The North Carolina High School Athletic Association recently held a Cheerleading competition in hopes of gaining attention and recognition that will lead to officially declaring Cheerleading a sport in the state. How do you feel about Cheerleading being a sport? Do you think it is?
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YES, cheerleading is a sport. they work their butts off!
if people actually tried COMPETITIVE cheerleading…maybe they would understand that cheer is a sport, but since most people don’t, they assume its all “rah rah” B.S.
yeah well i think cheerleading is a sport and nobody actually takes the time to have three hour practices every night so the the ccChaps can take home national titles so umm yeah it is a sport OK??
Yes cheerleading is a sport it takes alot of time and effort everyone on the team is needed dearly if someone gets hurt its not like basket ball or baseball take someone off the bench you will have to change the routine to make it work. also juc b/c we dont hit someone or tackle that doesnt me it is not a sport
i think cheerleading is a sport. i get tired of football players saying, its not & all that non sence.
001.if cheerleading were easy it would be called football
002.we throw people up more than 20 ft in the air, does any other sports do that? NO.
003.its a law. CHEERLEADING IS A SPORRRRRRRRRT:)
point proven.
Yes, Ithink cheerleading is definitly a sport!!!! I think even if you don’t compete cheerleading is a sport because have to put just as much effort into cheerleading as you do any other sport you sweat, you run, we have to go through conditioning and cheer camp, (more like boot camp if you ask me(jk)and It is hard workand if cheerleading wasn’t a sort the. we have to make a commitment to better ourselves by staying in shape, eat healthy, always be prepared, and to never give in, never give up
cheerleading is a sport .! people dont understand that. we work hard just as anyone else does but we get no credit .! just face the facts that since your not talented enough to be a cheerleader, there is no reason for you to down us
I get so tired of hearing that cheerleading is not a sport. When the cheerleading squad is staying after school and in better shape than the football team is and wins more titles than the football team then yes it is a sport!
Cheerleading IS a sport! We work our butts off! People are just so small minded saying that it’s not a sport
cheerleading is definatelly a sport. it requires time and effort just like any other sport.
Of course it’s a sport. It takes tons of hard work and in most cases can be more difficult than any contact sport (ex. football, soccer, etc.)
is cheerleading a sport? what makes it a sport? a ball? noo, wrestling doesnt have a ball. Sweat? No cheerleaders sweat a lot during there intense practices. What about practices or the audience? no again! Cheerleaders practice 2 hours a day 4 days a week 4 weeks a month and 12 months a year. And the audiences, there’s often MORE people then there are at a ball game. Flyers have to have great flexibility and strength, and bases have to have good strength to lift fliers and throw them ore then 15 feet in the air! We tumble, jump, scream, cheer, motion, and more! We also have to have great strength to tumble. Like backhand springs, why dont you try one of those? or how about a back tuck! If you cant do a backbend kickover, of even just a backbend, good luck doing a handspring. some people say a sport needs people competing for something, and cheerleading you compete for points for yoursel.f But at competitions there could be 20 or more teams competting for one thing:to win!
so the next time you think cheerleading is easy, think again!
cheerleading is a sport. im a competetive cheerleader as well as a sideline cheerleader. we bust our butts at our 20+ hours of practice everyweek and competitions.
im sick of stupid football players and wrestlers saying its not a sport. trust me we usually get more injured then they do. :]
cheerleading is definatly a sport b/c weather you cheer for football basketball or you cheer competitive is takes s00000000000 much endurance and strength. i am s0000 tierd of s000 many people sayin its not a sport because more than half of them havent even tried to cheer. CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
um.. duh! ive been cheering for 4 years and i can safely say its a sport. aint no football player can do what cheerleaders do.
Yeah cheerleading it is a sport! Everyone thinks it is easy. Well its not every easy at all, its harder than u think!!
CHEERLEADING IS DEFFINELTY A SPORT. we tumble,jump,stunt,dance,and cheer all in one sport. we compete at competitions. we run like we’re in track, we condition like no other, and we practice at least 2 hours everyday. we have the priveledge of any other sport.
Heck yes cheerleading is a sport. Cheerleading is way harder than people think.I hate when people say all you have to do is jumps,yell, and say Go team go. I always tell people try yelling and jumping at the same time and tell me if that is easy. Cheerleaders have to have a lot of strength to lift each other and flip. Just because there is not a score that does not make cheerleading any less important than any other sport. Some Cheerleaders have to cheer in cold weather at football games and then go to practice the next day. In other sports people only have to worry about one position. Like if you are a running back you are only supposed to be worried about what the running back is supposed to do. In cheerleading we have to worry about what everyone is doing. We have to make sure everyone is ready before a cheer begins,we have to make sure chants and cheers are game appropiate. So the next time someone says cheerleading is not a sport I am going to tell them to attend one of our practices.
Cheerleading is by far a sport. It isn’t a club. I’m a cheerleader at my high school and we have 3 practices a week and the two days we don’t have practice are game days. we bust our asses off memorizing the cheers [which would be considered the plays in the case of football, basketball, etc], remembering the dances, THE STUNTS, and everything else. We run a MILE every practice, and we have to sacrifice alot to cheer. It’s challenging like every other sport. It’s not all glamorous as everyone thinks it is – one wrong move during a stunt and you can die. It’s dangerous! You have to be coordinated. So yes, cheerleading should be called a sport.
cheering for players playing a sport like football or basketball, i think, isnt considered a sport. yes cheerleading is physical but so is gynastics which i dont consider a sport either. i look at them at physical activities. cheering in a conpetition against other groups i would consider a sport, because they practice and someone wins something. they are fighting for a spot to the top.
oh my gosh
how can people think cheerleading isnt a sport?
it is.
people who think it isnt probably have never tried it.
it so stupid that people don’t think cheerleading is a sport.whoever thinks otherwise is just a loser. i mean in football, basketball, baseball, soccer,and other sports like that the teams get trophies. last time i checked i got a trophie for second in the state. if you think you can prove me otherwise just try. you don’t know what you’re up against cuz then i got first at nationals. so i don’t know who you are but watch your back cuz before you know it you’ll be attacked by a bunch of cheerlaeders.
Cheerleading is a sport!!! =] Learn it live it love it…kay??? if you dont agree too bad for you!=]we know what we are made of and we dont need anybody to tell us otherwise sooo………. deal with it! =] kay?
YES!!!!!!!!! CHEERLEADING IS DEF. A SPORT. YOU HAVE TO WORK OUT JUS LIKE ANY OTHER SPORT THE ONLY THING THATS DIFFERENT BETWEEN CHEERING AND OTHER SPORTS WE WEAR SKIRTS AND TO BE HONEST ITS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORTS OUT THERE BUT WHOEVER SAID ITS NOT A SPORT I BET THEY HAVEN’T ATTEMPTED TO DO IT SO I FEEL IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE IT YOU CANT MAKE A JUDGEMENT
Cheerleading is ABSOLUTELY a sport! The people who say cheer isn’t a sport are mostly guys, and they may say “Give me one reason my cheerleading is a sport”. I always reply by saying “Name one reason why it isn’t”. One of my classmates actually tried and said it isn’t a sport because we wear skirts. I called him a hypocrit because so does the tennis team. The truth is that nobody can give you a reason because there isn’t one. Cheerleaders are tough. If we aren’t working as hard as other sports, then we are working harder.
cheerleading is a sport b/c i do it!! and i am soooo great and if i do it, then its great b/c im sooo conceited!!!!!
Cheer is a sport because we work at least twice as hard as other sports. Just b/c there isn’t a ball involved doesn’t mean it’s not a sport. People who think cheerleaders are all bllonde, mean, and stupid are so wrong. That is such a steriotype and it’s just retarded. We probably condition more than ather sports. Cheer isn’t in the olympics but it should be. My old science teacher said it wasn’t a sport and I told her it was. She said it wasn’t b/c it’s just dancing around. First of all dancing is only worth 10 points in competition, so piss off. All you haters just accept that cheer is a sport.
Cheer is definitely a sport. I have a football player on our team and he says its harder than football and he’s not even that good haha. What I find most amusing is that we do all this hard stuff like tumbling, stunting, jumping, dancing and the entire time we smile, even if we’re hurt. Basketball, football, wrestling…whatever, they’d never be good enough to multitask that well
some people are so stupid of course cheerleading is not a spot unlike soccer or football and all of the people that chear lead are preps
Yes! Cheerleading is most definately a sport. We run, jump up and down, sweat, practice, yell. the whole 9-yards!
I take alot of offense when I hear the football players saying that it’s just something for the crowd to look at when the game gets boring. and that we’re just “flirts in skirts”.
We work hard, if not harder than football.
We have to go through 3 hour practices and cheer camp.
So..if you don’t think it’s a sport..maybe you should get off your butt and try it.
I bet it would change your mind.
[GO RED DEVILS! WHHS(:]
whoever says cheerleading isnt a sport is wrong.
cheerleaders work there butts off.
if you think its so easy;;
why dont you try 7 backtucks in a row
or get thrown up 20 ft. in the air.
Competitive cheerleading IS in fact, a sport. “The skills involved in Cheerleading leave no doubt that cheerleaders are exceptional athletes. To perform their activities, they must be as strong as any football player, as poised as any dancer and as flexible as the best gymnasts. They are athletes by every definition of the word.”
In order to be a sport, an activity must fulfill only two major criteria. First, it must be, on some level, physically active. Second, and more importantly, it must be the immediate, reactive physical implementation of a strategy designed to beat an opponent.
This eliminates a lot of the pastimes that we typically refer to as sports. Golf, for one, is a turn-based competition where your play is independent of your opponent’s. While your strategy might be tailored to your opponent’s score — perhaps taking necessary risks to close a deficit, or playing conservatively with a large lead — there is no active, direct response to an opponent’s action that must be translated into a physical performance. This makes it a game, on equal footing with bowling, billiards, archery, etc.
This is also why the sports that are highest on the food chain are those that involve two competitors acting directly against one another simultaneously. Football, boxing, basketball and Ultimate Frisbee all fall into this category; hence, they are all sports.
The caveat of direct competition against a specific opponent aims to eliminate the possibility of judges determining the outcome of the contest. While arbiters in most sports exist solely to make objective judgments (who arrived at the bag first; where was the ball when the knee was down), the authorities in activities like figure skating and gymnastics serve to quantify a performance based largely on aesthetics, rather than concrete information.
Gymnastics is not a sport because, although the competitor may strive to conform to some objective standard of perfection, that individual’s success in doing so is measured in a subjective sense. The athlete is attempting to reach a personal standard of perfection, rather than reacting to an opponent’s performance. A quick rule to live by dictates that if “style points” are ever awarded, under any circumstances, the activity in question is a non-sport.
A qualifier on the physically active rule is that the action must be done on the part of a human being. Activities within the “race” category (track, swimming, downhill skiing) are sports, because they involve an individual battling the clock as a representation of another racer who could, theoretically, be competing at the same time, on the same playing field. However, once a car, horse, kangaroo or lawnmower is added, it ceases to be a sport.
Finally, what angers me more than anything is the idea that some activities can become sports simply by popular consent (poker), or that things like ballet are somehow less worthy or difficult due to their exclusion from the Sports Club.
Furthermore, anyone who uses the argument, “But it’s in the Olympics!” should be taken behind the woodshed and shot. The all-inclusive Olympics are as relevant an authority on sport as Sean Penn is on foreign policy.
All of this provides a fairly broad spectrum of behavior that could be classified as sport. However, the physical stress involved is still important. Let’s not go overboard and say that poker players are somehow athletes because the game requires “stamina.” I know people hooked to dialysis machines that are more athletic than most professional card players.
