Is Cheerleading A Sport

Most people think cheerleading is a bunch of girls and guys dancing and throwing girls in the air. Although that’s what it seems like, there are more than that, there are stunts, tumbling, chants, dances, and skills. A sport is an activity including physical, mental, and skill. Cheerleading needs physical, mental, skill, memory, and flexibility. Cheerleading is a sport because it takes time and dedication. Therefore cheerleading is considered a sport and will be in the 2020 Olympics. There are national cheerleading competitions all the time in different places all around the United States, and cheerleaders take their own time, money, dedication, and teamwork towards the sport. Some may say cheerleading isn’t a sport because it doesn’t
Everyday cheerleaders get told it’s not a sport or the cheerleaders just do it for the popularity. Little did the people know, was that cheerleadings spend hours a day, everyday working on stunts, chants, tumbling, and dances. When cheerleaders go to competition it’s to show the crowd what the time and dedication worked off .
There aren’t as many good reasons why it isn’t a sport, but there are millions of reasons why it is a sport. A good reason why it’s a sport is that cheerleading will be in the 2020 Olympics. But some may say the cheerleading isn’t a sport because the competition isn’t the main goal, stunts isn’t hard or dangerous, and doesn’t practice as a group all the time, or doesn’t travel or doesn’t practice for more than 30 minutes. Cheerleading competition isn’t the main goal. But at the cheer competition teams win against each other and win titles, competitive cheerleading is it’s own own thing , and the pressure builds up so the groups do bigger stunts, harder tumbling passes, and more dance routines to take home coveted state and national titles (Alex 1). Stunting isn’t hard or dangerous. This is a false statement because throwing girls in the air and catching the flyer is difficult, if a base doesn’t catch the flyer, the flyer could fall and hurt itself. Also it takes hours to flyer the flyer in the air and learn new stunts. Stunting is scary because a flyer is being thrown in the air for the bases and back spot to catch. It’s hard to see how the flyer is going to fall into the bases arms and it’s very dangerous. Each year there is tons of ER trips because of the stunt groups. “The flyer can be injured if they aren’t caught correctly (or at all) by their bases,