend competing in all their events!

This was our Tuesday end of class shows held on Tues June 10! We are so proud of all our levels of class performances, from beginner to adult class! We hope you join us next fall for our classes. All information can be found on our webpage www.kangarookids.org We are so grateful to our sponsors! With their support everyone in the program is able to get a Kangaroo Kids shirt!

What do you think the oncoming truck driver is thinking? That is quite hard partner interaction...

MOVING is great for EVERY BODY! We had a blast getting people moving at Parkinson's Moving Day! Moving, walking, jumping, turning! It is all really beneficial!

We LOVE to help get people MOVING! We had a great time at Parkinson's Moving Day Event held at UMBC Campus! We had all kinds of people out moving and jumping with us, keep swiping until you see who we met!

Showing our performing team jumping 6 at a time in a trianngle! Know where you are going next and keeping those jumps high is key!

Jumping outside at Savage Fest Community Event on June 7 was great! Thanks again for having us!

Try jumping a routine on a pogo ball! It is really fun!

Happy Father's Day! We start with a dad in double dutch, Brian who is a dad to three Kangaroo Kids Lifetime Members, on the AMJRF Board and announces at competitions, and then Tom, who competes with Retro Roos, helps with AMJRF Competition Committee and keeps us all organizaed with spreadsheets, PLEASE KEEP WATCHING the entire reel for Kenji. A dad of 2 current jumpers, that is also competes as a Retro Roo, also is a certified judge at our competitions, and has earned his spot on the US National Team. (watch the whole routine with different camera angles and music!) Thanks to all the dad and dad figures in all the jumpers lives!

It is senior week here in Maryland! And our 5th senior is John! John has been jumping with Kangaroo Kids for over 11 years! He is on our Travel Team, our Competition Team, a team captain, and coaches the adult jump rope class. He has competed at local, national and international events, he has coached at workshops and attended performances such as the 2021 Macys Day Parade. He is also an AMJRF Ambassador. He will be attending the University of Maryland, College Park and studying Electrical Engineering. John says, "My favorite jump rope memory is competing team show at the 2024 AMJRF Nationals. Team show is the only event that we can compete as a whole team together, and it's super special to share the competition floor with all of my friends at the same time. It was extra memorable in 2024 as we ended up earning first place, meaning that our hard work throughout the year paid off. "

It is senior week in Maryland! Our 4th senior is Priya! Priya says, "I’ve jumped with the Kangaroo Kids since I was seven years old. I’m on the travel team, competition team, a team captain, junior coach, and an AMJRF ambassador. The sport has been a central part of my life, and I’m very grateful for the friendships I’ve made and how supportive everyone is of each other. I loved working with the younger kids and seeing how quickly they improve. I will be attending Purdue University for chemical engineering this fall." Congratualtions!!

It is senior week here in Maryland! Our third senior is Norah! Norah joined the Kangaroo Kids at the age of six and kept jump rope as a major part of her life! She worked her way through our program and joined the travel team, and has been a part of our coaching staff for over five years! Norah says, "I genuinely enjoy helping out and watching the kids grow in their skills. Kangaroo Kids has played a huge role in shaping the person I am today. The community around me showed me what true friendship really means." Besides continuing to coach, Norah will over the next 2–4 years, be joining the Radiology program at Howard Community College, to explore a variety of specialties, including CT scans, MRI scans, ultrasounds, PET scans, SPECT scans, and nuclear medicine. I’ll have the option of becoming a travel technician or staying in one location. Congratulations!

COME ON OUT and join the Kangaroo Kids at Hollifield Station's Blacktop Party! Tomorrow 6/11 for a performance from 7:00-7:30 pm outside on the blacktop! It is always a fun time!

It is senior week here in Maryland! Our second of the five seniors is Jaini! Jaini states, "I have been jumping since fifth grade and I have loved learning new things through jumprope (jumprope related and not). I really enjoyed halftime shows and parades because even though they are stressful, seeing the crowds' reactions makes them so much fun. I have really enjoyed coaching and spending time helping others learn something new. " We are happy to have her as a member of our travel team and our coaching staff! She will attend Drexel University in the fall to pursue a degree in biology! Congratulations!

It is senior week here in Maryland! We have 5 seniors this year! First is Juliette! She saw us perform at a show in 2023 and joined our summer camp, then classes then spent her senior year on our performing team! Her favorite thing is learning new routines and being part of the shows she once saw! She plans to help teach summer camp and keep jumping in the future! She will attend UMBC in the fall to pursue a dual major of computer science and visual arts! Congratualtions!!

2 in 1- performing team showing the skills for a 2 person 1 rope routine, try it out!

We had great Wednesday End of Class Performances from all our levels! We also looked really great in our new sponsorship shirts! Thank you to everyone who sponsored us this year! We proudly wear your names on our backs! We are truly thankful for all your support!

We had our END CLASS PERFORMANCE for Wednesday classes this week! We were very happy to show Beginner, Intermediate, Prep to Perform, Performing Team and Travel Team skills and routines! We hope you join us for our summer camps or classes in the fall! Jump rope is really awesome!

We love performing our choreographed routines! It involves single rope skills along with some great partner interaction skills!

Wheel Wednesday....enjoy the epic wheel photos! Remember in each of these tricks, the jumper is holding the handle of the other person's rope!

Reminder, no classes today, Tuesday June 3. End of class performances will be next week June 10. PLEASE wear your new gray Kangaroo Kids Sponsorship tshirt! See you then!

Multiples Monday...go try these multiples!

a small clip of a well choreographed routine

Kangaroo Kids travel team worked on the @AMJRF May Challenge. Cross combos!

Friend Friday! Grab a friend and go jump rope today! You will both have a great time!

Thank you to the HCRP photographer for coming out to take these awesome photos! HCRP would like to recognize this awesome adult class and let people know of this wonderful opportunity on Tuesday evenings. Next session will begin again in September! We hope you join us!

Can you follow the turning and jumping, and exchanging of ropes? Try this out! A double dutch pairs routine!

How many did she get in 60 seconds....wait, someone cut off the end of the video! How does it end?? What score did she get? That's a workout!

Just a small clip of our DDC. This is Double Dutch Contest Freestyle event, where jumprope meets dance, meets creativity! We love competing in this event!

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July Summer Camp
Jul 07, 2025, 9:00 AM – Jul 11, 2025, 4:00 PM
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Ellicott City Senior Center
Jul 17, 2025, 11:40 AM – 12:40 PM
Ellicott City Senior Center, 9411 Frederick Rd, Ellicott City, MD 21042, USA
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IJRU Worlds Championship
Jul 26, 2025, 6:00 AM – Aug 03, 2025, 4:00 PM
Kawasaki, Japan, Kawasaki, Japan
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Aug 11, 2025, 9:00 AM – Aug 15, 2025, 4:00 PM
Gary J Arthur Community Center, 2400 MD-97, Cooksville, MD 21723, USA
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