So, to clarify: Unless you are making an immediate, athletic response to your opponent’s physical action — not a sport. Out: golf, sailing, synchronized swimming, billiards, chess, poker, weightlifting, cheerleading, gymnastics.
Your outrage is appreciated.
When the word “cheerleader” comes to mind, if you think of skinny blondes shouting “go team” while waving pom-poms in the air, think again.
Cheerleading has evolved over the years from an extra-cirricular activity with the purpose of motivating spectators to an intense, competitive activity. Not only is it exremely demanding physically, but it’s time consuming and requires the exact coordination of twenty or more girls.
But is cheerleading an actual sport?
Well, to sum it up in one word, no, but first hear me out.
Cheerleaders are athletes without a doubt. I graduated from Lafayette High School where the cheerleading squad is the cheerleading squad to beat. They practice every day after school for several hours, just like other sports teams. They exercise and lift weights. Again, another activity common to most sports teams. They learn gymnastics, dozens of cheers and dances and compete on regional, state and national levels. The LHS cheerleading squad even calls extra practices on weekends, hires trainers and modifies their routines for different competitions.
So what’s not sports-like about this activity?
Although many more cheerleading squads are competing, which is a great thing, not enough squads are going the distance to make cheerleading an official sport. The Women’s Sports Foundation says that to be considered a sport it has to be “a contest or competition against or with an opponent.” So pretty much, the sole purpose of the activity is to compete.
When a school creates a basketball program, they create that program for the sole purpose of competing. No matter how much you hate it, cheerleading squads are not created just to compete. Although there are exceptions, if the football and basketball teams were elimated from the sport’s progam then most schools would terminate the cheerleading squad as well.
There is no doubt that many girls join cheerleading squads purely for the competitive nature of the activity, but that doesn’t make it a sport. They were created to support the team, whether they actually like to or not.
Sorry girls.
This one is not mine but somes up the same idea.
Cheerleading is not a sport
I teach in Georgia. Georgia considers cheerleading a sport. I suppose it’s a Title IX thing, but still — cheerleading a sport? How stupid.
Cheerleaders like to argue about it almost as much as I do.
Yes, it’s a sport. We go to competitions.
No, it’s not a sport. Debate is a competition. Is debate a sport? No. Neither is cheerleading.
But we’re athletes. We practice and work hard.
Actors practice and work hard. Is acting a sport? No. Neither is cheerleading.
Can you go to a football game to watch a sport, and if you happen to notice the cheerleaders, actually end up watching 2 sports at once? I don’t think so.
The cheerleaders say But the competitions are the sport part. The games are just what we do to practice.
That’s nice. So I guess it’s OK for the football team to scrimmage on the sidelines of a cheerleading competition?
Girls can be catty sometimes. Who hasn’t heard a bunch of cheerleaders standing around, badmouthing the opponent’s cheerleaders?
You can’t even do a Russian Toe Touch right!
Oh yeah? Well, you don’t keep your arms straight! And don’t get me started on your herky!
I guess at some point an overly assertive psycho-cheerleader decided to put her money where her pom-poms are and challenge another squad to some kind of competition to lay the argument about who’s the best to rest once and for all. And now they call cheerleading a sport.
Maybe we need to set straight exactly what does qualify as a sport:
1) Is the goal to physically outperform another person or team?
2) Is performance evaluated by attaining some quantifiable goal?
3) Is strategy involved?
In my opinion, you need to be able to answer “yes” to at least two of these questions to qualify an activity as a sport. Let’s see how cheerleading measures up…
1) They can make a case for this one. They go to their little competitions and try to do the best routine. OK, that’s one.
2) No. In sports it’s all about getting past the line, doing it faster, doing it more, etc. In cheerleading it’s all about what some judge thinks about the quality of their routine. Of course, this means that gymnastics, figure skating and competitive diving are not sports. I never thought they were anyway.
3) No. They do their routine, but don’t have to change their game plan depending upon conditions, the venue, the other team’s strengths or weaknesses, or anything else.
There you have it. Cheerleading is not a sport. It’s a hobby, and activity, a performance. But not a sport.
I HATE PEOPLE HOW THINK THAT CHEERLEADING IS JUST GIRLS IN SHORT SHIRTS AND PONY TAILS WAVIN POP POMS ARE JUST THIER TO LOOK CUTE AND ARE PREPS WELL EVEN THOUGH WE DO LOOK CUTE SOME OF US ARE NOT PREPS WE ARE IN IT FOR A CHANCE TO SHOW OFF OUR SKILLS AND TO PROVE IT IS A SPORT AND ONE THAT PEOPLE DO NOT RELIZE THAT WE CAN HAVE A BAD INJERY AS BAD AS ANY OTHER SPORT AND MAYBE WORSE SO NEXT TIME SOME ONE TELLS YOU THAT ITS NOT A SPORT SAY IT IS
yes cheerleading is a sport. anything that you work hard to do (except school work and chores) and gets your body moving should be considered a sport. at a football games the cheerleaders are only cheering the team on. but at cheerleading meets, they work hard to win. also, cheerleading is one of the more dangerous sports. if your on the top of the pyramid you can fall off and hurt yourself. at the bottem , you can get crushed. and in the middle you can still be crushed.
yes it is a sport!! we cheerleaders work hard to succed in what we do!! and we can get hurt really badly.
it is a sport!! not all cheerleaders are mean and stupid.
all haters you better shut your mouths.
CHEERLEADIND!! WELL, DUH IT IS A SPORT!!! U GET TROPHIES & COMPETE DONT U! THEN ITS A SPORT~!!!
No, cheerleading is not a sport. I am a cheerleader/gymnast. I’ve been doing competitive cheerleading for 4 years and competitive gymnastics for 15. I’ve been judging gymnastics for 1 year. The reason why I do not think cheerleading is a sport is because of subjectivity. Yes, there are rules that govern the activity but judges are not perfect. They make mistakes and can not always treat everyone fairly.
CHEERLEADING IS a sport!!!!!!!!!
i love how its all girls or fags saying its a sport, its not. its an activity, sports have seasons, there is no season for cheerleading
Be careful what you wish for. In our school if cheerleading were a sport we would be goverened by more people telling us what we can and cannot do. By cheerleading not being a sport you have a little more room to play with the rules. I completely agree we work more hours and months than any other sport out there. The dedications and school spirit for cheerleaders is so important. If one person is gone or off their game the whole squad is affected. During basketball season we participate in more athletic events then any other athlete. I just want cheerleaders to be more appreciated by the parents, students and schools. Cheerleaders do soooo much and rarely get a thanks or great job except by thier own parents and families. As for the comment about guy lifters I’d like to see you holding a 100-120lb girl straight above your head as she’s standing in your hands on one foot. Our lifters are great crowd pleasers the student body loves to watch them probably more than the girls. They get the crowd pumped. Your also right there is no season for cheerleading. ITS ALL YEAR!!!!!!
Cheerleading is deffinently a sport!
wait, don’t groan and turn away from your computer, listen to what I say and have an open mind. number 1 let it be clear that when I talk about cheerleading I mean the cheerleading seen at competitions and on Espn ect not school cheerleading that is a completely different matter!! I am a competative cheerleader on an alstar team outside of school and we work EXTREMELY HARD. By the end of the practise we are all exhausted we do NOT sit around. not only that but think about it. I mean really how can throwing someone fifteen feet in the air and catching them not be considered a sport?? NOt only that but the competitions are fierce!! I get more nervous that them then any other time in my life. I’d like to see you try what we do at pracise. CAN YOU DO A ROUNDOF BACKHANSPRING BACK TUCK then go straight from that to balancing in the air??????????? and just because some cheerleaders are stuck up doesn’t mean all of them are. get to know some-I mean REALLY give them a chance. Howmany of you who hate cheerleaders can honestly say you do that?? We risk our lives every time we’re up in the air for a SPORT we love and you people who have never even tried cheerleading have the nerve to disown it as a petty hobby. that is wrong on so many levels. all you people can go on thinking cheerleading is not a sport but you want to know something funny…what does our SPORT not have that the “official sports” do? we work hard, there is danger involved if we drop what we throw we don’t just lose the competition like you would lose a game we potentially lose a life, there are serious competitions, IT IS NOT JUST WAIVING POMPOMS in the air do that and you would NOT get very far at a competition!!!!!!!!!! the only thing is that unlike most other sports is we make it look easy and effortless. Maybe it’s our own fault, maybe we should make it look as difficult and as time consuming as it is.
ok I missed one thing above that I really want to comment on.
this is to sportsking
number two in your evaluation of whether or not a sport is a sport, we can actually say yes. come on buddy, our goal is obviously to hit the best routine we can again and again and again. and number three we can say yes as well. Often when someone gets hurt or doesn’t show up for a cometition or has some other reason they can not compete then we have to change our “game plan”. I’ll give you an example-we found out that a girl on our team broke her collar bone wednesday and our first competition saturday we had NO PRACTISES between wednesday and saturday. She was a flyer who goes in the air. NOt many girls can pull the position off adn we do not just have extras waiting on hand!! in 15 minutes I had to learn her position which was completely new to me well enough to compete it and not screw my team over. if that is not having to change the “game plan” according to cercumstances I don’t know what is!! it’s the equivelant of having to teach someone to quarterback who has never done it before the last practise before the biggest game of the season. so for you information things don’t always go smoothly at practise and at competitions. Maybe you should learn something about the SPORT your badmouthing next time BEFORE you say something about it. by the way I also get A’s and B’s in school and am taking a twelfth grade writing course while in 10th grade so I am not an airhead like so many people think cheerleaders are.
one more thing Sportsking-my team WAS CREATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ONLY COMPETING AND NOTHING ELSE!! and there are over 100 girls in the program and we do NOT cheer at games we are only competators. The higher level teams in the program (including mine) are going to the third largest competition in the world with over 10000 girls from all over so if that’s small then I’d like to see your deffinition of BIG! you’ve just insulted over 100 girls between the ages of 3 and 20 and deminished what we consider important and a SPORT. Not to mention our two coaches who have dedicated their lives to creating a program that is independent and would not “close if the football or basketball team shut down”. We are one of the first programs in canada that can actually be a real threat to american teams. they’ve been fighting these same kind of predujeses your’re throwing out there their entire lives. think about it sports king, how would you feel if someone told you whatever sport you’re intowasn’t really a sport. probably not very good. NOt to mention all the sports you don’t seem to think are sports. (competative diving, gymnastics, figure skating {one of my best friends would be divistated by that one}) how do you think all those athletes feel. congradulations.
