Cheers

game, they do more than any other athlete, because they put themselves at risk, participate in stunting, do more than just physical activity, memorize cheers and jump sequences, they…

Cheer is a sport that not everyone can understand. Of course, there are the people who disagree and say cheer is not a sport and then there are the cheerleaders who say it is. It only clicks to some people who really find the potential in themselves to dedicate their life to it. Not only is it a sport, it is an activity that creates a new life. Cheer takes a lot of dedication because it takes a great amount of physical activity, a healthy and positive mindset, and it builds a whole new family…

until six o’clock every day or spending my weekends making choreography for my team, cheer affects my life inside and outside of school. The life lessons and qualities I’ve developed through cheer are traits that I can utilize for the rest of my life. Most notably, cheer has taught me the value of hard work. My team at Kennedy High School has competed in 3 competitions through Sharp Internationals and Jamz Cheer and Dance. There were days I had to stay for practice until seven o’clock in…

were so many great girls trying out to make the varsity cheer squad. I expected nothing less than my number not to be on the school website at 4:00 p.m. If you try your hardest then you will succeed at anything your desire. I started my first year at Durant as a freshman, I had tried out to become a cheerleader my seventh and eighth grade year. I made both years but when freshman cheer was coming to an end I was no longer interested in doing cheer. Honestly, I was embarrassed because I had a…

Cheerleading is a sport including many incommensurable activities such as dance, tumbling, jumping, and stunting, for competition or to cheer on a team. It is a very difficult sport that is much underappreciated. Cheerleading is a difficult activity which takes very hard work and dedication. Many cheerleaders obtain injuries from the hardcore sport. “Today, cheerleading involves skills which require the strength of football, the grace of dance, and the agility of gymnastics. Complex maneuvers…

cheerleading. Since hybrid cheer and sideline cheer could not be ruled as a sport, that did not mean competitive cheer did not have a chance. Johnson and Sailors (2013) described competitive cheer as a squad that only competes against other competitive squads in events held by cheer organizations (p.257). Competitive cheer fills the guidelines of obtaining physical activity and a competitive nature against other teams but NCAA still ruled it out. NCAA stated that competitive cheer should be…

“A cheerleader is like an elastic, their flexible, they stretch and spring, they get snapped into the air, they do hair, but with too much stress they can break,” stated by Sara Alberta. Cheer is life; Cheer is everything, Eat, Sleep, and Breath Cheer. The thoughts that goes through the brain of being a cheerleader each second of the day. I hope I can hit each toe touch that is needed to be done. I can’t miss not one beat of this routine, if so its all on me the reason we may lose. Until a…

strength in the upper body that some females might not have. Some states and countries do not allow boys on a cheer team. Boys should be able to do cheerleading with girls. Many boys who want to cheer can’t because many schools don't allow male cheerleaders this is illegal if the school gets title IX funds . In her article from The Reflection Sylvia Staltmains says many boys want to cheer but some schools or leagues do not allow boys because they do not get title IX funds. Schools who no not…

I have been doing cheer since I was in first grade. I made the team last year and I loved it. I learned so many new thing and learned how to make myself a better cheerleader. Cheer makes me a better person. It showed me how to be a team player. Last year, one day after my read an email said to me " You should try out for the kaneland competitive cheer team." I told all my friends about it and they decided they would try out too. On the third day of tryouts I put in 110% to give myself a better…

routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions”. Cheerleaders wear uniforms, girls wear skirts and tops and cheer shoes, boys wear long pants and tops and cheer shoes. Uniforms are your team or school colors, and name. Cheers are performed at school basketball or football games or competed in school competitions.…