Cheerleading

exactly why people think negatively about cheerleading. Cheerleading is more than what it looks like, that is why it is a sport. To be classified as a sport it is required to have an opponent, a goal, physical activity, and rules. Cheerleading has all of the above listed components. Before I go on, I would like to point out that there is a difference between school cheerleading and competitive or allstar cheerleading. Both are sports, but competitive cheerleading is more complex and it is also…

and cheering for nine years. Having been a cheerleader for so long, I always encounter people who do not believe cheerleading is an actual sport. Every time I try and convince someone that it is a sport, they are so one minded and they hardly listen to me and it blows my mind. Second semester, sophomore year of high school one boy, we will call him John, decided to tell me that cheerleading was not a sport. I was then very irritated. I was walking around the hallways in my cheer uniform as I…

well known argument is “Whether cheerleading is a sport or not”. There are two types of cheerleading. The first type of cheerleading is “side line cheer” which is cheering at sport events to pump up the crowd and keep the team and fans’ “school spirit” up. This is not considered a sport because it doesn 't take a lot of effort, just a lot of dedication and good memorization skills. It also does not fit the definition of a sport. The second type of cheerleading is ‘competitive,’ with…

Cheerleading is usually categorized as something that is not a sport because it does not look “intense” or “tough” enough to be labeled as one. I always wanted to give it a try which is why I agreed to join a cheerleading team with my friend during the time that I was in middle school. She was extremely flexible since she had been doing gymnastics for a long time. I on the other hand, did not participate in any activity as such that favored my flexibility which is why once I eventually started…

whole city was in panic. Streets shut down, however, my team and I managed to make it to the national cheerleaders association competition. Their mantra is “the work is worth it,” but I will determine that for myself. This was like the Olympics of cheerleading and anxiously awaited it. My team and I had been working for months, perfecting two minutes and thirty second of the hardest routine physically possible. Blood, sweat and tears, shed on a daily. Every night we practiced for hours and I…

against other teams. If you look at competitive cheerleading, it is a competition or contest in which the cheerleaders do physical activities such as jumping, stunting, tumbling, and dancing according to rules set in place by the U.S. All-Star Federation and compete against each other. Competitive cheerleading fits like puzzle pieces into Merriam-Webster’s definition just like any other sport…

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…

Some people like to dog on cheerleading and like to say it’s not a real sport but it is. Cheerleading involves practice, training and competition. In a sense cheerleaders have to be more skilled than many athletes in the way they perform stunts staying in the air twisting and turning to come down and land on their…

Spending months upon months, week after week, days, hours and seconds, all for one little sport. The sport that fills my heart and love so deeply, cheerleading. Not the school sideline girls that yell and kick, but competitive cheer. In a cheer routine, a team must be able to continuously flip across the floor, jump as fast as rabbits, launch people into the air while still managing to keep them safe, and dance and be sassier than a seven-year-old pageant girl - all of it jam packed into 2…

The time when I was the happiest was when I became a Bronze medalist at the 2016 Cheerleading Worlds. All season we worked non-stop making things perfect and just putting the final touches on our routine. But it was also one of the saddest moments because I spent 10 years of my life into this sport and it all comes to an end in two weeks. Me and my team Super Seniors would practice every single day for 3-4 hours at a time till we left for Disney. Every time at practice our coach told us “Stop…