Good job for proving is king wrong. I hate how people think were dumb almost half of the girls on my squad are on honors. Another thing people who say that cheer is not a sport should just try once. For sure they’ll change their mind. To all the cheerleaders keep doing what your doing and don’t let anyone bring you down. Love, maria
Everyday i have the “whether cheerleading is a sport argument” .This one girl is convinced that dancing is more of a sport than cheerleading….??? Pshhh! i think not, Loser! i mean i have some background in dance also… but i don’t think their is any comparison. Dance = Artsy Art Motiony Spiny type of Stuff. Cheer = Demanding, Sweet!, Need for athletisism and skill type of stuff. Anyone can spin on one foot and make their hands look funny! Cheerleaders are under-estimated and over- HATERated. Power to the Cheer! Stay Strong!Rep Your school, forget the fools.
cheerleading is deffinatley not a sport. if you want to see a sport watch soccer or football. in cheerleading you do gemnastics and flips. yea maybe cheerleaders workout when they are cheerleaders but that dont make cheerleqading a sport.
cheerleading is a sport,ive done many sports in my life, and cheerleading is the hardest by far.i cheer for my high school team,and all stars. we have to run a mile everyday in a certain amount of time, have strength every single day,and have to work on many difficult stunts and suck it up if you get wacked in the face or kicked.it takes trust and detication.in soccer, if ur sick u have a backup that can fill in, in cheer, if ur base isnt there, the stunt doesnt go up.its a team sport.we work so hard on competition, but we work harder on prooving ourselves that we are real athletes.doing a routine full out is a lot of work. let me see anyone who thinks its not a sport do it.
yes i bet one football player couldnt come in that gym and lift one of the lightest girls there without dropping her
Okaaay, i’m a cheerleader at my middle school and i def think it’s a sport we have practice everyday for four hours. we have practice once a month for 8 hours, and we are the bomb. All our practice pays off, when we beat everyone in our competitions starting next week. i’m a flyer, and i think it’s so hard for my stunt group to keep my fat self in the air. i def think it’s a sport because we condition like crazzzy. our coach keeps us a team
& we are a sport without a doubt!
any problems? good, didn’t think so.
peaaaaceout
YES CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT! I HAVE BEEN CHEERING FOR 9 YEARS AND I HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY THAT ITS 100% A SPORT! WE HAVE TO WORK OUR BUTTS OFF TO ENTERTAIN PEOPLE! CHEERLEADING IS ALSO VERY DANGEROUS YOU CAN EASILY BRAKE A BONE! IN BASKETBALL ALL YOU DO IS THROW A BALL THROUGH A HOOP IN SOFTBALL ALL YOU DO IS HIT A BALL WITH A BAT AND RUN IN CHEERLEADING YOU LIFE PEOPLE AND YOU THROW THEM 20 FEET IN THE AIR! NOW SERIOUSLYYY WHICH ONE SOUNDS THE HARDEST!?!?!!??!?!
cheerleadin is a spot!!!! i’m a varsity cheerleader nd i work ma butt off! is is hard!!!nd thrown ppl in da air is hard 2 nd backs get hit![[alot!!!]]
cheerleading is not a sport. its not competetive, and your just supporters or a REAL sport
cheerleading is a sport!
think about it…
if football players went to one of the ALL-STAR cheerleading gyms in their area do you think they could handle it?
the conditioning?
the stretching?
the tumbling?
the stunting?
the jumps?
the baskets?
the pyramids?
the dances?
the hours and hours working on cleaning up the routine that HAS TO BE PERFECT?
NO thats right they couldn’t.
yeah standing on the sidelines @ a football or basketball game isn’t a sport..
but i’d LOVE to see people try to do what ALL-STAR cheerleaders do.
i guarantee you that people would think before they open their mouths and say cheerleading is “easy”
SportKing: you can just stay out of the world of cheerleading…we’re better off without you…
YEAH thats right…cheerleaders are athletes and ALL-STAR cheerleading is a sport.
get used to it.
p.s.
for all of us cheerleaders out there — we are amazing.
no questions asked
I think that cheerleading is a sport because we all work our a** off during practice every day. It makes me upset when people say it is not a sport. They have never done it. They have never experienced what we go through. So i disagree with them completely! We sweat, we stretch, we run, we have to lift and throw people in the air, we have to catch our flier, we have to work out, we have to smile whether we want to be there or not, we have to be at practice morning and afternoon, we have to have a good attitude, we have to be tight as hell. That is just some of the stuff we do. So i think it is a 100% sport.
i am a cheerleader
i practice everyday after school from 2:30 to 6:00 we stretch for 20mins that includes every split and staying in them and not touching the ground. then we tummbel standing back handsprings, standing tucks, and then put them together in are running tummbling. no matter how scared still throwing it and hoping we make it over,or dont over rotate. we perfect are dances for hours makeing sure were tight and we no were doing it right wen the next day are arms are throabing because we made everymotion its own by staying tight. we throw girls in the air while there bodys twist 3 times around before we have to catch them. we compete and give it are all just like any sport team would. we condition, everyday after practice and are in beter shape then most sport teams. we run miles, even wen were at are breaking point we push through it.
……….if you think were not a sport thats your own opinion because we no were more than a sport were family, friends, were a team and are willing to go to the worlds end for each other
we are a sport
I think Sportsking has the best points in the world..HE’S RIGHT. Cheerleading is NOT a sport, it never HAS BEEN a sport and it never WILL BE a sport. But here’s the outline…cheerleading is not a sport BUT CHEERLEADERS ARE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, ATHLETES!!! Don’t be offended when we say your game is not a sport…because you cheerleaders are still athletes! I understand that you work hard…I’ve seen the cheerleaders at my school practice. I could NEVER do the things they are doing-and that makes them ATHLETES. It does not make CHEERLEADING a sport. Me myself am an athlete and I participate in a SPORT-Basketball. Basketball is considered a sport because you are physically competing at the same time against the opposer WITH a stragedy. I’ve fractured both my ankles twice and had a serious heart injury last year and was out the whole season. Now can that happen to a cheerleader? ABSOLUTLEY. But does that make cheerleading itself a sport? Absolutley NOT.
I think Sportsking has the best points in the world..HE’S RIGHT. Cheerleading is NOT a sport, it never HAS BEEN a sport and it never WILL BE a sport. But here’s the outline…cheerleading is not a sport BUT CHEERLEADERS ARE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, ATHLETES!!! Don’t be offended when we say your game is not a sport…because you cheerleaders are still athletes! I understand that you work hard…I’ve seen the cheerleaders at my school practice. I could NEVER do the things they are doing-and that makes them ATHLETES. It does not make CHEERLEADING a sport. Me myself am an athlete and I participate in a SPORT-Basketball. Basketball is considered a sport because you are physically competing at the same time against the opposer WITH a stragedy. I’ve fractured both my ankles twice, broken my arm when a HUGE girl fell on me and had a serious heart injury last year and was out the whole season. Now can that happen to a cheerleader? ABSOLUTLEY. But does that make cheerleading itself a sport? Absolutley NOT.
I also don’t understand why you say football players can’t do what you’re doing and all that crap…my brother’s a football player and can break your little arms like a twig…and they can take you down. But the main thing to ponder is is….CAN YOU DO WHAT THEY ARE DOING?????? NO!!!!!! AS SOON AS YOU CHEERLEADERS GET KNOCKED DOWN OR BREAK A NAIL…YOU’RE OUT……….
I’ve seen my brother get knocked down and thrown across the field so many times…he’s not the biggest guy out there. And every time he does I pray longer and harder that he will get up. And each time he does. But most of the time he limps off the field and coach takes him out. He even comes home from football games full of dirt and grass stains and he’s BLEEDING EVERYWHERE. Sometimes you can see the cuts and my parents wonder if it’s a broken bone. Or if he needs stitches. And some times he does. Now can cheerleaders really do that EVERY NIGHT-cuz that’s what he does every night-football. SO THINK NEXT TIME YOU SAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS CAN’T DO IT- cause i bet you they can.
cheerleading is a sport! ppl dont actually take the time or even BELIEVE that cheerleading is when they c the proof on TV when the broadcasters say about serious cheerleading injuries, well guess what i dont think u here much about OTHER sports injuries like football as often u do as cheerleading, IT IS A SPORT!!!
im sick of tired of cheerleaders saying, “if cheerleading was easy. it wud be called football.” Yes i bet u no football player cud dance gracefully on the football side lines. but i bet you no cheerleader can put on some pads n a helmet run a play. so stop hatin on football or n e other sport. yes cheerleading is a sport. but doesnt mean its the toughest.
Okay I have been sitting here for a RIDICULOUSLY long time reading your stupid words fighting about stupid sports. Football you would suck with out Cheerleaders. Cheerleaders…..Sorry but without football you would be nowhere as well. Get over yourselves……..You want a real sport….Ride bulls. No drama, no fighting….Pure adrenaline
cheerleading is a sport most deffinately !!! and maddie u say its not a sport u try and do wat we do and then see if u have the guts to say that !!! im on my middle school team and its alot of hard work !!! and all u people commenting probably sit ur lazy butts at home all day !!!we had a pep rally and the football players tried to do wat we did and they dropped a 6th grader on the ground so just cause u dont have a life dont mean u have to put down all these cheerleaders that are athletes…and yes cheerleading is a sport !!!
i have two things to say !!!
football players lift weights ,cheerleaders lift people
if cheerleading was easy they’d call it football !!!
now what !!!
Ok….For real you guys need to GET lives. There is more out there than yelling GO TEAM…..Its really not that hard. Im writing a paper for school on this in my journalism class…..So keep making this interesting. Thanks,
Robert (more rodeo,less drama)
okay all of you guys just hoonestly need to calm down. i mean, i guess cheerleading is a sport but its not as hard as everyone makes it out to be. you stand on the sidelines of a football field waving your arms around. “If cheering was any easier it would be called football…” Pshh..okayy. Get over yourselves, its not that hard. Football work like 20298748 times harder than you cause they get like trampled on and have to wake up at the crack of dawn to work out for hours and hours. Yes, cheering AND dancing is a sport (cause i’m a dancer too, and we work hard)but dont make cheering out to be the most difficult thing in the world, cause its really not. Oh, and one more thing, for all those who care, MARCHING BAND IS NOT A SPORT!! we were talking about this in forensics and all the band geeks were like crying cause no one thought its a sport, but playing the tuba takes no work. marching band is an art. sorry for kind of getting off topic, but i just thought i’d get that off my chest.
ahahaha all of these are hallarious… so i was a cheerleader for 5 years . yes i agree with those of you who say that its hard work trust me i know ive been there. 2 00 to 5 30 everyday and not to mention two times a week late practice from 2 00 to 8 00. we conditioned everyday and for those of you who dont know what that means it is working out and we also had to run everyday.. this was all prep for before practice.. we also had to go to camp for a week during the summer before school started. you want to talk about hard work try doing that you were outside working out and lifting girls and doing dance routines cheers over and over again from the time you woke up til about 10 at nite o by the way there was only 3 meals a day and you rarely got a break. yes i understand that there is dancing and gymnastics involved but i honestly dont find cheerleading with a specific team being a sport. unless you are a competative cheerleader, you cant say its a sport.. thats just my honest opinion. if you compete with other cheerleading teams then you have reason to say it is one because you are trying to prove you are the best at what you do. no one can say i have no idea what i am talking about.. even though cheerleaders who cheer for teams work hard i cant see it to be considerd anything but a fun activity to stay in shape and help cheer on your fellow team
oh and one more thing i forgot. we never dressed sluty. our coach would never let us look like trash anywhere in our uniforms or anything we wore when we represented her.. just to clear that up too. and our uniforms didnt have a mid drift top. so our tummys werent hangin out. yea we had skirts but we had bloomers underneath.
Ya totlay! and you say no then lets see you get out there and make the perfets moves jumps and filps woth out messing up and if you say that there would be no cheerleaders if there wasnt b-ball ot fottball it would mbe becuse there are cheer compititionss!
beat that !
okay, cheerleading is a sport. just like football base ball and basket ball.
we run MORE than everybody
we lift PEOPLE not weights.
were flipping in the air.
were not just say go team yea alright were number one.
thats just at games.
when we compete its intense.
i really would like to see most of you guys flipping threw the air, throwing people 20 feet in the air, or even doing a simple high V.
eh? yeah couldnt do it.
