Maggie Atcheson is an American social media star best known as one of the 3 members and founders of the YouTube channel, The Cheernastics2, later shortened to TC2, alongside her cousins and twins, Ciera Stitz and Megan Stitz. They started the channel on October 16, 2011, and uploaded their 1st video on the same day titled How to do a Front Hip Circle. Their content remained in a similar fashion, primarily focusing on demonstrating various exercises, gymnastics obstacle courses, cheerleading routines, with occasional vlogs regarding gymnastics meets they attended. Around 2016, the 3 began to incorporate more discussion-type videos, tested weird products or gymnastics, flexibility, and cheerleading hacks.
They also tried out various gymnastics and cheerleading challenges inquired about by their fanbase, made comedy skits, and discussed health, fitness, and fashion. On July 10, 2014, Maggie decided to create her own YouTube channel under her real name, while the twins already had their separate channel, Megan and Ciera, starting on November 11, 2012. Her channel, which has amassed a fanbase of more than 100k subscribers, solely focused on vlogging her day-to-day life and allowed her fanbase to get to know both her and her family better. Maggie has also amassed a large social fanbase online with more than 200k followers on Instagram.
Sun Sign
Gemini
Residence
- Johnston, Iowa, United States
- Ames, Iowa, United States
Nationality
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Distinctive Features
Dimpled smile
Brand Endorsements
Maggie Atcheson has endorsed brands such as State Style, custom apparel designed for members of her university.
Best Known For
Her social media fanbase with more than 200k followers on Instagram, more than 100k subscribers on her personal YouTube channel, and more than 2 million subscribers on her collaborative YouTube channel, TheCheernastics2
Personal Trainer
In the past, Maggie was a part of the high school cheerleading team and a Level 5 all-star cheerleading team and went through 16 to 18 hours of training per week. She also did gymnastics as well as a mix of cheerleading and gymnastics for her YouTube channel. Maggie actually quit cheerleading in 2015 mainly due to time constraints with her YouTube channel and being very tired from working out so much. She also started going to the new gym and focused on gymnastics and athletics more, which played a large role. However, she came back to competing in 2018 before quitting again.
In January 2019, Maggie and her Cousins started a 4-week series they titled New Year-New Maggie. The goal was for her to build healthy habits, have a steady workout schedule, and spring back to action after quitting cheerleading and losing a lot of muscle through summer. Her weight also dropped from around 63 kg or 139 lbs to 131 lbs or 59.5 kg. Her main goal was to do exercises with lighter weights, but lots of repetitions, which was the best way to induce .
She focused on lower-body exercises such as bodyweight , side squats, and goblet squats, as well as using leg machines to do and leg extensions. She also added on a treadmill and Nordic skiing on a machine for .
Week 4
- Dumbbell step-ups
- Barbell back squats/front squats
- Good mornings
Each of the exercises was done for about 1 to 2 minutes with 30 second breaks in-between 4 to 8 cycles. After the workout was done, she measured her fat and muscle percentage on a dedicated scale. Maggie found out that she lost a couple of pounds of fat and had no changes in her . This motivated her to start a regular gym workout routine, which she upheld as of September 2019 and slowly came back to her regular weight of 63 kg or 139 lbs.
Maggie has also never gone on a and always just tried to . She feels like whenever she’s not supposed to be eating something, it’s all that she thinks about and . Maggie also experimented with being for 24 hours in March 2019 but struggled with it. She really wanted to eat cheese and for but couldn’t figure out a vegan replacement and had to skip the entirely as she was in a rush. She later ate Chinese noodles and salsa sauce and had Boom Chicka Pop sea salt for a snack.
Maggie Atcheson Favorite Things
- Grade At School – 6th
- Snapchat Filters – Dog, Crying Fish
- Beaches – Galveston, Clearwater
- Colors – Purple, Yellow
- Soda – Dr Pepper
- Holiday – 4th of July
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Maggie Atcheson Facts
- She was a cheerleader for around 5 years before she created a collaborative channel with her cousins in October 2011.
- She used to play soccer as a kid.
- In her youth, she was running from her dad and he accidentally slammed the door over her finger. The fingernail fell off and her dad kept it.
- Doctors diagnosed her with anxiety and depression at the age of 9.
- Collaborating with another YouTube channel, AwesomenessTV, allowed Maggie and her cousins to attend VidCon 2015.
- Her collaborative YouTube channel, TC2 reached a milestone of more than 1 million subscribers on August 6, 2016.
- One of the most annoying things for Maggie is people that are walking slow on the sidewalk but don’t move aside to let other people pass. Both she and Megan and Ciera are very fast walkers.
- Maggie remembers the 1st time she met a fan distinctly. It happened in 2013 when she was getting Dippin’ Dots at the Indie Gym Fest.
- She had her driving license suspended for 6 months in January 2016 on her way to school. She was rear-ended by someone else, which led her car to rear-end someone else’s, making her technically responsible for a car crash.
- Maggie used to think that rugby was lacrosse when she watched it on TV.
- She’s a big fan of football.
- Maggie didn’t have a favorite movie in 2016.
- She suffers from 2 diseases – TMJ (temporomandibular joint) and trichotillomania.
- She calls her friend group “5 pack”.
- Her biggest pet peeve is people chewing too loud with their mouth open.
- As of October 2019, she would like to move to 2 states in the future – Colorado, and California.
- If Maggie could change 1 thing about her appearance, it would be her teeth as she wants veneers. Her boyfriend thought she would pick her leg size as she hates how fat they look sometimes.
- She’s a member of the Alpha Phi sisterhood/sorority.
- One of the scariest moments in her life happened in June 2016 when she rode a motorcycle with her friend and stumbled upon an abandoned camper. As they were riding and speculating whether someone lived there, her friend’s sister jumped out on the road leading Maggie to panic, swerve, and start breathing heavily out of fear.
- In December 2018, Maggie decided to move out of her dorm room to a sorority house. Maggie didn’t have any problems with her dorm roommate, she only thought living in a sorority would be more fun.
- She once tried to microwave a metal cup filled with her drink and almost burned down the dorm room. Luckily, her mom stopped her on time.
- Maggie bought a pet goldfish in June 2018 and named it Pebbles.
- Maggie has a triangle tattooed in an area between her armpits and ribs. When she told her dad, he somehow already knew and even mocked her for having a triangle tattooed. There are 3 meanings behind it – mental health – “don’t press pause on your life”, YouTube sign, and also that her mom has the same tattoo.
- She appeared in an episode titled What it’s Like Growing Up On YouTube of Megan and Ciera’s podcast, According Two, on July 4, 2019.
- She had a kidney infection in September 2019 and stayed in the hospital for a few days.
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Featured Image by Maggie Atcheson / Instagram
Facts of Maggie Atcheson
- Gender Female
- full nameMaggie Atcheson
- nicknamesMaggie
- birthplaceIowa, United States
- ethnicity / ethnic backgroundAmerican
- nationalityAmerican
- net worth$700 thousand
- professionSocial Media Star
- weight63 kg or 139 lbs
- height5 ft 7.5 in or 171.5 cm
- hair color‘Ombre’ with ‘Blonde’ hair ends.
- eye colorDark Brown
- body type / buildAthletic
- collegeIowa State University
- motherGinger née Hamer Atcheson
- fatherJerry Atcheson
- brothersBrock Daniel Atcheson, Maverick Joseph Lee Atcheson
- sistersEllie Atcheson
- favorite colorsPurple, Yellow