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Light-Up LED Pom Poms
Metallic streamers with LEDs built into the pom, a rechargeable pack, and one remote that changes the whole team’s color at once.
$145 USD per pair
For college dance and cheer coaches in basketball season: light-up poms carry the lights-out intros, timeouts and theme nights, and one remote switches the whole line together. The GCU dance team lit ours white at their season-launch pep rally. Team pricing is $120 a pair on 10 or more pairs.
Planning basketball season around the arena’s dark moments
Football gives a college dance team a handful of night games. Basketball gives it a whole winter indoors, in a building where someone else controls the light. That is the opportunity: arenas that run light shows take the house lights down for intros and features, and a lit line is the thing the crowd watches when they do.
Your preseason job is to find out which moments your arena takes dark and get your team’s light written into them, before the first home game. Everything in this guide works for cheer as well as dance. Other team types are in our guide to light-up pom poms for every kind of team.
Which basketball moments are worth lighting?
| Moment | Arena light | What the line does | Remote cue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting lineup intros | Dark in arenas that run a light show | Line the tunnel or baseline, poms lit in team color | Set before the lights drop |
| Pregame hype video | Dark | Hold still and lit, then hit on the last beat | Color already set |
| Timeouts | Full or dipped, per the script | Short routine on the baseline | Hold one color |
| Halftime feature | Dipped for the dance team | Full routine | A change only if it is in the choreography |
| Theme nights | Depends on the night | The theme color all game | W for white-outs, MODE for the rest |
| Senior Day | Full, with one dark moment | Seniors in one color, the line in another | Two-color pairs set before tip-off |
Pick two or three of these, not all six. A lit moment works because it is rare; poms lit for forty minutes become wallpaper.
What the GCU pep rally showed
The GCU Dance Team ordered 40 pairs of our poms in October 2026 and lit them white at the pep rally launching basketball season. In the footage, the student section waves banners, the arena lights dip and the poms glow brightest. Two lessons carry straight into the season: white reads under any arena lighting, and the seconds when the house lights dip are the ones to plan. The full order and footage are in the GCU dance team case study.
The GCU Dance Team is a customer of ours. Grand Canyon University and GCU Athletics do not sponsor or endorse Neon Cowboys.
How do you get your light into the game presentation script?
- Ask for the run of show. Game presentation or athletics marketing writes a script for every home game. Get it in preseason, not the week of.
- Propose two moments. Lineup intros and one halftime feature are the easiest yes. A short, specific ask gets a yes faster than a whole-game plan.
- Rehearse in the building. A walk-through on the game-day floor shows where the line stands and where the remote holder can see every dancer.
- Place the remote. It reaches about 65 to 80 feet on line of sight, and dancers standing between it and a pom can block it. A baseline spot usually beats the tunnel.
- Have a lights-up plan. If a dip is cut from the script, the poms still read as metallic poms under full light.
More ideas for the dark moments are in arena lights-out intro ideas and basketball dance team performance.
Theme nights and two-color pairs
One set covers every theme on the schedule. W sets white for a white-out, MODE steps through the colors for a pink or rivalry night and AUTO runs the rainbow for a celebration. For Senior Day, one pair can split two colors: set both poms to your first color, switch one pom off with its button, change the other by remote, then switch the first back on. Our setup videos show it step by step with green and white, red and blue, and blue and white.
For theme ideas the student section can match, see student section themes; for the seniors’ moment, senior night ideas.
How many pairs for a basketball line, and what does it cost?
Some programs put a smaller line on the basketball floor than on the football field. Order for the bigger of the two, plus spares. At $120 a pair on 10 or more pairs:
| Group | Pairs | Cost at the team rate |
|---|---|---|
| Basketball dance team of 13, plus 2 spares | 15 | $1,800 |
| Dance team of 17, plus 2 spares | 19 | $2,280 |
| Dance team and cheer on the baseline, 26 performers plus 3 spares | 29 | $3,480 |
If your football set is already lit, you do not need a second one for winter. Bring the same poms indoors.
Charging across a long winter
A charge runs about 3 to 4 hours, less on white and rainbow, so plan around game nights, not seasons. Charge every pom by USB-C the afternoon of a game (a small red light shows while it charges), keep cables and a power bank in the team bag for doubleheaders, and keep the remote with the chargers so it never leaves with a dancer. Over winter break, store the set together with its remote so the first game back starts on time. For the football side of the year, see college dance team game day poms; for a smaller budget, small college spirit programs. High school coaches can start with basketball cheer season poms.
Apply with your school, your dance or cheer team’s size, your colors, your arena and your first home game date. We make the poms ourselves and will tell you plainly what fits your date. Team pricing is $120 a pair on 10 or more pairs.
Frequently asked questions
What is your team pricing for a college dance team?
$120 a pair on 10 or more pairs. A dance team of 17 with 2 spares is 19 pairs, or $2,280 at that rate.
How do they work during a timeout?
Set the color before the timeout; one remote switches every pom that is on, at about 65 to 80 feet on line of sight, so nobody reaches for a switch mid-routine. Our setup videos show the remote.
Will one charge last a doubleheader?
A charge lasts about 3 to 4 hours, less on white and rainbow. Turn the poms on for the moments that count and top up by USB-C between games.
Can we get them in our team colors?
Yes. Order streamers in your colors, or a custom mix on 10 or more pairs. The light changes by remote, so one set covers team-color games and every theme night.
Can we get them in time for conference play?
Send us your first conference home game date when you apply and we will tell you plainly what fits.
Do our football poms work for basketball too?
Yes. It is the same set; change the color by remote for each game and charge before each one.
See also: light-up pom poms for every kind of team, the GCU dance team case study, basketball cheer chants and our light-up LED pom poms.
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