CHEERLEADERS WORK HARD JUST LIKE ANYOTHER SPORTS PLAYERS. if you would like to argue this. then be my guest. ill prove you wrong.
okay guys looook…im a cheerleader. ive been doing it for about 6 years. its one of the hardest things ive ever had to drill into my head…facials,pointed toes,smiling,un-bent wrists,pulling up,lock your knees,perfeccly clean motions,being tight,staying clean,etc. its hard AT FIRST. the only thing is if your truly an amazing cheeerleader and you know what your talking about then you can say if cheerleading is a sport or not. and by the way in football,soccer,baseball,basketball,lacrosse,etc. you use A BALL. try throwing a PERSON intead of a 5pound ball.still think it sounds easy?i didnt think so. IF YOU STILL DONT BELIEVE ME…my brother,said it wasnt a sport,i didnt like that. so my next cheerleading compition happened to be my reginal compition,so i took him. and asked him the same question i’d asked him before the compition…”is cheerleading a sport?”…before the compition he said “nah.” however,after the compition i asked the SAME QUESTION. and his answer was “deffinitly.” so quit your crap.
yes cheerleading is a sport!!!! i am a competitive cheerleader and we have to practice ever day of the weekend and weekends for like 5 hours!!! i am in my college english class writing a paper on why cheerleaders should get more credit!!!!
listen, ily cheer babe..i’m sorry but cheerleaders do not run more than anybody. The cross country team in my school runs over 10 miles everyday, and if you say cheerleaders even run close to that much, than thats a lie. Cheerleaders do not run at all during games, so dont make it out that you run likee 100,000 miles. trust me, i’m a competive dancers, and without a doubt you guys are athletes, but cheering is not that hard. Especially, you people who are like “Let’s see you try it!” Actually i can do all those flips and splits, but can you do leaps and turns and memorize routine after routine, like dancers?. so yeah, fyi, i can do what you guys do and MORE!! and i espeically crack up when there are like the middle school and elementary school cheerleaders saying how hard they have it, but i’m sorry but at that age, enjoy yourselves. don’t stress over NOTHINGG
CHEERLEADING IS DEFIANTLY A SPORT!! I HAVE PRACTICE 6 DAYS A WEEK AND I WORK MY BUTT OFF!!!!!!!!!!! CHEERLEADING IS JUST AS HARD AS FOOTBALL AND EVEN HARDER!! CHEERLEADING IS MY LIFE!! AND TO ALL YOU FOOTBALL PLAYERS OUT THERE, I BET IF YOU TRYED CHEERLEADING YOU WOULD QUIT BECAUSE IT WAS TOO HARD.
You guys are seriously pathetic……Get over your stupid little sports…..None of you have it hard.
NO WAY its not a sport forget that stuff! its a hobby … a real sport has intensity!
Cheerleading is a sport. Gymnasticts is a sport and cheerleading is just like that. I define a sport with ACTION! And the last time i checked… THERES ACTION! YEAH! So what up G!
hell yes cheerleading is a sport. i have been doing it for ever and we work more then any wrestling team or football team. and were cuter. :]
Yess its a sport!! they work just as hard as any other sport and sometimes even harder…and alyssa c. cheerleaders do have to memorize routine after routine..and i bet half of those middle school and elemetry school cheerleaders are working twice as hard as you do and there not exactly stressing over nothing!…its there life
no it isnt
Okay Amy, 13 year old girls do not work as hard as me. And thank you Kris and Jason for seeing my point of view. Like honestly the cheerleaders in my school are terrible! They got booed of at the pep rallet, but everyone cheered for the dance team. Just face the facts that people hate cheereleaders and its not the 1950’s anymore where everyone is in love with the cheerleaders. It is not a sport and they do not work as hard as football players!! (wrestlers..maybe) And fo all of you out there who say: “If cheering was any easier it would be called football” That is completely, utterly, 100% a lie!!!!! CASE CLOSED!
Oh, and one more thing…Juice-box if you honestly believe that anything with action is a sport, then my whole life is a sport. Is eating, sleeping, and talking really considered a sport to you?? If so, then thats a tad bit crazy. And i also love how its all the girls who are like rah rah Cheering is a sport, when there were like 3 professionals who said that cheering clearly was not a sport and gave very convincing reasons. All you cheerleaders, keep on believing that what you’re doing is a sport, when deep down, you know its truly not.
cheerleading shouldnt be considered a sport unless its competitive cheerleading but thats basically dancing! cuz some competitive teams dont even use pom poms! and back to cheerleading that shouldnt be considered a sport like football and basketball cheerleading. all they do is lift people big whoop! i play field hockey and are practices are way harder and we actually practice outside in the freezing cold or the rlly hot weather unlike some cheerleading teams. cheerleaders are exactly and only what they are named. cheer leaders ( they lead the crowds at cheering)
Yes i believe cheerleading is a sport. It is very hard work & you have to put alot of commitement into it. You cant miss one practice or you will miss alot. You must work very hard as a squade to get things done to be good. It takes alot of time, hard work, money, effort in buying all the things needed for the team, and alot of driving. If anyone thinks cheerleading is not a sport think again.
yes heerleading is a sport people dont even realize how hard it is to trust yourself to do a backhandspring or even go up into a stunt. so if you dont think cheerleading is a sport you go and try and and come back and tell me you still dont think it is a sport
Yes!!! Cheerleading is a sport.we practice everyday of the week except sundays.we have 3 hour practices.conditioning.cheer camp(boot camp)cheering in the rain snow cold hot.it doesnt matter.we learn routines we learn cheers.which all have to be memorized.we throw girls over 20 ft in the air we lift weights,we run,we tumble,you try learing to do a full.id love to see you do it.cheerleading is without a doubt a sport.a hard one at that.but it takes dedication determination.some people just need to see that.if one person is missing it throws everything out of whack.its not like basketball or football you cant just replace that person.people need to stop sterotyping and learn what cheerleading is all about.
YES!!!!! Cheerleading is for sure a sport.we have practice 6 days a week.3 hours a day.we cheer games in the cold or in the hot.the rain or the snow.We take our saturdays to compete we learn and memorize routines and cheers.we have to be happy and peppy even if we just had the worst day of our lives.people expect us to do good and work our asses off which we do.we throw girls over 20 ft in the air and they depend on us to catch them.we learn to tumble.you try and learn to do fulls,layouts,backhandsprings.id love to see you do it.yeah field hockey might be a sport but cheerleaders work just as hard as they do.come on seriously.field hockey is just a bunch of big manley girls hitting people because their lives are so miserable.cheerleading is my life.im dedicated and determined and id never let my squad down.so heres your to-do-list go out to a cheerleading practice just watch and trust me you’ll see how hard it really is.
hey everyone who thinks cheerleading is not a sport it is sooo a sport cheerleading is a amazing sport it takes stregth sacrifice dedication and commitiment we throw people in the air defieing gravity cheerleading teach girls sooo much like shelf confidence and public speaking and oh yea if u thhink cheerleaders r stupid sluts u r sooo wrong i am in all honers classes and have been cheering for 11 years and yes it is a sport all stars or not have you ever been to a pop warner compitition they do some hard things and they are in like kindergarden to 9th graders and thats not even all stars by my defination cheerleading is definently a sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No it not a sport. Someone said we lift weights not people but our weights weigh more than your people do.
yes of course cheerleading is a sport, and its hard and if it was easy it would be called your mom
but why are we writing this apparently theres been enough said about cheerleading is a sport.
and i love cheerleading but i cant say football is easy because if it was easy volleyball would be easy.
the real question is, is dancing a sport?
YES
YES !!
thats true.
i believe that
cheerleading
is a sport !
they get scored
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ITS A SPORT!!! (:
Okay cheerleading is a sport spotrsking or whatever to answer your question alll three of them are a yes! your dumb go to WORLDS and tell me its not a sport okay thanks bye!
Yeah, cheerleading is a sport. I’m a cheerleader for my highschool and I can’t think of anyone who can do the stuff we do. People think gymnastics is a sport, right? Well, we are just like them, but with no beams, bars, or vaults. We don’t need that stuff to help us out. We are pure muscle. I hate it when people think cheerleading isn’t a sport. Give my squad two mminutes and thirty seconds, and I garentee, whoever doesn’t think cheerleading is a sport, will change their mind.
ALYSSA C!
i’m here to call your bluff.
as a matter of fact i would guarantee that you cannot do what most competitive cheerleaders do.
so you say that you can flip and jump? how bout trying that in synchronization with your other team mates while being judged in a mini skirt with sweat dripping down your face while performing a stratagized routine that has been practiced for hours a day that has to be perfect.. no mistakes.. ntohing off balanced.
can you imagine what would happen if a girls stunt group dropped her?
it was reported in october 2008 that cheerleading has more fatal injuries that football. but people consider football to be so tough?? hmm…
as i recall most athletes will find themselves in the gym lifting weights in order to gain more strenght.. cheerleaders find themselves in the gym lifting other athletes in order to gain strength and make the performance dead on perfect!.
everything about competitive cheer is a sport.
we compete
we train
we get judged
we gain points
we can become proffesional
we sweat
we workout
and most of all we are on a team that requires trust and heart to get through every competition..
so dont tell me or any other cheerleader in the world that what we do every day of our life isnt considered a sport..
because statistics and plain ol fact proves that it is.
and you can roll that up and smoke it!
you got anything else to say??
bring it on!
SportKing is absolutely right…Cheerleading is a lame excuse for a sport and they just want to say its a sport so that they can say that they play a sport!!! I bet you all the money in the world if they went to a different teams practice theyd go home crying!
Wow, people who think cheerleading isn’t a sport need to try it them selves then tell us cheerleaders its not a sport. I would love to see them compete on a spring floor and at the same time, give it their all. i really doubt they could.
If gmynastics is a sport then cheerleading is. we do gmynastics, dance and cheer, and cheerleading is the second most dangous sport in the country
YES CHEERLEADING IS SO A SPORT!! IT TAKES ALOT OF MEMORIZATION AND IS VERY PHYSICAL! I HAVE CHEERED SINCE I WAS 5 AND JUST GRADUATED, AND KNOW FIRST HAND WE WORK JUST AS HARD AS ANY OTHER SPORT!
HERE IS A STORY TO PROVE IT IS: MY SOPHOMORE YEAR WE HAD A GUY JOIN OUR SQUAD. HE PLAYED FOOTBALL, BASE BALL, AND WRESTLED. WE WERE GOING TO CHEER CAMP AND HE SAID “THIS IS GOING TO BE SO EASY!” AND WHILE WE WERE AT CHEER CAMP MY COUCH FOUND HIM SITTING DOWN DURING ACTIVITY, SO SHE ASKED HIM WHATS WRONG. AND HE SAID “THIS IS HARDER THEN I THOUGHT!”
IT IS TOTALLY A REAL SPORT!!!! BUT WE PULL OFF LOOKING GOOD WHILE WE DO IT!
sure i think its a sport if your doing it competitivly, i mean good for you, you can look pretty and throw 100 pound girls in the air with a partner
i play hockey, rugby, football, golf, 800M running and volleyball.
