The Cheerleaders

foundation as before. Cheerleaders still wear short skirts and pump up the crowd during a winning home basketball game but what most people do not know is cheerleaders have found their own way to show off their athletic abilities. However, they are not showing them on the sideline of a football or basketball game. These girls will be flipping, jumping, and stunting on the blue mats in front of seven judges and a crowd of up to 200 people, who are cheering on their favorite cheerleaders. Although…

This is stated in procon.org. “Cheer is now a competitive, physically demanding sport with athletes who also perform service to other sports, their schools, and the community. Cheerleaders should be respected as athletes, not denigrated, for caring about more than simply their sport.” Cheer should be considered a sport because many states and places have marked it as a sport “The California High Schools Expanding Equality Respect…

A role model is someone who inspires you and someone you can look up to. Carly Manning is my role model. She is a famous competitive cheerleader. She cheers at Cheer Athletics on the Wildcats. She is an amazing cheerleader which is why I look up to her. She is always trying to better herself and working on new skills. She is also a very nice person, and not stuck up and rude to her fans like some celebrities. I think that Carly Manning is a positive role model because she fits all the qualities…

voices, defines the common stereotype of a cheerleader. They are known to be the girls who are the “air heads” of the school and it is thought that all they do is promote school spirit and cheer on other sports, so why do they deserve to be considered a sport? In most cases, they don’t receive this title. Cheerleading is often deemed not a sport, but rather an after school activity or club. Fans of basketball or football only see high school cheerleaders stand on the sidelines cheering on the…

serious consequences. Each and every cheerleader needs to be aware of all the health risks they are at. “Cheerleading is considered “high-risk” for components of the female athlete triad, may attract females proficient in gymnastics, a sport noted for a higher-than-average number of eating disorders. (H. Thompson)” Most females think that cheerleaders have to be skinny because of the revealing uniforms they have to wear and may not be confident in them. Cheerleaders in their highschool years…

My immediate family has a history of cheerleading. My father was a cheerleader at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco back when it was an all-boys school. My mom was a part of the Edwardsburg cheer squad in Michigan. I was not aware of my cheer lineage until after I joined the Drake High School Cheer Team. The history of cheerleading is strongly bound to the history of athletics in the United States. This includes American Football, basketball, etc. At the first American Football…

“U.G.L.Y you ain’t got no alibi!” You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it, we’ve all hear this horrifying cheer, that cheerleaders use all around the country. Cheerleading is a very dramatic activity. When you first hear the word drama, what do you think of? You might be thinking, chaos, exclusion, crying, fights, judgement, etc. All of these words lead back to one thing. Cheerleading. Most girls, teenagers especially are full of drama. So cheerleading could easily turn to bullying, by saying hurtful…

requires a lot of physical activity.” Cheerleading is a sport that combines gymnastics, dance, teamwork, bodybuilding and communication. Anybody can throw or kick a ball, but few athletes can do gymnastics stunts cheerleaders can or throw someone up in the air and catch them” As a cheerleader you have to work as a team, without being able to work as a team and trust your teammates the team falls apart. Being…

The Education Week newsletter states that cheerleading is the fastest growing girls sport, yet more than half of Americans do not believe it is one. In addition many people fail to distinguish between sideline cheerleaders and competitive ones. Sideline cheerleaders’ main goal is to entertain the crowd and lead them with team cheers, which should not be considered a sport. On the other hand, competitive cheerleading should be considered as a sport. By definition a sport is an activity involving…

Cheerleading The Debate: Is it a sport or activity? Cheerleader: a person who is a member of a group (typically a group of young women) who shouts out special songs or chants to encourage the team and entertain the crowd during a game in sports like American football and basketball (Merriam-Webster). In the beginning, cheerleaders did what they were known to do. They led cheers, with spirit and megaphones, for the crowd to follow. Then, as time went on, cheerleading evolved into co-ed teams,…