Sports & Sprains

"Gooooo Mustangs!"

- Trish

"Sports & Sprains" is the twenty first episode in Season 2 of Austin & Ally. It aired on August 4th. The episode was the twenty first episode of season 2 to be filmed. This episode earned 2.881 million viewers on the night of its premiere.

Overview
Spirit week at school prompts Austin to join the Varsity basketball team.

Episode Summary
When Ally interviews Dez on his dream of being a cheerleader for the Marino Manatees for the school paper, it is then that Trish and Austin learn that it is Spirit Week at Marino High. Due to this new knowledge, natural talent and some persuasion, Austin decides to join the basketball team; Trish is also inspired after learning that the student showing the most spirit gets one thousand dollars.

Trish and Ally show up to the basketball team's practice; Ally shows up for an article while Trish shows up to do her new job as the helper. Then the cheerleading squad has try-outs; Dez and Chuck both try out, and both make it onto the team.

After getting onto the team, Kimmy informs Dez and Chuck that it is between them for the position of yell leader. Meanwhile, a game comes up, and Jimmy comes into Sonic Boom to inform Team Austin that he has invited the manager of the Heat to come to the concert that Trish arranged to delude everyone into believing that she had plenty of school spirit.

Dez asks Jimmy to come earlier so that he can watch Austin play basketball and Dez cheerlead; after hearing this, Jimmy tells Austin to quit. He cannot risk having Austin get injured by playing--since he has spent and invested a lot of money in Austin, who is a singer and dancer--but after Ally tells him to continue to play, he sticks with the team.

However, during the ending of the game, Austin injures himself, which places the team in a bit of a dilemma to make sure that Jimmy does not notice his injury. The end result is that Austin performs Living In The Moment with wires on, so that he can dance and the pressure is relieved off of his knee.

In the end, Austin quits the team, Ally's article gets on the front page, Trish ends up winning a thousand dollars in the form of Manatee Dollars and Dez loses the position of yell leader to Chuck, which is a good thing since the yell leader had to do it half-time and got shot out of a cannon. Austin was also invited to perform half-time at a Miami Heat game.

Songs featured

 * Can't Do It Without You (theme song)
 * Living In The Moment (premiere)

Main Cast

 * Ross Lynch as Austin Moon
 * Laura Marano as Ally Dawson
 * Calum Worthy as Dez
 * Raini Rodriguez as Trish De la Rosa

Guest Cast

 * John Paul Green as Chuck
 * Richard Whiten as Jimmy Starr
 * Cassidy Ann Shaffer as Kimmy
 * Gui DaSilva-Greene as Dancer
 * Ashley Leilani as Cheerleader
 * Chelsea O'Toole as Cheerleader

Trivia

 * This is the second time Austin has crutches. The first time was in Club Owners & Quinceaneras.
 * This is the second time Austin broke something. First was his foot in Club Owners & Quinceaneras.
 * This is Chuck's 3rd appearence.
 * Dez is a cheerleader.
 * Austin is shown to be good at basketball.
 * Ally is a reporter in the school newspaper.
 * Trish and Austin didn't know there was a school newspaper.
 * Trish didn't know there was a basketball team.
 * Trish didn't know that they were the Manatees, she thought they were the Mustangs.
 * This marks Kimmy's second appearance
 * This is the 3rd time we see Austin with a basketball. First in World Records & Work Wreckers, second in Freaky Friends & Fan Fiction.
 * This episode is Kimmy's last appearance.

Goofs

 * It is illegal to cannon ball someone against their will.