Cheerleading

Southern Miss cheerleading team is the gracious pride of our spirited Saturday night football games. The systematic marching band may toot their polished horns and rhythmically pound their finely tuned drums. The embellished dancers may agilely skip and prance about. The axillary may sling their glittery props. They may perform all of these tasks expertly. Without those brawny football players, not a fan would be found in the stadium. However, despite their competition, the cheerleading squad is…

Cheerleading should be considered a sport because cheerleaders get hurt just as much as any other athlete, also cheerleaders practice the same amount of hours if not more as any other athletes. Lastly cheerleading should be considered a sport because cheerleading can keep people in shape just like any other sport. Cheerleaders might only perform for two and a half, but they but just as much energy out as basketball players do in a game. Every year, 100,000 cheerleaders go to the hospital for…

and muscle of energy you have, and using your body to what you think are making them stronger. On the inside though, you’re only breaking them. “Don't get inside your head, this is easy.” I told myself before I stepped onto the mat. Competitive cheerleading is one of the most active sports and uses every part of your body and strength to flip yourself around, or throw somebody in the air. You use your mind to create confidence in what you’re doing until the day comes and everything changes.…

People always have many different opinions about cheerleaders; some good and some bad. Some think of them as the girls in skirts that just stand on the sidelines on Friday nights, but to me, cheerleading is so much more. Cheerleading is a way to show your support for the team being cheered on and spirit for your school, all while setting an outstanding example for everyone else within the community. I believe our squad holds enough potential to be one of the best squads to ever filter through…

This is one of the reasons that drove her to start up a cheerleading team at my high school and become the coach. As a coach, she taught the importance of stunting safety and tumbling. My mom used videos, trainings with college cheer instructors, constructive feedback, rulebooks and many other methods in order to help us gain the most cheerleading knowledge and skill possible. I learned that it takes a lot of practice in order to…

It is 3:30 in Wichita Kansas. My last class just ended and I am currently changing to go to cheerleading practice. I attend Heights High School which is not a school that is familiar with mediocracy. Almost every sports team including basketball (men’s and women’s), football, wrestling, and even bowling at Heights High School had been winning state championships so of course our cheerleaders could not be any different. Heights high school cheerleader had been known around the city for being…

change from passions to obsessions in the blink of an eye. When I started cheerleading in 9th grade, I fell deeply in love with it. Many things drew me towards it: the family I received, the idea of working hard to succeed, and simply the feeling of pure ecstasy when we hit a stunt or the team crushed a dance. I became very devoted, and soon it consumed my whole life.Everything I could learn, I wanted to learn. Cheerleading captivated my every thought. This continued on for two years through…

Being in cheerleading isn’t as easy as people say. Some people even think cheer isn’t a sport but I would beg to differ. Cheerleaders have a high chance of getting just as sweaty, tired, and hurt as you can in other sports. Cheerleaders can’t be afraid to perform in front of people because we have to be loud and proud of our team. Practice gets tough when you have to do painstaking stretches, many difficult jumps, then, depending on the day, stunts or cheers. To begin cheer practice, all us…

The team that I called family for the past 6 months was sitting in a circle. Our eyes closed and holding each others nervous sweaty hands with a grip so tight I thought our lives depended on it. In that moment I remembered how I first got into cheerleading. Which changed my life forever. I was in 6th grade at the pep rally where they recognize the football, volleyball players and of course the cheerleaders had to perform their routine that they have been working on for months. I was fascinated…

person with a certain about of skills. To be a cheer coach is in its own way more difficult than any other sport to coach. Cheerleading does not have a rule book on what plays the team should do to win. In fact cheering is not to achieve the goal of winning but to cheer on the team and pump up the crowd. To be an accomplished cheer coach one must be skilled in the sport of cheerleading, must have patience and…