Cheering

Is Cheerleading a sport? Cheerleading is a competitive sport. The stereotype for being a cheerleader is that females aren’t capable of the athletic coordination that most males are able to do. Cheerleading should be treated as a sport because it requires intense skills and practice, mandates competitiveness, and requires strength and determination. Cheerleading should be treated as a sport because it requires intense skills and practice. Consequently, [i]t must be a…

The Life Experience of a Cheerleader The rush of excitement running through the stands during the freezing Friday Night Lights. There is nothing better in the world than the feeling of pumping up the football players and crowd during a football game. Cheerleading began during the late 18th century. It originally started out with all males. Nowadays, there is a majority of females with few males or no males at all. Being a cheerleader is a great way to increase spirit in the school or community.…

In high school, you see the soccer players, the football players, the track team and many other sports teams on the football field. On the court you see volleyball players and basketball players playing as "sports teams", but you never hear of the other team in their bows and skirts being referred to as a sports team. That's because cheerleading hasn't made its way to be a sport yet. While people might think that they don't compete or that they just yell and smile, they do much more like…

Many people go against the topic of whether cheerleading is considered a sport. People assume it’s not because normally all they see of cheerleaders is at football or basketball games. People never watch cheerleaders performing at an actual competition. The sound of a screaming crowd, the flashes of cameras, and a goal to win are things that all sports have in common with cheerleading. Cheerleading meets the definition of a sport. Cheerleaders are expected to have a high level of physical…

Back pain is one of the most common injuries sustained by collegiate cheerleaders. Factors like position in a stunt, experience, and previous back injuries can cause an athlete to develop frequent or chronic back pain. In college cheerleading, there are two different positions in which a cheerleader can be placed. The first position is the flyer, her job is to stay tight by having a strong core and contracting every muscle in her body so that she can be thrown in to the air easily. It is…

Cheerleading is a competitive sport because it’s just as equal to other high school sports. We do competitions,we go against teams, and we have scores. (Short skirts, loud voices, and tons of energy; that’s what most high school students define as a typical cheerleader). Most of the people in the world will have this opinion. People think that cheerleaders are seen as wanna-be athletes. They don’t actually do anything other than a few back-flips here or there. How hard could it be? The answer is…

After 13 years of cheerleading, I have learned that there are many ways that you can get hurt. I would never listen to my coach when he would tell me that I needed to stop or that I needed to change the way I would tumble. He would try to teach me the correct way, and I would just brush it off because I thought that I knew everything about tumbling. But of course, I didn’t. I was working on my fulls and my coach kept telling me to use my hips to spin. “I am getting all the way around, so I…

Is cheer leading a sport Everyone knows those girls who sit on the sidelines of other sports and yell “GO TEAM.” These girls have to be very athletic and trained to do all of their stunts. The professional name of these girls is cheerleaders, they are the ones who get all of the crowd peppy on Friday night games and then go and compete all day Saturday and yet what they do is not considered a sport. The topic of Cheerleading has generated a lot of argument for the two viewpoints of…

Are Blondes as Dumb as You Think We Are? In the start of my freshman year of high school in August of 2012 I was stereotyped for being a dumb, blonde cheerleader. Being a cheerleader most people think we are unintelligent people that just to wave our arms around and to look pretty. We are much more than that. Being a high school cheerleader we went above and beyond to make our teams feel special. We did everything from individual spirit posters to hanging up decorations around the school to…

Balancing Act – Cheerleading and College Success vs. Complex Family Dynamics By Regina Aaron Escondido, CA - The professional voice that greets callers at a successful auto body shop belongs not to a seasoned vehicle repair specialist, but to Dominique “Domi” Hillery, a former member of Santa Monica College’s all-girl cheerleading squad. Domi was a member of the squad for 2 years and participated in many events and competitions, but her aspirations to become a professional cheerleader,…