Hard is when your throwing up from doing lines, push ups, situps, and weight training for hours
so sure, i 100% agree its a sport
just not the best OR hardest in the world
can’t wait to see the national cheerleading chapionsip tournament on TV that millions of people will sit down for
oh wait
there is none
PCEE OUT
yes it really is
CHEERLEADING IS DEFINITELY A SPORT. THE THING THAT REALLY SUX ABOUT CHEERLEADING, IS THAT IT IS SOMEONE’S OPINION. IN BASKETBALL, IF YOU SHOOT A BALL IN THE HOOP, THAT’S 2 POINTS AUTOMATICALLY. IN FOOTBALL, IF YOU RUN ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THE FIELD, IT IS AND IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE 6 POINTS, A TOUCHDOWN. IF IT IS SOOOO EASY AND ANYONE COULD DO IT, THEN EVERYBODY WHO SUCKS IN AIR SHOULD BE CHEERLEADERS. U RUN TO BUILD ENDURANCE, STRETCH TO BECOME MORE FLEXIBLE,AND LIFT WEIGHTS TO BUILD STRENGTH. IF YOUR BASES DONT HAVE STRENGTH THEN THEY WONT BE ABLE TO THROW THEIR FLYER IN A NICE BASKET TOSS. IF THE FLYER ISNT FLEXIBLE, THEN THE TOE TOUCH SHE OR HE DOES WONT LOOK UP TO PAR. IF THE WHOLE SQUAD DOESNT HAV THE ENDURANCE THEY NEED, THEN THEY WILL PASS OUT BEFORE THEY COMPLETE THEIR 2 AND A HALF MINUTE LONG ROUTINE. IT DOESNT SOUND LONG BUT ONCE U HAVE EXPERIENCED IT THEN U WILL OBVIOUSLY KNOW WAT IM TALKING ABOUT. IF U ARE A CHEERLEADER, ESPECIALLY AN ALL-STAR CHEERLEADER OR COMPETITION CHEERLEADER, THERE IS NO WAY U CAN BUILD A STUNT WITHOUT THE PROPER TECHNIQUE OR ANY OF THE POINTS DISCUSSED ABOVE.
AND TO SYDNEY M. JUST BECAUSE U CLAIM UR SCHOOL’S CHEERLEADERS SUCK, DOESNT MEAN THAT FOR THE MILLIONS OF CHEERLEADERS AROUND THE WORLD. IT SHOWS HOW EDUCATED YOU ARE ABOUT THE SPORT. YES, I SAID SPORT BECAUSE IT IS. AND IN MY SCHOOL CHEERLEADERS ALSO PARTICIPATE IN MORE THAN JUST CHEERLEADING. EVERYONE ON MY SQUAD EITHER RUNS TRACK, PLAY TENNIS, PLAYS BASEBALL OR SOCCER, AND U CAN EVEN PLAY BASKETBALL AND CHEERLEADING AT THE SAME TIME! IN CHEERLEADING U ALSO HAVE TO BE PHYSICALLY FIT AND BE FAST. U HAV TO DO A JUMP SEQUENCE, TUMBLING SEQUENCE, GROUP CHEER, ANOTHER CHEER TO INCLUDE THE CROWD, STUNTS, AND DANCE ALL IN UNDER 3 MIN. ON TOP OF THAT U MUST HAVE A SMILE ON YOUR FACE,SHOW LOTS OF ENERGY AND BE AS LOUD AS U CAN. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE U THROW A CHEERLEADER PERFECTLY IN THE AIR, WITH A PERMANENT SMILE, AND NOT PASS OUT.CHEERLEADING IS ALSO INTENSE AND REQUIRES ALOT OF DEDICATION AND THE MAIN THING, TEAMWORK. YALL MUST HAVE THE WACKEST PEP RALLIES TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY BECAUSE OUR SCHOOL CANT WAIT TO SEE US PERFORM. WE HAV A DJ AND EVERYTHING. IF IT WERENT FOR CHEERLEADERS, THE CROWD OR TEAM WOULDNT BE SO ENTHUSED ABOUT A GAME OR EVENT. HMMM, I WONDER Y THERE ARE ALOT OF COLLEGES OFFERING CHEERLEADERS FULL RIDES TO THEIR COLLEGES. I CAN SEE THAT U R JUS BRAINWASHED BECAUSE OF THE WAY U SAY THE CHEERLEADERS AT UR SCHOOL ACT. THAT IS ONE REASON Y PEOPLE THAT THINK LIKE U, THINK THE THINGS THEY DO ABOUT CHEERLEADERS. AND NO I AM NOT DILLUSIONAL. AND JUST BECAUSE U ARE CAPTAIN OF ALL OF THOSE SPORTS TEAMS DOESNT MEAN THAT U R ABOVE OR BETTER THAN CHEERLEADERS. WE WORK AS HARD AS U DO ON THOSE TEAMS, I THINK EVEN HARDER.
RACHEL, THERE ARE SPECIFIC RULES U MUST FOLLOW IN ORDER TO WIN. YOU MAY NOT CONSIDER THEM RULES BECAUSE, I DONT KNOW, BUT, U R OBVIOUSLY NOT A COMPETITION CHEERLEADER. YES, A ROUTINE IS PREVIOUSLY DETERMINED. HOW ARE U GOING TO BE ABLE TO PERFORM WITHOUT A PREVIOUSLY DETERMINED ROUTINE. U MIGHT AS WELL NOT SHOW UP THAT DAY. AND SO MANY THINGS CAN GO WRONG. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT U WILL PERFECTLY STICK IT ON THE MAT. I HOPE U KNOW WAT THAT MEANS SINCE U ARE A CHEERLEADER. WE DIDNT KNOW THAT ONE OF OUR FLYERS WOULD CRADLE BEFORE THE REST OF THE FLYERS WOULD DURING OUR STUNT ROUTINE. YET, WE STILL WON THE VHSL EASTERN DISTRICT CHEERLEADING COMPETITION IN VIRGINIA IN 2006. DUH U CANT PLAY CHEERLEADING. IT’S CALLED COMPETING.
JOE RUDINSKI AND JACKSON UR JUS STRAIGHT UP NOT LITERATE. EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST.
AND ANYONE WHO AGREES OR DISAGREES WITH MY COMMENTS I WOULD LOVE TO HERE FROM U EXPEDITIOUSLY JUST EMAIL ME AT kunfoozd1@yahoo.com
CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!!!!i have many friends who say”oh cheerleading…….wow u do that??? thats so easy.”or i have friends who say “cheerleading is sooooo stupid! all u do is wave pom pom!”but when i ask my frieds who doesn’t think cheerleading isn’t a sport 2 do a high V, IT LOOKED TERRIBLE!!!!and thats 1 of the most simplest things and she still said it wasn’t a sport!also i asked her 2 do a toe touch and when she didn’t, her legs didn’t even go AN INCH off the ground.but all im sayin is that CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!!!!!it’s just as hard as any other sport!!!
GO PANTHERS!!!!
Okay…as a coach, I feel that cheerleading is a sport. According to Maddie, cheerleaders are whiney girls who fuss at a broken nail. Maddie, my girls can play football as well…and look darn cute in the uniforms. My girls are definitely athletes, but it took me taking over last year to truly make them that way. My girls have had concussions, broken noses, etc. And they still get back up and work. They may have to sit out until they heal if the dr says so, but they are stronger and better when they start back. My philosophy is “Suck it up Buttercup!” If it hurts, tape it. What is good for a football or basketball player is good for us. And yes, we do change strategy all the time. Depending on what happens in a competition, we can change our stunts to make them easier or harder at a moments notice. We look at the other team’s routines and decide if we need to make changes. We also try to physically outperform the other teams. If they need 5 people to do a stunt, then we will do it with 4. If they have backhandsprings layouts, we have them with a full twist. If they full twist cradle, we double down. Our football players admit to us that they can’t hang with us. They have tried to practice with us and with the conditioning and stunting and tumbling, etc, they said “Whew! We had no idea! We can’t do it.” And that is respect for what we do.
*Also, out state did make cheerleading a sport and it’s a pain!! We are limited to when we can start practices…only two weeks before the beginning day of the season! We can not compete outside of the competition season or out of state. We have more rules than ever! We have to compete in no less than 2, no more than 8 competitions. We have limits on what we can do in competition. It isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But YES, cheerleading IS a sport!
And Athlete=D…There are National championships every year on ESPN for high school, college and all stars teams. Feel free to tune in and watch!
Just remember girls…just bc a t-shirt says If it was easy it would be called football, doesn’t make it so. My girls play football, but they could not go out with our team day after day and take that abuse with them. Our football players can’t hang with us bc it is a different type of skill. Face it folks, football is harder than cheerleading, but cheer is still a sport in it’s own. If you want to be respected as athletes, then act like athletes, not like princesses. My girls are now tough and can compete hard, but it took alot of work to get them that way. Every sport has it’s own challenges and should be respected for that.
Cheerleading is NOT a sport… If there is athletics involed then pole dancing should be considered a sport. WTF… Cheerleading is just a bunch of preppy girls that are afraid to play a real sport.. It can’t be a sport,, its just a bunch of retards dancing…. Thats really all it is..
to all yu haters out there…
cheerleading is a sport.! i’d like to c yu practice for hours and hours a day, waking up early for morning practices, eating healthy constantly, so yu look good in yur uniform.
&it is extremely intense.! flipping in the air, lifting ppl, being crisp in all yur movements, memorizing dances, cheers, and chants. not to mention looking cute at the same time. (: also having to go to cheer camp every summer for intense workouts, and staying in shape. lifting weights or lifting people? im pretty shure that people are heavier. especially competitive cheering. we work 10,000 times harder then anyone else. sooo therefore it is a sport. ITS COMPETITIVEE.! we get scored and jugded. we get trophy’s, just like any other sport. we have practices, and were at all the games, just like all the other athletes. sooo what now.=P and we still have more fun then anyone else.
I am a Cheerleader At Stagg High School In Stockton California and the fact that people do not consider cheerleading a sport is very offensive and descriminating! We start our conditioning before our football players in the summer and even continue after their season ends! We work just as hard as other athetes do for other sports! We run,we exercise,and we get hurt too! Long story short we work our asses off everyday at practice! CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!
im a cheerleader. i have been doing it for about 9 years and i am 15. yup ive been doing it since i was four! Cheerleading is Def a sport!:)
1. if it were easy they would call it football
2. try doing 8 or 9 back tucks in a row if u can’t even do a back bend good lucj with a back tuck
3.try throwing girls over 90lbs 20 ft in the air (sometimes higher)
4. try all the partices
5. try to be presentable and beutfuil while u are doing all this
6. try doing fast dances
7. it is a LAW!
CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!
with love,
Mary Jo
yeah cheerleading is a sport, we work our butts off, we run a 1/2 mile every practice, its a contact sport, I split my cheek and had to get stitches because of a stunt. There is a winner and losers at the competitions!
I’m sorry girls and boys but Cheerleading is not a sport. Now I’m not saying that cheer leaders are not Athletes because you can be athletic without playing sports.
Just like golf, swimming, darts, pool, bowling, Curling, track, and I can go on aren’t sports!
Yes I am not denying that they compete in compaction . By all means yes they compete but card players compete against each other and that doesn’t make card playing a sport.
And yes you do make contact with each other but that’s only to help on lifts and/or stunts. To help each out… You do not make contact with your compaction at all! Like in Football, basketball, even baseball to an extent.
Again I’m sorry Girls and Boys cheerleading is not a sport.
YES CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!
I started cheering as a freshman and it was a rough and demanding sport.
In the summer, we’d start out at 7 am and get done around 9, get some breakfast and work from 10am til 12pm.
THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WERE OUT FOR AN HOUR SHORTER THAN US!!
AND THEY TOOK SHOWERS AND WASTED TIME EFFIN AROUND WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT!
We got out there, ran about a mile, ran on bleachers, did another mile, then stretched. We worked on all sorts of lifts and cheers all morning.
