Persuasive Speech About The Cheer Team

"We are almost there", said the bus driver. "Yes! Finally! Yeah!", was heard all around the bus. When they finally arrived, the girls and guys stepped out of the bus. One of the girls exclaimed, "I can not believe it! We are actually here." "Well, this is our day. Are we in?", asked the team 's cheer captain. "Yes!", everyone exclaimed. "On three. One... Two... Three... Panthers!" The cheer team ran excitedly towards the tents. Throughout the whole week, the Panthers cheer team fought in competition after competition. Slowly they crept higher and higher to the top. On the last day of the competition, they were battling the best cheer team in America, the Cougars. They thought that they had no chance to beat the Cougars, but they still believed …show more content…
She says, "After becoming female-dominated in the 1950s and 1960s, college cheerleading is now 50 percent male" (Yabroff 526). Saying that more males are joining the cheer teams, she uses five American presidents to prove her point. "FDR led the crowd at Harvard, and Eisenhower, sidelined from football by a knee injury, wielded the megaphone at West Point. Ronald Reagan played football as the Gipper on film but in real life he rooted on the basketball team at Eureka College as a cheerleader. And both Bushes had that rah-rah spirit at Yale; George W. cheered for Andover as well" (Yabroff 526). Yes, here Yabroff shows that men are joining cheer teams. Even the presidents, before they led the country, are cheering for teams. But, one thing that Yabroff fails to mention is if the presidents actually did back flips or front flips or even side flips. FDR led the crowd, but how did he do it? Did he do flips or did he just use a megaphone? Eisenhower originally played football, but due to a knee injury, his only option to participate in the game was to use a megaphone and cheer his teammates on. Ronald Reagan was indeed a cheerleader, but did he do flips or did he just talk? And lastly we have the bushes, Here, Yabroff says that they had rah-rah spirit. So, maybe they were the only real cheerleader? A point that Yabroff tries to get through is that cheerleading should be an official sport because more males are joining teams. So, think …show more content…
Cheerleading should be counted as a sport. Even though Yabrough says that cheerleading should be an official sport, cheerleading should not be counted as a sport just because more males are joining the cheer teams. Yes, the males give more variety to the cheer squads and sometimes make them more balanced. But, that should not be the reason for cheerleading to be a sport. There many all-female cheer teams, and they should be given the same opportunity to be counted as a sport like the football or baseball or basketball teams. It should not matter if males are joining the cheer squad or not. Cheerleading should become an official sport! Are you