Competitive Cheerleading, the Sport Many cheerleaders today face a common problem, getting respect for what they do. In the article “Why Don’t More People Consider Competitive Cheerleading a Sport?”, from The Atlantic, Elisabeth Sherman talked to multiple cheerleaders that all feel they do not get enough respect for the many hours of training they do, along with competing against other teams. It is extremely frustrating to hard working, competitive, cheerleaders when people do not take them seriously because they are uneducated about what competitive or All Star cheerleading really is.
On March 11, 2017 the world’s best all-star cheerleading teams will be at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in DisneyWorld for the most prestigious cheer competition of the year. The teams there have qualified by getting bids from regional and national competitions, similar to how gymnasts qualify for large meets by competing well in smaller meets. Throughout the competition hundreds of teams will perform their routine filled with the most elite tumbling and stunting sequences ever performed. The tosses and baskets will be so high that if they were performed in a smaller building the flyers, or girls in the air, would hit the ceiling. The tumbling will be so fast and so powerful that if someone was to radar gun the pass, they would be going over
The squad cheers at the very first varsity football game Aug. 21, the Friday before the semester even began. Cheerleading coach Christie Gray, who had been pregnant throughout the whole summer, said, “With the help of my three assistants, my pregnancy did not affect my coaching schedule at all. We lost many talented girls last year, so we had to work together and much harder than usual. After 15 years of coaching, you realize that every year is different and you learn to focus on the positives of what each team has to offer.” The cheerleaders didn’t perform at the Newbridge Bank Jamboree because they used the summer as a time to rebuild.
The Baltimore Ravens are the only NFL team, with a coed cheerleading squad. Which is suprising. Even though that ever since the 1920’s, cheerleading have become more of a feminine sport. More boys, as young as 7 years old are joining the sport. Male cheerleaders are becoming less and less rarer.
#sorrynotsorry Step Four: As a cheerleader, one of your duties is ruling the school, you should not take shit from anyone and I mean do not. Everyone's a loser compared to you and your squad. If anyone tries to show you what's up, you punch them in the face but not so hard that you hurt your hand and can't cheer that Friday. If the school asks, it wasn't you and you smile and do a little wink and you will get away with it every time.
Cheerleading again is competitive, takes time, skill, commitment, and is truly a sport. Even though some people don’t consider cheerleading as a sport, cheerleading requires so much athleticism. I have to go work to perfect my state routine
The passionately about doing someday is to be on the biggest cheerleading team in america”The Great White Sharks”. What i'll have to do to accomplish this dream someday and what struggles might I encounter during this accomplishment and to reflect on it. It will be super hard because the best is on Great Whites I have to be the best if I want to be on that team and be very big at cheer competitions. I will go threw a lot in my life because I could not become something that I really want to become. I want to be apart of the biggest cheerleading team in the world which will be very very hard I will have to move out of country, I would have to move to Canada to accomplish my dream of being on my team.
Being a cheerleader takes a positive attitude and the willingness to work hard! It takes commitment, self-discipline, and dedication. It takes energy and skill and it takes each of us working together to be our very best! Cheerleaders are role models at school and in the community.
We’re not here to show you high school cheerleading. We’re here to show you the young women and men putting all of their free-time into a stuffy old gym. Trusting each other with their lives and defying gravity. We’re not here to show you the average athlete.
Cheerleading Tryouts We had cheerleading tryouts at the end of last year. It was one of the most stressful times of my life. One of my biggest dreams was to become a cheerleader. Before cheerleading began I had more free time, played other sports, and spent more time with my family.
The purpose of these cheerleaders’ is to encourage fans and support their fellow sports teams. This type of cheerleading is the focus of the development of the cheerleader stereotype, as well as the focus of the argument that cheerleading is not a sport. In contrast to recreational cheerleading, competition cheerleading focus on a physically and mentally competitive atmosphere. While I concede that recreational cheerleading lacks many of the core requirements to be considered a sport, I reject the opinion that competitive cheerleading is not a sport.
As a student in highschool, I contribute to numerous teams. I participate in cheerleading for varsity football and basketball. For cheerleading we all work together and create cheers and dances that we perform at games. We also are assigned to compose cheers by ourselves to teach the whole squad. I have been a cheerleader for three years now.
Cheerleading goes beyond shaking poms and chanting cheers on the sidelines of a football or basketball game. In similarity to every other sport, with it come sprains, breaks, and severe injuries. In my mindset I was too well trained
Pom pom’s, short skirts, and lipstick. This is probably what first comes to your mind when you hear cheerleader. However, there is a lot more to cheerleading than that. Throughout these past four years Columbia athletics hasn't just taught me my physical strength, but also the values of commitment, hard work, dedication, leadership, and trust. These values have shaped me into the person I am today and I will continue to use these skills to guide me through my future life.
I felt confident in my tumbling, however I had never stunted before and I couldn’t seem to get the hang of it. I am very short, so the only position available for me on the team was to be a flyer. This terrified me and as the summer went on, the majority of the upperclassmen whom I had become friends with ended up quitting. It eventually got to the point where I dreaded going to practice and didn’t want cheer to distract me from my school work. I ended up resigning from cheer right before school started and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.