When it came to football season, we were working just as hard. We wore way less then the guys did during the games and froze our butts off! Even in our warm-ups the cold can get to someone, and we did this in -40 degree weather more than once, and those were our best nights of tossing and tumbing!
The male athletes don’t support us, but they know we work just as hard as us. Someone commented on us not being athletes and we all did the splits and watched him walk away, without amything to say…
So all u haters that think we can’t do it, we already know we can cuz we’re the ones running outside in the morning frost during our summer break and ur the lazy one in ur bed til 12! And I bet they couldn’t even begin to perfect a dance routine and opening stunts before every game, every week! Our weight room isn’t allowed to us over the summer because its only for athletes, but then we just lift eachother around. Football players get the weight room, but can all of them lift up a girl by themselves???
I THINK NOT!!!
SO NEXT TIME THINK ABOUT THIS BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO HATE ON THOSE THAT DO NOTHING BUT SUPPORT EVERY OTHER ATHLETE IN THE SCHOOL!
Well Yeah it is a sport and for the girls that say they cheer and it isnt a sport well then you mustt omm suck bc it deff is..But at my school everyone says it is a sport?! and they guys at our school get MAD if we dont go to the games haha. we have a comp. in sc in march OH YEAH
but Forreal girls you need to chill bc football aint easy haha. and one of you girls pissed me off. i forgot what your name was though.? but your gay 
later
cheerleading is a sport if u think that we dont work hard for what we do best and why we like to do it-screw you!!! and plus if cheerleading wasn’t easy they’ll call it football!!!!
duhhh, its a sport! :]
cheerleaders work just as hard as any other athletes do. and just so all those football players know, we have rulesss!!!!!!!!
so don’t tell us we dont!
CHEERLEADING IS A SPORRRTT ! [:
we work just as hard as any other athlete.
we dont just clap and wave our hands in the air like everyone says, we run, jump, cheer, tumble, stunt, and more !
we also compete in competitions. you think theres no rules in cheering? honey, YOU’RE WRONG!
esp. during competitions. there’s rules about certain stunts, certain things you cant say in cheers, no cheating, and alot of other rules!
competitions are just like games in any other sport because you compete with other teams (or squads) for a prize.
IT’S A SPORTTT! GET IT STRAIGHT!
Cheerleading is a sport… I go to Indian Valley and we work our butts off to do good…We are 3 time state champions in a row and have also won nationals numerous times..If we didn’t actually work this would never happen… So if you don’t agree think again!!!
Cheerleading is a SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!! you have 2 work really hard at it.you have 2 lift weights so you can lift people up in the air! you also have 2 be able 2 do flips and back hansprings!!!!cheerleaders work just as hard 2 compete and things just like other sports!!!!!!!!!!we condition just like football players and others!! and cheerleaders are suppost 2 be the best in schhool and set examples. but Hale County isnt like that my cheerleading coach doesnt push us as hard as we need 2 be she is not strict enough and she doesnt teach us how 2 do any thing!!!but i love 2 cheer!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheerleading is defenently a sport! For all those football players out there that don’t think so listen to this. Do we get padding so when we fall from over 5 feet in the air we don’t break our arms, legs, or even die from impact?NO WE DON’T!! So yeah it’s the most dangerous, most tiring, and most expensive ($8,000-$10.00 a year). Face it IT’S A SPORT!
This is a very touchy subject…
and for all of you out there…YES… I am a football-sideline AND competitive cheerleader.
There are always so many stereotypes about cheerleaders…
1.they are dumb blondes
2.they have NO athletic talent
3.they are all preppy
At my school you are not allowed to be on the team if your GPA is below a 3.5
All of the girls on my team are involved in atLEAST 1 other sport such as soccer, softball, volleyball, golf, basketball, and gymnastics + we are all required to do cross country and track to stay in shape (we’ve won nationals 4 times in a row in cross country!)
And there are without a doubt some preppy girls but there is a goth girl on my squad and she is an AMAZING cheerleader.
Yes the sideline chanting and “GO TEAM” is definitely NOT a sport, HOWEVER competitions are in my mind considered a sport.
I have seen some people saying that they have no actual goal and they just have judges… in our division you have to meet certain criteria and they have a point-system… so I would consider THAT a sport!!!!!
Cheerleading is a sport. It is very hard it takes lots of practice.
Cheerleading is not a sport. Cheering for a sport is never a sport.
All of these girls writing that it is ARE cheerleaders. The rest of us who dont think it is are too lazy to do it.
Why is it a sport? Oh wow you have to work hard. So does hockey. My brother’s team has 3 practices a week and 2 games a week and one dryland training a weeek. And that is hard. They have one spare day to do whatever they want. And there team is 12 & 13! That beats all of your cheerleading schedules.
Image is the main thing in cheerleading? Have you ever seen an ugly cheerleader?
There is no strategy.
And no clear cut winner or loser. Your winner is based by the judges. Not by how hard you play
NOT A SPORT!
(not a cheerleader)
alright alright no need to bring the football players into this..this year i was convinced along with five other guys, three of which play for a section II AA team, to do co-ed varsity cheer this year. Just this week we are heading to florida nationals to compete in senior level 5 large co ed varsity. I used to think it was all BS but now i really do think its a sport. its hard to say though because its not based on points in a game but rather judges in a competition. i do overall now believe it is a sport.
Cheerleading has not been considered a sport before is not today and probably will never be taken seriously. So the question is cheerleading a sport? The simple and right answer is no.
its not a sport its dumb and for girls
sports are actually have a purpose
cheerleading is a girly hobbie
Cheer is most DEF a sport! It’s hard work! It takes hours and hours of practice, pain, and patience to nail your routines. And dealing with snarky girls can be tough too. Football players just hit each other to vent their frustrations, we cheerleaders can’t just pruposly drop a girl or “accidententally” hit a girl in the face. You have to be able to suck all that up to put on an amazing show!
What irks me about the debate is that those who say it’s not a sport don’t care to know what we do. They want to think that all the girls do is stand around saying “rah rah” looking pretty. There is litrerally ALOT of blood, sweat, and tears in this sport.
As a base/flyer there is ALOT of blood sometimes. A girl falls and no matter how she fall, you HAVE to catch her. You fall, you cause the chance you could possibly break someone’s nose.
CHEER IS A SPORT!
~We work hard
~We Win
~WE CHEER!!
~!JennRose!~
cheering is sport. if you think it is not you are crazy. i would like to see you go through a whole year of cheering get all your tumbling and base back or fly then you can say it is not a sport. the law now says cheerleading is a sport like it or not.
acttually india does not their for 5 hours. monday 2 hours. tuesaday 4 hours. wednesday 2 hours. thursday 3 hours. friday 4 hours. saturday 6 hours and that does not include all the competitions we go to so suck it up and get over because cheerleading is a sport.
okay sport king errr whatever we do change our plans right before we compete! trust me it’s happened to me right before we competed at nationals which obviously you wouldn’t know cause yerrr not a cheerleader! you can’t say cheerleading isn’t a sport if you’ve never done it! you see what we do but don’t know what we do to get there!
cheerleading IS a sport! look, the short skirts are because it’s easier for bases to catch flyers. could they do that with long pants on? also, at competition, the judges need to make sure that your leg is straight, or bent, or in the right form, especially during jumps. at my school, we wear leggings at most games, and i still hear a million times a day that cheerleaders are sluts. gymnasts, wrestlers, swimmers,and ice skaters wear tighter and more revealing uniforms, and they are never called whores. the volleyball players at my school wear short shorts, the ones that we wear UNDER our skirts! cheerleaders compete. even though they do not score, as in basketball or football. they still work so hard for those two minutes on the floor. gymnasts and ice skaters compete based on judging, and if you think those are not sports, you’re crazy. to be a cheerleader, you have to know how to tumble, which takes great strength and a lot of training. cheerleaders also have to stunt-to be a flyer, you have to be extremely flexible and brave! to be a base-well, athletes lift weights, cheerleaders lift athletes! enough said. furthermore, cheerleaders have to memorize countless routines: it does take skill. lastly, jumps. try doing a toe touch and i bet you wouldn’t have enough muscle to get your fat ass off the ground. so next time you think of calling a cheerleader a slut or an attention whore, think again. while i admit that some are, that is NOT because she is a cheerleader. Some people are just that way, but don’t stereotype based on one or two people.
okay and sport king your little thing about how we practice and compete and stuff. so do football players is that a sport yes! anything that envolves physical activity is a sport! try telling me that working my teams butts off to get 2nd IN THE NATION isn’t a sport.
david err whatever okay so theres no season yerrr right. BUT WE COMPETE ALLLLL YEAR ROUND! football only goes one season,baseball one season,track goes all year and it’s a sport! so next time before you say something about cheerleading not being a sport you better get your facts straight first.
FYI – Cheerleading has a true World Championship and will be an Olympic SPORT in 2012.
I think cheerleading is a good sport for all kinds of people around the world.
before i was a cheerleader i thought it was going to be easy;its actually harder than softball is for me(:
yes it is a sport cheerleaders work just as hard as any athlete out there,and it is not as east as it looks.
Cheerleading is a sport…i have been doing it for over 10 years now..we sweat…we get into shape..we get sore…and we suck it up just like any other sport…cheerleading is alot harder then ppl think…we throw girls up..(who sometimes are bigger then we r) in the air then have to catch them…we also have to tumble constantly and jump and keep moving from one place to another while looking like we are haveing the time of our lives…while any other sport…such as football…you throw a ball around and take it to one part of the field…ooooh big whoop for you….with baseball on the other hand…you hit a ball or throw it…then run or try to catch it…and try to get back to home base…ok first of all thats nothing….ppl barely touch you…wow you can get knocked in the head oh well get over it…when we go out there to cheer…we are risking everything we can brake our necks…brake out legs…hell we can even die out there(it has happened) but the other sports is nothing compared to what we have to do…not only does it take alot more strength but it takes dedication…and thats something any other sport can do without…im not talking about that stupid high school or junior high cheereleading…im talkin about competitive if you think its not a sport i wanna see you get out there on that matt throw a standing and running full then do a one man with no side man or help…then i want you to do an above level jump sequence then i want you to do a level 6 pyramid then i want you to do a cheer and dance with the hardest moves your little brain can possibly think of but i also want the biggest smile on your face while doing it…until then you have no room to talk
Cheerleading certainly fits the definition of sport: a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Cheerleading is definatly physically challenging, it has rules to be followed, and it’s 100% full of competitive sportsmanship.
So now that i’ve proven cheerleading a sport, give me a reason not to think it is. I’ll prove it wrong!
(:
listen up. cheerleading is prob the most athletic sport out there. im so sick of people saying that its just a bunch of preppy girls that only care about their looks cant handle a real sport. this is a real sport. cheerleading is the real deal. if we care about our looks so much, then why do we sweat constantly during practices, games, pep rallys, etc.? does any other sport practice 2-3 days a week every week during the summer? i dont think so. does any other sport practice all school week every week during the school year? i think not! during our practices we do about 50-100 lunges, 20-30 situps and push ups, and we run like 4-6 laps. you also have to have very good memory to be a cheerleader. my team has like 50 cheers and like 15 dances and prob like 20 different routines that you have to have memorized or you dont compete. Cheerleaders break, sprain, and twist things constantly. Other sports throw a ball, we throw 90-110 pound people like 10-20 feet in the air when the stunt cradles! bases and backspots have to be super strong. and flyers have to be strong and really brave. U also have to be extremely flexible and strong to do jumps and the tumbling. especially the tumbling. u try doing a backhandspring without years of training and practice. heres some qoutes id like some of u to think about…I have been doing research on this and it is in fact a sport….
