How is cheerleading a sport? Cheerleaders are commonly seen on the sidelines at football and basketball games supporting their teams. Fans see them as other poeple supporting their team. Cheerleading is a sport becaues it envalys physcail excase like actrowbatics and stunts. very competive and frestighting just like any other sport. So just like a sport like basketbal, football, and even baseball you have to wear your team uniforms so with cheer if they didn't wear them how would you know who's team they would be on.…
The first question in this chapter has to deal with whether Callie Smartt should be able to cheer on the cheerleading team or not. Due to her disability, she automatically made the team without trying out. The second question has to deal with whether Casey Martin was allowed to use the golf cart. The tournament did not let the golfers drive golf carts, but Casey had a disability, so he fought for his position of needing the golf cart for his health.…
The reputation of partaking in the sport is further magnified because cheerleading is in a category of activities that many people would not even label cheerleading as a sport. As a college cheerleader, I hear other men’s opinions and the school’s athletic department constantly express how cheerleading isn’t an actual sport. The perception that cheerleading is far from being a "real" sport implies that men must be playing the appropriate male qualified sports, such as football or other aggressive contact sports. This is said as a way for boys to demonstrate their level of masculinity (Suitor and Reavis). Such remarks provide an appalling outlook on the significance of participating in a "real" sporting activity in comparison to a feminine sport.…
“Don’t you usually sit over there?” I pointed to the football players and the cheerleaders.…
Cheerleading is more than just wearing a short skirt, a stiff glittery bow and a shell crop top with your team’s name across the chest, but it's a sport that involves the performance of organized, chanting and dancing in support of a sports team at games. In cheerleading, the choreography plays an important role through a sequence of movements of physical bodies. The choreography also refers to the design itself. Indeed, when it comes to the choreography of cheering, I thrive more than any cheerleader I know. While other girls cheer for the cuteness, I cheer because cheerleading has become my passion for dance, for movement and for the choreography of cheering and its beauty. Rather than going through the motion like other cheerleaders, I feel as if I am the motion.…
Failure for me is hard to deal with, especially when it has to do with others. I try admittedly to do whatever I can for my teammates and for me personally. I have been cheering since the 7th grade and it has been the most amazing experience of my life. I personally think it turned me from a shy 12-year-old not having a lot of friends, into an outgoing fun to be around 17-year-old. With the fun times I have had during cheer, comes the hard times I have had to deal with. Whether it has been coach changing or teammates leaving the hardest thing I have had to deal with has been my tumbling. When I tried out for high school cheer I did not have the tumbling to make the team, but the coach took me in any way and I eventually got the tumbling I needed,…
Cheerleading, if you’re not associated with the sport, then you probably have a different perspective on cheer. Cheer is nowhere near the stereotypical image of the mean girls in movies, who are ambitious to be popular and bully their classmates. When in reality it’s the complete opposite, cheerleaders are known to represent their school and have an outgoing personality with a confident attitude. Every cheerleader has to be physically in shape to enjoy the activity with a sociable smile that stands out from the crowd.…
Something that I describe as a talent that is meaningful to me is cheerleading. I have been a cheerleader for as long as I can remember. Cheerleading, over the years, has become a very important part of my life. Through cheerleading I have learned the values of hard work and being a part of a team. People often confuse cheerleaders as girls who just stand on the side and cheer; but it’s so much more than that. With every tumble pass and stunt we put ourselves through extreme levels of difficulty and sometimes pain. Even still to this day, my doctor encourages me to quit but I will always believe a quitter can never win. Cheerleading has also allowed me to mature into the young adult I am today. Majority of the leadership responsibilities I…
Everyone enjoys doing different things. Some people enjoy riding their bike. Some enjoy swimming. However, I enjoy cheerleading, eating, and work. I participate in cheerleading four times a week. I eat multiple times every day. I work weekends. I do those things because I enjoy the satisfaction of what they bring.…
The Merriam Webster defines the word ‘sport’ as “a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete against each other”. In cheerleading, a strong bond unlike you can find in any other sport cultivates. The people on the teams aren’t just teammates. They’re more than that. They’re friends. They’re family. They quite literally put their lives in the hands of their teammates every single day, just for the possibility of getting even a fraction better at what they do. There’s a trust that is not easily broken, in addition to a strong dedication to their team. And with that dedication comes practice. The average cheerleader practices about ten hours a week. (Yager). Some teams however, like Mira Loma High School cheerleaders, practice six days a week, eleven months a year. That’s roughly 792 hours of just practice spent with the…
Cheerleading is a predominantly American activity that began with all male participants. The first documented cheer was yelled by the students in the stands at Princeton University football games in the late nineteenth century. Princeton football officials named three students and the cheer leaders to lead the crowd in specially designated cheering sections at the football games. A few years later, at the University of Minnesota, a student named Johnny Campbell led the crowd in a special cheer at a football game. He is recognized as the first cheerleader and as a result, a squad of six male “yell leader” was formed. It wasn't until many years later, that female cheerleaders joined in on this activity.…
Cheerleaders are athletes too, just like any other sport. Cheer should be made a sport. They put so much work into what they love to do. A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Cheer is a sport, it always will…
It became a high school sport in 1972. At that point, cheerleading became more athletic and challenging as coaches at cheerleading camps pushed the girls to try more acrobatic moves. In 1999, ESPN (the cable sports network) officially declared it a sport and began showing the national cheerleading competitions that were taking place around the country.As of the early 2000s, as many as 20 different high school organizations declare cheerleading as a sport.…
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are set to roll around in just a few more months, an encore of its 2016 Summer counterpart, highlighting the top athletes from across the globe vying for a spot to become one of three Olympic medalists. Sports fans alike crawl out every crack and crevice to tune into whichever channel that might be covering an Olympic event, and if they are lucky, they’ll catch Frank DeFord— a longtime sportswriter, commentator, and novelist— stirring up yet another controversial topic within the sports realm. DeFord’s thought-provoking piece on “what is a sport” touches down on Olympic soil where gymnastics in the Summer Games, and figure skating in the Winter Games take center stage in this raging debate (Orlansky). Although…
I want to try out for the varsity cheerleading team because I want to be able to represent my school and show how even though we are considered a low economic funded school we have just as much spirit as the highly funded schools. Also, I was in cheerleading since I was young, and I joined the JV team last year and really learned to love the sport. A contribution I can make to the cheer team is providing my service and devoted commitment to the organization by being there for the fundraisers, games, pep-rallies, etc. Furthermore, I will also contribute by exemplifying the school and expressing the virtues our school holds high which is that we are not just a district but we are a family that cares for each other. Another contribution I can…