Is Cheerleading a Sport?
Tuesday November 11, 2003
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)