Why Cheerleading Should be Considered a Sport No matter how much you have cheered in the past, if you have ever been a cheerleader and someone brings up the conversation whether cheer is a sport or not, all cheerleaders will get riled up to defend their sport. The majority of people who spark the question are just trying to irritate cheerleaders. I am a cheerleader at Burley High School and let me tell you, it takes so much hard work, time, and dedication. I have personal experience being a cheerleader. When people tell me that cheerleading isn't a sport, I get upset. Cheerleaders work harder than the majority of other high school athletes. They spend more time at practice compared to other sports teams. The mental and physical effort that cheerleaders put …show more content…
If you don't think that it takes an athlete to become a cheerleader you need to think again. In the dictionary it says, a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. What I just explained to you is the perfect example of what a sport is. Therefore, cheerleading is a sport. After tryouts, and if you make the cheerleading team, you sign a contract for the whole year. The contract either includes being on a competition team and a sideline team, or one or the other. Some teams do not have a competition team, which is where all the hard work comes in. A competition team puts in probably five times the amount of a cheer team that only does sideline cheerleading. If you are on a competition team you spend all year preparing three routines that you will compete with. So much time and preparation goes into a total of five and a half minutes of routine at competitions. Along with those three routines, you also cheer on the sidelines. A sideline team takes care of all of the other sports, including school spirit, pep rallies, and leading the team to victory. When you are in high