Wimps lift weights, cheerleaders lift people!
The only difference between us and ball players is we jump, toss, and catch year round.
There is NO halftime for cheerleaders.
In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.
now, what were u saying about cheerleading not being a sport?
Cheerleading is DEFINATLEY a sport! do you know how tough it is!?
Most cheerleaders r so sick of being told cheerleading isn’t a sport. IT IS!! I cheerlead for football, and the football players say its not a sport, well ok srrsly if they keep saying its not a sport then we’ll just stop cheering for them and we’ll go to a team that agrees. Cheerleading isn’t what some showes and stuff make it seem we atcually work hard, u have to be strong, flexable and lots more to be a cheerleader, its not about looks, and no it doesnt nesarrly make u popular, like srrsly im a cheerleader and most ppl at my school think cheerleading isn’t a sport. so if u wanna prove it is a sport to some ppl, try making them come and watch one of ur practices… or games… then they’ll c..
im a competitive cheerleader and people after you have traiend for 2 hours a day for a year and brought home 2nd in provincles then you can talk to us about how cheers not a sport:P
cheerleading is so sport in sports you can get hurt and you can get hurt badly in cheerleading like one time i was in an L stand we were just warming up for our game and when came down into a shoulder sit when i went to get down the girl put boyh hands out at once so i feel on my face YA CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT
No! im a cheerleader, and even i say its not a sport, now SOCCER is! I love soccer(:
ummmmm if nascar or equestrian or curlings considered a sport why dont people consider cheer a sport. Nascar is driving a fricken car you dont have to be strong to do that or riding a horse some other thing is doing work for you! Cheerleading is lifting people or flipping we dont just yell random crap. and we wear skirts because we need form fitting stuff so its not hitting the bases in the face duh! and we do it all with no safety gear and with a smile
yes cheerleading is a sport…when you compete it is 3 mins and 15 seconds of pure fun that you practice all year to get to…weeks and monthe of 3 hour practices a day and goin to the gym cheerleading is as much a sport as football, baseball, wrestling, etc. it is just as hard if not harder…most people pass up cheerleading as a bunch of girls prancing around in a tiny uniform…yes we do that but we do A LOT MORE.
Yes, cheerleadig is a sport because cheerleaders do as much as football or basketball players. It takes a lot of practice and preparation to be the best that you can be. Cheerleaders also compete for titles just as any other sport. They do just as much hard work as any other sport also. Blood, sweat, and tears…..so yes cheerleading is DEFINATELY a sport!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, cheerleadig is a sport because we do as much as football or basketball players. It takes a lot of practice and preparation to be the best that you can be. Cheerleaders also compete for titles just as any other sport. They do just as much hard work as any other sport also. Blood, sweat, and tears…..so yes cheerleading is DEFINATELY a sport!!!!!!!!!!
Is cheerleading a sport???? Why would anybody ask a question like that?? YES, cheerleading is a sport!!! We work just as hard as football or basketball players. I LOVE cheering and it is a sport. We practice long and hard to get where we need to get. SO YES CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT!!!!!!!!!
COMPETITIVE Cheer is definitely a sport! I hate when guys say it isn’t a sport! I can understand football cheerleading not being a sport because you don’t win anything or go against anybody, but competitive cheer definitely is! And I got Athlete of the Month for Cheer so yea obviously it is a sport! So whoever doesn’t think its a sport is dumb, and have no idea what they are talking about!
Cheerleading = AMAZING!
cheerleading is a sport cheerleading for fottballplayers is har you practice in the sun and competetive is just like anything else if youdont thinkits a sport go try one day with us..and not allcheer leaders are preps everyone makes up stereotypes when theyjust see all of it in movies try running for an hour without stopping and tumbling and strenghting theres alot that you dont know \
so i think cheer is definately a sport =)
hey, umm… i’ve done gymnastics for 10 years and I’m eleven and I did cheerleading when I was a little younger than this. but yeah cheerleading is a sport BUT NO WHERE AS HARD AS GYMNASTICS!!!! my sister just quite gymnastics because she got hurt and is now doing cheerleading and thinks it is super easy compared to gymnastics. sooooo…. ur pick.
okay ive been doing cheerleading for a while.
if you dont think cheerleading is a sport think again.
try getting thrown up in the air.
maybe even try doin back had springs and back tucks.
as many as you can do.
or try going to 3 hour practices everyday so that you an win first place in ah competiton.
try these things and see if cheerleading is a sport or not.
we sweat just like any other sport.
people that say that cheerleading isin’t a sport are dum,i have been a cheerleader for 5 years,i think cheerleading is a good sport stunts and tumbuling make you stronger.my midel school cheerleading squad have been in serious competitions.i got stonger practising 4 hours a day for 3 months.i’am so skinny beacause of cheerleading practise.
Cheerleading is a sport. We compete just like football or soccer or any other “sport”. we have seasons too. some people seem to think that it isnt hard. I am a flyer and i have been dropped before. people say it doesnt compare to getting hit by someone twice your size (like in football). Honestly try getting thrown up in the air ..at least 15 ft and the only thing between you and the floor is another person. I would love to see the people who dont think its a sport try to do a stunt or tumble. then you can say it isnt a sport if you still think that. Cheerleading is a physical and extremely hard. It takes years to understand and be good at it. Cheerleading is a sport. end of story.
HECK YEAH ITS A SPORT!! I AM A CHEERLEADER AND WE HAVE HARD PRACTICE!! WE LIFT ATHLETES!!!! (: HELLO WE RRUN AND LIFT WEIGHTS JUS LIK THE FOOTBALL PLYRS!! ITS A SPORT!!!
ok. so i’m new to cheerleading. my friends talked me into it and i absolutely love! it. yea, we have to look peppy and stuff during games, because if you dont, then our coach would probably eat us alive. my coach has been in cheer her whole life, and also the military for 8 years, so she knows disipline.
i dont see our schools football players, basketball players, soccer players, baseball players or whatever getting up at 6AM in the morning to practice for 2 hours during summer. i dont see them giving up full days just to practice. we start off with a 20 minute run. we walk, its more time. so we are pushed to our limits. second, those of you who are saying no its not a sport, whens the last time you were thrown over twenty feet in the air by 2 ppl? huh?
oh, well you say, you dont have an objective to reach, or a goal to reach. we do. We have to stick our tumbling. We have to go into gymnastics lessons. We have to be as tight as possible in our stunts, and motions.
and dont you dare even get me started on all cheerleaders are preps, cuz you kno what? i look emo when im not cheering. i have skinny jeans, converse, and a shirt with my fav band on it all the time. i listen to screamo!
ok, i saw a comment earlier that said, so what if you work hard, you dont get judged? ok you actually do. there are points involved on how sharp your motions are, how clean your stunts are, and how good your dances are. personally, i say the dance inbetween is just to take up time for the real stuff like the stunts. (no offense to the dancers cuz yea dancing is hard too, i kno. trust me) we do have cheer season, depending on what you cheer for. if you cheer for football players, you work in fall. if you cheer for basket ball, its whenever basketball is! easy as that.
lets get this straight too.
1) we are not dumb. at our school you cant have any grade lower than a C or your off the squad.
2) i am NOT a prep. not all cheerleaders are.
3) anyone can run around a few people with a ball, throw it to the next perosn, try a few trick plays, and get tackled a few times. im not sayin its not fun, or easy, but with a couple hours of training I would have it down. but with cheer, we could spend weeks trying the same stunt, trying to perfect it. i dont see any football players doing liberty to heel stretch to full out cradles.
and if your one of the people who say if its not in the olympics then its not a sport, your saying ping pong is a sport, but not cheer. i seriously want a few of those stupid jocks come and try practicing with us for one day. that would make them change their mind. go to the UCA website and watch some of the stunts they do, and attempt it. i dare you. lol
yes cheerleading is so a sport lots of people think it’s just pretty girls with pretty face and bodies jumping around and yelling. It’s really hard i am a base it takes lots of strength and if you do one thing wrong during a stunt people can get really hurt. Some of the cheers are very confusing also. So the next time you want to say cheerleading is not a sport just think about how long and hard the girls work that really care about it so my point is….IT IS A SPORT.
i was on a middle school squad now im on a high school one and we take it seriously. we went to nationals last year and came in 2nd and this we have a choreographer. some squads are lame but most are serious about and if people only knew how much we practice and dedicate our time to it and it is wayyyyy harder than anybody would think. i would like to see you lift girls in the air almost your size. our whole squad except like 2 or 3 can fly. now tell me that isn’t hard. you main base and compete and then try and say that it shouldn’t be a sport.
i mean look at these all-star squads. they work and practice harder than we do and we practice extremely hard. it is a sport nad should be considered one!
YESSS! cheerleading is a sport!
we arent girly girls just cause we are cheerleaders one wrong stunt.. you could die or have to go to the hospital!
just like football or basketball…everyone who says its not a sport then ur sport isent a sport how does it make u feel. ppl say cheerleading is just for ppl who dont have anything better to do thats not true! well u try a backbend or a back walkover or maybe evan a backflip into a stunt like the air-besk one foot thats a hard stunt lean to far u flip and could get hurt we put alot of effort into this sport and thats why its called a sport wee work harder then u think come to one of the practices then u will understand its a sport form bruises to blood or tears to sweat not easy we dont just through stuff together in one day it takes time and time to learn we help teams by cheering and i got crutches cause of cheerleading its not a fancy talk or move its more than that i will post more so all u ppl better get used to it cause cheer is a sport that will never be taken away its writin on the laws paper!
NO! CHEERLEADING IS NOT A SPORT! I’m a girl who plays real sports (soccer, football, basketball, softball, etc.) In a sport, you have a strategy to try to beat an opponent! In cheerleading competitions, you compete and get judged on the judges OPINION! In my opinion there is no point in cheerleading, it just distracts people, or thats what all the people on my basketball team say.
just because its on espn sometimes doesnt mean its a sport….. eating hotdogs and the spelling bee is on espn also… cheerleading is as good as knitting bcause they r both hobbies
How can people say it isnt a sport? Girls and boys spend countless hours training and practicing, especially all star cheerleaders, just to do amazing at a competition. These people put commitment into it, just like any other sport.
Cheerleading is NOT a sport! i have tryed it before. a sport is suppose to be tuff most sports invole blood and pain and effort not just trowing people in the air. and i think its funny when i hear girls say they work sooo hard at practices and crap doing a mile and gymnastics. most sports do 4 miles and work till they are almost throwing up so no cheer leading is not a sport.
Wow just because you wake up earlier does not mean its a sport or that you practice for so long! my friend wakes up at 5 even at times and practices for way more than a few hours a day shes been in gymnastics for almost her whole life. and if cheerleading was a sport wouldent it be in the olmypics? i also do sports and practice basketball and volleyball for way way more than 4 hours a day so no its not a sport.
YES!!! cheerleading is soo a sport im a all star cheerleader and im soo sick of hearing poeple say that its not a sport..people say its not dangorous so its not a sport..that just make me laugh its so dangerous and not every sport is dangerous so.. if poeple do cheerleading theyll realize why i get soo mad when they say its not!
NO ITS NOT!!!! cheerleading is gay!!!
i am a elite cheerleader and i say it is a sport. we have to work hard, we have to do competions and we travel all over the world to compete. so whoever says it isnt should try doing elite cheerleading!!!
