It can be the most frustrating thing to dedicate all your time and energy into something that you love with a passion and having people not understand it. This is how all cheerleaders feel when someone tries to tell them that cheerleading is not a sport. People who have never been to a cheerleading competition in their life are making laws, like Title IX, saying that cheerleading can’t be recognized as a sport. People who have never been to a cheerleader’s practice to see how hard it is, are arguing with cheerleaders and telling them that all they do is say chants and prance around in skimpy outfits. That is not at all how cheerleading is anymore. Cheerleading has evolved just like every other sport and has become even harder to do than in
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And this is even more surprising because cheerleading accounts for sixty-five percent of all catastrophic injuries and according to the National Federation of State High School Association “only about 3 percent of the nation’s 2.9 million female high school athletes.” This may be due to the fact that unlike sports like football and soccer, cheerleading has no defensive gear to wear while engaging in the sport.
Because cheerleading is so dangerous, there are lots of rules and regulations to try and protect the athletes. In competitive cheerleading, everyone must follow the USASF rulebook, and if a team does not, then they will receive a warning and if not then corrected, then they will receive a legality, which is a serious offence because if a team receives a legality that would cause a team to be disqualified from a competition. Competitions have to do this in order to prevent teams from doing things that may impair the members. The USASF also requires spotters for any stunting even if the spotter is not touching the flyer (a flyer is the person on top of the bases). What this means is that for every flyer in the air, there must be two people underneath or next to the base that is stunting the flyer. This mainly applies to coed stunts (a stunt in which there is only one base holding the flyer) because it
And this is even more surprising because cheerleading accounts for sixty-five percent of all catastrophic injuries and according to the National Federation of State High School Association “only about 3 percent of the nation’s 2.9 million female high school athletes.” This may be due to the fact that unlike sports like football and soccer, cheerleading has no defensive gear to wear while engaging in the sport.
Because cheerleading is so dangerous, there are lots of rules and regulations to try and protect the athletes. In competitive cheerleading, everyone must follow the USASF rulebook, and if a team does not, then they will receive a warning and if not then corrected, then they will receive a legality, which is a serious offence because if a team receives a legality that would cause a team to be disqualified from a competition. Competitions have to do this in order to prevent teams from doing things that may impair the members. The USASF also requires spotters for any stunting even if the spotter is not touching the flyer (a flyer is the person on top of the bases). What this means is that for every flyer in the air, there must be two people underneath or next to the base that is stunting the flyer. This mainly applies to coed stunts (a stunt in which there is only one base holding the flyer) because it