The Cheerleaders

are a lot of different aspects of being a college cheerleader compared to high school. There are things that a high school cheerleader has to do to adjust to the life of a college cheerleader. More time is spent in college cheerleading than ever in high school. Other athletes typically think of cheerleading as an easy sport. There are some athletes who do not even consider cheerleading as a sport. Those people have obviously never been a cheerleader. Although, there are others who consider…

Football/Cheerleading Camp and the Packers & Broncos Cheerleading Camp. Both camps were located at John Harris High School for ages 5-14 and were free with food provided. During both camps my job was to focus on the basic skills you need to learn to become a cheerleader and also make up a routine to teach the girls. The Danny Lansanah Football/Cheerleading Camp was a camp that has gone on every year at John Harris High School. Mrs. Sheena (Danny Lansanah’s wife) said that she thought adding a…

Cheerleaders work just as hard as other athletes with late practices, workouts, and they also experience physical injury. According to Google, a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another…

led the crowd at Harvard, and Eisenhower, sidelined from football by a knee injury, wielded the megaphone at West Point. Ronald Reagan played football as the Gipper on film but in real life he rooted on the basketball team at Eureka College as a cheerleader. And both Bushes had that rah-rah spirit at Yale; George W. cheered for Andover as well" (Yabroff 526). Yes, here Yabroff shows that men are joining cheer teams. Even the presidents, before they led the country, are cheering for teams. But,…

before performances. Because of this, male cheerleaders need to be strong to tumble and stunt with their assigned partners and should entice them to want to be a part of a spirit squad.…

time and effort as any other sport is. A sport is something that makes an athlete happy and lets the athlete have fun. To cheerleaders, cheerleading is what they love and it is a sport. (Cheerleading is a Sport). Cheerleaders put in hours of hard work to compete flawless at the competitions they compete at. It is just as competitive as basketball, football, or baseball. Cheerleaders walk in prepared to win at every competition and practice hard at each practice to be better than what the athlete…

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 injuries. Out…

court of law. Competitive cheerleading consists of lots of practices, competitions, routines that are critical to remember, tumbling, stunting, and jumping. Competitive cheerleading shares many of the same physical abilities as other team sports. Cheerleaders work hard on all of their skills so they can improve as a team. Therefore, competitive cheerleading should be considered a sport. One main consideration is that a large number of cheer squads compete against each other. Like other team…

Athlete by Nature, Cheerleader by Choice Ten years ago, if someone had told me that I would be a cheerleader at the collegiate level, I would most likely have laughed in their face. Now as I sit here getting ready for practice, I find it comical thinking about how I entered the world of cheerleading. Going into my freshman year of high school, my mother told me I had to try out for cheerleading. Naturally, I cried. There was no way I would be associated with the ditzy girls in short skirts with…

for example, discovered that male cheerleaders essentially create and validate their masculinity as they cheer by accentuating the sex-based partition of cheering behaviors. Cheerleaders are anticipated to tumble, execute stunts, chant, inspire crowd involvement,…