Yes, cheerleading is a sport. All of you who say cheerleading is easy or girly, are SO wrong. There are guy cheerleaders, and most of them AREN’T gay!! We lift people twice our weight, tumble with amazing strength, suffer broken bones, deep scratches from other girl’s nails and bites (those last two are just from stunting!) all while smiling through the pain. We lose our voices when we cheer. Our coaches work us half to death. We have at least 2-6 hours of practice EVERY DAY, and we use about half of that to stretch. I don’t mean rolling your wrists and ankles, I mean staying all the way down in the splits for 5-10 whole minutes. And for all of you that say it isn’t a sport because we don’t compete, hello? Competitions!
It’s three sports in one! Dancing, gymnastics, plus cheerleading. If none of this were true, how would all these people that are writing be able to write so much??
hell yeah, i only do allstar cheer twice a week for wolves and im always tired after, people are high if they think its not a sport
Hi there… wanted to share with you an amazing video of one of my coaches at NV Elite in Tacoma, Washington. Its a beautiful work of art and shows the grace and athleticism of cheer. Take a look and then tell me if you don’t think Cheer is a sport !! Share it with everyone you know! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipWu5xCbKAA
guys at my school thinks its not a sport its just a hobbie and a waste of time even though we show them the tumbling and stunting skills they still think throwing a basketball into a net is more of a sport then flipping in the air and lifting girls over our heads …
they really do not know what they are talking about !
because cheerleading is 100% a real sport
Yess, Cheerleading is definitely a sport. Who ever thinks it’s not probally never even tried it so you can’t say much! the definition of cheerleading is: Cheerleading is a sport that uses organized routines that usually range from 1 minute to 3 minutes made from elements of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games and matches and/or compete at cheerleading competitions. … So there that definition clearly defines cheerleading as a sport!!
Criteria #1 A physical activity requiring athleticism
Criteria #2 A competitive athletic activity that directly pits athlete(s) against athlete(s)
Criteria #3 An objective directly correlates team efforts toward one and only one non-objective outcome (The point system is not left to objective vote or ruling).
Criteria #4 There is strategic offensive and defensive interaction between opponents
Criteria #5 Action involves a continuous clock, stopped only by infractions
Criteria #6 Fouls against the opponent are part of the action but governed by officiated rules
Criteria #7 Another way to determine what is a sport is to determine what isn’t.
Just because you practice 3 times a week and its hard work and takes a lot of effort does not make something a sport. I practice my hobby everyday, it takes a lot of effort and a fair ammount of skill but that alone doesn’t make it a sport.
cheerleading is definitely a sport. you try lifting girl 100 lbs and up in to air and catching them perfectly on their way down. just like any other sport, its hard work and it takes practice
CHEER IS SOOOO A SPORT!! SIDELINE ISN’T BUT COMPETITIVE IS
We do everything that other athletes do but harder and better.
WE RUN
WE JUMP
WE CONDITION LIKE CRAZY
WE THROW PEOPLE IN THE AIR
WE TUMBLE
WE DANCE
WE STUNT
WE WORK FOR HOURS AND HOURS TO MAKE A 2 MINUTE ROUTINE PERFECT WHAT OTHER SPORT DOES THAT??
IF YOU ARE A FLIER YOU HAVE TO HAVE EXTREME FLEXIBILITY AND BALANCE
IF YOU ARE BASE OR BACKSPOT IT TAKES MUSCLE TO THROW A GIRL 15 FEET IN TE AIR
CHEERLEADIG IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORTS AND IM PRETTY SURE ANY OTHER ATLETE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COME INTO A CHEER GYM AND DO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO
PLUS IF YOU HAVEN’T TRIED CHEER WHY MAKE FUN OF IT AND SAY ALL
THAT MEAN STUFF! CHEERLEADERS DONT PLAY SOME SPERS AND THEY COULD SAY FOOTBALL ISN’T A SPORT IF THEY WANTED TO BUT DO WE…… NO
SO CHEERLEADING IS TOTALLY A SPORT
ok im a cheerleader and im not that preppy at all
i dont feel as comfortable in a skirt as other girls do
and yall haters who say its not well it is! it a law now!
ive been doing this for 8 years and im 14!
4 hours a day 6 days a week!
football players dont practice as much!
if uve never tried cheerleading u have kno idea what the heck urtalkin about!
im an all star, yall football and other crap sports lift weightz, all stars lift pple!
if cheerleading was easy, they would call it football!
Cheer is hard.
FYI, we don’t shake stupid pom poms at football games. We compete. We do things that no “normal person” can do. If you really want to know what i’m talking about, look up “world cup shooting stars 2011″. There’s no “cheer season”. We practice the whole year and don’t even get summers off. We have to constantly learn new tricks, unlike you football players who never have to learn anything new. Cheerleading isn’t in the Olympics but it will be added to them (in the 2016 Olympics or something like that) and there’s CHEERLEADING WORLDS too. Another thing about cheer is that when you’re competing, you don’t just compete with one team, you compete with about fifty, and we can’t do anything about the score. We have to memorize the tricks AND the routine. Cheerleading is responsible for 65% of sport injuries. I saw that on a website don’t say i’m wrong. Hey, football players, stop being lazy and just go try cheer for a week. Let’s see how you end up like.
Alright, to everyone who thinks cheer isn’t hard. Get off the computer and do a back handspring. NOW. Haha, too scared to do it? OMG, that is hilarious.
Anyone can do football. I DID football. At my school, the football players challenged the cheerleaders for a game,and we won. Try cheerleading, just try it. You’ll probably end up with both of your legs broken.
Yeah ima cheerleader from Roy-Hart we arent preppy at all in fact we are a #1 placing cheer squad in CHEER ZONE AKA NOFA and we work our butts off its tough being #1 especially with being a low budget school its huge being #1. And most of our cheerleader are emo, goth, tomboy, sporty girls we dont have 1 prep at all. i love roy hart and so do our cheerleader why do you think they call us “All Heart Roy-Hart” that is our nickname it has been for awhile and we love it. Its tue and we have had a tough year 2 of our cheerleader died this year (Meghan Redenbach and Allie O’grady) they were amazing and it will never be the same without them so we give all of our heart into this sport to say “Hey you know what we know all of this we got the moves down and we dont care what you say or think we know this is a sport and you know what, Football players lift footballs and Cheerleader lift people which is harder ppl of course!” so say what you want about cheerleading it is in fact a sport and always will be forrever!!!!!!
I think cheer is definately a sport. I just recently made it onto the cheer team at my middle school, and let me just tell you: It’s tough sometimes!
Before I was a cheerleader, I always went to my sisters cheer competitions and games. I thought it was as easy as pie. They made it look like ANYBODY could do it! Let me tell you this, I have never sweated heavier than I have at the 3 hour long practices, and I’m a pretty fit person. I played volleyball last year. It’s tough, but after a while, you get used to lifting those girls up in the air. I am a flyer most of the time, and it’s hard! You have to be as tight as you can, get thrown up in the air, and trust your bases and backspot to catch you.
You don’t call that a sport? I love cheer. It’s an amazing SPORT!
Keep chugging, cheer girls (and guys)!
yes omg cheerleading is a sport just because we dont hit a ball or throw it dosent mean we are not athletic. competion cheerleading is a sport just not sideline isnt a sport because you just stand there and say rah rah..but competion is you have to work you butt off and if any body tell you that it isent a sport you tell them to try:)
Cheerleading is not a sport. I did it once and hated it.
“Go team go , wooo”
How hard is that. It’s all biased too , I made it but the principal kicked me off because I am friends with a girl she doesn’t like…I used to love cheerleading. I wish I still did , but my school is too biased.
OK i have been readin this b.s. cheer is soooo a sport and 4 u dancers 2 say o we work harder(Alyssa C. ) Well obviously we do bc we hav dance, cheer, and gymnastics 2 do….ya we do dance 2…so 4 u 2 say we work harder…..not tru we have 2 mor things 2 learn than just dance…..and we dont just do rah rah its more than tht were family….and were not stuck up like tv shows get bak 2 our century…..k and ya we mite not be totally like football players but evry sport works hard enough 4 wat they do so get ovr it ppl.Without football cheerleaders wld still hav a purpose like competitive cheer and without cheerleaders football wld still hav a purpose…
SO CHEER IS A SPORT
Cheerleading is deffinatley a sport ( i know i spelled definatley wrong, im a bad speller )… im sorry to say but people have under estimated cheerleading by far. everyone thinks its all fun and games, because they do not know what allstar cheerleading or competitive cheerleading is. If you dont belive me just youtube allstar cheerleading. Cheerleading is very dangerous and can cause many injuries if your not careful. Cheerleading is definetly a sport!!!
uhhhm yes cheer is a sport! i think its pretty funny that mostly ALL boys dont think it is its so PATHETIC! id like to see the, do a season of cheer! all those haters!
Cheerleaders unite! people are so judgemental, they think just because theres no super bowl or world cup on tv its not a sport. well, they just didnt try it! it takes alot of dedication, flexibility, strength, ccoordination and more! if your stunting and do something wrong u can get seriously hurt! Especially being a flyr like me.
CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT
First of all maddie, for me personally, i have been at a competition where someone died from cheerleading as well as competitions where someone from my team has broken their arm(happened twice), got a concussion, servely hurt their knee and could barely walk, got in a car accident, had over 100 fever(happened around 3 times or so), was throwing up(happened 9 times or so), broken ankle, after just being released from the hospital, having an asma attack and they still competed. in fact i have never had someone from my team not compete for any reason at all. i got kicked in the face during warm ups and my nose was swollen and blood was everywhere and i shoved toliet paper up my nose and went on the mat. furthermore i witnessed countless times people fall on their faces, neck, etc and keep competing. i even saw a girl puke all over her team mates and every single one of them kept a smile on their faces and kept cheering.
Now that thats done, i have done all star cheering for 8 years and yes i believe its a sport. i understand that people think that competitive cheering is just about performing but no. its about beating the other teams. and as for it not being about stradegy? thats sooo untrue. the routine is changed countless times after recommendations from judges, the coaches making the routine harder, or to be better for the next specific competitiion. so in my personal opinion i believe all star cheering is a sport. However the cheering more people see is high school cheering which i believe isnt a sport. the things my high school does i could do when i was seven and most people could learn in less than a month. that cheering is more centered around supporting the school than cheering its self. but all star is completely about competing, normally practicing a single 2 minute rountine from the first practice in june to the first competition in januaray. so people understand theres more to cheering than the cheerleaders on the football sidelines, since i know for a fact most of my high school team would rather be an all star than a high school. OH and cheering is on espn now and ive heard its in the 2016 olpymics. if you want to see real cheerleading just search cheer worlds on google
i cheer, go to thee hour practices, have a state and national title, work very hard. but technically cheering isnt a sport its an organization
Ok now
Football & basketball cheerleading is NOT a sport, but
ALL-STAR cheerleading IS definitely a sport!
Definition: A sport- Involves physical activity to meet a goal or exceed the other team or squad
So uhh yeah ALLSTAR cheerleading IS a sport
1. It is physical activity (a lot)
2. We reach goals & try 2 beat the other team(s)
3. We work our asses off
Hey for all u stupid school cheerleaders it’s NOT a sport but for ALLSTAR cheerleading it IS a sport
We definitely get a bad rap due to SCHOOL cheerleaders
cuz school cheerleaders have NO skill & they R the ones who say: if cheerleading were easier they would call it football
Well ur wrong cuz uhh sorry hunny but it ain’t hard to jump around screaming saying GO TEAM but it is hard to get sucker punched in the face while trying to run a ball
But ALLSTAR cheer is hard & we actually HAVE skills so Alexa I’m not sure if u have heard of ALLSTARS